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Thanks for your suggestions @venutius. With these the only options I’m going to wait for BuddyDev to update a workaround into BuddyPress Member Types Pro plugin (he’s very proactive, and says it’s now in queue).

Hopefully Nouveau and future BP templates will make conditionally hidden (but required) xProfile fields inert in this state. These fields are so important to augmenting registration on BP sites, and so hopefully it gets baked into the code (instead of having to find workarounds).

I appreciate your help!

Sam

Yep tht function works for the main WordPress signup fields, not the extended profile fields. However, thinking about it what this would do would make all those fields options, so why don’t you make all the fiedls optional in your settings, then you would not get the error, obviously it means making fields you want filling out optional but the way Nouveau works there’s not really an alternative if you are going to hide them for some member types.

The alternative would be to create a multi-stage signup form where the first page takes in the basic signup information and member type then the second page displays the extended profile info specific to the member type.

BP Better Registration splits the form into sections, I wonder if that could be used to create such a signup form?

See my response in https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bypass-email-requirement-2/ it includes a function to remove the required setting for profile fields in BP Nouveau, I think it will help.

Any solution to this? I also need images to be allowed in xprofile text fields.

I guess one option would be to use a text widget to display the profile fields using shortcodes such as are provided with BP Profile Shortcodes Extra. Then you’d just need to hide these from displaying in the page content which could be a simple case of some CSS?

I think you’d have to write a custom profile field which retained the date of birth on edit, but displayed the age when viewed. As a first option I’d ask the developers of the few xprofile custom fields plugins if they’d consider adding it as an option.

Ah sorry, well listen carefully becuase I’m going to tell you about a very important diagnostic tool for your site. Take time to get to know it as it’s incredibly useful.

Right click on the page where you expect the profile fields to be displayed and you will see a bunch of options, one of them will be ‘Inspect’ or ‘inspect Element’ click on this.

This takes you to your browsers diagnostics, opened in the inspect html section. on the left of this content you will see the html structure of the page to are viewing, at the position of the element you wanted to inspect.

Take time to scroll around this area and you will see the various content areas for your page. Notice the elements are typically collapsed, there’s a triangle pointing right to show the element is collapsed, click on this and the element opens up and the triangle points down.

You should be able to fins a <table> on the page with a class of ‘profile-fields’, this is the table that holds your profile field data, inspect this and see if the profile fields you created are there.

Notice when you click on an element the browser diagnostics will show you the CSS that’s being applied to the elements and what files have set it. Take some time to get used to this incredibly powerful tool. A key feature is that with it you can set new CSS for screen elements on the fly, it won’t be saved and is a great way of seeing the impact of css changes you are looking to make without pushing it out site wide.

One issue I came across recently was the theme was hiding the user profile fields by printing them with the colour white with a white background. So my first suggestion would be to switch themes to a default theme such as 2017.

Have you done any customisations that could affect this?

thanks @venutius, just so folks are clear (it took me awhile to unravel how it works) the blog-author-profile-for-buddypress plugin creates a Widget you can place in a widget area – my theme has an ‘after post widget’ area

author widget pulls extended profile data fields. nice.

If you go to Users>>Profile Fields and hover your mouse above the edit button for the field you cna see the field id in the url. it sounds like the id is 2 but could you confirm?

By the looks of things you are trying to change the colours of the profile fields, so something like:

.profile-fields {
    color: blue;
}

Should work

However something more specific is sometimes required, such as:

#buddypress table.profile-fields {
    color: blue;
}