BuddyPress.org

It’s my theme and I code WordPress themes for like 5 years now but I don’t see myself as a Developer it’s more a hobby 🙂

I’m solid at HTML-CSS and can read PHP when I see it happen but I can’t write PHP it out of the box.

This error shows up when I try to hide a complete xProfile-group-ID or just an unique xProfile-field-ID from the loop.

This is what I did.
Inside: my-theme/buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php
I found the start of the loop

<?php if ( bp_has_profile() ) : ?>
....

My first thought was, maybe there are default options here to control the output of which ID’s will be visible so I started the search how the bp_has_profile() was build and looked into plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-template.php and found this at line 150:

....

$defaults = array(
	'user_id'             => bp_displayed_user_id(),
	'profile_group_id'    => false,
	'hide_empty_groups'   => true,
	'hide_empty_fields'   => $hide_empty_fields_default,
	'fetch_fields'        => true,
	'fetch_field_data'    => true,
	'fetch_visibility_level' => $fetch_visibility_level_default,
	'exclude_groups'      => false, // Comma-separated list of profile field group IDs to exclude
	'exclude_fields'      => false  // Comma-separated list of profile field IDs to exclude
);

This looks very familiar to bbPress so my first thoughts was lets try to add one of those Array’s to the loop and overwrite the default value.
Just like this.

<?php if ( bp_has_profile( array ( 'exclude_groups' => 1 ) ) ) : ?>
...

This works perfect, it hides all xProfile-fields from the first Base primary Tab (back-end). Just like I wanted it because I didn’t want all the fields to show up front-end, I’ve got a few xProfile-fields that I use for user-customization of the profile-page. Each user can add color-codes to change the default menu-color and add background-images to their profile-page to make each profile a little more unique.
Those field-ID’s are just urls or color-codes and don’t have to be visable to the public, thats why I try to hide them front-end.

Yes that works much better, no error to show up this time.

Thanks.