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I am interested in improving the xprofile fields to allow developers to add new field types. currently we have a limited set of fields(say multiselect/checkbox etc). An example extension could be allowing to add an specializationn of select box with Country drop down which will save numerous times for many site owners. I am not sure if that needs to go in the core plugin, but certainly we need to add some action/filters in the core to make that happen. Also, currently, xprofile needs to improve the queries for fetching select field(My benchmark shows one query per item in the dropdown list of a field). So, if we have a field with 100 items in select menu on the edit profile/register page, It will do 100+ queries for that single field.

If improving xprofile fields is still on the card, I will be very happy to work on it.

@candy2012.

Thanks!!!

I have not tried this yet but soon will. I’ve been waiting for a year for this solution. I wonder why the BP gurus dropped the ball on this.

1. Go to members/single/profile/edit.php in your theme.
2. Find and delete this line `

`
3. Paste this `

` after each instance of this line ` `.

And it’s a similar sort of process for the register.php – found in the registration folder in your theme.
Sloppy, but oh well.

`
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_value’, ‘wpautop’ );
`

would do it but also remove the paragraph tags from all other fields

Thanks!

You can map profile fields from Facebook to BuddyPress with WP-FB-Autoconnect with custom code. It is indeed on the roadmap!

Could you report as a bug on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/? We may have already fixed it in our development version of BuddyPress, but you reporting the issue would prompt us to check. You can use your username and password from this site. Thanks!

Unfortunately, you can’t do this out of the box. It’s possible with some code, but I wonder if anyone’s done a plugin for it; I’m sure someone will link if there is

I use https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wp-fb-autoconnect/ premium version. Its developer has automatic profile fields population in his roadmap, but with no release date unfortunately

@ivoss – God bless you for posting that link! (http://pastebin.com/RLreXE7X)

I lost days on this already!

These lines (aroung 150) are CRUCIAL for getting the values posted to the database (basically that `$fields_ids[]` function

`

<input type="hidden" name="signup_profile_field_ids" id="signup_profile_field_ids" value="” />`

well, that (velomash) will not help much unfortunatelly .. nor will the required fields be cheked or the information for all group fields saved to the database!
Buddypress is so damn buggy on this one, wonder if they really thought of the purpose of implementing those fileds without proper connection to teh registration form; who the h* (sorry!) will go to fill in the fields if not requested upon registration?

here’s my workaround for this problem

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/multiple-profile-group-fields-in-registration/?_wpnonce=98e520cdd5#post-98202

as no buddypress gurus EVER botherd to give a feedback on this, and left everyone here in the dark for more than 1 year

the above still sucks of course (or rather the whole registration process for buddypress sucks!), anyway, the above code will unfortunatelly NOT validate the fields! So it would be possible for a user to register without filling those fields in …

Yeah, you tell me how happy I was as I realized that!
1 more day lost with this s*, but eventually found a workaround (I am sure it’s not the perfect solution, but at least it’s SOMETHING!)

So in order to have the required fields really checked, please add this to your header:

`

$(document).ready(function() {
$(“#signup_form”).validate();
});

`
where signup_form is the id of your form (