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?
I am using different additional fields in the signup information. No I have the problem, that these informations are displayed randomly in the members loop profile view:
<?php do_action( ‘bp_core_directory_members_content’ ) ?>
<?php bp_the_site_member_random_profile_data() ?>
Is it possible, to filter these information, that not all gets displayed there?
I have an additional field, named country, that shall be displayed, for example. I Also want to create a field: About me, from thes informations, I only want to get displayed an excrpt in the loop.
Is there any elegant way, to solve this problem?
@Andrea_r, Thanks for your wisdom!
BTW. What’s the term to refer to WP ( single blog) ’round these parts?
Looks like it’s time to investigate moving from WP to WPMU.
We’ve been developing profiles with Cimy Extra Fields… and have put a fair amount of work into the Member Profile Fields…
http://nbnetwork.org/directory
Some of our users are not ‘active website users’ per say, so the Web Team updates the profiles for them. Seems like there’s no way for admin’s to do that in the Buddpress profile system.
That said, BP is doing what we’ve been trying to do all along, and doing a much better job of it!
@DJPaul
how much would this cost:
modify rpx to insert fields into bp xprofle (as much as possible…name, email,)
specifically, we have a $session which stores a referral id… we’ve modified fbconnect to take the session variable and insert into the bp user profile
we need to modify the rpc to get the same $session and add that to a xprofile field
rpx sign-ups are redirected to a custom page, where we tell them to fill in their profile information… could you also redirect fb connect registers to the same page?
i.e. “you’ve registered using a 3rd party….. be sure to update/complete your profile info”
I would be interested in having this done
I believe you have my email
it works with RC2 and RC2, wpmu 2.7 / 2.7.1
just doesn’t work perfectly….
and it doesn’t work if you’re already using the fbconnect plugin
fbconect users are different from rpx users
so i’ve had to remove the fb from rpx
this needs some modifications to allow the rpx to insert data into the xprofile fields..
the only reason Im not using this currently, is because we’re using sessions to pass a referral code and we can’t get rpx to insert the referral code into an xprofile field..
How to show secondary profile fields while hiding the \”Base\” profile fields in a user profile:
On line 3 of profile-loop.php add:<?php if (!bp_the_profile_group() == \"1\") : ?>
(after the <?php while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group(); ?>)
and don\’t forget to close your \”if\” before the <? endwhile; ?>
hi all
im bit new to the bp. can someone expalin me the use of bp-xprofile component.
also, i want to create my own component named “projects” same as “group” but having budget and finish date as new fields.do i need to edit the bp-core component and bp-xprofile too?
thnks
flickr thickbox is a nice improvement….
for my site admin, everytime i refresh the profile, the username in the flick settings changes to a random user
I left the flickr settings fields blank
?
Am I missing something, or are the new fields created in profiles randomly hotlinked? I thought it was an issue with my own install (wp 2.7.1 and bp rc-2) but now I see it on others as well. What is the rationale for hotlinking profile field entries to the member\’s directory (e.g. Personal Info > Age > 24 and having 24 hotlinked)? Plus, it does not seem to be consistent as I see some entries appearing as text while others are linked. Confused…
I think it was after i added the option for new user registrations and i added some extra profile fields that “Recent Blog Posts (side wide)” and sitewide activity for new posts broke.
Please help.
At the moment, you can’t rearrange the profile fields. This is something that will come in future versions of BuddyPress.
Suppose you could dig inside the database but I don’t know offhand how it sorts them.
name
nickname
birthday
about me
status
how to rearrange w/out deleting coz it might delete the data
Actually, no, the issue is there with the default bp-member theme as well. I’ve tried it with both the default and my own customization of the same. For whatever reason, all of the entries in my profile fields are hotlinked.
See: http://blogpei.com/members/admin/
Thx
I think we might be thinking of different things. I was just saying I used the “Profile Fields” option under the “Site Admin” drop down in wp-admin to add a few more fields beyond just name and email (the defaults).
There are only two users so far – “admin” (where I alter stuff) – and a basic user account I made just to test out the site and see if from the subscriber standpoint – not admin.
However on the page that should load up a users profile, including their name, avatar, etc – it loads the header, footer, sidebar, but in the “content” area it just says “Edit this entry.” with a link that just refreshes the page.
Update: This issue was on my end. I’ve customized the bp-member theme and found part of the problem (new profile groups not showing up) but the entries in those fields continue to be hotlinked. When clicked, they all go to the member directory.
Cheers
I made 8 custom profile text fields, like City, Company, Title etc. They “worked” as in when a user goes to the signup page they show up and get filled out they way they are supposed to.
The default email thing is in the WMU options where you can automatically send an email to folks who sign up. The default value is something like “Thanks for signing up for your blog… etc”. I changed it to “Thanks for creating your profile… etc” in the settings. However the email I got when I created a subscriber account was the original blog one.
Hope that clarifies it.
what do you mean by this?
I have about 8 profile fields and they all worked, but they sent the default message to the email address even though I updated it via wp-admin.
The action that triggers the ‘no linking’ workaround doesn’t exist in RC2. I made it easier to specify what fields you do not want linked. I haven’t tested this but it should work.
function my_no_links(){
remove_filter( ‘bp_the_profile_field_value’,’xprofile_filter_link_profile_data’, 2 );
add_filter( ‘bp_the_profile_field_value’,’my_no_links_filter’, 2, 3 );
}
add_action(‘plugins_loaded’, ‘my_no_links’);
function my_no_links_filter($field_value, $field_type = ‘textbox’, $field_id){
$no_links = array(1,5,99);
if ( in_array((int)$field_id, $no_links))
return $field_value;
else
return xprofile_filter_link_profile_data($field_value, $field_type);
}
This is also up on http://buddypress.pastebin.com/f461fc21e
Put the field ids that you do not want to have automatically linked in the $no_links array.
I’ve recently just set up BuddyPress and was beginning to alter the colors etc – nothing major. Once everything was up and running I created a non-admin user to test the site out and see how the general user would see it.
I have about 8 profile fields and they all worked, but they sent the default message to the email address even though I updated it via wp-admin.
Then I clicked on Home, or the name of the person under “Feature Profile” or “Members” and it brings me to an empty page that says “Edit this entry.” – which when I click it just reloads the page. No changes.
I’m extremely new and not great with php, but I’m learning and would appreciate any thoughts on what might be causing this.
Thanks in advance!
If you mean on a user’s profile page, i.e. http://example.com/members/13hulyo/, you can’t. This will be an enhancement that might come in future versions of BuddyPress. You can edit the source files and change the order I believe but a) I don’t know how to do that b) you will have to make the change every time you upgrade and c) so I don’t recommend.
Profile fields how to rearrange ?
Hi,
I’ve almost setup my college alumni website using Buddypress and everyone’s LOVING it! 
I would like to allow members to search for specific profile fields. For example, Year of graduation or “Branch” (Major). I’d like to have these options in the drop down list that appears along with the search box.
How can I do this?
