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Could anyone explain why BuddyPress forces username to be in lowercase / numbers only? When creating WordPress users, we can add uppercase, hyphens… So why does BuddyPress have this limitation, and how can it be removed?
Thks

@chrismitchell You will only see the menu if you use WordPress MU.

I tried using the bp-custom.php file in the wp-content/plugins/ folder, but I could not get it to work.

Could anyone upload an example version of this that I could tinker with to fit my needs?

My problem is I am running WordPress 3.0 RC1, with WPMU and Buddypress installed. Avatars work on the main blog, but not on sub-blogs, so I need to figure this out. For the sub-blogs only the Mystery Man appears.

@yocalif

You could try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-coming-soon-page/

It has options to allow visitors to subscribe via email, link to your Twitter/Facebook pages, launch date countdown…

@ffemtkl – to customize those emails, what about trying this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/new-user-email-set-up/

When you were importing info, were you importing checkbox data? That was alsop problematic for me and I have no idea what format I should prepare that data so it goes in nicely….

@themeanwhile – you can enable or disable the various components so if you want Activities only, enable that and disable other components. After you activate BuddyPress, go to the new BuddyPress menu item on the left column of dashboard, and go to

a) General Settings – these are your choices
Base profile group name:
Full Name field name:
Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?: Yes No
Hide admin bar for logged out users?: Yes No
Disable avatar uploads? (Gravatars will still work): Yes No
Disable user account deletion?: Yes No
Disable global forum directory?: Yes No
Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?: Yes No
Default User Avatar – For users without a custom avatar of their own, you can either display a generic logo or a generated one based on their email address

b) Component Setup
Activity Streams – Allow users to post activity updates and track all activity across the entire site.
Enabled Disabled
Blog Tracking – Tracks blogs, blog posts and blogs comments for a user across a WPMU installation.
Enabled Disabled
bbPress Forums – Activates bbPress forum support within BuddyPress groups or any other custom component.
Enabled Disabled
Friends – Allows the creation of friend connections between users.
Enabled Disabled
Groups – Let users create, join and participate in groups.
Enabled Disabled
Private Messaging – Let users send private messages to one another. Site admins can also send site-wide notices.
Enabled Disabled
Extended Profiles – Activates customizable profiles and avatars for site users.
Enabled Disabled

I would suggest you set up a test install so you can check the features for yourself.

“Of course, activity filters, profile page, friends page, settings page, etc, would also need to be migrated to display in the backend.”
Why? If you want to make the BP Activity section private, you can add conditional tags for is_user_logged_in …

Take a look at this one.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API

Specially the section which describes how to remove the widget from dashboard.
You might want to put your code in bp-custom.php/as a plugin so that it affects all the blogs on your network(if you have allowed multiblog) otherwise just putting them in functions.php of your theme will suffice.

@jujunkie should you encounter the bug which @r-a-y mentioned above, do this
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/WCmvpvnU

what about xmlrpc? i’m working on a receiver plugin which allows profile activity updates and a new blog post updates (ie, if someone sent an update from an external wordpress blog when a new post is published)

@Giovanni I just used Invite Friends plug-in here http://talkpian.com/wordpress/ and getting Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_core_add_subnav_item() in /home/talkpian/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/invitefriends-plug-in/bp-invitefriends.php on line 49
I’m using wordpress 2.9.2 with buddybress Version 1.2.3 …
please help if you have some solution…

@Giovanni any update available now? I just used Invite Friends plug-in here http://talkpian.com/wordpress/ and getting Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_core_add_subnav_item() in /home/talkpian/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/invitefriends-plug-in/bp-invitefriends.php on line 49
I’m using wordpress 2.9.2 with buddybress Version 1.2.3 …
please help if you have some solution…

what about a rewriterule before the htaccess wordpress stuff?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(mydirectory).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule . – [L]

Just installed the plugin on WP 2.9.2 + BP 1.2.4.1 and as jpl888 points out on the WP forum, it can work with a little fettling:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/399989

To install it I added the code from the pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/bw0suXwe to my members list page (members/index.php), changed the bp_filter_profile_field(”) argument to be the name of the profile field I wanted to filter on and on testing it, I got hit with the following error in the logs:

`PHP Warning: Parameter 2 to bp_replace_members_filter() expected to be a reference, value given in snip…/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166, referer: snip…/members/`

So I found the bp_replace_members_filter(…) method at line 265 in the plugin file bp-member-filter.php and removed the ampersand from the 2nd parameter so the method signature becomes:

`function bp_replace_members_filter( $has_members, $members_template )`

After that filtering works for me where the profile field to filter on is a select box. Filtering on a multiple select box does not work for me, and as posted earlier filtering on checkbox profile fields is not yet implemented.

Be warned though, I just checked the error log and removed the ampersand from the param and it then worked, I don’t know if that change will have any other side effects. I can see that it means I’m telling PHP that the method now expects a value rather than a reference, and that appears to be what BP is giving it, but beyond that…

@intimez – not sure about about export, but you can use the import for Ning as an import option (more of a workaround). read…

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/importing-data-from-excel-csv-sheet/
and

Import from Ning: Import Ning users to WordPress and BuddyPress

“how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?”
Right. Basic WordPress – https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Contributor

“but how can they enter the writing zone? “
Simplest way – if your users are logged in your BP install as contributors, they can go to bp-admin-bar at top and move cursor to “My Blogs”, which has a dropdown to list of blogs. When they hover over JuConnect link, the flyout nav will show the link “Add New Post” where they will be brought to the Post > New Write panel.

@DJPaul‘s plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/ – working well in BP 1.2.4.1

There is the Members Widget which shows the “Newest” “Active” and “Popular” Members, then add a text widget on top of that to welcome members.

Plus you could always add this code in home page and style accordingly – http://wordpress.pastebin.com/Rvx4ZgWF – change title and avatar sizes to taste

I had the exact same problem (two wordpress blogs installed on one server, and suddenly only the front page worked but none of the other ones. But it was only the pages on ONE of the blogs that didn’t work–the other one worked completely fine). I spent 4 hours pouring over my css scripts and coding in the .php files thinking there was something faulty there; I checked and rechecked every single setting to see if I had checked or left unchecked some box or option. Couldn’t figure it out.

Then I went to my plugins and remembered that I had downloaded a plugin (a YouTube/video plugin). I deactivated it and wham-bam!!! my pages started working again. So it must have been the plugin.

Try deleting any plugins you may have downloaded.

I have had the same problems and the proposed solutions here do not work for me either.

For now I have just used the older version of bp-core-avatars.php from https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php?rev=2876#L109 which has worked although there may be knock on affects from using the old file that I am unaware of.

There is also a thread here about it https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-avatars-uploaded-via-buddypress-in-wordpress-mu/

Paul.

Thanks Kaberi,

You are doing a great job chasing this down. I will try using the older file although there must surely be some knock on affects that we are unaware of yet. Will try it now.

It is kind of mission critical because the whole blog thing is clearly not working from a user perspective.

Thanks again.

Paul.

PS The old version of bp-core-avatars.php seems to do the trick – thank you for that. Have not noticed any drawbacks yet but there must be some. Hopefully a fix for the new file will appear. In the meantime, thank you again.