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Profile fields for specific user roles

neontrauma
Member

@neontrauma

1 year, 10 months ago

Hi,

my community is connected to a single blog, a magazin. So there are normal users and those who write articels, they are “authors” (WordPress role).
I’d like to show a little extra information in the profiles of the authors, such as their ressorts in the magazin. Therefore I created a specific profile field group within the BuddyPress profile and put some fields into it.

Now I’m looking for a way to show this information.

There has to be some kind of check whether the user is an author or not – both when showing the profile and also when editing it, for normal users shouldn’t see those fields.

Does anyone of you have an idea how to solve this?

Thanks,
neontrauma

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embergermedia
Member

@embergermedia

1 year, 10 months ago

I use S2member to monitor my sites membership, it provides hooks and such (not too sure about the terminology) that allow you to display content to certain user roles. I have a user role for companies (experts). I also have a profile field group just for them. It is the last group.

I have added inline css using last-child selector to hide the menu option to edit this profile group from everyone except members that have a level 2 membership. And since Buddypress will only show profile data if the field has been filled in, it only shows on Experts (level 2 ) users public profiles.

If this is confusing, let me know and I’ll try to give exact steps for how I accomplished this.

neontrauma
Member

@neontrauma

1 year, 10 months ago

Hi,

thanks for your reply! I installed that plugin and found it quite confusing. So it did’nt work immediately; I’ll have to spent some time with it this evening.

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