I’ve seen several threads started on this along with a lot of interest surrounding having multiple profile types on your buddypress site, but no working examples. I am sure a good majority of all buddypress sites could benefit from this feature.

I would like to
– Allow the user to choose their profile type during registration
– Feature different x-profile fields for each profile type
– Have the ability to brand the profile template somehow for each profile type, maybe just adding a badge
– List members by profile type in the member directory, and search the member directory by profile type.
– Options to have paid or free profiles with restrictions/features for each profile type

Does anybody have suggestions/examples/guidance? I will continue my search.

[@psyber Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

Does anybody know anything about creating multiple profile types in BuddyPress?

[@billzy Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

Custom Profile Fields Buddy press plugins… there is a also a few permission plugins in there also… wordpress.org i found them months and months back still work…

[@boonebgorges Keymaster 13 years, 6 months ago]

I have done this using WP user meta. At the moment, it takes a few hacks to get the directories working correctly. In BP 1.3, bp_has_members() has new ‘meta_value’ and ‘meta_key’ arguments, which will make it less hacky. You should be able to develop something at that point pretty easily. Or maybe someone could write a ‘member type’ plugin, using these new BP features.

[@psyber Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

I’ll take a look and maybe hack a little