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Hello again. I posted this question on a new topic, no responses. I’ll try asking the question here since I have received responses on this thread. Thank you. Here goes:

I added the code below in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/members-loop.php, to display additional profile fields in the member directory and to display the member’s role (either ‘Subscriber’ or ‘Provider’). In the code below, I specifically checked for the user’s role to determine whether I need to display ‘Subscriber’ or ‘Provider’.

Questions:

– is there a way to check for the capability instead – i.e., if the user can ‘edit posts’ then I will display ‘Subscriber’, otherwise I will display ‘Provider’? If so, can you please let me know how to do that as I have not been able to figure it out.

– is there a way to display a newline so that ‘Subscriber’ or ‘Provider’ will display on the next line, below the member’s title and company name. I tried to echo “n” but it’s not outputting a newline and I have no idea why.

Thank you for the help.

<?php

/***

* If you want to show specific profile fields here you can,

* but it’ll add an extra query for each member in the loop

* (only one regadless of the number of fields you show):

*

* bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=the field name’ );

*/

if( bp_get_member_profile_data ( ‘field=Title’ ) )

echo bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=Title’ ), ‘ (‘, bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=Company’ ), ‘)’, ‘ – ‘;

$user = new WP_User( bp_get_member_user_id() );

if ( $user->roles[0] == ‘subscriber’ )

echo ‘Subscriber’;

else

echo ‘Provider’;

?>

Thank you. After searching the forums for how to check the current user’s role, I added below to function.php and it’s working. Since I’m new to this, I’m very open to suggestions if there’s a better way to write this function.

function my_alter_bp_sidebar_login(){

global $bp;

$user = new WP_User( $bp->loggedin_user->id );

if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {

foreach ( $user->roles as $role )

if ($role != ‘subscriber’) {

echo ‘root_domain . ‘/wp-admin/”>Dashboard<p/>’;

}

}

}

add_action(‘bp_before_sidebar_me’,’my_alter_bp_sidebar_login’,1);

I only need 1 blog – the main one. I disabled the blog tracking component and that worked, thank you. It disabled all the ‘Blog’ tabs.

The only thing I need now is a way for the providers (those who can post to the main blog) a way to create/edit posts. Other than adding a meta widget to the sidebar, is there a better way I can provide authors, contributors, etc. a way to get to the dashboard so they can post/edit blog entries?