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Hi @ggoaga,

I am not a specialist here, however, your question is purely related to WC vendors and has nothing to do with the guys here.

As far as I know WC Vendors (I’m using Pro), the feature you are requesting (apply as a vendor from the register form) is not available.

WC vendors works as follows:

1) You register via registration form (this either a wordpress registration form or a buddypress registration form). It doesn’t matter for the database, data are synchronized (if you switch it on in the buddypress settings).

2) After you are registered, the user clicks on the Dashboard of WC vendors (pro or free). This will open a form to enter the data of your shop and apply as a vendor.
With the application to become a vendor, the wordpress user role of the user changes from “subscriber” to “seller waiting for approval”.

3) The admin has to approve the vendor (this goes in wordpress/users … look for “seller waiting for approval”)..
You can set in WC vendors that the seller does not need admin approval, however, the steps are still the same.
After you approved, the user role is changing to “seller”.

4) Set up the shop, and you are ready to go.

I am working with the plugin “BuddyPress Member Types”. This Plugin gives you the feature to have the member type directly in the registration form. You can assign a member type (eg XYZ) to a wordpress role (eg seller). This way you take some shortcuts. However, it is a buddypress plugin, where you create membertypes that are associated to a wordpress role (e.g. seller for WC vendors).

For me it works perfectly and it doesnt require coding.

Hope this helps. 🙂

Forgot to answer question 2 … I dont have the issue, as in my page admins are moderators for the forums (bbpress). Therefore they must show up.

check this:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hide-admin-from-members-and-activity/

I used the following CSS added in the theme settings to hide the titles.

.page .entry-title { display: none; }

.woocommerce .page-title { display: none; }

The first one hides regular page titles, the second one hides Woocommerce titles like “shop”