One way is to use the wordpress toolbar dropdown as I described earlier, there’s a profile option and in there you can select change profile image
Dear Venutius,
thanks for anwsering all my questions. Thought it would be more complicated. Just for my understanding, where you should user find the link to edit there profile by default. I created a normal user account and can’t find any option to edit my profil avatar and cover?
Thanks for the code, thats very helpful but what I wanted to say is to implement a wall other users can post to. Sorry I was a bit unclear in this point.
Thank you for helping me so quickly, I really appreciate that! 🙂
EDIT: I just wanted to mention that my normal users don’t see the wordpress bar, I don’t know if it was from the beginning that way or a plugin did this. But for now I don’t want my users to see it. So if there is no regular button I want to include one on the profile page
Hi there, some answers:
1. You can change the layout of profiles by overloading the profile files and css, see: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/theme-compatibility-2/ it’s possibly a bit advanced for you right now but all the files in the plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/your-bp-theme/buddypress can be copied, modified and loaded from your child theme directory. Similarly you can overload the css to make styling and layout changes.
1b. The default is for horizontal navigation unless you’ve changed it in Customizer>>BuddyPress.
2. The BuddyPress extended profile is editable from the front end, and avatar too. It’s only the wordpress profile that’s enditable in admin and most BP sites don’t use that as t’s really set up for authors.
3. I recently posted the code to combine all the profile activity feeds into 1, https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-combine-activity-tabs-to-one/
4. https://wordpress.org/plugins/cb-change-mail-sender/
5+6 are bbPress questions, for the best answer you should post on their forum https://bbpress.org/forums/
7. Assuming you have set up the groups directory page and enabled group creation by users in Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options, users will have the option to create groups on the Groups directory page and also from the Groups menu of the WordPress toolbar ( top right hand side of the screen, hover over your avatar image, drop down will appear one option will be groups.
Hi,
We’re working on launching a new membership site.
Themes: Boss / SocialLearner
Other main plugins:
BuddyPress (Version 4.2.0)
bbPress (Version 2.5.14)
LearnDash (Version 2.6.4)
Memberium (Version 2.84)
We migrated users into WordPress via the Rest API from another system.
I noticed that the nickname on the Extended Profile is being deleted and being copied over into the First Name field when we switch from the Extended Profile tab to the Profile tab when viewing the User in the WP Admin dashboard.
Here are the steps:
1. Open user’s Extended profile in new tab
2. Set Nickname and hit update, then verify it saved.
3. Click on the Profile tab.
4. Now the Nickname is overwritten in the First Name field (which it should not) and saved in the Nickname field on the Profile tab.
5. Click back to the Extended Profile tab.
6. Nickname is empty
7. Click back to the Profile tab
8. The original First Name is now visible in the First Name field and Nickname is still populated with the new nickname.
We can’t figure out what’s happening and need help please! Thank you for any assistance.
thank you for this plugin and thank you for youre advise. I will also post this message on the wordpress forum. I will see if this plugin will help the problem
Hi there, BuddyPress uses the WordPress login page, so it sounds like it’s working correctly. Unless I’m missing something?
Hello,
I have some trouble while configuring the login page with buddypress and wordpress latest version.
I added register and login page in my menu. Register works well, but once the user is registered he cannot connect to the website since the login button in my menu once clicked redirect the user to the wordpress login page. (forcing users to create a wordpress account).
Thanks for your help !
what is the face slap emoji ?
I have torn my site apart — reinstalling, deleting, researching, database row by row, 20 different SQL searches… completely and utterly defeated… I finally come to the conclusion that despite the site crashing during some settings changes, that maybe this isn’t really a conflict/data corruption buddypress issue… its a wordpress issue… so simple… it is hard to admit
Admin > Settings > Discussion > Show Avatars
(who knew ‘show avatars’ unchecked would remove the profile photo editor completely)
really…
We only do BuddyPress support here, for other plugins you should raise a request on their wordpress forum.
What you could do is install two factor authentication for your admin users:
Two Factor Authentication
That might help. This is more of a general WordPress query so you might get better responses if you post to the WordPress forums.
Helloooo there BuddyPress! 🙂 🙂
I am new to BuddyPress and I am so excited to learn and use it.
