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I am looking at the thread “Adding profile fields to members directory”
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/adding-profile-fields-to-members-directory/

You wrote:

There’s 2 ways of doing this.

1. You could modify the members-loop template (see the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy for details on how that’s done). See here. You would just add bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=the field name here’ ); to the template.

2. Add this to your theme’s functions.php file:

function add_info_to_members_loop() {
echo bp_get_member_profile_data( ‘field=the field name here’ );
}
add_action( ‘bp_directory_members_item’, ‘add_info_to_members_loop’ );

Which template are you referring to in 1.?
can both code snippets be placed either in functions.php or bp-custom.php?

Thanks, I have read the page about Template Hierarchy, can see this is very complex, at least to me.

I looked to the buddypress directory which looks different:

wp-content > plugins < buddypress > bp-members > ?

members_loop.php does not exist, is this aam I in the wrong directory?

I have tried to ad a buddypress.php file to both my theme and child theme directory, but this will prevent my site from loading?

Copy, and at the same time leave the original buddypress folder under plugins?

I mean, the buddypress folder in bp-templates/bp-legacy

copying the buddypress folder containing the members-loop.php to my child theme leaves my page blank.
And now the folder can’t be deleted from the child theme…

“buddypress” could not be deleted, because an error (22126) occurred.