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I think a query on the database is likely going to be the only solution that I can think of for this.

Seems simple enough. You can disable a lot of the functionality you don’t want in the admin.

The custom parts will be the profile itself, but you should be able to do this pretty nicely using the xProfile fields without too much custom work on your end. You might also have to build a custom search to search through those profile fields, but there are a number of plugins you can look at to build out that functionality.

I’d consider using s2member as the payment method for people signing up. That should work for what you want I think.

As a side note, I’ve created a sports website that teams can use to fundraise called Giving Sports: http://givingsports.com Athlete profiles is not the core of the site, but each athlete just gets a profile as a means to fundraise for their team. It will be interesting to see how that evolves over time since athlete profiles are valuable and interesting.

Disallowing bots to follow the signup page link (nofollow on the link), changing the default signup slug and adding new profile fields really really does help. And no plugins either.

I would like to add the Email field to the members profile… using your method!
Which file needs to be modified!?

Thanks
Bojan

Check this out – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/profile-fields-questions/

You’re on single WP with BP installed so that BP Profile widget won’t work for you, I should have asked that sooner. In any case, since you have installed BP, you can easily add the fields you want your users to fill in via dashboard > BuddyPress > Profile Field Setup.

I’d love to know if anyone’s made any progress in this area?

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

I’m no xprofile field expert, but can’t you just create a page template, have the page template go through the user loop and on each loop display each of the xprofile fields that you want for that user in a table. Copy the table to excel and you’ve got it. There are other ways, but that seems like the simplest to me.

It does require you to understand the user loop and displaying the xprofile fields, but that can be modified from the list of members page and the profile page which displays the xprofile data.

Or you could hire someone like Paul or Boone or other BP developer who could probably crank this out pretty quickly.

As far as I know, there is no automatic matching plugin based on a user’s profile fields.

However, users can manually search for other members.

Use the BP profile search plugin for more fine-tuned searches:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-search/

Couple of thoughts that may help:

Have your profile fields got different IDs on the new server?
What version of BP were you on on the original server?

I’m dealing with a very similar scenario. I have a similar amount of traffic, and will get some unexplained spikes in memory usage that take my server down.

It’s pretty much impossible to diagnose the problem in development, as it really seems to be tied to our peak traffic times.

Does anyone have any good direction they can point me for simulating load?

Good idea with the wp-cache concept. My database traffic doesn’t seem to be dreadful, but it couldn’t hurt to back-off on the queries.

Plugins are:
Akismet
AudioPlayer
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Profile Privacy
Featured Content Gallery
MagicFields
Gravity Forms
WP-FB-Autoconnect

I fixed most of mine by adding a few fields in the Profile Field Setup. I added City, State ( as a dropdown menu and a zipcode. I got rid of 70% just from this. also, I have seen in my log files they are searching for
“yes i d like to create a new blog”
“registering for this site is easy just fill in the fields below and we ll get a new account set up for you in no time yes i d like to create a new blog”
“intext yes i d like to create a new blog blog with wordpress inurl register”
“i d like to create a new blog”

maybe someone can tell us where this text lives so we can remove these tags from the search engines. just by this they are able to see all wordpress sites. I tried it with google and it does work.

It seems only happen on BuddyPress 1.2.6. Because after I upgrade to 1.2.6, the custom profile on my site disappeared.

Is this a bug?

I’m having the same problem. I added first and last name fields and it worked. After that, any additional fields I add don’t save or show.

After searching Google for hours I found your post, and was happy at least someone had the same issue.
Have you found a solution?
–> I found the same file and I have exactly the same issue –> and even though I added a text on my registration page right after that profile field to please add the http:// , many users still just type in www
–> hence their website link becomes a mixture of my mainblog and their address and their link doesn’t work, due to the this part I guess
in the “else” where the Members Slug is added. (I was thinking of just removing it, but I’m not sure)

I am not a developer and on my journey I found a solution in order to get rid of all profile links which didn’t make sense either but the issue with the website still remains. Maybe you found a solution and you can share it? I’d be really thankful.

Here is what I found in order to get rid of the profile links, thanks to Jeff Sayre:
1) add a file named bp-custom.php just to your plugins folder
2 ) with the content that I can’t insert here unfortunately but from the first post of Jeff Sayre on this link:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-get-rid-of-autolinking-on-profile-fields/?topic_page=2&num=15

That did it for me!
Bye
Sanny

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.

i’ve been using groups for this sort of thing. it would be cool to have xprofile fields for groups. a plugin perhaps.

it’s possible and I am sort of working on something like this but when I say working managing to map out all the problems I hadn’t envisaged. At the moment there is a manual-ish approach that can be taken where one (admin) can set profile fields check boxes that correspond to existing post tags, user makes a selection of the tags that interest them and then a post loop is run against the user id and the tags they have selected and posts displayed, I wanted to try and take that further and make it less manual but I may try to run up the widget first then try and build the rest around it

Hi, nice plugin, do you think it would be appropriate to use as a solution to the following:

I am using the “More fields” plugin to add some checkboxes to posts. These checkboxes will allow a post to be associated with genre of book.

I am also using buddypress. When a user registers I want to be able to give the user the option to choose which book genres they are most interested in, and then save it into their profile info. These genres obviously have to be the same as the genres which i am tagging my posts as (the custom field ive created in more fields).

Can anyone think of a way I can allow users to choose which genres (multiple checkboxes) they are interested in. I could of course create a profile field containing the book genres in the “profile field setup”, but then they wouldnt be the same as the checkboxes im using to “tag” posts with and therefore id be maintaining two sets of data which are in no way linked and would be useless for reporting purposes.

Thanks for any help, it would be much appreciated.