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WP, WPMU and BP each have their own member admin areas, both frontend and backend, and data tables in MySQL, some of them synced, most not. Member management is an afterthought for Automattic. Hopefully it will be fixed in 3.0.

If you mean the User entered data, it is available on their profile not inside the wp-admin. You will need to visit their profile to see the data.

@Andy Peatling, so version 1.2 does sync separate firstname and lastname from the xprofile field to the fields in wp_usermeta?

I will upgrade when WP 3.0 is out, probably this Summer when my day job work is slow. I have a custom theme. It will be a complicated operation.

nice one. would be good to admin what profile fields should be made available to user. I have long list of fields that only get used as custom fields for other purposes than regular display. but yea some changes on backend don’t update on front, specifically the V/H Layout option didn’t work by setting it in admin, only when i set to allow user to decide layout does it update on hitting update badge. btw what’s the best way to overwrite the default logo image. thanks.

Just looking into the bp_core_signup_user() function again. Sorry for pointing this to you in the first place!

I would not recommend using this function because it sets a user’s status to “not active”, then sends an email to activate the account (which makes sense because that’s the default registration behavior in BP!).

Since we don’t want to ask a FB user to activate their account, stick with the wp_insert_user() function, then use some code to sync up the xprofile fields like:

// set xprofile field 1 (Name) with the fbuser's first name

xprofile_set_field_data(1,$user_login_id,$fbuser['first_name']);



/*

* @param $field The ID of the field, or the $name of the field.

* @param $user_id The ID of the user

* @param $value The value for the field you want to set for the user.

*/

To initialize BP, look at using the bp_init action:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/checking-buddypress-is-active/

[EDIT]

Just looking into the WP-FB-AutoConnect plugin, Justin (the author) has a do_action that you could hook into:

do_action('wpfb_login', array('WP_ID' => $user_login_id, 'FB_ID' => $fb_uid, 'facebook' => $facebook) );

Here you can sync up your xprofile fields, etc. Unfortunately, this action occurs every time a Facebook user logs in. You could view this as a positive or a negative!

I think it would be nice if Justin added another do_action right after the wp_insert_user() function in _process_login.php.

[EDIT #2]

Requested a new do_action on Justin’s plugin page – http://www.justin-klein.com/projects/wp-fb-autoconnect/comment-page-5#comment-11638.

@techguy

That’s correct the $usermeta variable holds the submitted xprofile fields from the BP registration page.

eg. you could do this:

$usermeta['field_1'] = $fbuser['first_name']; // field_1 = "Name" on BP registration page

You’ll have to grab the correct field_x name for each xprofile meta you want to sync up with the FB auto plugin.

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BP_VERSION might not be working because WP-FB-AutoConnect is probably loaded before BP, so WP-FB-AutoConnect (man that’s a mouthful!) doesn’t know that BP exists.

I worked nonstop this weekend to finish up our own advanced importer we started a few months back. Allows you to do a full import of a Ning network’s users, their custom profile fields, and avatars to BuddyPress! It reallywas a bit of work to scrape avatars from the profile pages but looks real cool while importing. Full support for very large member lists via optional FTP upload and batch processing so it won’t timeout on you.

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/ning-to-buddypress-user-importer

Can someone give solution that users that wish to sign up dont use buddypress signup page, instead they use regular wordpress signup which is much much safer.

Hmm, interesting. The generic BuddyPress register form does seem like a bit of a sieve (though it could just be my frustration talking).

I think you would just delete/disable /registration/activate.php and /registration/register.php. You would lose the ability for users to fill out extended profile fields at signup. However, quick signups are probably preferable, with seasoned users filling out extended profile fields as needed. I’ve read at least one article via delicious.com that suggests to me that signup forms need to be as simple as possible to help users focus on getting “behind the wall” fast and easy.

For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter or on my blog (btw – what the heck is wrong with you? I rule), I just updated the Import from Ning plugin to support BP xprofile fields: http://teleogistic.net/2010/04/more-import-to-ning-goodness/

So it works? Tag the topic as resolved.

Erich my concern is that – given your assertion on the other thread “Now your site Is up and running” that it is very difficult to get a new site off the ground without being able to send email when you create groups – you are perceiving an issue where one doesn’t necessarily exist, certainly it might be nice to have the email address fields available on the group send invites screen but it’s not a necessity as there is a reasonably simple path to the profile send emails from the group creation stage, a little explanatory text would smooth things along a little for users. I won’t ramble on as I covered some of these points on the other thread, and I’m in danger of repeating myself and of being boring

@snails07

I’ve been looking for something like this too…from what I can tell in these forums, nothing exists that will work. The plugin is this one https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-member-filter/

But, it doesn’t work with current MU or BP versions.

In theory, this could enable search menus for members by any profile fields…location, profession, hobbies, etc.

You could use the Custom Profile Filters for Buddypress plugin. I know it’s not exactly what you are looking for, but it would enable you let your users identify themselves in one of your 5 categories, then that word they have selected will become a link that will take them to a page will all of the other users who also selected that category.

Perhaps this plugin will give you the building blocks you need to create the solution you need.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

It becomes just string manipulation. Create a new function (my_funky_function) and do something like this:

function my_funky_function() {

echo str_replace( "username","", bp_get_the_profile_group_field_ids() );

}

Then replace the bp_the_profile_group_field_ids() call in edit.php (in your child theme of course) with my_funky_function().

I think that will work but it’s not tested.

Edit:

Oh, sorry, I’m sort of wrong. This is what I get in my edit.php form in the HTML:

<input type="hidden" name="field_ids" id="field_ids" value="1,3" />

Field_id 1 is the Username for me. You just need to filter that out so the str_replace call should be “1,” instead of “username”.

<input type="hidden" name="field_ids" id="field_ids" value="<?php bp_the_profile_group_field_ids() ?>" />

That line is your problem. Well, more specifically, the call to bp_the_profile_group_field_ids() which creates a list of the expected field names.

Unfortunately it doesn’t have a filter so you’d have to clone and own the function into your functions.php file and manually filter out the “username” field from the string that gets generated.

Make sense?

Oh, nope, it probably means that the code is actually checking that the field ‘username’ should be getting updated. I was sort of wondering if that would happen.

So I tried to explain this to my father…who can barely use email.

Pretend you’re in a room with 1,000 people that you don’t know. Now, you might end up making friends with 10 of them, and doing business with 2. The problem is that it would take you a week of shaking hands and starting conversations to find those connections.

Social Networks/Communities…like Buddypress/Facebook/LinkedIn etc. turn that week into 10 minutes.

To me, improved community-wide searching and easy navigation by profile fields (can someone please load in locations?) are the most important areas where BP is clunky and needs improvement. We need to focus on turning that 10-minutes into 5, while being ever-more-user-friendly and intuitive in the process.

The trend is that all of these networks will share information with one another, so much so that, in time, walls will be torn down and eventually, “Social Networks” will be a big mosh of everything…made up of smaller topic-focused communities like each of ours.

BP gives each of us a chance to create a niche within this great mosh. We shouldn’t try to BE the mosh, but simply be the most efficient and user-friendly communities within it.