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Thanks.

yeah, that plugin is useful, but it’s only one way. It only goes from BP to WP not WP to BP.

It also has limited WP profile fields available. Although that’s easy enough to fix by adding items to the array in the plugin…

The core problem is that once you have BP, there’s two different places to change the basic profile data. Having…[Read more]

That’s awesome.

Why is this not a standard part of Buddypress? (Rhetorical question)

IMO, any fields should be designated (or able to be designated) as linked to the WP profile information.

THis is a CONSTANT source of confusion for me and any users. Because some plugins use the WordPress profile info, and some the Buddypress info.

I get that…[Read more]

Yes, do not ever edit another plugin’s or theme’s files. This’ll happen, you’ll loose the changes when they get updated, and you’ll have to move them out into separate plugins etc.

BuddyPress does not use WordPress user roles or capabilities. Technically, there is a bp_moderate capability, but we map that to roles that have manage_options capability (by default), or Network Admins, in multisite.

Even so, some parts, including the Profile Fields admin screen in wp-admin, require the manage_options capability.

So, basically,…[Read more]

BuddyPress 2.9.4 include a tweak for emails that might have been causing this.
Apart from that, to our best of knowledge, everything related to emails is working.

Each user needs to log-in at least once for them to show up in the Members Directory.

It’s unlikely that the original recipients will reply, as this thread is nearly two years old.

BuddyPress does not offer its own log-in page. This is your theme, or something else, doing that.

I suspect also people are mixing up the “log in” page with the user registration form, which are two very different things.

Not aware of anything. You’d probably have to write some code.

What version did you update *from*?