@lumosnorge
You have a section of code missing from your theme.
You should have another layer of primary navigation (item-nav). You are only seeing the sub navigation for the activity tab.
I had the same problem, but as Roger Coathup explained that the profile view was supposed to show in a separate tab I realized something was wrong with our site. We are using the default theme, and I can’t seem to figure out what we might have been doing wrong to prevent the profile tab from showing up. I have included a link to a screenshot of the problem:
http://lumosnorge.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/screenshot-buddypress.png
Hope someone will be able to help me, as I would vert much like to have the profiles show up on our site.
Thank you in advance.
It’s just spammers isn’t it! When bots sign up, they have to or think they have to fill any form fields they find so they simply place random characters. Are these actual users or spammers?
@mercime, I am with WP 3.01 BP1.252
there are 2 fields, Primary Language(text box) shows something like “O4hDNZAiV” or “7rj462jpc”, and About me(text Area) shows something like “s2MtUZWWDRJYlj” or “jJxbfMDAPTIJK4r”
This only happens on newly registered members. For old members, even input new information in profile the first time, it still works normal.
@imjscn what BP/WP versions are you using? What are the labels/fields for the 2 profile fields which are exhibiting meaningless letters?
It turns out that it was running 32M or memory, so I created a .htaccess that increased that to 64M
Now the WP works, but the database is generating errors that the table it is looking for doesnt exist.
Here is the error from the log. Note, I am hosting this in Rackspace Cloud (CloudSites):
[22-Sep-2010 09:15:23] WordPress database error Table ***********.wp_bp_xprofile_groups’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_groups WHERE id = 1 made by require_once, require, do_action, call_user_func_array, xprofile_add_admin_menu, xprofile_install
[22-Sep-2010 09:15:23] WordPress database error Table ***********.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE id = 1 made by require_once, require, do_action, call_user_func_array, xprofile_add_admin_menu, xprofile_install
Note, I replaced my DB name with ***********
You could add a file called front.php – members/single/front.php and then create a new front page from the existing code.
Brilliant, thanks a lot Roger!
Are you using the default theme?
The default theme shows the profile on a separate tab when you visit the member’s page. If you want to move the view profile content onto the activity tab you can look at copying the content from members/single/profile.php into members/single/activity.php (do this in a child theme of course).
If you want something more sophisticated, take a look at the custom loop examples under Support …. Docs on this site
@Modemlooper- Thanks for the reply.
Do you know if that works for editing the fields, or just for displaying them? I tried uncommenting that using one of my field names, and it crashed my page. I will continue to play around with it.
in member-header.php theres a comment that says this.
If you’d like to show specific profile fields here use:
bp_profile_field_data( ‘field=About Me’ ); — Pass the name of the field
–Member
To create a directory of services for a specific community.
The registered WP/BP users would be service providers which should be able to register and fill in some special fields (i.e. name, description, services they provide, locations where they work); the end users would be their consumers, which should be able to list those providers i.e. by service and location.
All the categorization stuff can be accomplished through taxonomies, it’s kinda easy and I can use multiple filtering criteria, even mix taxonomies with search keywords. It would work great if service providers where a custom post type, but since I need every one of them to log in and update their own data, I think user profiles are the best choice… except that none of this stuff applies to profiles.
Extending profiles with extra fields isn’t the problem, I don’t even need BuddyPress for that. But taxonomizing them… I can’t work it out :S
#1 look at the /members/single/member-header.php file in there you will see a commented out line of code that will enable display of extra profile fields, if you have created them – exact positioning of that data is down to where you decide to output it in the theme.
#2 undoubtedly yes, but it’s a slightly big subject to give a simple explanation of. In a nutshell: given that we can check the displayed member id then in theory you could use that to run a conditional to render different markup depending on the member profile being viewed.
#3 ? not sure what you mean by this.
xprofile is the internal name, if you like, of the bit of code that provides the Extended Profile Fields component.
What exactly do you want to customise? You can add new profile fields from the BP dashboard options
Hi!
I’m using WP 3.0.1 multi-site with Buddypress 1.2.5.2.
