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@DJPaul: tks for the info, though it doesn’t make me smile

I searched for other plugins that allow for bulk import that include xprofile fields, but I find none. Any thoughts on ways to handle this? direct import via mysql is not a good solution as my client needs as wysiwyg as possible.

Are we sort of in a “dead zone” now as people wait for WP 3.0 before coming out with plugin updates?

@boonebgorges and his work may help with both

1. Under BuddyPress, Profile Field Setup, you can add a new field or field group, including text box type fields. As stated on that admin page, “Any fields in the first group will appear on the signup page.” An URL entered will be picked up as a link in the profile’s public view.

While setting up profile fields, have a look at Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/ with which, among other features “Administrators can specify certain profile fields that link to social networking profiles.”

2. See BuddyPress External Group Blogs https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/ with which individual users might include RSS in group and site activity streams even without blogs being enabled. See BP External Activity https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-external-activity/ for more admin options, or even FeedWordPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/ for user blogs.

Agreed. I would love this functionality.

You might also want to try this plugin, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/, read the third option

“Administrators can specify certain profile fields that link to social networking profiles. If I enter my Twitter handle ‘boonebgorges’ into a field labeled ‘Twitter’, for example, this plugin will bypass the default link to a BuddyPress search on ‘boonebgorges’ and instead link to http://twitter.com/boonebgorges. See custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress-bp-functions.php to configure this setting.”

You might be able to hack it in a way that works for your site.

Not sure if this will help you, but you might consider trying this trick (see post by Boone Gorges), https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/remove-automatic-links-in-profile/.

Hope this helps.

Here’s that plugin I was referring to: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-privacy/

BP can’t fill every feature gap nor everyone’s wishes – why plugins are created. Sure this can be easily done with bypassing some of the xprofile data (or create your own fields) and hook into the wp_usermeta first/last name. (even though xprofile is syncing that data)

@thelandman, in my solution I use javascript to generate the username from the weird semi-optional xprofile fullname field, hide the username field on the form, use the email login plugin so members don’t need the username to log in, add more custom code to synchronize the fullname and the fullname-derived username to all the various similar fields in the database, etc. It’s messy, but somewhat workable.

The point is that it should not be that hard. Using full names, Firstname Lastname, should be part of the core. Seeing that none of this is fixed in 1.2+ and probably will never be fixed, I have no plans to upgrade to newer versions of Buddypress and will continue developing my version as a fork, more suited for professional and business use. If anyone is interested in working with me on that, please contact me directly.

I use a Profile Privacy plugin created by http://www.jfarthing.com/. Sadly, the link to the plugin in my dashboard comes up 404 in the wp repositorty, and I can’t seem to find reference to it on his site. That said, the plugin allows for you to manage who can see certain fields in the profile (everyone, friends, user). When profile fields are set to “user” only the user and the site admin can view the info. Perhaps an attempt to contact jfarthing will met results. Good luck.

I would use this, cool idea.

Not sure it will be that simple you may have to loop out the whole section in other words replicate the code that the line refers to but changing the id for the newly copied code so you then had all groups being displayed.

To be honest unless there is real compelling reason for a new group of fields I would simply add the new field to the ‘Base’ group. If it’s important for registration I think it’s better added to the base group and set to ‘required’.

The problem:
multiselectboxfields cannot be saved by trying to save profile of a user.

the errror-message:
“There was a problem updating some of your profile information, please try again.”

is still present in buddypress 1.2.3 and wordpress 2.9.2

I need this function for releasing a webside !!!!!

Hi @pollyplummer. You have basically got the right idea, but there are a few problems.

First, your check for usermeta is not formatted correctly. See https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_usermeta for get_usermeta syntax. In any case, get_usermeta gets stuff from the wp_usermeta table, and I used it as an example in my code to give you a sense of the kind of check you’d want to do. But that’ll only work if you’re checking against a piece of data that is stored using update_usermeta. BP xprofile fields are not. If the “114” information is stored in a bp xprofile field, you will probably have to do some magic with xprofile_get_field() to get it to work. The following will check for a field called “Type” and check to see if the current user’s Type value is 114:

$field_id = xprofile_get_field_id_from_name( 'Type' );
$field = xprofile_get_field( $field_id );
$value = $field->data->value;

if ( bp_the_profile_group_name() == 'awesome' && $value == '114' ) {

There’s probably a slicker way to do this, but it works. Again, this is only relevant if you’re storing the salient data in the xprofile tables.

The second problem is that you don’t want to repeat the bp_has_profile etc stuff inside of the if statement. If you want to feed a profile_group_id argument to bp_has_profile, you should do it in the initial loop.

Then make sure that you include the markup inside of the conditional if statement. In edit.php, that means everything, including the

See a similar discussion here https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-manage-users-their-extended-profiles/

not ideal… but may help for the time being (at least get to the buddypress profile page to perform the edits)

this will add a ‘view bp’ link to the buddypress profile when viewing the user list within the dashboard
http://blog.etiviti.com/2010/02/add-a-view-buddypress-profile-link-in-wp-admin-users/

Inside of the while( bp_profile_groups() ) loop for each member, check to see if bp_the_profile_group_name() is one that should be displayed to that particular user. In other words, put the template markup inside of a big conditional:

if ( bp_the_profile_group_name() == 'awesome' && get_usermeta( $bp->loggedin_user->id, 'awesome_user' ) ) {
// Show the profile fields in the 'awesome' group only for those users with the usermeta 'awesome_user'
}


Do that for each user type and each profile field group. Only the right stuff will be displayed; groups not meeting the criteria will be hidden.

@bofw Ah, there you are. Was wondering when I’d find your username on here.

Sarah – are you trying to hide particular fields, or field groups, on the ‘edit profile’ page?

@grosbouff For the purpose of your plugin, bp_profile_group_has_fields gets in the way. The purpose of bp_profile_group_has_fields in the default theme, is that it will skip over any group of fields that have no values filled in when inside the profile loop.

I think what you want to use is bp_field_has_data().

I also don’t think that this is a bug. All of those functions are doing exactly what is expected.

Can you explain in more detail what you need these functions to do?