Website: http://ceefworld.org/ – In development, it is not live yet.
Theme: Charity Is Hope: (https://themeforest.net/item/hope-nonprofit-charity-donations/18634753?s_rank=3)
WordPress version: 5.1.1
BuddyPress version: 4.2.0
I have installed BuddyPress and I cannot see any of the default fields on the Registration page or when a person is logged in I don’t see the defaults fields there either, where the can edit their profile or anything.
So, I guess what am I doing wrong? I set-up all settings I wanted but still don’t see them on the front end. What do I need to do?
Thank you for your support. I truly appreciate it,
Christine 🙂
I am running WordPress 5.1.1 with BuddyPress 4.2.0. On Site-Wide Activity users are able to post update just fine. However when attempting to comment on a post in site-wide activity the “post” button does nothing and will not allow someone to actually post a comment from site-wide activity. If they go to the users profile they can make a comment just fine there.
It’s s bit odd for sure, it’s not even asking you for your login details. the URL is the web address that the link will take you to, if you hover above it, the link will usually be displayed in the bottom left of your screen.
What I notice about it when I view your site is that it’s got a redirect attached, to your register page. This isn’t usual.
Ah, I’ve just clicked it, this is not the usual WordPress login screen, which is what BuddyPress uses. This is something specific to WordPress.com, they seem to be overloading the login page. I think you will have to raise this with WordPress.com support. I think it’s something more generic about their version of login. Like they’ve set it to remember who you are and automatically enter your details for you. So maybe this is standard for wordpress.com sites? Makes testing difficult though.
‘Our sentries tell us that you should not be here’ That’s not a BuddyPress message, or one from WordPress either, could it me some security plugin you’ve added is doing this?
No it didn’t work, and now I’ve tried all the advice I received. I wonder if you, as WordPress.org support, can create an account on my site and solve the problem? I’m starting to be desperate!
Create account here:
Site Registration
I don’t know the answer to that as I know nothing about wordpress.com but I’d hope if there was a Swedish translation for BuddyPress that .com would support it.
Certainly on a self hosted solution you would get the latest translation plus the ability to customise it so that the language used was suitable to your specific site.
Ok I got it. sorry but see now that we use really a plugin called “notification” for this job.
Its a while ago when I made this installation. But would it be possible to send a email to users from the wordpress side without plugin to members?
I can only do this if my site is hosted on a separate server and not hosted by WordPress. Or…?
I checked again our system and finaly we use WPUF only to bring the Posts into the frontend.
So what I called Job-offers is finaly a usualy post of wordpress.
It’s the WordPress polyglots that manage translations for BuddyPress, they have a slack channel and I think you can find out the status of a Swedish translation from there.
I have a new moderation plugin in the WordPress repository that may help. It’s pretty simple at the moment, but will be actively updating it with new features.
Toolkit for BuddyPress
Maybe https://wordpress.org/plugins/badgeos/ can do what you are looking for?
in BuddyPress, only members with manage_options capability can update profile groups, though I’m not entirely sure what you are asking.
Sorry for the late reply.
It isn’t working for me, sadly. I am trying this on a staging site. Could that have something to do with it? When I try to edit my functions.php file via the wordpress editor, it gives me the error: “Scrape nonce check failed. Please try again.” However, it doesn’t give me that error when making edits on my live site.
Is there something I should be doing in addition to the autocomplete definition? I found this topic that is more recent. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/messages-send-to-auto-fill-functionality-not-working/
Could this be something?
– Joshua
Hi there,
Yes emails can be difficult to diagnose because sometimes they are sent but not accepted by the destination email host.
The first thing to do is to deactivate all plugins and see if that corrected it.
IF that fails, try switching to a default theme such as 2017.
Next thing to try is reinstall your BP Emails in Admin>>Tools>>BuddyPress.
If they are still not being sent then you need to turn on WP-DEBUG and see if there are any errors being produced.
If they are still not being sent, then deactivate BuddyPress and see if the standard WordPress emails are being sent.
Some people have got to this point and fixed it by installing an alternative WP Email engine, as it was down to their hosting provider not allowing the WordPress emails through.
