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Do you use a wordpress copy provided by your host ?
Do you use a child-theme ?
Do you use any shortcode on the register page ?

Disallow blog creation for the moment and remove all xprofile fields to get only the default name field.
Also download a fresh copy of wordpress and upload the twenty twelve theme folder to your site. Maybe your’s is corrupted somewhere.

Yes, by creating a custom function.

Add custom filters to loops and enjoy them within your plugin

https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/using-bp_parse_args-to-filter-buddypress-template-loops/

Members Loop

How to

How to Create A Custom BuddyPress Members Directory

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-profile-fields-in-the-members-directory-all-members
(2nd topic gives a technique you can use)

Hi @simpleone,

you can actually only hide xprofile fields. Hiding field groups is not possible, due to a bug.
But it is corrected for 2.1 and you’ll find a patch on the trac.

You can already apply the patch to 2.0.2 bp-xprofile-classes.php and the above snippet will work. Add it to bp-custom.php or theme’s functions.php

To hide an xprofile group, use bp_parse_args like this:

function bpfr_make_profile_tab_members_only( $retval ) {
	// hide to non members
	if( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
           // exlude groups, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_groups'] = '4,5';
           // exclude fields, separated by comma
       		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '1,39';			
	} 
	return $retval;	
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_make_profile_tab_members_only' );

Try this:

<?php
/***
* If you want to show specific profile fields here you can,
* but it'll add an extra query for each member in the loop
* (only one regardless of the number of fields you show):
* bp_member_profile_data( 'field=the field name' );
*/

$data = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=Current Location' );
if( $data != false )
   echo $data;

?>

Are you putting this code in the members-loop.php template?

Are you putting it in the designated area?
Look for this text: ‘If you want to show specific profile fields here you can,…’

Thanks for your response, @shanebp.

That code still has the fields repeating, but perhaps I entered it wrong? Since you didn’t include the php tags I’m not sure where they go; I did it this way:

<?php $data = bp_member_profile_data( 'field=Current Location' ); ?>
<?php if( $data != false ) ?>
<?php echo $data; ?>

Where are you putting your code? Directly in the template file or elsewhere?

And mine were Multiselect boxes, rather than checkboxes, but it should give you the same array output. For those, I had to parse the strings into something a bit more readable.

Again, I use xprofile fields, but this is what my code looks like:

<h4><strong>Arts Subcategories:</strong> <?php echo (implode( ', ', (array) xprofile_get_field_data ('Arts Subcategories'))); ?></h4>

I did not want to edit template files so I used a plugin called ‘Code Snippets’ which allows me to write code without editing the theme’s functions.php file or, like I said, the BP template files. However, to add them to the pages I had to use the “add_action()” hook.

Haha I have about 47 different plugins installed into my site and it runs fairly smoothly. The only thing is my geolocation plugin causes my page to refresh the first time you view it.

Aside from that, I found this article: http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/displaying-certain-profile-fields-on-your-members-profile-page/

In step 2 it shows PHP code to grab profile field data. You’ll have to either edit the template you want or create your own tab if you want it on a new page besides one of the pages you already have up on your site.

As far as adding social icons, I used this tutorial: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/display-users-social-follow-buttons-in-profile/
But that one requires xprofile fields.

Hope that helps some! 🙂

Possibly! what ‘current profile extension fields’ do you have or are you working with.

I only recommend xProfile Fields because I know how to use the hooks! Haha 🙂

Does the area you want your users to write need to be like many different blog posts? Or just like a single biography section?
I can help you with code for a biography section. For that you need Xprofile Fields installed.

For blog posts, the answer I’ve gotten for that is to activate a Multisite network and then get the plugin for front-end blog posting (look for one that is compatible with BuddyPress).

I did something similar to you, I made a whole new profile page though, for my users.
First off, do you have xProfile Fields installed and active? You’ll need that.

Take a look at the page I’m working on currently: http://ishocase.net/members/chiherah/

Hi @csimpson,

the answer is on the codex (bp_parse_args)

Add this to your theme’s functions.php or into bp-custom.php

function bpfr_make_name_members_only( $retval ) {	
	//hold all of our info
	global $bp;
	
	// is xprofile active ?	
	if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) )
	
    // The user ID of the currently logged in user
    $current_user_id = (int) trim($bp->loggedin_user->id);
	
    // The author that we are currently viewing
    $author_id  = (int) trim($bp->displayed_user->id);
	 
	// user can see only his name && admin can see everyone 
	if ($current_user_id !== $author_id && !current_user_can('delete_others_pages') ) {
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '1';	
	}
	return $retval;	
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_make_name_members_only' );

EDIT: this snippet does work only on BP 2.0+. Don’t use it with older versions.

What you ask would require some custom functions being created and that would require fairly extensive php skills and knowledge of BP.

There are some connect plugins around that are BP aware, nextend google connect springs to mind as one that does populate BP profile fields with user data so it may be worth hunting around for other plugins?

@matthew_radich you should check out the code Sharmavishal wrote, it works great, and I also use Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields. 🙂

Add Meta Box to Admin Extended User Profile

Did you tried this plugin or worse, for inspiration ?
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type

I’m still not clear on what you’re trying to do.

Those hooks should provide a starting point.
But adding profile fields dynamically and adding/setting dynamic values to existing fields are 2 different things.

See:
buddypress\bp-xprofile\bp-xprofile-admin.php
re adding adding profile fields dynamically.

The latter item should be quite straightforward.

Then, as you point out, there is the lamentable difference between field handling in reg and profile.