if you got a step-by-step or could elaborate further on this I would appreciate it mate.
You are the first person to make me feel like this is even possible thank you!
I am very new to php and buddypress etc so trying my best but not quite to the levels you are speaking of
You need to override the new user admin email function:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_new_user_notification
Then you need to call on some BuddyPress functions to grab the xprofile data.
xprofile_get_field_data() (located in bp-xprofile.php) will help.
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If all this is foreign to you, short answer is “it’s possible, but requires coding” 
The create group function is groups_create_group(); it can be found in /bp-groups.php.
You can add checks for profile fields when a user activates their account with the “bp_core_activated_user” action, available in the bp_core_activate_signup() function (this can be found in /bp-core/bp-core-signup.php).
Hope that gives you a few pointers.
aljuk, thanks for the reply.
1. I think the BP Profile Privacy plugin is just what I need.
2. I’m not sure about the BuddyPress Private Community plugin. I think I’ll have to install it and play with it and see if it’s helpful for me..
3. When you say “All of that should, and does, happen as a matter of course”, *Name* is a core field but doesn’t break a user’s name down into first name, middle initial and last name. So in order for me to have that level of granularity for the user name, I’ll have to add a “First Name” field, a “Middle Initial” field and a “Last Name” field. So I end up asking the user to fill in their name information twice and the value the user enters into the “Name” might not match the combined values of the “First Name” field, “Middle Initial” field and “Last Name” fields. I’d much rather have the user enter values in those fields then concatenate those entries to fill the “Name” field.
4. So is there a way I can manage group members profile management separately from visitor management? If I set up the BP profile fields with the level of granularity I need for our members, that would be way too much information to ask a visitor to enter just to be able to register to leave comments.
5. Sounds to me like until I can heap enough abuse on the folks over at Artisteer, I’ll have to retweak theme files every time I make a change to the theme with Artisteer. Your suggestion of constructing a child theme sounds like it would work but I’d have to have my “real” theme become a child theme to the BuddyPress default theme and that seems to me to be the exact opposite of how things ought to work. It would be really nice if there was some way to install the BuddyPress default theme as a limited child theme to my Artisteer theme without overriding my Artisteer theme formatting. That does bring up a question though… is there any way I can create page templates for profile management that use the BuddyPress default theme yet have the rest of the site maintain use of the Artisteer theme? Another option might be putting up profile management on a separate domain and synchronizing the database from there to the main site’s database. However, this sounds like a level of development that’s probably above my skill level (I’m not a PHP programmer but am at least a fair HTML guy).
Again, thanks much for your help.
It is in the fieldgroup “ID1”.
BP Profile Privacy only works for fields in the fieldgroup “Base” (ID 1). In which group did you place the birthday field?
I activated it and made my settings but nothing happens. E.g. I said “Birthday” just for “User” but it’s still visible. There are also no settings in the frontend if I use “Let user decide”.
I already deleted all fields with “bp_profile_privacy” in the database and activated the plugin again. But it’s still the same… No idear!?
Thanks a lot!
I just tried that plugin and it seems to be working. What didn’t work for you?
I just tried BP Profile Privacy. It’s not working with the latest BP release, isn’t it!? 
So maybe another idear?
Thanks for the answers. But I just want to hide one of the profile fields from public….
But you could also help me, if you tell me this:
Is it possible to convert a date (e.g. Birthday 12.07.1987) to an “age” “23”?! That would solve the Problem also.
I just don’t want that anyone is able to see the birthdate of my users…
Thanks a lot and all the best!
There is a plugin called profile privacy that may do what you want
Use the conditional function `is_user_logged_in()` in an ‘if’ conditional before the field in question.
Here’s what I did on BP-Tricks (this works)
<div class="profile_fields">Website: <span></span></div>
Anyone got any ideas? Really need help with this one!
Does anyone have any ideas why this doesnt work?
@stefrusso The heck with it — I just went into the database and hand-edited the description field in table wp_bp_xprofile_fields.
@Mic, @nahummadrid
Just as an update, I ended up using these two plugins to achieve the desired result:
Capability Manager – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/
BuddyPress ACL Profile – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-xprofiles-acl/
@candacekthe1
try: a “ backslash in front of the apostrophe
as for the strong tags try span style=”font-weight:bold” Relat…/span
I’m looking for the same thing myself!
Yes. Have a test install of BuddyPress and look at the “Profile Field Setup” menu item underneath the main “BuddyPress” menu in wp-admin to see what you can do with the profile fields.
Per my previous post, the registration form is at /bp-default/registration/register.php. Copy that into your (child?) theme, preserving directory structure.
I would suggest you use the BuddyPress Profile Fields to record this information — you can view the template used on the registration screen at bp-default/registration/register.php. You can then pull the information out of BuddyPress and just feed the variables to your existing “grab content” query.
See xprofile_get_field_data() in /buddypress/bp-xprofile.php how to retrieve/set this information programatically.
What are you going to use the extra usermeta for? If you just need an easy way to store and retrieve some data about individual users, then using BP xprofile fields is really the easiest way to go – they can be created in the Dashboard, and all the registration markup & save/retrieve functions are all built in. If, on the other hand, you’ve already built a bunch of custom functions to query across usermeta, then it’s probably best to keep what you’ve got (saving in wp_usermeta) and hook some functions into the BP registration process.
Buddypress 1.2.6
Where can I change the format of the date in users profile. It appears in English, but I would prefer only digits like j/m/Y ?
I use this little plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/
The description is not really that helpful. basically you can define certain xprofile fields to link directly to external URLs. e.g youtube, facebook, twitter, external website….etc etc
you need to manually alter the .php file in the instruction but this is very simple to do and it comes with a few stock media sites setup already.
Very good and very simple
In the wp-admin panel, go to the buddypress tab on the right, see where it says “profile field setup”?
Thats what you want! 
