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that worked!!

Glad to hear you’re up and running!

But should I now see 5 tabs of Field Groups that all say “Base (Primary)” when I go to Profile Fields under Users?

No, you shouldn’t.

You should leave the first “Base (Primary)” tab alone, but do delete the rest of them.

Do the same for the “Name (Primary)” field in the “Base” group. Keep the first one, but delete the rest.

Note that this is a new install. I’ve never used BuddyPress before

This does sound like a bug. It would be great to retrace your steps so we can duplicate this problem. Did you activate / deactivate / activate the plugin multiple times?

Same goes for the components list under “Settings > BuddyPress > Components” in the WP admin dashboard. Did you uncheck / check / submit certain components multiple times?

This premium plugin – BuddyProfileData – will add profile data to the members loop.
It will add fields in a vertical stack.
If you are comfortable with css and maybe a little php, you can change it to horizontal.

Or you can write your own solution using this hook:
do_action( 'bp_directory_members_item' );
in this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\members-loop.php

Or you can create a template overload of that file and hardcode your solution directly in the template wherever and however you want it.

Re the ‘>’ – the best solution is to find out where it is being added by your theme css and change it.

I also tested BP 2.5.3 on WP 4.5.2 on a fresh install and cannot duplicate your problem, Earl_D.

I tested with the Extended Profiles component enabled.

Are you using any caching plugins? If so, try to disable it or whitelist the register and activate pages from caching.

Do you have any special extended profile registration fields? If so, can you list what they are and how they are configured?

@maganiza,

it’s possible. I suppose you need a unique code for some later user specific actions. But that code exist nowhere when a user register. What can we do ?

1) generate a 6 digit code and show it on the register page
2) asign that code to the user
3) show the code on his profile

1 – we use php mt_rand to generate the code and one of the available action hook on the register page for his output. Add this snippet to bp-custom.php

function bpfr_digit_generator() {
$num = mt_rand ( 0, 0xffffff ); 
$output = sprintf ( "%06x" , $num );
 
	echo '<strong>Your personnal code: '. $output .'</strong>';

}
add_action( 'bp_after_account_details_fields', 'bpfr_digit_generator' );

2) create a new xprofile field, call it Personnal Code or whatever. Make it mandatory and asign it the visibility level you want. In field description, ask the user to copy/paste in the code.

3) as the user entered the code in a xprofile field, you get automagically this field on his profile.

I’m a bit unsure how to insert this field value in the activation email, or if it’s even possible. Perhaps somebody else can help you. See email on codex.

A bit raw, but at least you have a start point how to do that.

Here also another method, you may use if you don’t want the user to copy/paste the code.

@radair2002,

nothing out of the box on hand, but what if you make any of the fields with “only me” visibility level as default , for everybody ? If site admin approve the content, he can change the level to something more public.

For email notification, a solution is given in this topic.

Perhaps you can also use this plugin, with some custom restriction/adaptation.

Have you tried using a standard theme like WP 2015?

Are you running any membership plugins or code that affects profile fields?

You may want to wipe the installation, including the database, and start over.

@insearchofasolution Just thought I would chime in on this.

You would be able to do this but it depends on the approach you take, You could use buddypress for the social network side of things for the messaging between users etc and profile pages/groups etc whilst building a custom user interface for most of the other options you mentioned and tie them together for each user.

Its good you are clear about what you are exactly wanting to build and its all down to research, You can most definitely create separate vendor pages and account pages using custom post types and fields and creating templates for these pages etc.

If you don’t know how to do all of this you may struggle though, unless a specific plugin meets your requirements, I myself have been using an amazing suite of plugins over the past year or so that will help you do a lot of this yourself , they are brilliant for creating complex websites and layouts without having to write everything from scratch. You will have to have knowledge of html and css etc at the very least to use them efficiently though, they do come at a cost and you are looking at $300 for the complete set, these plugins are a little more advanced than other plugins to use as they are developer orientated and can be overwhelming at first if you are new to them, but if you stick with them you will start to realize the doors these plugins can open for you on wordpress and can help make your workflow loads faster and make your project come to life. do a search for TOOLSET PLUGINS by wp-types.

I hope this helps a little bit, creating a complex website as you mentioned above will take patience and time if you are new to doing it, I am in the middle of a few complex builds myself and to be honest with you I now pre-fare to use these plugins for most of my projects now as I can easily create any type of custom post with custom fields and display them via content templates without having to create the templates from scratch on each project.

The best thing about the custom fields you can create with these plugins is that you can create user specific fields and control access to everything with the access plugin, giving you full control over everything and you can create quite complex membership sites yourself.

Most of bp files are in php, so i can’t answer for YOUR php file.

I you modify the register page, where xprofile fields are showing at first, the template file i’m talking about is in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/register.php.

If you don’t know about template overload, read here first.

Or if you use a custom function to fire your work via an action hook, perhaps you could try to use bp-custom.php

That’s unfortunately what i expected… GF is a third party premium plugin for which nobody can help you here, except if he/she use that plugin.

If you read here, it’s somehow explained in details.

What you already used (gform_field_value_linkuser), linkuser is a GF field name. If i’m right, see the advanced tab of that field and complete the name parameter.

Here a snippet which let you see how to link a username to his profile, when you’re outside of the member_loop. It will output the current user name on the site wide activity header. For test only.

Note that it use BuddyPress default Name field and that it comes from a BP form. As you use GF, you certainly need to find how to grab properly a GF field value.

Function goes to bp-cutom, may also work in theme’s functions.php

function bpfr_my_profile_link_on_SWA_header () {	
	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
	$profile_url = bp_loggedin_user_domain();

	if( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
		return;
	}

	echo '<br>Test userlink:&nbsp;'; 

	if ( !$data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Name' ) ) : 

		echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'Name', bp_get_member_user_id() ) .'<a href="'. $profile_url .'">'. bp_core_get_username( $user_id ).'</a><br>';

	endif;		

}
add_action( 'bp_activity_type_tabs', 'bpfr_my_profile_link_on_SWA_header' ); 

Sorry, I can’t help you more.

Perhaps this can help you to go further.

For point 2, maybe this snippet can do the job. Give it a try ! Add it to bp-custom.php

function custom_display_xprofile_fields() {

// single field item
if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Industry' ) ) : // change field name to yours
	echo '<div class="industry">'. xprofile_get_field_data( 'Industry', bp_displayed_user_id() ) .'</div>';
endif;
}
add_action( 'bp_after_profile_loop_content' , 'custom_display_xprofile_fields' );

dont think so…just export the 4 xprofile fields rows form the db via phpmyadmin and import them back

any profile fields you add to the first field group get added to the registration form.

Your task is very logical – but fraught with danger.

Have you noticed that emails can be edited from a Profile page via Settings?
And how a confirmation email is sent?

And this setting: wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-settings > Profile Sync ?

So it’s possible but not easy.
Display of those fields is fairly simple – but writing handlers to save those fields… eek.

If it was me, I’d just add Profile fields for bio and website – and move on.

are you using this one? https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/

i use donmik’s excellent plugin “BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Fields Type” for this…you can add a TOS to xprofile field

It won’t work unless you pass a ‘valid’ value. And you don’t have to use an array for a single value.
So if you have not changed the option value ( via Users > Profile Fields ) to ‘Subscribe to Newsletter Digest’, it will fail.

To ‘uncheck’ the box – just delete that row for that user in the _bp_xprofile_data table.
xprofile_delete_field_data( field name or ID, $user_id )