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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?

Don’t replace the code.

Use this function, and change ‘Country’ to the name you gave the field.

function naisai_make_field_delete() {
	global $wpdb;
	
	$table = $wpdb->prefix . "bp_xprofile_fields"; 
	$wpdb->query( "UPDATE $table SET can_delete = 1 WHERE name = 'Country'" );
	
}
add_action( 'bp_ready', 'naisai_make_field_delete' );

Then visit your site’s home page.
Then go to that field in wp-admin and you should see a Delete link.
If you have more than one field you want to Delete, then change the name in the function and repeat the process.
When you are done – remove the function.

Then, if you want, get the code from the gist and run again.

@rgrober,

see here if it helps:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-fields-from-xprofile-fields-groups-created-by-me/

@ericks89,

There is a way, if you use BBPress Signature. 😉 Modifying bbp_get_reply_content filter.

Here an example fetching 3 xprofile fields called Signature, Industry and Type. Change it to your need. Code goes into bp-custom.php or child theme functions.php

function my_bbp_reply_content_append_user_signature( $content = '', $reply_id = 0, $args = array() ) {
	// Default arguments
	$defaults = array(
		'separator' => '<hr />',
		'before'    => '<div class="bbp-reply-signature">',
		'after'     => '</div>'
	);
	$r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
	extract( $r );

	// Verify topic id, get author id and potential signature
	$reply_id  = bbp_get_reply_id       ( $reply_id );
	$user_id   = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
	
	// Get fields data. Caution: name is case sensitive.
	if(function_exists('bbpress') ) {
		$signature = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Signature', $user_id );	
		$wowi = '<br>'. xprofile_get_field_data( 'Service', $user_id );
		$wowt = '<br>'. xprofile_get_field_data( 'Type', $user_id );
	}
	else {
		$signature = bbp_get_user_signature ( $user_id  );
	}

	// If signature exists, adjust the content accordingly
	if ( !empty( $signature ) )
		$content = $content . $separator . $before . $signature . $wowi . $wowt . $after;

	return apply_filters( 'my_bbp_reply_content_append_signature', $content, $reply_id, $separator );
}

if ( !is_admin() ) {
   // remove the original BBPress filter
   remove_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'bbp_reply_content_append_user_signature', 1, 2 );
   // add our custom filter
   add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_content', 'my_bbp_reply_content_append_user_signature', 1, 2 );	
}

May this help. 😉

You should remove that code as soon the field is created.
If you edit the field name, then a new field will be created – if you don’t remove the code.

They dont have a delete button and now I cannot remove any of the fields.

That is because 'can_delete' => false, should be 'can_delete' => true,.
I have corrected the gist.

To delete the fields you already have, you can use a database tool like phpmyadmin.
You need to find the row(s) in the bp_xprofile_fields table and for each row, change the can_delete field value to 1. Then a ‘Delete’ will appear for that field in wp-admin.

How about all other fields.

Your best bet is to not nibble at the problem.
Write a script to migrate all the WP profile fields & user data into BP xprofile fields & user data.

In the Dashbord, under users, go to profile fields, go to Add New Field, and in a box on the right there should be a requirement box, just switch it from Not Required to Required.

@katiemeeks
someone posted a similar question 4 days ago ( https://buddypress.org/support/topic/i-want-to-nobody-can-not-change-own-gender/ )

someone else answered to take a look at http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-non-editable-profile-fields/

I have not used this yet – but it sounds perfect for this kind of thing.

On a single install: danshboard > users > profile fields( your-site.com/wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup).

Base(primary)tab, then use Edit button.

