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with my default bp installs just about everything IS public.. it’s actually not easy to make the bp pages like activity and groups and such private.

I think most of those things are fine to be public – and people can choose to make groups members only, logged in only, or public viewable.. default is all public I think..

Most profile fields the user can choose similar privacy settings for certain fields if you allow..

Sometimes I make a group non-pulbic viewable as super admin..

I also choose a lot of things to be blocked by the robot search engine spiders – as there is no need for them to go pulling 100 pages of activity feed and such – so even though most of my BP site is publicly viewable, only about half of it is (supposed to be) crawled by the big engines – most follow the robots.txt directive – but not all..

Where did you find that code?

Have you tried to replace it by:
SELECT * FROM bp_xprofile_fields WHERE parent_id = 0 AND group_id > 1

You should see all fields, even empty ones, on the Profile > Edit page.

Empty fields will not be shown on Profile > View.
Are you sure there is data in those fields?

You could narrow down the issue by deactivating the LearnDash plugins one at a time and see if the issue persists.

You can change parameters by passing an array in your overload.

Example – you may need to change the passed values.

<?php 
$args = array(  
        'hide_empty_groups'      => false,
	'hide_empty_fields'      => false
        );
if ( bp_has_profile( $args ) ) : ?>

Hi, that’s what i expected. You’re not after coding errors, but enduser errors, ie you omitted this field…

For each xprofile field you create, BP let you select some option. Depending on them, you can see some messages when a field is left blank. These message are displayed by field type, and so far i know, there is no easy way for cibling precisely a given field once you’ve defined a field type.

The xprofile component is not such a sophisticated tool like ContactForm 7 or similar form plugins. It was created to insert more fields inside the basic WP registration page. Because of this, it is volontary left “simple”. If you need more functionnalities over your custom fields, search for a compatible form plugin who allow that.

I don’t think that BP let you do much more in matter of field option as actually. Not out of the box and not without a lot of custom coding.

I mentionned the front-end xprofile admin because you mentionned you want to delete some fields from “base” group. As site admin, you can access any user profile from front-end and modify the fields.

As site admin, you have also the possibility to access those fields from within the admin dashboard, where you can physically delete xprofile fields…

User Extended Profiles

As i don’t want to login to dropbox to see your screenshot, i ignore what you mean precisely at this time… except “delete some fields” which is, so far, enough for me.

FYI, any xprofile field goes on the registration page. And the fields themselves are in the admin under dashboard > users > xprofile fields

You say nothing about where you try to delete your fields.

So i assume you are using BuddyPress the standart way and are working as “site admin” in the backend.

Read here:

Profile → Edit

Generally, when removing something comes back after you did it, it is because you forgot to save your changes. So far i know, there is no ghost or 4th dimension inside BuddyPress. 🙂