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Please ask your question on the plugin’s support forum. The plugin author should be able to help.

OK sure, try this:

function william_oneb_key() {
if ( isset( $_GET['key'] ) ) {
echo $_GET['key'];
} else {
echo "No key available.";
}
}
add_action( 'bp_after_activate_content', 'william_oneb_key' );

If the key is part of the URL then you should be able to get that from $_GET["key"] and then query the database for a user ID using that value.

This all sounds feasible. BuddyPress is very developer friendly so building your own web apps and hooking into BuddyPress shouldn’t be a problem.

The registration form is configurable and is fully customisable via the BuddyPress template hierarchy.

Also, BuddyPress is free, so there’s no need to purchase.

Is the user logged in at this point? If so, you can use bp_loggedin_user_id()

I suspected that might happen. The problem is here $willie = my_f();. In this particular case you can’t do that. I may have mislead you earlier so I’ve updated my reply here.

That’s usually fine to do but be careful in this case. Our my_f() function is hooked to the filter bp_core_activate_account. That particular filter executes at a given time only. So your statement $user_id = my_f(); is not useful. $user_id will be undefined.

@william_oneb technically yes. If bp_core_activate_signup( $key ) is successful then it will return a user ID. So

function my_f( $user_id ) {
// You can do something with $user_id here. Note though, the return value of
// bp_core_activate_signup() may be false. In that case,
// the value of $user_id here will be false.
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Which theme are you using?

To change the background colour, you’d use the background-color CSS property:

#element {
background-color: #000;
}

Where #element refers to the form element used in your HTML (the way to target this particular element is theme-dependent). Check out the Getting started with CSS MDN guide for more info on how to write CSS.

You should use your theme’s style.css document to add your own custom styles.

The @-name you see is slightly different to the “full name” displayed in user profiles. The @-name can be thought of as a username; a unique identifier for that member. The full name is just a line of text that can be anything the user likes. Two users can have the same full name, but no two users can have the same username.

You can set the page users are taken to when they log in quite easily with a plugin such as Theme My Login.

Possibly. Try searching the Plugin Directory.

If a user can log in, then they are a member who has a profile page. This is regardless of whether they have activated their account. Of course, non-activated members can’t do much as their site usage is restricted.