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In the WordPress dashboard, find under “Users” a link titled, “Profile Fields” (Users>Profile Fields)

Here you can add profile fields to the signup process, if you don’t want to add the fields to signup you need to add a new field group.

The field group ‘Base’ is added to signup process

I hope that helps

modifying the general.php template

There is no such template in a standard BP install, afaik.

But there is an easier way to add a field…
Why not add a profile field in the proscribed manner?
In wp-admin, go to Users > Profile Fields and add your field to whichever Group you want.
All fields in the Base Group will appear on the Registration page.

In the WordPress dashboard, find under the Users menu a link titled, “Profile Fields”(Users>Profile Fields)

Once you click on this link, then you can add new fields to the profile by clicking the Add New Field button.

When you’ve added a field to the Base(Primary) field group, then it will appear on your registration pages and user profiles.

Copy the buddypress theme into your WordPress child theme, and then you can modify the register template if needed.

copy the buddypress theme into your child theme by pasting this path into your child theme folder
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress

path of file for registration fields is this:
/wp-content/themes/child-theme/buddypress/members/register.php

Then, add First and Last name fields under User>Profile Links in the WordPress Dashboard.

Currently there is a ‘Name’ field that is required, you can edit it to read ‘First Name’ then add another ‘Last Name’ field..

Then you need to process the data before it saves into the database, I’m kind of at a loss here… I would need more time to brainstorm on it but I did find this hook ‘bp_core_signup_user’

I believe this is the hook you are looking for:

// define the bp_core_signup_user callback 
function action_bp_core_signup_user( $array, $int, $int ) { 
    // make action magic happen here... 
}; 
         
// add the action 
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'action_bp_core_signup_user', 10, 3 ); 

Hi,

it’s not the solution but an example you can perhaps use.
The snippet handles the object members and sort them by type “contributing”
Replace object by activity and type by “beer” and see what you can do from that.

// add order options to members loop
function ch_member_order_options() {
?>
   <option value="contributing"><?php _e( 'Contributing Members', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
<?php
}
add_action( 'bp_members_directory_order_options', 'ch_member_order_options' );

// filter ajax members by contributing
function ch_filter_ajax_querystring( $querystring = '', $object = '' ) {

	if( $object != 'members' )
		return $querystring;

	$defaults = array(
		'type'            => 'active',
		'action'          => 'active',
		'scope'           => 'all',
		'page'            => 1,
		'user_id'         => 0,
		'search_terms'    => '',
		'exclude'         => false,
	);

	$ch_querystring = wp_parse_args( $querystring, $defaults );

	if( $ch_querystring['type'] == 'contributing' ) {
	
       // grab members by Member Type role declared on xprofile	
	$users = get_users( array( 'fields' => array( 'ID' ), 'role' => 'contributor' ) );
		
		$users_str = '';
		foreach ( $users as $user ) {
				 $users_str .=  $user->ID . ',';
			}
		$users_str = rtrim($users_str, ",");

		$ch_querystring['include'] = $users_str; 
		$ch_querystring['type'] = 'alphabetical'; 
		
		return $ch_querystring;
		
	}	
	
	else
		return $querystring;
			
}
add_filter( 'bp_ajax_querystring', 'ch_filter_ajax_querystring', 20, 2 );

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/adding-new-order-by-on-members-loop/

Members Loop

Member Types

It’s not a duplicate, but how it works.
On the left, you have the WP field for “username”, on the right BP’s mandatory field “name”. Both are used for registering a new user. WP’s username field accept only lower case alphanumerics without space. Mostly used to enter a pseudonym. BP’s field accept uppercase and space or even carets, wich allows to enter first and last name for example.

Note that you’re not obligated to enter a first and last name. If you rename Name to City or Gender, a user must enter a city name or his gender. Eg. username: johnrobertsonquid | city: Los Angeles or username: johnrobertsonquid | gender: male

But whatever the field may contain, it cannot be removed.

About xprofile fields:

User Extended Profiles

I’m unable to reproce this issue.

Check following tables for duplicate entries in DB
wp_bp_xprofile_fields and wp_bp_xprofile_groups (wp is the table prefix; could be different on your install)

Provide the list of used & activated plugins.

