[sandyfischler]

That worked! Much thanks. It even redirected the link on my custom post type…yipee!

[sandyfischler]

Excellent! That worked to get the blog posts showing on the profile activity.

My next question: when a normal post is put into WP, there is a link to an author profile screen. Can I have that link point to the BP profile instead of the WP author profile?

When I set up my custom post type for recipe I added the code
[wpv-post-author format="link" meta="name"]

And that gives me a link to the author profile but not the BP profile. How would I format that in both places WP basic and in my custom post view so that it points to the BP profile?

Thanks!

[sandyfischler]

AHA! @nscycwa that was it! I’m going to name my first plug-in after you.

I’m sure both solutions had the same issue – the field incorrectly set up for URL instead of text.

I’m going to do a separate post for the sake of posterity with both code snippet solutions and some basic instructions.

Best practices questions:

1. If one would like to be able to change themes easily, the ideal is to use the bp-custom.php snippet in the plugins folder, but the images should also live independently of the theme folder, no? Where is the ideal location for those? An “images” folder in “themes”?

2. The actual data that fills out that field in an extended profile can be either a full URL (www.linkedin.com/in/sandyfischler) or it can be just the account and the URL is part of the code (user just inputs sandyfischler). I’m thinking that for my older user base, it would be easier for them to just copy/paste a full URL. Any one have experience one way or another?

[sandyfischler]

@danbp, nope that doesn’t work. All that does is turns the link nonfunctional, which was why I took it out in the first place. I left the page with your code addition up (Facebook link now doesn’t work).

Since I’m not the only one with this issue, there has to be something more. I had the exact same issue with your snippet – the icons show up but they aren’t links and the text that shouldn’t show up does (and I tried it in two different themes with the same result).

[sandyfischler]

This is my profile page in the current project…

http://stewartvillage.com/members/sandy/

[sandyfischler]

@amic58 I think the code referenced above doesn’t work with WP 4. I have it partly working now but I still have text links instead of icons that link. Help I’ve gotten elsewhere indicates that xprofile_get_field_data() works differently in the current version of WP. I’ve tested in both my child theme and TwentyFourteen and get the same result, so I’m sure it has something to do with the current version of WP and not the theme.

Anyway, here is where I’m at now with trying to make this work (I have this code in a file called bp-custom.php that sits in my root Plugins folder). I used the code sample I found here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/display-users-social-follow-buttons-in-profile/

<?php
//Social Media Icons based on the profile user info
function member_social_extend(){
		$dmember_id = $bp->displayed_user->id;
		$fb_info = xprofile_get_field_data('facebook', $dmember_id);
		$google_info = xprofile_get_field_data('googleplus', $dmember_id);
		$linkedin_info = xprofile_get_field_data('linkedin', $dmember_id);
		$twitter_info = xprofile_get_field_data('twitter', $dmember_id);
		echo '<div class="member-social">';
		if($fb_info||$google_info||$linkedin_info||$twitter_info){
			echo 'My Social: ';
		}

		if ($fb_info) {
		?>
		<span class="fb-info"><?php echo $fb_info; ?>" title="My Facebook" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-content/themes/family-openstrap-child/images/facebook.png" /></span>
	<?php
	}
		?>
		<?php
		if ($google_info) {
		?>
		<span class="google-info"><?php echo $google_info; ?>" title="My Googleplus" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-content/themes/family-openstrap-child/images/googleplus.png" /></span>
	<?php
	}
		?>
		<?php
		if ($linkedin_info) {
		?>
		<span class="linkedin-info"><?php echo $linkedin_info; ?>" title="My LinkedIn" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-content/themes/family-openstrap-child/images/linkedin.png" /></span>
	<?php
	}
		?>
		<?php
		if ($twitter_info) {
		?>
		<span class="twitter-info"><?php echo $twitter_info; ?>" title="My Twitter" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-content/themes/family-openstrap-child/images/twitter.png" /></span>
	<?php
	}
	echo '</div>';
}
add_filter( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'member_social_extend' );
?>

I have been adjusting this as new information comes in. One thing that seems wrong to me is putting the social icons in a theme dependent folder. If the point is to have this work with ANY theme, those image files need to live in more static location.

When I figure out more I’ll post here (hopefully later today).

[sandyfischler]

That partly worked. I have the correct icon now, but it has no link and the code for the link is showing up as text.

[sandyfischler]

Ok, I created the font folder in my child theme and changed some of the icons to ones I like better but they still aren’t showing up on the profile.

Here is what is showing up under my name:
twitter.com/SandyFischler/" target="_blank" title="Twitter">Twitter www.facebook.com/sandy.fischler/" target="_blank" title="Facebook">Facebook"

Here is my code in functions.php

function bpfr_socialize_profile () {	

echo '<br>'; // don't remove !

if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Twitter ' ) ) : 
?>

<a href="http://twitter.com/<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'Twitter', bp_displayed_user_id() );?>/" target="_blank" title="Twitter"><i class="fa fa-twitter-square"></i>Twitter</a>&nbsp;

<?php endif;

if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Facebook ' ) ) : 
?>

<a href="http://facebook.com/<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'Facebook', bp_displayed_user_id() );?>/" target="_blank" title="Facebook"><i class="fa fa-facebook-square"></i>Facebook</a>		

<?php		
endif;
}
add_filter( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'bpfr_socialize_profile' );

[sandyfischler]

Ok, I finally put out enough fires on other projects to get back to this one…

I installed Font Awesome but I don’t like the icons, I have set that I can upload. I’m guessing I create a folder in my child theme for images and drop them there?

How do I reference my added images in this line of code:

<a href="http://facebook.com/<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'Facebook', bp_displayed_user_id() );?>/" target="_blank" title="Facebook"><i class="icon-facebook"></i>FB</a>

Thanks