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Yeah I am trying to do this also. Any one found out a way to do it yet?

you could try this https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-privacy/ and set those two fields for just user view. I mean if you really don’t want user themselves to see something they’ve inputted I guess you could use CSS to display:none for that field.(thats not the best way) but I would want to know where information I input went to, so in those 2 fields description you can say this is only visible to them from the profile page.

@questus5

Look at your bp admin section, you will see the custom profile link you use that to create new groups and fields, as long as a new group is created under the ‘Base’ level then it will appear on the registration page.

@dorothysulzmann
As a workaround I would move the three type selections labeled ‘Fan off’? to just after the primary details and use the tree types as just that to confer a user type to each member but also run a simple jQuery show/hide on the further groups so all are hidden and then a check is performed to catch the radio selection and the appropriate group revealed with perhaps a ‘none’ control selection default.

The proper approach would be to complete a section and then pass the form control fields in a session or buffer to the next view to complete further sections but with BP that will likely start to get complicated, as techguy says there is no quick easy way to do this but with client side scripting it wouldn’t be that difficult.

DOB should never be displayed. In fact that’s not even a default BuddyPress registration option. Did you add in some registration fields of your own or did the Thesis theme?

@tubruk

I’m not really sure what you are trying to do with your code. Whereabouts are you trying to hide fields with no data? In the default theme profile-loop.php, fields without values are already not displayed.

As for quick fixes: You’ll need to replace ‘your-field-id’ with a variable that’s got the field id in it. You’ll also need to write valid PHP e.g. closing the PHP code before beginning your html. I’d steer clear of inline style definitions as well; the default BuddyPress theme comes with a comprehensive set of CSS files, and you’d be better augmenting these with style definitions.

Unfortunately, this forum isn’t really the appropriate place for PHP coding tutorials – You might be better reading up on PHP before attempting to modify the theme templates in any depth.

@tubruk

in your child theme, wherever you want to hide fields that have no data, you can put a simple if statement, something like:

if (bp_get_profile_field_data(‘field=your-field-id’) === “”) :
// don’t display code
else:
// display code
endif;

Which file to edit, all depends where it is you are wanting to display / hide the profile field. The most likely file for displaying profile fields is profile-loop.php in members/single/profile, but that already skips blank fields (using a call to bp_field_has_data(); that function has to be used inside the profile field loop).

@r-a-y & @djpaul thank you very much I’ve got a last question what do I need to change if I want to hide more profile fields

Tested just now, works for me.
You need to use the profile id #.

Go to your profile field setup and check the ID by putting your mouse over the “Edit” field. The ID # is field_id.
For example, “Name” is 1.

Either that or go to your DB and manually look up the profile field id in the wp_bp_xprofile_fields table.

You can also use any profile template tag and do your conditional.

If you wanted to use the profile name, use bp_get_the_profile_field_name() instead.

You have to ask 1000 and 1 times!

You have to modify the profile loop (/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php)

Change this line:
while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field();

to:
while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field(); if ( bp_get_the_profile_field_id() != 'ID # YOU WANT TO SKIP' ) :

then change the corresponding endwhile; line to:
endif; endwhile;

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That’s one way of doing it.

I asked 1000 times how to hide special profile fields no answer @r-a-y @djpaul @hnla????

Here’s that plugin I was referring to: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-privacy/

@thelandman, in my solution I use javascript to generate the username from the weird semi-optional xprofile fullname field, hide the username field on the form, use the email login plugin so members don’t need the username to log in, add more custom code to synchronize the fullname and the fullname-derived username to all the various similar fields in the database, etc. It’s messy, but somewhat workable.

The point is that it should not be that hard. Using full names, Firstname Lastname, should be part of the core. Seeing that none of this is fixed in 1.2+ and probably will never be fixed, I have no plans to upgrade to newer versions of Buddypress and will continue developing my version as a fork, more suited for professional and business use. If anyone is interested in working with me on that, please contact me directly.

I use a Profile Privacy plugin created by http://www.jfarthing.com/. Sadly, the link to the plugin in my dashboard comes up 404 in the wp repositorty, and I can’t seem to find reference to it on his site. That said, the plugin allows for you to manage who can see certain fields in the profile (everyone, friends, user). When profile fields are set to “user” only the user and the site admin can view the info. Perhaps an attempt to contact jfarthing will met results. Good luck.

@bofw Ah, there you are. Was wondering when I’d find your username on here.

Sarah – are you trying to hide particular fields, or field groups, on the ‘edit profile’ page?

So it works? Tag the topic as resolved.