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George Notaras replied to the topic How to get the value of a profile field of specific profile field group? in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 10 years ago

@sbrajesh

Hi Brajesh,

Thank you very much for the insight. Your reply clarifies a lot of things for me. Really enlightening.

I was planning to make my plugin able to understand the following field notation:

some field name @ some field group

for easier/friendlier association of xprofile fields to profile properties, for which the plugin…[Read more]

George Notaras started the topic How to get the value of a profile field of specific profile field group? in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 10 years ago

Hi,

I’m trying to figure out what is the most efficient way to get the value of a ‘profile field’ that belongs to a specific ‘profile field group’.

Knowing the ‘field name’ and the ‘profile group name’ I’m thinking of the following:

$field_value = bp_get_profile_field_data( array( 'field' => $field_name, 'user_id' => $user_id,…[Read more]

George Notaras replied to the topic Questions about the concept of user profiles in the forum Miscellaneous 10 years ago

@shanebp: Great! Thanks!

George Notaras replied to the topic Questions about the concept of user profiles in the forum Miscellaneous 10 years ago

Is it safe to assume that the ID of a WP user (post author) is always the same as the BP user ID?

George Notaras replied to the topic Questions about the concept of user profiles in the forum Miscellaneous 10 years ago

Hi, thank you for this information. It has been helpful. My BP IQ is quite low at the moment but I’m working on it. 🙂

George Notaras started the topic Questions about the concept of user profiles in the forum Miscellaneous 10 years ago

Hi all,

I develop a metadata plugin for WordPress and was thinking about adding support for BuddyPress profiles, which basically boils down to:

1. generating Profile metadata objects for the member pages and,
2. use the member page URL as the post author’s URL in the metadata on WP blog posts.

However, I’m a little puzzled with some concepts…[Read more]