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@Onlineplaner BMI/BME plugin can import/export xprofilegroups and xprofilefields.

@manishkrag: Hi, do your plugins ex-/import xprofilegroups and xprofilefields or just the standard user fields?

Hmmmmm, well it simply sounds like the rows and columns might not be lining up exactly. Not sure.
I have worked out many city meta data files the same way for the purpose of importing into WordPress and faced similar issues, it almost always came down to some columns or rows not exactly the same or something like that. I would do an export of your wordpress first and compare the files, if that didn’t get me any closer i might go into php-myadmin in my cpanel and export a copy of the database portion that has all of your users info and compare that to your .net export. I think that table is going to be one of the following : Either “wp_bp_xprofile_fields” or “wp_users”. Maybe if you compare those with your .net export and work them the same in excel it will be easier?
Not really sure without seeing the files your working with.
I will do a tutorial on that within the next day or so, lol.

Edit each of the profile fields in turn and change the Visibility setting to Enforce field visibility.

Hey Frank, I guess the best question to ask you after all this is how comfortable are you with digging into or working with html, css and basic php?

If a pre made theme is what your looking for, how comfortable are you with taking hours and days looking thru theme demos to find your golden pony or at least making child themes or customizing code?

And then to answer you more specifically to your “How long would it take to develop a theme like the one I described?” , I guess that just depends really. Over the years I have accumulated many libraries of code and theme snippets and I know where everything is in WP/BP core and template files. So for me, A fully custom and dressed out theme might take anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks if I know exactly what I am working towards at the beginning and have a clear, though out, planned out idea. If I hen peck it or free hand it” like I do from time to time” It may take a day or it might take 8 months, lol.

As a bit of comfort to your quandary, everything you asked for in your opening inquiry is all ready done for you in BuddyPress “for the most part”. A theme like the one you describe sounds like a 3 day to 1 week job to me. Keep in mind however that with me saying that, things always have a way changing and evolving into monsters, lol.

So lets break down your theme and see how it look on paper…. He He, my favorite part…

1. I want users to come to my site, register, and log in…… (Its all ready there) just have to set it up to your liking. It can all be customized quite a bit as well.

2. I would love to be able to customize the way these pages look!(background image, logo, and content inside them)……… (The logo, background and most of the design items are easy breezy as long as your ok with basic html and css and not looking for flying dragons and wizards shooting lightning bolts across the screen. Alas, even those can be done with css, flash and JS, lol. )

3. I’m not looking for a full-blown social media site (yet)…….No need to have what you dont want to use. BP has a full host of controls to limit what can be done onsite by users or what is implemented frontend in its settings. WP Dash/settings/buddypress. Select what you want to use. You also have the ability to write functions, and use hooks and actions and filters to limit or build on anything you like.

4. I want to build a site that where users can log in, create a “blog” excerpt with media …… There are several ways to do this in buddypress, just have to plan it out and test the methods and see what works for you. Mu, Activity and Groups/Forums.

5. They should also be able to put a location tag on it. ….. it sounds like this is what x-profile fields are good for. Just create your custom location field and add it with a template tag in the loop you want to use it in. They fill out the filed on their profile page and it will display in that loop.

6. When they post it, the only people I want to see that are the people they added as friends or if they have their profile set to public……BuddyPress frontend “user profile area” has a settings tab, under it are quite a few privacy features, not fully comprehensive in my opinion but there are a few plugins that add on to this and you can code it in as well. either way. Easy task.

7. And when it shows up on their friend’s news feed it should just show a featured image, title, and the beginning of their text with a like counter….. Easy enough, just write the loop that way, lol. Easy to do.

8. When their friends click on that post it brings them to the full blog post, not just the featured image. Their friends can favorite the content or comment on it. …..The natural behavior of WP and BP posts so we are good there.

9. On a users profile, I would like to show their recent posts, and posts they’ve favorited…. Thats what the friends tab shows but you can add custom queries, and stuff and otherwise tear it apart and pick it of the pieces you want and use them in other places to make custom loops and queries and all kinds of goodness, lol. As long as you make sure things are firing in the right places and make sure certain things are in the loops where they belong, No worries.

10. Site homepage is basically just a file called front-page.php. Copy the page.php from the theme root and then customize the heck out it. Work it up however you like.

