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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 8 years, 12 months 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 8 years, 12 months 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 9 years ago

@shanebp: Great! Thanks!

George Notaras replied to the topic Questions about the concept of user profiles in the forum Miscellaneous 9 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 9 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 9 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]