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Boone is right; however there is a way to post specific xprofile fields!

Check out a nifty function called bp_profile_field_data().

Say I have an xprofile field called “Bio”.

I’d use this code snippet:

bp_profile_field_data('field=Bio');

This will echo the “Bio” xprofile field of the displayed user.

If you want to manipulate the data, use:

bp_get_profile_field_data('field=Bio');

I just discovered the same problem of getting the same “Please try again” when attempting to save a profile with empty not required fields. Also only One (the last) item selected in a Multi Select Box is being saved and displayed on the Pubic Profile page. Check Boxes do work properly and display all checked items on the Public Profile Page. I’ll enter this in the Trac later today unless someone shares some additional insight.

If you want to get information out of the custom xprofile fields, you’ll need to use some of the functions in the profile-loop. I don’t think there are any core BP functions that allow you to pull a specific profile field by name or ID, so you’ll have to create a profile loop (<?php if ( bp_has_profile() ) : while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group(); ?>), then a profile field loop (<?php if( bp_profile_group_has_fields() : while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field(); ?>) and then loop through the items, picking out the ones you want by field name. Use the code in profile-loop.php as a template for what you want to insert into members-loop.

That code snippet probably applied to an older version of BP.

If someone posts this on the Ideas forum, that’ll get this flagged for a future BP release. I know John’s working on xProfile in BP 1.3, so it’ll never work again properly *hides*

Thanks for the plug, Erich

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/ is the plugin you’re thinking of. I updated it about a week ago to work on versions of BP 1.2+ (though you should definitely let me know if it does not work!).

@Nick – the plugin will do what you want. Check out the readme file, which will explain how to make it work.

@gregfielding – That’s a good idea, but at the moment BP is not set up in a way that makes it easy to create those check marks with a plugin. Maybe I’ll submit a core patch that does it, as I’d like to see it too.

check this out:

New plugin: Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress

http://teleogistic.net/2009/05/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

Boone for President

Code

BTW: please let me know if this Plug-in works fine with BP-version 1.2.1

I’m having that problem too…I’ve got profile fields set up for full contact information…phones, fax, address, etc. And all are clickable and search within buddypress.

It would be nice to have a simple check box next to the profile field to choose if the field should be searchable.

I think what you are looking for is the Custom CUNY Academic Commons Profile Filters plugin.

I just found the same thing, and I change it manually through the database, the _bp_xprofile_fields table.

The only way I know to do this, is to log in as an administrator, and then visit the member’s profile edit url (/members/username/profile/edit). You can then edit the fields.

Admittedly, this is clunky. I was toying with the idea of writing a plugin to make this easier, but I’ve also heard talk that this may be addresed in 1.3. Someone else might know more.

@gyonis – the post has only been up 21 hours, and also is quite intimidating to read through (it may have been better to ask each question individually!)

Any some pointers:

Q1. You’ll need to write some PHP code, and also understand the BuddyPress hook function concepts.

There are already some posts on modifying the admin bar, e.g. https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

If your list of blogs is fixed, it should be straightforward. If you want it to dynamically add newly created blogs to the dropdown list, I suggest taking a look at the code in /plugins/buddypress/themes/bp-default/blogs/index.php as a starting point

Q2. I suggest setting up a blog in your install for the NGO Directory, with new users added as contributors… they would then be able to create posts in that blog, but it would need your admin approval before the post goes live.

You could then use categories for each country, and tags to say what type of NGO they are (or simply have another set of orthogonal categories for type). For a simple ‘code free’ solution, you would then just put a sidebar widget in that provides a menu of all the categories and / or tags.

[A more powerful solution (extra features for the NGO), would be to give them an entire blog, instead of a single post for their organisation… although tagging and categorising blogs is / was a nightmare (Burt Adsit did some work on this, but I think it is out of date now).]

[Perhaps the best solution would be to add NGO’s as a different type of member in BuddyPress. i.e. users can register as themselves or as their NGO… Create a BuddyPress group to hold the NGO members, and have country, etc. as searchable fields in the profile. We gave up on a similar 2 types of member project, but there the challenges were considerable, yours may well work with this approach.]

Q3.1.1 You can add additional fields using the ‘custom field’ area of the edit post form. This isn’t particularly user friendly though, so you might want to look instead at something like the flutter plugin, which lets you define separate fields.

Q3.2 Posting from the front end is the ‘Holy Grail’ ! Check out P2 Blog… a theme that was developed by WordPress / Automattic, but seems to have gone very quiet. My wild speculation: @Andy (the developer of BuddyPress) wrote a blog post about P2… I wonder if that means we can look forward to the P2 blog front end features making an appearance in BuddyPress soon. Any comment @Andy?

To do what you want, you’ll definitely need some development skills (PHP), a decent working knowledge of WordPress code, and an idea where to start investigating the BuddyPress code (I doubt if anyone apart from Andy has a good working knowledge of it).

When you put a url into the profile fields it auto links it.

google search for sql ISO 3166 country tables – as many sites provide a basic list

You need to add them in manually, either via the page or directly in the DB. I suppose this could be achieved with a plugin, or in a future BP version.

I’m moving this post to the Ideas forum.

I’d definitely like to see a solution to this as well.

You can use an xprofile field, I see no harm in it.

Of course, there are other ways.

I believe, by default, all xprofile fields under “Base” are required.

If you don’t want it required, create a new xprofile group to house this new field.

To check the xprofile value of this new field, you’ll have to do a little manipulation in PHP with it. You could use substr() to check for file extensions.

@blackphantom nope, I am absolutely positive that I have both the key fields filled in on the admin page. I even created new apps with new keys to test it out, but it made no difference. I still get the error when clicking the profile tweetstream user link.

Here is a screenshot of the admin area:

http://anointed.net/files/2010/03/tweetstream.jpg

All in all, here’s my approach that I use on MU/BP sites ~

1) modify the register/register.php wp-signup.php hardcoded default text and url slugs.

2) enable xprofile and require additional fields upon registration.

2) use a captcha ~ i’m fond of ReCatcha

3) make sure you and check the NO setting under “Allow blog administrators to add new users to their blog via the Users->Add New page. ” in wp-admin/wpmu-options.php “Admin > Site Options”

4) I ban or limit the registration domains (also in Admin > Site Options) so that the commonly used spammer domains are blocked from registration and then I add an email contact for owners of these addresses to manually request registration. I hide the email address from bots with HiveLogic EnKoder

5) I then firewall off entire blocks of IP’s from my servers from commonly used spammer IP ranges you can find at sources like spamhaus.org .. and considering that these are one language sites, the need for access for the IP blocks on the pan asia network or eastern europe are unlikely. If you have a multilingual site, this might cause issues to very few users. Cpanel, Plesk, BSD, etc have tools to do this.. if you’re on a shared server, ask your hosting provider if they can do it for you, and they may be likely doing it already.

6) I also recommend using Askimet.