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hit or miss proposition

I find it’s much more of a “miss” proposition. I may have to wipe up a little plugin for this!

I think if you look at how many people (including myself) look at a BP site, it actually does seem reasonable to assume that people would conform to the questions and care about the answers. As I see it, rolling your own facebook is nice, but probably not entirely practical or necessary — once a true alternative pops up, there’s usually a standard alternative for a while until the next comes along.

Personally, I feel BP is wonderful for smaller niche communities where that structured social interaction is, in many ways, the selling point. A music site that asks “what are you listening to right now?” a cooking site that asks “what are you cooking right now?” etc. Connecting people along that shared niche interest, I think, provides value.

In some ways, BP already supports this by giving admins the option. I’m thinking specifically with respect to the profile options you have with categories and questions for users. “What’s your favorite song?” or “What’s your favorite food?” would be totally logical there, and I’d love to see (and plan to try to implement one way or another) the same thing for status.

It would be amazing to see it built in for status updates when that rolls out (which I’m hoping is still this summer). The ability to add fields, mark their importance, and even customize the way they render in search results and things would be very, very nice. Sort of like how you template a WP entry and can customize how it displays in various places. I realize all of that is much harder than a simple text area and pulling the most recent data out of the db, but it would add a lot in terms of flexibility for niche networks.

Thanks for the guidance on programming. I’ll figure it out somehow.

(I actually thought wire v. status was semantics too at first, but wire is more like facebook’s wall, where people can post and conversations can be two-way. Status is more personal for users, something larger and untouchable by others.)

BuddyPress 1.0

Wordpress MU 2.7.1

*replaced db name w/ mydb – and this is the errors that show at the bottom of the page in the admin – if I delete the BP plugin, the messages all go away.

WordPress database error Table ‘mydb.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT d.value, f.name FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data d, wp_bp_xprofile_fields f WHERE d.field_id = f.id AND d.user_id = 1 AND f.parent_id = 0 AND f.name = ‘Name’ made by require, require_once, require_once, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_setup_globals, bp_core_global_user_fullname, bp_fetch_user_fullname, xprofile_get_field_data, BP_XProfile_ProfileData->get_value_byfieldname WordPress database error Table ‘mydb.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE name = ‘Name’ made by require, require_once, require_once, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_setup_globals, bp_core_global_user_fullname, bp_fetch_user_fullname, xprofile_set_field_data, xprofile_get_field_id_from_name, BP_XProfile_Field->get_id_from_name WordPress database error Table ‘mydb.wp_bp_notifications’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT * FROM wp_bp_notifications WHERE user_id = 1 AND is_new = 1 made by require, require_once, include, get_footer, locate_template, load_template, require_once, wp_footer, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_admin_bar, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_adminbar_notifications_menu, bp_core_get_notifications_for_user, BP_Core_Notification->get_all_for_user

Okay, so I would edit feild_name and user_id or just feild_name? and how would I get the users full name or just first name? Would I use something like:

<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( $full_name, $user_id ); ?>

and for the first name:

<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( $full_name-first, $user_id ); ?>

or what. Would I have to create 2 separate fields for first name and anither for their last and use something like:

<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( $first_name, $user_id ); ?>

or what?

Thanks.

ha,

apparently bp-xprofile.php wasn’t uploaded. Just like bp-wire.php isn’t uploaded.

I now see the edit profile and update avatar. Where can i add some more profile fields??? like city, country

regards,

So … if I enable the extended profiles and create the fields I want, will they then show in the A-Z area of the site? I think you can see what I’m trying to do … I’m trying to create a directory of businesses using the members area of the site … eventually we want folks to sign up on their own and enter the information for the listing themselves …

Yes, I am in the member directory. Each member shows up in the directory. Isn’t that where profiles are displayed?

Check this link:

http://business.mountainprideconnections.com/members/boulderoutlookhotel/

This is what shows up when “Extended Profiles” are disabled. Yes, I said “disabled.” Shouldn’t this be what shows up when the profile is “enabled”? Yet … are we talking about the same animal?

When I create a custom field, it also does not show in the entry form on the admin section of the site, so even though I’ve created several custom fields, those fields don’t show up and aren’t available for anyone to see/use.

Well, I thought the same thing, but someone else told me to disable it. If I have the Extended Profiles enabled, nothing but the name of the member shows in the public profile. If I disable it, then all the information in the About the User section shows up. Makes no sense. What I want is to be able to 1) create fields for specific kinds of information that I want to show in the public profile and 2) have that information actually show up in the public profile! As it is, the only way to have anything show is to disable the extended profile … which is the opposite of what I’m looking for …

Actually, I haven’t figured it out. If I want to add fields to the profile so that the person’s information (Address, City, State, ZIP, etc) isn’t displayed as a jumble of sentences, then how can I add those fields if I disable the extended profile option? Why would BuddyPress actually carry a feature that is attractive and then for any usable information to display, one would have to deactivate it? Am I missing something here?

So tell me … how do I add custom fields to the profile AND have them display on each member’s visible public profile?