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Note that you will have to have “Enable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing” checked in order for the function I provided to work.

Also, “WP offers the ability to set the display_name to any of the other names (nickname, first name last name, username, and more)”, yes that’s true, but when your preference is saved, the value you chose is copied into the “display_name” field in the wp_user database, so don’t get distracted by that issue–it’s still the WP “display_name” that bbPress and BuddyPress care about.

Hi Tom-

It sounds like you have a lot of balls in the air. For instance:

Remember, I have removed the original xprofile_sync function.

Honestly, I can’t know enough about your setup to tell you anything for sure. What I can tell you is this:

• bbPress uses WordPress’s “Display Name” field, not a BuddyPress field.
• BuddyPress only updates the WP “Display Name” field when profile syncing is enabled.
• BP’s default sync function also updates WP’s “First Name” and “Last Name”
• The replacement function I provided updates WP’s “Display Name” but _not_ the “First Name” and “Last Name” fields.

Feel free to comment out the “nickname” update line. You won’t hurt anything. You’ll just not update the BP “nickname” field. Which won’t affect the name bbPress displays.

Thanks, that’s exactly what I’m doing with a fresh install of WordPress, BuddyPress and having the Twenty Twenty theme active and I can’t reproduce.

The only explaination I see is there’s some custom code editing the query. Custom code can be:
1- into the functions.php of the active theme or active child theme,
2- into a /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file,
3- into any file located in the folder /wp-content/mu-plugins,
4- into a plugin.

That’s why we generally ask to deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress, switch the active theme to a Twenty “Something theme” and remove files of point 2 and 3.

Reading our thread so far, you already did that testing right?

Hi,

First I’m sorry to read about these issues. I’ve just tested the first item of your list with latest BuddyPress, WordPress and Twenty Nineteen theme.

I confirm that when I’m on the activity page of an hidden group and after scrolling down to load more activities, only the activities of this group are displayed.

Have you tried to deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress, remove custom code, and switch to a Twenty “Something” theme to see if you still had the issue?

About 404 on posts page, is it when you click on a the link of an activity relative to a page (meaning you activated the Site Tracking component and added some custom code to track the page post type) ?

About BuddyBoss Media, have you tried to reach their support team ?

FYI, this support topic explains how you can trouble shoot in case of issues, I advise you to read it.

Hi Tom-

I’d guess that you (or the previous site admin) edited the Display Name field to be called “Name.” You can check by visiting this screen on your installation: /wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup

“Display Name” is usually the first profile field created, so if you inspect the input, and it has the name=field_1, then you can guess that your “Name” field is the “Display Name” field I’m talking about, just renamed, similar to how you renamed the “Base profile.” It sounds like when you’re talking about “Forum Name” you’re talking about BP’s Base Profile > Display Name, but with your own naming convention.

I also was wrong about the synchronization between Display Name and First and Last name. If I update the Display Field to be “Too Slim”, the WP First Name will become “Too” and the WP Last Name will become “Slim,” assuming that “Enable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing” (s you said). The WordPress “Display Name” field will become “Too Slim.” The WP “Display Name” is also looks like what is used by bbPress in its loops.

So, if you want your users to be able to change the name used by the bbPress forums, you’ll need to have “Enable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing” checked. Then, the WP “Display Name” field is updated when the BP “Display Name” field is checked. If you want to leave WP’s First and Last Name fields to not be synced after sign-up, the following code could be added to your bp-custom.php file or wherever you keep your customization code:

// Remove BP's action because it syncs nickname, display_name, first_name and last_name.
remove_action( 'xprofile_data_after_save', 'xprofile_sync_wp_profile_on_single_field_set' );
function my_custom_xprofile_sync_wp_display_name_only_on_single_field_set( $user_id = 0 ) {
	// Bail if profile syncing is disabled.
	if ( bp_disable_profile_sync() ) {
		return true;
	}

	if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
		$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();
	}

	if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$fullname = xprofile_get_field_data( bp_xprofile_fullname_field_id(), $user_id );

	bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, 'nickname',   $fullname  );

	wp_update_user( array( 'ID' => $user_id, 'display_name' => $fullname ) );
}
add_action( 'xprofile_data_after_save', 'my_custom_xprofile_sync_wp_display_name_only_on_single_field_set' );

It’s a modified version of this function, leaving the first and last name logic out: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/5.0.0/src/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-functions.php#L803

Well Laurent nice catch!

I think it’s a bug we introduced in version 2.5. I will investigate more asap. You can follow our progress from this ticket:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8138

Hi Laurent,

Thanks for your feedback, in my “souvenirs” WordPress was sending to the previous e-mail too.. I’m going to check asap. I’ll be back 🙂

Hi !

I would try to deactivate BuddyPress from the Administration if you can still access to it. Otherwise using your FTP access I would remove the buddypress folder that should be into the /wp-content/plugins directory of your site. I would then go within the admin to switch to a “TwentySomething” WordPress theme, download a fresh version of BuddyPress, reactivate it. See what happens. If it’s fixing the issue, then ask for help to the author of your theme. Otherwise, eventually redo previous steps to remove/re-download BuddyPress. Before reactivating BuddyPress, deactivate all other plugins. See what happens. If it’s fixing the issue reactivate the other plugins one by one until the bug is back. Once it’s back ask for help to the author of the plugin. Otherwise, try to find the error_log file with your host to see the potential error message.

I also advise you to read the Basic Trouble Shooting part of this forum topic:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/ (especially if you use bp-custom.php or the wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder.

FYI 4.4.0 just like 4.0.0 requires at least WordPress 4.6, 5.0.0 requires at least WordPress 4.7

Thank you to everyone who contributed to 5.0.0!

(I’ve updated WordPress.org and BuddyPress.org to this latest version.)

Here you go for who ever is having the issue it was driving me crazy, this little plugin fixed my issue my profile pics when user was uploading from mobile they were upside down now they look normal again

Fix Image Rotation

Have an amazing day <3

Sure, you can add a filter to the bp_activity_can_comment filter point. It is designed to only allow comments on certain types of posts/objects, but there’s no reason you couldn’t take the current user into account in your filter.

You can read more about filters here:

add_filter()

The filter I’m talking about is here in the code:
https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/4.4.0/src/bp-activity/bp-activity-template.php#L2871

Here’s an example of a filter based on who should be able to comment:
https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/commit/f968ef5198b48273a477227876fbb1d94b108755