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Wordpress Version: 4.3.1
Theme: Enfold
Plugins with media:

Better bbPress Signature
EWWW Image Optimizer
W3 Total Cache

There are more plugins but they are only for bbpress.
I also installed the Buddypress Beta, but the bug is still there.

And thank you already for your time 🙂

the basic php filter code was share with me, needed for this. Now i’m investigating how to put a ‘Rich Text’ checkbox on the fields editor.

Feel free to help over here
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-textarea-field-to-buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type

thx!

thank you very much!

your solution is slightly different from this other one, which helps me learn.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-textarea-field-to-buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type?replies=5#post-8009134

thx!

@mercime do you have any updates, should I put this under the buddypress bugs

Why don’t you install it through WordPress?
Dashboard -> Plugins -> Install -> search for Buddypress and then install it.
Then go to Settings -> Buddypress -> Sites and you can change the site fore registration and activation, it can be, that the sites don’t exist, so you need to create them and link them to it.

note, i also edited the .po file, and generated a new .mo from that

you can download my zip here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nx0ox3weg5khlpi/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type-JW-TEXTAREA.zip?dl=0

i noticed modernizr.js mentions ‘textarea’. Not sure what it’s doing, but i don’t think this is the cause:
‘ var c = a.html5 || {},
d = /^<|^(?:button|map|select|textarea|object|iframe|option|optgroup)$/i,
e = /^(?:a|b|code|div|fieldset|h1|h2|h3|h4|h5|h6|i|label|li|ol|p|q|span|strong|style|table|tbody|td|th|tr|ul)$/i,
f, g = “_html5shiv”,
h = 0,
i = {},
j;
(function() {
try {
var a = b.createElement(“a”);
a.innerHTML = “<xyz></xyz>”, f = “hidden” in a, j = a.childNodes.length == 1 || function() {
b.createElement(“a”);
var a = b.createDocumentFragment();
return typeof a.cloneNode == “undefined” || typeof a.createDocumentFragment == “undefined” || typeof a.createElement == “undefined”
}()
} catch (c) {
f = !0, j = !0
}’

hmm, ok, taking a different approach. i’m inspecting donmik’s files in ‘buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type’. Hope that’s ok, donmik!

i found ‘datepicker’ in:

bp-xprofile-custom-fields-type.php
classes\Bxcft_Field_Type_Datepicker.php
lang\buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type.pot
lang\en_US.mo
lang\en_US.po

(ignoring the non-english files for the moment).

i simply duplicated all the ‘datepicker’ code-chunks in these files, and replaced ‘datepicker’ with ‘textarea’.

also duplicated the file ‘classes\Bxcft_Field_Type_Datepicker.php’, renamed it ‘Bxcft_Field_Type_Textarea.php’, and removed any date-specific code i found there.

and so on and so forth.

then i zipped it, uploaded to wordpress, activate, and added my new Textarea field to a form.

i actually got no errors, and actually got a text field on my registration form!

unfortunately, it’s only a one-line textbox, not a multiline textarea.

hrm. In inspector, the displayed field is:

<input type="string">

so something in donmik’s code, or BP, or WP, is causing this to render as an <input> rather than <textarea>

….

i found ‘multiselectbox’ in the following files:

buddypress.pot
buddypress.pot
buddypress.pot
buddypress.pot
bp-members\admin\css\admin-rtl.css
bp-members\admin\css\admin-rtl.min.css
bp-members\admin\css\admin.css
bp-members\admin\css\admin.min.css
bp-themes\bp-default\functions.php
bp-themes\bp-default\functions.php
bp-themes\bp-default\functions.php
bp-themes\bp-default\functions.php
bp-themes\bp-default\members\single\profile\edit.php
bp-themes\bp-default\registration\register.php
bp-xprofile\bp-xprofile-classes.php
bp-xprofile\bp-xprofile-functions.php
bp-xprofile\bp-xprofile-template.php
bp-xprofile\bp-xprofile-template.php
bp-xprofile\admin\js\admin.js
bp-xprofile\admin\js\admin.min.js
bp-xprofile\classes\class-bp-xprofile-field-type-multiselectbox.php
bp-xprofile\classes\class-bp-xprofile-field-type-multiselectbox.php
bp-xprofile\classes\class-bp-xprofile-field-type-multiselectbox.php
bp-xprofile\classes\class-bp-xprofile-field-type-multiselectbox.php
bp-xprofile\classes\class-bp-xprofile-field-type.php
bp-xprofile\classes\class-bp-xprofile-field-type.php
bp-xprofile\classes\class-bp-xprofile-field-type.php

i welcome any suggestions on which of these i actually need to edit, at minimum, to create a new field-type.

thx!

thx for that! css will be our quick-and-dirty fallback. But not a long-term solution.

it would be cool to develop a proper control. i’m guessing this is part of the recipe for displaying on the user-profile page:

bp_profile_field_data()

but would be awesome if someone can share the full recipe to develop a custom field.

i’m looking here for clues-

Profile Fields Loop

and also searching the buddypress install for ‘multiselectbox’– just to see how that one gets handled 🙂

thx!

Thanks for the reply! You couldn’t find any links because my post never gets posted. I have not repeatedly tried to post it – I waited 2 days between each post and there is only 1 link in my post and that is to my web site. I really need help with my issue and both my hosting company and wordpress.org’s support forum have told me to post on buddypress.

It is still not working after changing to your code. Seems like it is unable to capture the value of $_POST[‘bpcat’] and update to the database.

bpcat is still stored as NULL in the mysql database.
I am using the latest buddypress and wordpress.

again my full code http://pastebin.com/MBNcn2pe