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You can add profile fields via wp-admin > Users > Profile Fields

You can search those fields with this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/

My guess is that another plugin or some custom code or your theme is trying to apply a filter to
bp_get_the_profile_field_id but the $field is not available.

Try deactivating any plugins that deal with profile fields.

To confirm that the issue is in your theme, try switching momentarily to a WP theme like 2013.

I believe this not an issue because BP only needs an email, username and a password to do a succesfull registration. All other inputs may change for each site.

You can use a plugin(like “contact form”) to create registration forms and then assign form inputs into custom created xprofile fields.

‘WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘user_id’ in ‘field list’]’

There is no user_id field in bp_xprofile_fields.
The correct table is bp_xprofile_data.

value is a text field, so you need quotes: AND value = '45'";

Instead of AND value !empty"; try AND value != ''";

$wpdb->get_var returns a single value. Try $wpdb->get_col.

Your issues could have been solved by examining the table structure and reading reference docs like https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb.

“Tab Base”

To delete Base and all other fields groups names in user profile:
1. find in your theme file /buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php
2. Delete in that file: this line: <h4><?php bp_the_profile_group_name(); ?></h4>

If you don’t have such file in your theme, than copy this file:
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php
into your theme here:
/wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php
and remove the line that I wrote above (with h4).

Members Directory – All Members

1. find in your theme file /buddypress/members/index.php
2. Delete in that file the line with this text: id="members-all"

If you don’t have such file in your theme – do the same thing as written above but for index.php file.

You should understand, that this will break ability to filter results on members directory page.

All fields that are in the first Base fields groups will appear on registration page.
So you can just move those fields to another fields group, that you can create on this page /wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup using this link http://cosydale.com/wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup&mode=add_group.

Another option

Find the ID of a field that you want to hide in admin area (when you edit the field it’s in the URL like this /wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup&group_id=1&field_id=2&mode=edit_field = field_id=2 is what you need), make sure that this field is NOT required, then open style.css of your theme and add there something like this:
#profile-details-section.register-section .editfield.field_2 {display:none}
For reference: http://take.ms/lONUD

I’m probably misunderstanding the question but for the first part (“List each field where I want”) are you trying to control the order the fields appear to a user on this page?

your.website/members/admin/profile/edit/group/1/

If so, have you already tried reordering them in admin panel -> users -> profile fields ?

This plugin may be of help to you..

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/

This plugin add more fields type to Buddypress extension: Xprofile. The fields type added are: Birthdate.. Image.. Number within min/max values..

without seeing your css i can give you an ugly, possible solution..

(please backup that file before attempting the change)

delete

<div class=”profile_fields”><?php bp_member_profile_data(‘field=Organizational Name’); ?></div>

replace

<div class=”item-title”>
<?php bp_get_member_name(); ?>
</div>

with

<div class=”item-title”>
<?php bp_get_member_name(); ?>
<div style="display: block;"><?php bp_member_profile_data(‘field=Organizational Name’); ?></div>
</div>

you may want to change style="display: block;" to class="whateverName" and edit from your style sheet.

So does this mean you cannot use standard WordPress First & Last name fields, that if I want them accessible on their profile I have to use the xprofile component? Seems either redundant to keep them in both or a waste to not use the WP standard fields.

Is there not an easy easy way to modify the profile form to make standard fields visible and editable?

I’m not aware of a plugin that does what you want.
You might try https://wordpress.org/plugins/members-import/ as a starting place.
You would need to modify the code to handle profile fields like postal codes.

The search function would be separate.
There are plugins that search profile fields, such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/

Jigesh,

Thanks for the help! This is how it looks right now:

As you can see to the right of the profile image their are some data showing from the custom fields. @mcUK and @shanebp helped me out achieving this. BUT, this is not the correct data it should be showing for this user… It shows data that the logged in user filled in.

I logged in as the user that filled in the correct data, and then it’s showing the right data for the user. But this is because I’m logged in as that user…

NOTE: I’m transferring this data across two plugins: buddypress and learnpress. Just so you know!

This is the php in bp-custom:

<?php

function bptest_show_a_field () {
	$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();
	$firstname = xprofile_get_field_data( 'First Name', bp_loggedin_user_id(), $multi_format = 'comma' );
	$lastname = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Last Name', bp_loggedin_user_id(), $multi_format = 'comma' );
	$birth = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Date of birth', bp_loggedin_user_id(), $multi_format = 'comma' );
	$education = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Highest Education Grade', bp_loggedin_user_id(), $multi_format = 'comma' );
	$profession = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Profession', bp_loggedin_user_id(), $multi_format = 'comma' );
 
	if ( ! $firstname && ! $lastname && ! $birth && ! $education && ! $profession ) { 
	   return; 
	}   
	else {
	    echo 'Voornaam: ' . $firstname . '<br />' ; 
	    echo 'Achternaam: ' . $lastname . '<br />' ; 
	    echo 'Geboortedatum: ' . $birth . '<br />' ; 
	    echo 'Hoogste graad: ' . $education . '<br />' ; 
	    echo 'Beroep: ' . $profession . '<br />' ; 
        
	}
}

add_action ( 'user_a_field', 'bptest_show_a_field' );
?>
 

Hi David,

Copying the code method does work. (Renaming the function, the variables/fields within and the add_action bits).

