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@pcwriter It’s weird. I tried a proxy server, and was still able to get to the signup page by typing in the url, which leads me to believe the htaccess change isn’t taking right. Is there anything that could be interfering?

I had another anti-spam idea: Would there be a way to require a user to have an avatar? What I’ve noticed is that all the spam signups have no avatars. Wondering if making that essentially the same as required profile fields would help.

@nettantra thank you. Will be checking it out.

Hi,

You can check this plugin which I recently develop to provide ACL BuddyPress Extended Profiles:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-xprofiles-acl/

Hope you find it useful.

Regards,
NetTantra

I’m using a custom child theme, so the footer copy has been changed. At the risk of inviting more spam, here’s my signup page: http://injersey.com/join-injersey
I’ve got si-captcha, Humanity, alternate slug, htaccess tweak, and 2 required profile fields. At this point it’s just getting kind of absurd. There must be some kind of backdoor that’s letting them in. Like Matt ( @footybible ), every single one of these spam signups is registering for a sub-blog. Unlike Matt, I offer the ability to register for a town via the Group Registration Options plugin ( https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-registration-options/ ) developed by @Messenlehner. Worked pretty well until 2 weeks ago, when we started getting slammed every day at about 2am with spam signups and posts.

@travel-junkie I would 100% go with option 2. I have many clients who would love for people to be able to attach their CV to their profile. I do a lot of sites for actors and models and this is absolutely perfect if the actors/ models can post their CV’s to their profiles for people to download as a PDF.

One project I am working on this minute would be made SO much better with just the CV option.

I for one wouldn’t mind at all in buying 2 seperate plugins – 1 for CV’s and one for job board if at a later stage it was necessary.

If you were looking at the full job board experience as a 100 Euro plugin then why not sell just the CV component for fraction of that and then promote the full jobboard add on as a premium upgrade.

You could even give away the CV component as a taster of what can be done with job board. that way it gets hundrerds of sites using it, becoming aware of it and a good percentage of those will no doubt want to expand and buy the full jobboard as a result.

Splitting the 2 components could well be a canny marketing ploy.
People will use the CV component and then realise they soon need the upgrade.

What do you think?
I for one would love the CV component whether it’s free or a paid plugin. How easy would it be for you to create the CV component as a standalone? If you can add in the customisation we spoke about before in terms of editing fields and meta data on the CV I’ll put my name down for it now!

You will need someone to code the form and add fields in database as that is where all data is saved.

@travel-junkie Just looked at the CV creator and you know, this could be phenomenal!
The only thing I would need extra really is the ability to change the fields that appear in the CV (in the same way you can add profile fields etc in BP) That would be absolutely superb. Also the avatar doesn’t appear when you download the CV as a PDF. Is that supposed to happen? It would be great to get the avatar also.

Cheers!

If you can make the plugin customisable in terms of the CV profile fields I’ll definitely be buying a copy of this off you!

@gregfielding https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-search/activity/

Check it out mate, it’s exactly what we need!

Just need a way of hiding the form through ajax as the search form can be BIG when you have a lot of profile fields to search from.
You know like the ‘new topic’ form is hidden in the forums directory etc?

We just need this hidden in the members directory and it’s perfect. Lets you search with one or more fields selected.
Let me know what you think!

@gregfielding Totally agree there! To be able to find members by searching across multiple profile fields is really a feature that I’m sure most would love on BP. Does anyone have anything in the works?

@thomas – this is something we are also looking at. @hnla is on the right lines, the following thread throws some more light on the problem:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/dynamically-create-new-sets-of-profile-fields/

With difficulty. I would suggest best approach is to create a new field group add a series of text fields the user ‘could’ use, ensure they are optional, user fills in what they wish and you only display those fields that return a value i.e have been completed. note: a new field group will only be editable from the user profile and would not appear on sign up page by default, if required on sign up page then add new fields to the base group.

@r-a-y Not sure if you’ll know this r-a-y but does this plugin allow me to search by multiple fields? e.g. Can I search for ‘females’ with ‘blonde’ hair etc?

I am starting work on a site where models will have profiles set up on attributes such as hair colour, eye colour, height etc and really need clients to be able to search for members matching more than one field.
Cheers.

@drwebstein – this thread might might help you: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/adding-more-fields-to-groups/

@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).

Here’s an option:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

It turns any profile field into a clickable search term that brings up directory of all profiles matching that term. Could be useful… depends on how you want to use it.

@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????

yeah but maybe you want to have somethink like nickpage ….

and it would be cool if you could show fields/categories in a new tab on profile homepage