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Hi Paul (and everyone else),

I noticed a file and code about default WP profile:

In file ‘profile’ there’s a line called ‘Display WordPress profile (fallback)’ and in the same folder (Profile) there’s a file called ‘profile-wp’ with all default WP profile fields in it.

I’m not a programmer, but is it possible to adjust those files so default WP profile fields are displayed in members profile? What do I have to adjust?

Guido

I am not saying my project will have countries, states, cities etc. profile fields. I am only using the states dropdown list as an example. But definitely a few layers of nested profile fields are needed for my site. For whoever chooses to use multiple layers profile fields in their design for user registration, I am sure they already have the values(might be just 1 or 2 or 5) for each layer in their mind, it is certainly not unlimited; on the contrary, it may most likely have very limited number of option values in each field for users to choose from. And that is why I say it is a basic requirement in the perspective of admins of a BuddyPress site. It is the capability of having this nested/conditional profile fields provided in the 1st place that matters, not how many values that are going to the fields that matters.

@hugo: I think providing the choices with nested/conditional custom fields and the ability to be bond with automatic group assignments during user registration should be at the heart of making BuddyPress useful in a BASIC way. These are not some fancy stuff that we should expect come from the Plugins. Plus, if we depend on Plugins for all these patches to the foundamental parts of our BuddyPress powered sites, and if the Plugins not updated on time with the new release of BuddyPress Core, then we are completely doomed!

Please, everyone, in the core dev team, reconsider this request. Thank you!

In terms of the automatic group member depending on certain profile fields, here is another user’s request … https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/automatic-group-member-depending-on-fields-in-profile/

I have a working code now, the following code is able to insert a select box profile field to the ‘base’ group with any long list of options that might be hard to insert manually through the user interface. this specific example will insert a profile field with the title of “Country” that contains all countries as options. Use this code in your `functions.php` or `bp-custom.php` file and you will notice a new profile field with the title of “Country” the next time you visit the Base group in Profile Fields admin area. You can then update and change the options to suit your needs and after that click “Save” button to register this field.

Be aware that the following code will not add a new “Country” profile field as long as a profile field with the title of “Country” already exists, meaning that if you change the title to “List of Countries” for example, it will add a new profile field with the title of “Country” to your profile field, so I think it is better to use this code only once and whenever you need to insert a long listed profile field, and then remove the code from `functions.php` or `bp-custom.php` and keep on other place for future use.
`
add_action(‘bp_init’, ‘add_custom_country_list’); // That might not be the perfect hook to use
function add_custom_country_list() {
if (xprofile_get_field_id_from_name(‘Country’)) return;
$country_list_args = array(
‘field_group_id’ => 1,
‘type’ => ‘selectbox’,
‘name’ => ‘Country’,
‘description’ => ‘Please select your country’,
‘is_required’ => true,
‘can_delete’ => false,
‘order_by’ => ‘default’
);
$country_list_id = xprofile_insert_field($country_list_args);
if ($country_list_id) {
$countries = array(‘USA’,’Germany’,’England’); // Google for “country list php” and replace this one
foreach ($countries as $i => $country) {
xprofile_insert_field(array(
‘field_group_id’ => 1,
‘parent_id’ => $country_list_id,
‘type’ => ‘selectbox’, // it is ‘selectbox’ not ‘option’
‘name’ => $country,
‘option_order’ => $i+1
));
}
}
}
`

These nested/conditional profile fields will have many applications for creating larger websites, not just location related sites… If you can make it to the Core, many would benefit.

It would be great if next release of BuddyPress could come with this nested profile fields, and in addition, a functionality that allow admins to create initial groups based on certain user profile fields -which seems very nature. And as a social networking platform, these functionalities should come from the core of software, not from Plugins – as many group related plugins will be depending on these functionalities to make themselves sophisticated enough to make foundamental user experience more fullfilled.

Paul, anyway it’s pretty simple to use both methods. We know that default wp_users support first_name, last_name, nickname and description (bio). Maybe you could make possibile to modify each of that from buddypress (i made it in my theme) and make a base group with these fields. Then if administrators want to add more fields and groups you could populate xprofile table. In this way you could have a more deep integration into WordPress.

can anyone actually verify this plugin boone put up works? it appears to have the option but when i tested it the policy is not enforced and even logged out users can see the private fields on our site at least.