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Private message “Send To” field does not seem to use “user_login” value

donburikun
Participant

@donburikun

8 years, 5 months ago

From doing some testing I have discovered the BuddyPress private message system appears to accept only the “user_nicename” value in the “Send To” field of message compose page. When I attempt to use the “user_login” value and send a test message it fails with the below.

Message could not be sent because you have entered an invalid username. Please try again.

Is there any way to get Buddypress to accept the “user_login” value when doing a message compose? I have a modification that pre-populates this field with the “user_logon” value and that seems the only way to get this to work. Appreciate any feedback/support. Thank you.

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Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

8 years, 5 months ago

You’re correct. The relevant function is messages_new_message(): https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/bp-messages/bp-messages-functions.php#L130

You can set the BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE constant to get BuddyPress to accept user_login values on the message compose screen rather than the user_nicename. See https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/changing-internal-configuration-settings/ for how to set it, basically you add it to wp-config.php.

BUT setting this will also change the member URLs. For example: example.com/members/user-nicename/ will become example.com/members/user-login/. If you choose to change this, at the very least, you will have to set up redirects manually so as to not harm SEO.

I think probably changing your modification to use the user_nicename will be best.

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