Did you found a similar issue mentionned on Salutation support ?
Note that it’s a premium theme for which we can’t assist you, as we have no access to it’s code or support.

To show xprofile fields, you could do this:

// add the custom column header
function philopress_modify_user_columns($column_headers) {

        $column_headers['extended'] = 'Meta Fields';
  
        return $column_headers;
}
add_action('manage_users_page_bp-signups_columns','philopress_modify_user_columns');

// dump all the pending user's meta data in the custom column
function philopress_signup_custom_column( $str, $column_name, $signup_object ) {

	if ( $column_name == 'extended' ) 
             return print_r( $signup_object->meta, true );

        return $str;
}
add_filter( 'bp_members_signup_custom_column', 'philopress_signup_custom_column', 1, 3 );

If you only want to show specific meta fields, you need to know the field id(s).
Then you could do this:
return $signup_object->meta['field_4472'];

GIST

Bump on this, having the same issue. Trying to see registration fields (mainly the gravatar) as well as some xprofile fields (file uploads) before activating them.

Add a a new field group to profiles, call it CV, add some fields and options and you’re done.

User Extended Profiles

As you certainly want to get this part a bit apart of the other profile fields, you can also use this plugin who brings a nice tabbed profile page.

The word Name can be changed on the profile fields admin screen. Simply edit it !
Dashboard > User > Profile Fields (wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup)

What do you call blanks ? Your field names are all aligned left and the width seems to be equal for all. You can reduce it via your child-thme style.css.

Note that you will anyway get different blank space as the width will be adjusted to the longest word. Ie. ABCDEF will go from left to right border, but ABC will left a blank space on the right.

In one of the comments, it’s yet explained. (july 9th 2015)

Read throught, built the ID list of the concerned users and add it to activity loop filter options

Another approach is to use the buit-in fonctionnality of profile fields. The value is linked to any member ho filled the same value.

This means that if you click New York on a profile, you get a list of all user who entered New York and by extension, you have access to all new-yorker activities.

But if you want to sort the site activity of NY users only, you need to use the first solution and to code a bit more to add also a SWA filter for any existing state…

@maganiza,

how and when do you generate the field value, if the user can’t edit it ?
The only place a user can acces a field is on his profile.

On signup page, only fields who are part of the “Base” field group are shown.
You can create another field group who will contain the field you want after signup. Then, to enter something to it, the user must go on his profile. But if you disallow edition for that field, it’s quite impossible.

Before signing in, a user doesn’t exist. He can only fill some registration fields before asking to be a member. Once he is approved, he can access to his profile and fill additionnal fields.

Aside, is the field value the same for all user ? Perhaps you could add this information differently to profile. Give details please.

BuddyPress doesn’t support conditional profile fields (yet?). This is asked frequently but I can’t remember if anyone’s built a plugin that handles this. You might have to hack something together bespoke for your theme.

Regarding the second point, I’d recommend creating a custom field type, if you know PHP. It’s not too hard to do — I worked on this code a year or two ago, and it’s pretty easy to do now. You could look at https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/ for examples of how to add and register custom field types — specifically https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/trunk/classes/Bxcft_Field_Type_SelectCustomPostType.php I think is a good example to work from as it displays custom post types in a list (you’d just query your custom table and pull in the values, wrap it in some caching, etc).

WP users are BP users, except for the profile fields you add in wp-admin > Users > Profile Fields

For granular control of both WP and BP content re logged-in vs. not-logged-in, have you tried BP Simple Private ?

You can get it here: WP Repo – BP Simple Private

Or here: PhiloPress – BP Simple Private

So you got only 1 db right? When not using bp users go into wp_users with bp installed they still go there…only 4 extra xprofile fields rows are created..which store the xprofile data

Does that solve your issue?

Hmm… I forgot that those “Name” fields were not deletable from the admin dashboard.

I would recommend the following:

1. Disable the Extended Profiles component
2. Tell your developer to go into your database and drop the following DB tables:
– wp_bp_xprofile_data
– wp_bp_xprofile_fields
– wp_bp_xprofile_groups
– wp_bp_xprofile_meta
3. Next, go back to “Settings > BuddyPress > Components” and re-enable the Extended Profiles component

This should recreate the Extended Profiles database tables from scratch and hopefully things should be okay afterwards.