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Hi,
have you done this ?

– create a new field
– enter Birthday as title
– give a description
– Under Type section, select date selector
– save

When you’re on a profile’s edit page, you should see
– title
– date selector (day, mounth, year)
– This field can be seen by:….
– the field description

If you highlight the whole and check his source code, you would see something like:

<fieldset class="datebox">

	<legend>Birthday</legend>

	<div class="input-options datebox-selects">		
		<label for="field_xx_day" class="bp-screen-reader-text">Select day</label>
		<select id="field_xx_day" name="field_xx_day">
			<option value="">----</option>
		<label for="field_xx_month" class="bp-screen-reader-text">Select month</label>
		<select id="field_xx_month" name="field_xx_month">
			<option value="">----</option>
		<label for="field_xx_year" class="bp-screen-reader-text">Select year</label>
		<select id="field_xx_year" name="field_xx_year">
			<option value="">----</option>
	</div>
</fieldset>

If you can read this code but don’t see it’s ouput on your theme, you have to find which CSS rule is handling the labels.

Could be a simple contrast issue or something omitted somewhere.
To get sure of this, try first with one of Twenty’s theme.

And if possible, answer the questions you already received from Paul and give some details about your install: used theme and plugins at least.

Ah, what’s the profile field type for that? Is it a date field type or a “Birthday” field type?

Are you using the https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/ plugin ?

BuddyPress will try to sync the value of a user’s “Name” field to the First and Last Name fields in their wp-admin user profile.

To disable this, go to wp-admin Settings > BuddyPress, and disable Profile Syncing.

@mugwumpman,
first and last_name fields don’t belong to BuddyPress, but to WP profiles.

BP use only a field called Name at first install. User can enter their first AND last name in that field. Is this what you’re talking about ?

After reading your topic on wp.org, it seems that you use those fields to enter datas which are not first and last names, but more for company and company activity or such.

As you use BP, i would suggest you use the power of xprofile and offer to your user a much better experience by adding a field for a company and another for company activity (or something like that). So you can forget WP’s profile fields and use BP’s xprofile fields.

WP’s profile field used when BP is activated are: username, email and password.
And BP adds his mandatory Name field, which can be first, lastname, username or whatever other unique name belonging to a subscriber (which can be a human, a pet, a company….).

And yo can as many fields you want to the registery or for later on profiles.

The other problem related to font case is a mistery so far. Can be related to many things such as plugins or theme or custom function. This can be determined by debuging and using one of WP’s default theme and all plugins deactivated.

No matter to know if you fill a wp or a bp field for this. Both use a textarea, so it’s probably more a css thing somewhere.

“WP was finding it difficult to distinguish users on our current system with users of Buddypress”

correct cause bp adds additional profile fields…xprofile fields like name for example. rest gets stored in the wp_users database.

maybe u can try setting up different subdomains…bp on community.yoursite.com and forums on forums.yoursite.com

Use this:

BuddyPress Non Editable Profile Fields

@earl_d, this “issue” is mentionned in plugin’s FAQ. Have you done the recommended changes ?

There was no change to the Extended Profiles component in BP 2.6.2.

Also i created about 11 profile groups but when i checked extended profile for my users from the admin panel i found all the created profile groups plus one more group with no content to it called “Social” which i didn’t create and i can’t even find it under Profile fields tab.

Sounds like a plugin conflict. Did you also install or upgrade some BuddyPress plugins during your BP 2.6.2 upgrade? If so, deactivate those plugins and try to replicate your issue again. Also, try a different theme like twentysixteen since some themes try to add some of their own BuddyPress customizations, which may not work properly.

You should set up a test site so that you can do a proper evaluation.

Answers:

1. The reg form will include any profile fields you place in the ‘Base’ profile group.

2. Each member has a page that includes profile editing.

3. All active members are shown on the ‘Members’ page. That page can include profile details.