Just tried this out too and it appears to work fine, though not tested thoroughly so you’d need to double check:

function bptest_show_a_field () {
	$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();
	$field_one = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Field One', bp_loggedin_user_id(), $multi_format = 'comma' );
	$field_two = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Field Two', bp_loggedin_user_id(), $multi_format = 'comma' );
 
	if ( ! $field_one && ! $field_two ) { 
	   return; 
	}   
	else {
	   echo $field_one ; 
	   echo $field_two ; 
	}
}

add_action ( 'user_a_field', 'bptest_show_a_field' );

Then put do_action ( 'user_a_field' ); in your desired location.

Got one question now that I’m working with the provided code:

Do you have tips for using this code for multiple custom fields? How should I edit this code in bp-custom.php if I want to add multiple custom fields?

<?php

function bptest_show_education_field () {
	$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();
	$education_field = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Highest Education Grade', bp_loggedin_user_id(), $multi_format = 'comma' );
	if ( ! $education_field  ) { 
	   return; 
	}   
	else {
        echo 'Hoogste opleiding: ' . $education_field . '<br />'; 
	}
}
add_action ( 'user_education_field', 'bptest_show_education_field' );
?>

I’m now trying to copy this code for every custom field, but that’s not really a clean way of doing this. And it’s not working either. Hope you can help me out with this one as well!

Hi mcUK!

Thanks for you reply. I’m working with Lotte on this issue.

I tried adding your code. Everything should be in place right now, but it’s still not showing the custom fields. I’m probably using the code wrong…

I tested your code with a custom field ‘Opleiding’ which I added in WordPress: Users -> Profile fields:

I added this to bp-custom.php:

<?php

function bptest_show_opleiding_field () {
	$opleiding_field = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=Opleiding' ); 
	if ( ! $opleiding_field  ) { 
	   return; 
	}   
	else {
	   echo '<span class="custom-field-text">' . $opleiding_field . '</span>'; 
	}
}

add_action ( 'user_opleiding_field', 'bptest_show_opleiding_field' );
?>

Then I added this to order.php (the php file where the custom field should pop-up):

 <div id="user-opleiding">
	                           <?php 
		                          do_action ( 'user_opleiding_field' ); 
	                           ?>
                             </div>

What am I doing wrong? It’s probably a typo or a wrongly added term… But I can’t figure out what it is!

Hope you can help us out! Thanks for the help so far!

David

Hi,

Not used LearnPress so unable to comment much on that . The method I used to insert/display my own custom profile fields into a header on the user activity page was as follows (in this case, a Location field which was created in the WP dashboard).

1. Add to bp-custom.php :

//Add Location field to header if user has entered data into it
//Nothing is shown if user hasn't entered anything into field
function bptest_show_location_field () {
	$location_field = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=Location' ); 
	if ( ! $location_field  ) { 
	   return; 
	}   
	else {
	   echo '<span class="custom-field-text">' . $location_field . '</span>'; 
	}
}
//user_bio_location_field is used within the member-header php template file
add_action ( 'user_location_field', 'bptest_show_location_field' );

2. In my member-header.php file (which was copied into my child theme) entered the div :

<div id="user-location">
	<?php 
		do_action ( 'user_location_field' ); 
	?>
</div><!-- #user-location - function is found in bp-custom -->

Obviously the php code in step two is placed wherever you want the field to display, just put it in the correct location of the correct php file. In my case it was member-header.php but for you i’m guessing its the one that generates your order page?.

Not sure if you have already tried any of that or if it even helps!

Add me to the list. I want to be able to have a page with a members list which lists 6 xprofile fields if a particular one of those fields is populated.

Hi George,
No, There is no API function to fetch field group id from field group name and you will need to write your own sql query for the purpose.

Also, In your example you have passed the profile_group_id to the bp_get_profile_field_data. Please note, it does not take that as a valid argument. It only accepts user_id and field. group id is not required for fetching field data.

Now, If we forget about the group name API and come to the original requirement, Do you plan to fetch the data for multiple users(In loop) or just once/twice.

For fetching data, these two functions work

You can either use

$data = xprofile_get_field_data( $field, $user_id = 0, $multi_format = 'array' )

where $field is field id or name( If you know the id, It will fetch from any group, Name has the issue)

or as you specified

$data = bp_get_profile_field_data( array(
	'user_id'	=> $user_id,
	'field_id'	=> $field
	
) );

The xprofile data APIs do not allow passing group in general. You either pass a field id or name.

The problem will happen when multiple fields have same name. In that case, the first field with the name matches if you use the above functions.

Another point, In both the cases, There is no group arguement and if you use field name, that will need one extra query(field id should be preferred if the id is known).

Honestly speaking, It is ok to use it one or 2 time on page but avoid using it inside the loop. If you plan to use it inside the loop, you should try to first fetch the xprofile data and cache and then use any of these functions. One way to cache will be by calling

BP_XProfile_ProfileData::get_value_byid( $field_id, $user_ids )

Where $field_id is the id of field(not name) and $user_ids is one or more user ids.

Hope that helps.