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Hi websitevala,

To add custom fields to your registration page, you’ll need to add xprofile fields. To do so in WP Backend, you should go / BuddyPress menu / Profile fields submenu

And for the other thing, as you noticed emails are hidden, there might be a spam risk reason to that. And as a user, i wouldn’t like to have my email shown on my profile.. So i dont think it’s a good idea.

Ok, to set new fields for your members you should read the paragraph ‘Optional: Set Profile Fields’ of this tutorial
http://wpmu.org/the-illustrated-guide-to-installing-and-setting-up-buddypress-1-5/

if you mean login in with email, then you can try this interesting plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/

then you can add a function in the functions.php file of your active theme to change the label of the sidebar login form :

add_action('bp_after_sidebar_login_form', 'bp_login_by_email_adapt_login_form');

function bp_login_by_email_adapt_login_form() {
?>

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
usernameoremail = $("#sidebar-user-login").parent().html().replace(/Username/ig, 'Username or email' );
$("#sidebar-user-login").parent().html(usernameoremail);
});

<?php
}

or if you’re using a child theme of BP-default theme, you can add/edit the template sidebar.php and replace the label for=sidebar-user-login by Username or email.

@obewong,

Thanks for your input on this. Your insight has helped me tremendously.