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see if this plugin may help:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/

@matthias70,

these fields are required by the system.
WP ask for username, password and email. When BP is activated, he uses WP’s name option Public Name so he can rely to WP. This field called Name is the only one which is required by BP for that reason.

When you visit dashboard > users > your profile, you have a tabed page with profile options (the original WP user manager) and Extended profile (which belongs to BP) where you can edit your profile. On WP’s tab you see login, first name, last name and public displayed name. On BP’s tab there is only Name, which reflects what is in first and or last name.

In wp_users table, you have user_login, user_nicename and display_name

user_login and user_nicename have the same content
display_name contains first and/or last name (if exist from a previous WP install, before BP installation).

Depending what and where something needs a name to work (avatar, comment, notice, activity, etc), one or the other name option is fired.

If you don’t need/want real names on front end, you can use this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/

Go to your profile page on your site. Next to ‘View’ there is ‘Edit’. Click on ‘Edit’ and you can change fields like your name, etc. and you can also see it’s visibility. You can change visibility settings by going to your admin dashboard and playing around with the profile fields under the Users tab. Your users will be able to see their profile visibility under their profile tab and have the ability to change it (if you give them that option).

Hope this helps! Took me a while to get it too.

then added that to the buddypress pages

@seph
Make sure that you didn’t add the Register link under any of the main BP component pages (e.g. Members, Groups, Blogs, Activity) in the menu links.
Make sure that you didn’t add any text in your “Register” page so that BP can automagically add the Registration Form and the first group of the Profile fields in thepage.
Make sure that you’re not logged in when you go to the Register page.

^+1 wow, i totally need this too… DESPERATELY.

if i had realized just how difficult this was going to be to accomplish,i never would have started this project with buddypress. what is the point of xprofile fields if they are not easily searchable?

there are so many GREAT things about buddypress, it’s super frustrating that this thing which seems to straightforward is so challenging.

i have been searching … the “buddypress profile search” plugin is not the answer… it isn’t user friendly enough. I just want one search box – “find a teacher in your city” that will search 4 xprofile fields of all our teachers… ONLY THOSE FOUR FIELDS… and return the results.

i’ve tried a google site-search tool, too…
the trouble is that our teachers have bios, and in those bios they often include cities where they have trained, or toured, and we do NOT want those included in the “Find a teacher” results.

i have Base City, and 3 “additional teaching locations” fields… those, and NAME, are the ONLY fields i want searchable.

i can pay for help.
but i figured this would be something simple i could do myself!

function wdw_bp_get_field_options( $field_id ){
	global $bp, $wpdb;
	return $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT name FROM {$bp->profile->table_name_fields} WHERE parent_id=%d AND type='option'", $field_id ) );
}

You can call the above function passing id of the field( fieldabc in your example ). This will return all options of the field in an array.

Do you recommend I create text/content and install a form plug-in for my ‘register’ page associated with the BPress first before working on adding Member Profile Fields?

@dleit please do not install any form plugin for your “Register” page. Leave it blank as BuddyPress will dynamically add the necessary forms. What you need to do is set up the profile fields. Remember that whatever field you add in the first group of the profile field will appear on the right side of the Reigstration form.

It just doesn’t seem like it will solve the “user registration is currently not allowed” issue.

After you add the member profile fields/group(s) you want for your community, I suggest going to the admin menu Settings > General and Allow Registrations. BP Codex is your friend https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/register-and-activation-pages/

I created a page for each component in this plug-in and I don’t know what to do next.

@dleit It depends. You could start adding Member Profile Fields and/or Create Groups and/or install Group and/or Sitewide Forums if you need forums.

btw, spammers have been removed 🙂

OK, I’m a newbie with BP but you have to:
1. edit/set up your registration page form fields that you want in Users > profile Fields.
2. you can edit the actual text found in the Registration page in registration.php file. Found here on your server: plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php
3. you can edit the actual text found in the Activate page in activate.php file. Found here on your server: plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/activate.php

If you read the getting started docs they help a lot, and then search this forum and on the i/net you’ll find heaps more info.

Good luck!

http://seventhqueen.com/support/forums/forum/kleo/kleo-general-questions

Hi @sjjenkins

This should not be very difficult. Some small change in the template file but since they have no downloadable version its difficult to say.
This may contain some clue –

Showing some profile fields in member’s profile header not working after update

Just curious, how does the Whats New box looks like when you use
buddypress-activity-privacy, buddypress-activity-plus and any Media plugin like rtmedia ?
Whats your site (if its not private) url ?

Thanks.

These may help

wordpress.org/plugins/export-user-data/
wordpress.org/plugins/wp-users-exporter/
buddypress dot org/support/topic/exporting-xprofile-fields-to-csv-etc/

[ My previous reply here had many more links, and it just vanished on hitting submit without any alert message, probably was caught as spam]

Thanks

Those two fields do work fine, I suspect that you are working with an older version of the view & edit templates? The manner in which xprofile fields are looped to be displayed changed so you will need to grab latest versions of these templates from the bp-legacy directory in the core plugin.

Bumping after 20mn is a bit abused, no ?

If you use BP, you can edit, add or remove custom profile fields if you activate the extended profile component.

To add an external plugin to the user profile edit, try to add it to the profile template.
Or modify the plugin so he use BP specific templates.

BuddyPress Plugin Development

Add Meta Box to Admin Extended User Profile

and much more to read on codex and forum.

This works for me. It’s basically just a cleaner version of what eberger3 did.
You’ll have to hack the ‘where’ clauses if you want to include search terms.

function add_sortby_price() { 
?>
	<option value="price">Price</option>
<?php
}
add_action( 'bp_members_directory_order_options', 'add_sortby_price' );

function users_sortby_price( $object ) {
    global $wpdb, $bp;	
	
    // Only run this if price option is selected
    if ( ! in_array( $object->query_vars['type'], array( 'price' ) ) ) 
	return;
	

    $field_id = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT id FROM {$bp->profile->table_name_fields} WHERE name = %s", $object->query_vars['type'] ) );
		
     $object->uid_name = 'user_id';
     $object->uid_table = $bp->profile->table_name_data;
     $object->uid_clauses['select']  = "SELECT u.{$object->uid_name} as id FROM {$object->uid_table} u";
     $object->uid_clauses['where'] = " WHERE " . $wpdb->prepare( "u.field_id = %d", $field_id ); 
     $object->uid_clauses['orderby'] = "ORDER BY u.value";
     $object->uid_clauses['order']   = "ASC";		
		
}
add_action( 'bp_pre_user_query', 'users_sortby_price' );

BuddyPress was made to extend WP standart profile fields. Normally you haven’t to use WP’s profile fields (aim, jabber, bio, etc) I you need a bio you recreate one.

The only required fields for profiles at the registering level are 4 by WP (username, email, password & pwd confirm) and the Base (field group) Name field which is added by BuddyPress.

If you use bbpres as standalone forum aside BP, you can syncing with wordpress