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Hello

can someone tell me how I can just remove a created Profile Category? I want to use it somewhere else and not unter the profile tab.

I’ve created a new category with fields in the Profile Field Setup and now I dont want to have it under the profile. Please I’m notgood with php. Just a special category not all of them

there is no plugin but I’ve got an idea how to do that but my php isnt that good I hope php-programmers will help us.

1. You go to Profile Field Setup and create a new Category called pages and add then you add some fields.

2. You create a new tab and you’ll need to add this code:

/***
* If you’d like to show specific profile fields here use:
* bp_profile_field_data( ‘field=About Me’ ); — Pass the name of the field
*/

Change About Me with your specific field

3. NOW one php-programmer here must tell us how we can “delete” the created category in the profile page

This could be done, but it would take some custom coding. Here’s how I would structure it.

1) Write some JS for the Edit Profile page that inserts a new set of fields based on user input (say, a button that says “Add another employer”). This wouldn’t really require any BP code in and of itself.

2) Hook a function to ‘xprofile_updated_profile’, which is a do_action hook called right after all of the xprofile fields are saved. Grab the $_POST data, and see if there are any items in that array for which no profile fields yet exist. Use xprofile_insert_field() to create the new fields (it might be like employer_2_employer_address – something that iterates nicely).

3) On the front end, you’ll want to make sure that not all of the employer groups are shown to each user on the edit profile screen. By default, each user sees each profile field. That means that if one person on your system listed ten employers, then everyone would see ten employer field groups when they went to edit their profile. You could do this in the profile edit template, by checking bp_get_the_profile_field_name() against a list of permitted field names.

Yeah, I would agree that a functionality like that would be nice.

Sorry I misunderstood your question. I thought you meant you were looking to join wp_bp_xprofile_data and wp_bp_xprofile_fields.

I’m thinking you’ll have to join the same table together in order to do what you want.

I don’t do extra profile fields. I use that to redirect to a payment page so they can pay to join. After they pay, I redirect them to a Thank You page with their payment details. This is just a page with a special page template applied to it. I also have the activation disabled and they are just automatically activated and logged into the site. I can get away with this since they have to pay.

Go into the dashboard and look for the BuddyPress ‘Profile Field Setup’ link

Exactly what I needed! Thanks!

It’s going to be more complicated to save items into wp_usermeta (which is I assume what you’re doing, given the link) with update_user_meta() from the BP profile page. You’ll have to hook a function to somewhere in the BP loading process that will catch the value of $_POST and manipulate the data manually.

Can I ask what might be a silly question? Why don’t you just use BP profile fields? Dashboard > BuddyPress > Profile Field Setup. That’ll add new fields to the profile that can be displayed and updated natively through BuddyPress.

http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-profile-setup (replace yourdomain.com with your domain)

That’s the page where you can add more fields that people can fill out at registration and will appear in the person’s profile.

Did you create separate profile groups? If so, only the first profile group will be displayed on the registration page.

If you want to add all fields to the registration page, you have to add them all to the first profile group.

@contoaberto

Its better to notify using @mention feature.So that you will get your reply faster and also the notification goes to the user you intended to ask.Anyways I will do it for you.

@boonebgorges
hi, Boone Gorges,

Thank u very much for the info. But I have to confess I’m very much a newbie to understand what I might have done. Would you mind please explain a bit more – maybe in a dummie way?

What do you mean by brackets?
1 ( these )
2 { these }
3 [ these ]
or something else?

What’s happening when users try to use them? And in what context are they using them, activity updates or forum posts or profile fields or what?

And what version of BP/WP are you running? https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/