[dlongm01]

Update: the issue is with the bbPress plugin and XTheme. Issue has been added to XTheme bugfix list.

[dlongm01]

Thanks modemlooper. I’m a bit of newbie and, now you point it out that’s a simple and good test.

Really helpful and guess what: the link box styling works fine!!

Back to the theme developers! (I’m using XTheme).

Cheers

[dlongm01]

Thanks Henry – that makes sense. I checked and yes it’s true the particular user has never logged in!

[dlongm01]

Ah! I just realised that the user in question has never been active!

I assume that explains the search failure?

[dlongm01]

OK – thanks – that seems simple enough. I just thought that the role name might be part of the user data.

I can manage that though.

Cheers

🙂

[dlongm01]

Hi Shane – one last question.

I just realised that function gets the role ID not the role name.

So I get the role ID ‘senior-fellow’ rather than the role name ‘MirandaNet Senior Fellow’

I looked at the codex (various searches on ‘display role name’ or ‘get role name’) but can’t quite figure out what it’s telling me.

This is not a crucial issue, but nice if it is simple to display the name rather than the ID.

Thanks

PS I realise that my original question referred to roles rather than names. I’ve only just noticed the important difference!

[dlongm01]

Thank you ShaneBP. That’s marvellous. Does exactly what I want. Your help is very gratefully acknowledged.

Here’s my final code. The echo line formats and capitalises the role name:

function dlongm_show_role() {
    $user = get_userdata( bp_displayed_user_id() );
        $userole = $user->roles[0];
            echo "<span style='color:#9e152c;font-size:14pt;'>".ucwords($userole)."</span>";
       
}
add_action( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'dlongm_show_role' );

I learned a little more about PHP too which is a bonus. I always twitch when I add PHP to my functions file because even trivial simple syntax errors can crash a site (no semi-colin, missin bracket etc.) Luckily I have a dev site and FTP access so I can get at the functions file if things go wrong – which happend several times!

[dlongm01]

Thanks Shane

Sorry – I am a real novice here ask you to indulge me.

I have tried this inside the code you already gave me but it does not work. I guess I don’t know the correct syntax for the If statement, or I do not know how to name the role. E.g. I want to exclude bbp_spectator so tried this:

function dlongm_show_role() {
    $user = get_userdata( bp_displayed_user_id() );

    if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
        foreach ( $user->roles as $role )
            if ( $role != bbp_spectator) {
    	       echo "$role;
       }
    }
}
add_action( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'dlongm_show_role' );

I guess what puzzles me is that the array has clearly got something like this in it:

adminstratorbbp_spectator

All I need is the first element of this string or object. I am just not clear about PHP syntax to know how to get it ….

I appreciate your advice.

[dlongm01]

Excellent Shane. That looks good.

I don’t want the bbpress role to show though, just the main user role. Can the bbp role be squelched?

Thanks

[dlongm01]

@shanebp I forgot mention that I am talking about editing the member profile on the front end, i.e the member profile page.

[dlongm01]

OK – I found it:

/* Buddypress rich text toolbar – hide fullscreen button*/
.mce-i-fullscreen::before {
display:none;
}

[dlongm01]

In fact I have found a reasonable solution using CSS. I found some key clues on in the support forum for this plugin: Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields Type (though I’m not using that plugin).

If anyone has any advice about how to improve this I would be glad to hear it. Thanks

/* Buddypress profile field description position*/
.editfield {
position: relative;
top: 5px;
}
.editfield label {
font-weight:bold;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}
.input field_4 {
margin-top: 5px;
}

form.standard-form p.description {
margin: 0 0 15px;
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
line-height:1em;
}

[dlongm01]

Thanks for the help @shanebp. However, I am no good with PHP (yet) and still quite new to WP and BP so at the moment not entirely sure what to do with your suggestion.