As far as the themes go, I never use premade themes. I do however make full use of the libraries of code I have accumulated, (_s) and bootstrap for a lot of my work. Cheesy I know but hey, it saves me time and money and gives me freedom. I rarely find the need to actually make a complete custom theme or write much in the way of custom code from scratch anymore. And I certainly never purchase any themes. So I am not the best person to ask about themes really. I know that there are tons of themes that do all kinds of stuff available around the web. Just have to give them the litmus test and see if they fit your project.

Let me know if you have any other questions or what have you. I will be around.

Hi @edvard1 it’s not your theme. The plugin is broken since BP 2.9.1.

I was having problems with multiple checkboxes and made it work like this:

File: /conditional-profile-fields-for-buddypress/assets/bp-conditional-field.js

line 114: jQuery.each( $selected, function (index, $el ) {
to:       jQuery.each( [$selected], function (index, $el ) {

And…

lines 350 to 369:

var parent_div = jq( jq( element ).parents( '.editfield' ).get(0) );
      
        //;find its parent having class edit field
        if ( !match ) {
            //if the condition did not match, reverse visibility condition
            
            if ( visibility == 'show' ) {
            	visibility = 'hide';
                
            } else {
            	visibility = 'show';
            }    
        }
        
        if ( !visible ) {
            parent_div.show();
        } else {         
            parent_div.hide();
        } 

To:

var parent_div = jq( jq( element ).parents( '.editfield' ).get(0) );
        visible = jq(parent_div).is(':visible');

        //;find its parent having class edit field
        if ( match ) {
            //if the condition did not match, reverse visibility condition
            if ( !visible ) {
	            parent_div.show();
	        } else {         
	            parent_div.hide();
	        }  
        }  

Hope it helps!

Hi there,

Here’s an example of adding a custom section to the registration form. All you have to do if it’s static is add it and handle the input:
https://gist.github.com/dcavins/e3e6a702e35d4f9ec8948c920d8b6c03

You could similarly add other profile fields/field groups on any of the hooks available on the registration page, though I’d use a profile field group loop to output those items.

Hi Marc-

It sounds like you’re just getting started. Custom fields are part of the extended profile component. Read more about it here:

User Extended Profiles

Displaying Extended Profile Fields on Member Profiles

It is not really possible to show groups with any richness outside of the group page. Your best bet is probably to customize your group templates to show what you want. The template hierarchy will help you:

Template Hierarchy

An all-user overview with search and filtering is the members directory available at yoursite.com/members

If I understand properly, you need conditional profile fields. Try BuddyDev’s Conditional Profile Fields for BuddyPress.

Conditional Profile Fields for BuddyPress

It’s not possible to use a regular BP profile field to keep track of data changes over time. BP doesn’t keep records of old profile field values – it only stores the most recent one.

There are a number of ways you could accomplish it. If you had the technical know-how, you could build a tool that hooks into XProfile and syncs user-entered data to another system (maybe an array in usermeta or something like that). Another option is to manually created new fields every 3 months, but then you’d need to do some customization to the way fields are displayed on the front end so that the profile doesn’t show all past entries as separate items. Either way, some customization would be required.

Maybe someone on this forum knows of an existing tool that will help.

BuddyPress’s Register page is a special kind of page that cannot be edited via the Dashboard. That’s why it’s blank when you view it in the normal way.

To add additional fields to the registration process, go to Dashboard > Users > Profile Fields. Add one for Address and one for Phone Number. Make them required and/or private, if you’d like. As long as they are part of the ‘Base’ profile field group, they will appear as part of the registration process.

Hi @Sander – Thanks for reporting this. It looks like a legitimate bug. I’ve opened a ticket to track it: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7631

While we try to figure out a way to make this work better, you can work around the issue by disabling autolink for the field in question. Dashboard > Users > Profile Fields > Edit, and look for the Autolink metabox at the right.

You may be able to disable the linking in the admin. Go to Dashboard > Users > Profile Fields. Find the Email field, and click Edit. On the right-hand column, find the “Autolink” metabox. Switch it to ‘Disabled’ and save.

> i created customed fields for the inner-page of the user, but they don’t show in the members list page.

The details depend on how you created these “customed fields”. If they are xprofile fields, then the simplest way is to do this:

$user_id = bp_get_member_user_id();
$data = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Custom Field Name', $user_id );
if ( $data ) {
    echo $data;
}

If you stored it in user meta, do something similar:

$data = get_user_meta( $user_id, 'custom_field_name', true );

Either way, bp_get_member_user_id() is how you get the ID of the current user in the loop.