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i did it that way and it worked for me. so i now have all my profile fields in one group and display only one of the fields on the registration-page

You can add custom option fields for References and Places Worked:

Profile → Edit

Not sure that adding a memberlist as drop down is very clever. What if you get a community of hundreds of members ?

To get database info, see here: (that’s a common WP task)
https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb

Then create a template overload of this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\register.php

In that file, prevent the display of certain fields by checking them by using
bp_get_the_profile_field_id() or bp_get_the_profile_field_input_name()
in the loop: while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field();

thanks for your input, @danbp.
There is, of course, a reason why i want it as requested 🙂
On my registration form, i only want to show one field to not bother new users with unnecessary fields. this one field is in my base group.
All other fields are arranged in another group.

From my point of view, it doesn’t make sense to show two tabs on the profile-edit page, but it does make sense to show as less fields as possible on the registration page. I think UX comes first today. Customers pay our rent, so we should avoid putting spokes in there wheel. I also think buddypress is doing a pretty bad job here regarding UX (Of course this behavior gives structure, but we pay with UX for it). Since we live in 2015 it shouldn’t be a matter of “hacking” to reduce the amount of inputs and clicks for such “trivial” actions (from a users perspective) like editing a profile.

Is that reason enough? 🙂

To get all fields on the same tab, you simply add them to the Base tab. Users can then fill in anything from one tab and profile will show only one tab.

This will spare you a lot of time to tweak the original form.

First topic mention: So the user can edit and save all fields without clicking through serveral tabs.
If, as site owner, you create profile field group it is probably because you want some structurized output.

Now, before hacking, you have to ask yourself about what you want: structure or UX. And IMHO in this case, the user comes in second position.
Another point of view, if it so “complicated” for user to fill in several tabs, consider your work first and justify why you have so many fields, that your user consider it is a mess to fill them… 😉

@douglaslovin83

You’re lucky !
Download the latest version of the plugin, as it seems that this is now in since 101 minutes:
Added support for Buddypress custom profile fields

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/

hi,
Dashboard > Users > Profile Fields > Add new field

Name []
Description []
Type > select Multi-line Text Area

User Extended Profiles

Ok, i see… multiselectbox/checkbox values are returned in a array.

if ( $data = bp_member_profile_data( 'field=Musical Genre' ) )....endif; thing cannot work, because we have to fetch the whole array of values, not only one.
Give this a try:

function custom_display_xprofile_fields() {

if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Artist Name' ) ) : 
	echo '<div class="artist"><h4 class="user-nicename">'. xprofile_get_field_data( 'Artist Name', bp_displayed_user_id() ) .'</h4></div>';
endif;

if ( $datas = bp_get_profile_field_data( array( 'field' => 'Musical Genre' ) ) ) :
    foreach ( $datas as $data ) { 
       echo '<div class="genre">'. $data .'</div>';
    }
endif;

if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Location' ) ) : 
	echo '<div class="location">'. xprofile_get_field_data( 'Location', bp_displayed_user_id() ) .'</div>';
endif;
}
add_action( 'bp_profile_header_meta' , 'custom_display_xprofile_fields' );

How else would I override the buddypress file unless it was in my child theme with the same name?

You should NOT override core files. The only files you alter from child theme are template files.

To alter core functions, you use custom functions and add them via filter hooks, preferably added to bp-custom.php – so you won’t loose your work at next update.

member-profile.php doesn’t exist in BuddyPress.

Codex is your friend !

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Displaying Extended Profile Fields on Member Profiles

… and forum search too. 😉

Is your child theme working correctly with Kleo ?
Is the altered member-header.php file in your child-theme ?
Do you really use a file called member-profile.php, as stated in your first topic ? Bad !

Remove all your custom snippets and revert back to original BP template fisrt, then try this in bp-custom.php:

function custom_display_xprofile_fields() {

echo 'Custom display fields';
echo '<ul>';
if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Artist Name' ) ) : 
	echo '<li>'. xprofile_get_field_data( 'Artist Name', bp_displayed_user_id() ) .'</li>';
endif;

if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Musical Genre' ) ) : 
	echo '<li>'. xprofile_get_field_data( 'Musical Genre', bp_displayed_user_id() ) .'</li>';
endif;

if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Location' ) ) : 
	echo '<li>'. xprofile_get_field_data( 'Location', bp_displayed_user_id() ) .'</li>';
endif;

echo '</ul>';
}
add_action( 'bp_profile_header_meta' , 'custom_display_xprofile_fields' );
add_filter( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'custom_display_xprofile_fields' );

>they now see their profile fields displayed 2 times.

Rhetorical questions:
As 2 sets or double entries?
Does the issue remain if you remove the 3rd shortcode?

It should be easy to narrow it down by following the clues given when you explore those questions.

the column on the right are added profile fields, you can remove the field from the admin

more info on profile fields https://codex.buddypress.org/administrator-guide/extended-profiles/

Take a look at DB tables related to xprofile:
_bp_xprofile_data
_bp_xprofile_fields
_bp_xprofile_groups
_bp_xprofile_meta

If users entered data like https://twitter.com/comandovictor use a mysql command to wipe out https://twitter.com/ via phpMyAdmin.

UPDATE table_name SET col_name = REPLACE(col_name, 'old_value', 'new_value');

wp_ is default table prefix, change it if you use another prefix.
UPDATE wp_bp_xprofile_data SET col_name = REPLACE(value, 'https://twitter.com/', '');

That’s the fastest method. Don’t forget to backup the table BEFORE doing this.

Changing the field type can be done from the xprofile admin.

It is standard! At least if you use xprofile component to let your users enter their signature.

1) Create a new field. Call it Signature and give it a textarea type.
2) Once this field is edited by a user, during registration or later, the signature appears on his profile.

3) if you want this field somewhere else, for ex on the profile header, you simply write a function to call this field and hook it into the template you want.

Ie. Add this to child theme functions.php or bp-custom.php

function my_signature() {	
if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) )
   if ( $signature = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Signature', bp_get_member_user_id() ) ) : // field name; case sensitive				
      echo $signature;	
   endif;
}
add_filter( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'my_signature' );

Or to use Henry’s advice
add_filter( 'bp_after_profile_content', 'my_signature' );

Reference

User Extended Profiles

Displaying Extended Profile Fields on Member Profiles

Did you put the profile fields in the ‘Base (Primary)’ group?
By default, only those fields appear on Register.

Did you try switching to a WP theme like 2015 to determine if the issue is in your theme?