Here an example for profile field lenght with some comments.

function bpfr_custom_textfield_length() {	
	
	//Check if user is logged in & if xprofile component is activated
	if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :	
	$my_custom_textfield = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=Brief Biography&user_id='.bp_get_member_user_id() );	
	
	/* 
	 * The length = number of characters, not words.
	 * Set the number of caracters to show. 
	 * The 3 dots are the appended text ending the excerpt.
	 * Don't remove the quotes if you change this
	 * BuddyPress 2.1 will add new class and id for custom fields. 
	 * The span can be omited to style this part. See ticket #5741
	 */
	if ( strlen($my_custom_textfield) > 20) :  //adjust to your need
	$my_custom_textfield = substr($my_custom_textfield, 20).'...'; //adjust to your need
	endif;
	// uncomment the following line to get a span around the displayed field content
	// echo '<span class="short-custom">'. $my_custom_textfield; .'</span>';
	// comment the following line if you use the span
	echo $my_custom_textfield;	
	
	endif; // is_user_logged_in
}
add_action( 'bp_directory_members_item', 'bpfr_custom_textfield_length' );

Ticket #5741

You can try this plugin by BuddyDev

BuddyPress Non Editable Profile Fields

I would GUESS that you could edit that plugin to add in the code as mentioned above https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-users-can-link-to-their-profile/

Or ask the plugin author for clarification.

I stopped using that plugin when they added the extra security stuff for strong passwords that broke things for me.. however the plugin’s support page is pretty active, and given that he/she has options for redirecting users after login based on role – there may be an easy way to add such functionality to the plugin by asking the plugin author.

There is a bit of info with some of the functions here ->https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/members-navigation-menus/

I see others are asking about bp xprofile fields and such within the them my login support forum,
( wordpress.org/support/plugin/theme-my-login )
so hopefully this plugin author will add more and more BP options – I enjoyed using that plugin some time ago – hope it continues to mature.

@olliecard – I’m sure there are many ways to accomplish this, however I am not sure that buddypress is easily adaptable to some of the requirements – privacy for certain things, restricting profiles and such. I hope someone can chime in an share methods for using BP in this way, I’d love to see those options.

You could play with things like s2member for some restrictions and payments even – but restricting BP stuff is a challenge I think. Using other member and restrictions plugins with regular wordpress is pretty solid.

I believe you may be able to achieve your goal using some other WP plugins – there are many others that get into profiles, membership, restrictions, classifieds and such.

It might be 50 hours of work to mash all the various components together in a perfect way – and if so you may want to look at what wpmudev has withe their “membership 2” plugin and others that mix with it. wpmudev peeps had quick answers and solutions for something similar I posted about there years ago. I think their prices are double what they should be – but the support there exists, and if you are looking at a serious project it may be best to get into a professional support system like that.

Of course you would mix and match some of the free plugins in the wp-repo and probably come out with something – press permit, profile plugins, s2member – custom fields, tweak some themes – maybe even go WP-MS multi site for some semi-separated static things – and you may achieve what you are describing as well.

I’d love to see others post about other options, and I’d love to see BP have more fine grained control over things – it’s moving in that direction with things like user levels and such so the future with bp is possible, I just don’t think it’s there yet, and likely won’t be playing well with others anytime soon – and getting code help with BP – even if you offer to pay for it – is not the easiest thing in the world.

2 cents from a random user – not an expert

It’s much easier to hide profile groups that aren’t Base.
Have you tried putting the Rider fields in another group?

My coding skills are very less but want exactly what @Flush said I saw the code in bp but I don’t now what exact code to use to modify the above said piece of code.
Will you guys provide the conditional statement to load two files based on created profile fields.

I don’t know weather @andy277 also wants same.

I am interested in finding out what you come up with in regards to this.

I tried to use something like:

‘field’ => 2,
);

(some info from https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/guides/displaying-extended-profile-fields-on-member-profiles/ )
to replace the actual names I was using in a page title template thing, and never got it to work – but I have no idea what I am doing – trying to franken-hack a bit of code provided by one person and replace the field names with field numbers so the code would work with a different site I was playing with – when I tried replacing the name with this field number thing it did not work – but again I don’t understand php nor bp stuff well enough to know if I just missed a character, or something else was needed, or the function isn’t working as it should.