First of all, the plugin have a minor bug to be fixed: at line 594 of bp-maps.php must be closed the comments adding a / at the end of the line.
Then, I’ve other bugs that, maybe, went fixed yet on the plugin support forum (http://dev.benoitgreant.be/bbpress/forum/buddypress-maps). But that forum no more exist 
1. reported at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/buddypress-maps/?topic_page=1&num=15#post-39374
Everytime I edit the profile the link send me to the top of the page and do nothing. May be a javascript problem?
2. reported at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/buddypress-maps/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-53565
Sometimes i’ve Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress-maps/bp-maps-templatetags.php on line 210 in the profile page.
3. reported at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/buddypress-maps/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-55594
Basically the plugin try to search the location with the xprofile-fields provided, but it don’t find anything so suggest to use the markers. Due to the 1. problem i cannot create a new marker. Also i cannot edit the map pointing a marker on it.
@grosbouff Can you re-establish the old support forum?
I think this plugin is really useful, so any help would be really appreciated 
@tubruk if you are having a problem using Adam at Hyperspatial’s functions for age (they look fine to me), then please leave a comment for him on his blog
The code you have for gender needs to be used inside a loop that’s iterating over fields, and have the correct profile fields and values set up for gender. You say you got the code from somewhere… Have you asked there about why it doesn’t work for you?
If you don’t get an answer on gender… Start a separate thread, but post a lot more information and code showing exactly how you are trying to use the code
Are you deliberately ignoring the other post Dorethy
I gave you that exact example for:
bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=business type’)
Please take a care not to make those that try and help feel as though they are wasting their time 
Thread closed! As I asked please continue in the original one you started.
@dorothysulzmann
You are now running two concurrent threads on the same subject, please don’t. Why have you not simply continued in the original thread? this practice causes confusion and wastes resources.
Did you actually try my half baked example? where did you get the example above from?
Please continue this in the original thread where my examples do work in the members loop
@bowromir if you have code to help can you post it to the thread I linked to above.
Hi Bowe
I’ve got it! On members-loop.php i’ve put:
Business Type: “
So now all if have to figure out is who to get the ‘order by’ drop down menu on Members director to pick up this Business Type field and work! Check out http://www.ineedyourskills.co.uk/members/ to see.
Cheers!
I think the code is much easier then what you came up with.. I’m currently not at my mac, but I’ll check it out in an hour or so, I should have the code somewhere
I’m using buddypress 1.2.5.2 (latest version) and wordpress 3.0.1(latest version).
What i’ve done so far: I’ve gone to ‘Profile Field Setup’ on the WordPress Dashboard under the Link ‘Buddypress’ and added the fields ‘Business Type’ with a drop down box of three options – DJs, Venue or Promoter. So when users register they choose one of these business types. I wanted these to show up on the members directory so put in to members-loop.php this code:
`<?php
//code inside the members-loop.php
$business_type= xprofile_get_field_data( “Business Type” ,bp_get_the_site_member_user_id());//fetch the text for business type
?>`
and i’ve tried:
“
Anyone have any idea where i’m going wrong?
@dorothysulzmann
Not sure I understand your statement ” can’t find anything to help”? what is you other thread about then? and if the help that you are getting in that thread isn’t working why haven’t you posted back to that thread.
We can’t magic up code for you we can help you in the right direction, we all have things like this we are trying to solve or work out sometimes it does take a bit of time to get there.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/listing-members/
@katemgilbert
field_5 cannot be the field ID they are numeric so not sure where you have got that idea, did you simply copy an example from the codex loop page/
Read the thread I linked to, not necessarily the solution you are all after but should help. As for simply displaying a particular field it’s a relatively trivial matter and should be clear how in that thread.
@dorothysulzmann –
It’s certainly do-able using BuddyPress, but would take a fair bit of work. What’ve you provided is more like a brief for a full project / strategic consultancy, rather than a support question answerable in a thread like this.
You can look at the documentation section of this website: https://codex.buddypress.org/home/ as a starting point, although it’s doesn’t really have a basic tutorial.
You would need to investigate profile fields in depth, and writing logic to handle your different types of user.
For payments, you might be best looking at one of the “off the shelf” plugins.
