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i am using “fine pro” theme, the child theme was created as dafault, can i use this child theme for buddypress customization? , if yes, where can i find that text CSS CODES for changing style in table profile fields? I have searched for table profile fields CSS code in buddypress default.css, but i don’t know which code is related to profile field text.

Thanks again Shane. I’ll try to explain again.

At high level, I want users, in their user profile, to be able to select one or more skills that they have. Skills are posts of a post type.

At lower level, I want, in a BP user profile, a field which is either a multi-select, or a set of checkboxes. The values selectable should be titles of posts from the “Skills” post type (I’ll actually save the IDs of the posts, but the titles should be displayed).

The user should be able to select these values both when registering and when editing their profile.

Possible implementations I can think of would be:
– Implement a new field TYPE called “skill”, create a field of that type in BuddyPress, and write some hooks that display and save the field.
– Add some custom code using action hooks to the bottom of the registration and edit profile screens.

I know it’s kinda hard to explain in a short forum post. There just doesn’t seem to be some simple, documented hooks that a plugin can use to extend the user profiles with new custom fields of new types and I was looking for some guidance/best practice for doing this.

Thanks again for your help.

Ross

Thanks Shane.

I was thinking more of something that’s like profile fields, that you edit in the member sign-up and profile edit screens, rather than creating new screens. What I’d REALLY like is something like the Group extension API for users. But instead the registration/register.php and /members/single/profile/edit.php templates seem to have a large amount of almost-duplicated code and inconsistent hooks.

Yeah, I know – if I want an extension system I should contribute it, right? 🙂

Any thoughts on adding profile fields with dynamic values in the way that I need? The best way would seem to be to use something like the bp_custom_profile_edit_fields and bp_signup_profile_fields action hooks, but I’m not sure that they are specific enough.

Thanks

Ross

I still get this issue, now only User can see his xProfile – Even Admin can’t see other user xProfile. I have tried to switched to the Twenty Theme, but it still happens.

I have traced to here:

//I have two profile Groups, the Base group and one more I created.
// I created a User with full profile fields data.

<?php while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group(); ?>
<?php if ( bp_profile_group_has_fields() ) : ?>

If the user view his own profile the bp_profile_group_has_fields() will return True two times. But if another user view this user profile it will only return True 1 time and the 2nd time is false – that makes it display only Base group profile Fields and xProfile fields can’t display.

I use WP 3.9 Latest BuddyPress and installed a lot of plugins.

Sorry, it was my lack of explanation.
I created an item of birth date the setting of Profile Fields

standard display of birthdate has become a DD-MM-YY.
I want to change to YY-MM-DD this

Hi danbp
It Seems to me the answer to my question
But, the problem is not resolved.
I am very troubled!

plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofiles-class.php(bp-xprofile-classes.php):1459

	/**
	 * Constructor for the datebox field type
	 *
	 * @since BuddyPress (2.0.0)
 	 */
	public function __construct() {
		parent::__construct();

		$this->category = _x( 'Single Fields', 'xprofile field type category', 'buddypress' );
		$this->name     = _x( 'Date Selector', 'xprofile field type', 'buddypress' );

		$this->set_format( '/^\d{4}-\d{1,2}-\d{1,2} 00:00:00$/', 'replace' );  // "Y-m-d 00:00:00"
		do_action( 'bp_xprofile_field_type_datebox', $this );
	}

	/**
	 * Output the edit field HTML for this field type.
	 *
	 * Must be used inside the {@link bp_profile_fields()} template loop.
	 *
	 * @param array $raw_properties Optional key/value array of {@link http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/input.html permitted attributes} that you want to add.
	 * @since BuddyPress (2.0.0)
	 */
	public function edit_field_html( array $raw_properties = array() ) {
		$user_id = bp_displayed_user_id();

		// user_id is a special optional parameter that we pass to {@link bp_the_profile_field_options()}.
		if ( isset( $raw_properties['user_id'] ) ) {
			$user_id = (int) $raw_properties['user_id'];
			unset( $raw_properties['user_id'] );
		}

		$year_html = $this->get_edit_field_html_elements( array_merge(
			array(
				'id'   => bp_get_the_profile_field_input_name() . '_year',
				'name' => bp_get_the_profile_field_input_name() . '_year',
			),
			$raw_properties
		) );

		$month_html = $this->get_edit_field_html_elements( array_merge(
			array(
				'id'   => bp_get_the_profile_field_input_name() . '_month',
				'name' => bp_get_the_profile_field_input_name() . '_month',
			),
			$raw_properties
		) );

Please tell me Where Do I change specifically.

@mercime I manage to rearrange all the fields using the code I posted, and now I have a code like this,

<?php if ( function_exists( 'bp_has_profile' ) ) : if ( bp_has_profile( 'profile_group_id=1&hide_empty_fields=0' ) ) : while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group(); ?>
<?php while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field(); ?>
<?php if ( 'Country of Residence' == bp_get_the_profile_field_name() ) : ?>

	<select class="country-residence" name="<?php bp_the_profile_field_input_name(); ?>" id="<?php bp_the_profile_field_input_name(); ?>" placeholder="<?php _e( bp_the_profile_field_name().':' ); ?>">
		<?php //bp_the_profile_field_options(); 
			
			global $wpdb;
			$sql = "SELECT * FROM wp_country_list";
			$results = $wpdb->get_results($sql) or die(mysql_error());
			echo '<option data-value="holder-only" class="holder">Country of Residence:</option>';
				foreach( $results as $result ) {

					echo '<option data-value="'. $result->three_letter_code .'" value="'. $result->three_letter_code .'">'.$result->name.'</option>';
				}
		?>
	</select>
	<?php do_action( bp_get_the_profile_field_errors_action() ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>
<?php endwhile;  ?>

<?php endwhile; endif; endif; ?>

Now the problem is, when the registration completes, this field doesn’t reflect to the user profile after successful registration. Hope you’ve got my point here.

Thanks for the response. I think I was a bit confused, I am actually using Magazine Basic, not Buddypress Default, but thanks for the head’s up.

I created the extended profiles via Users>Profile Fields

And I resolved it simply.

Just add

#buddypress table.profile-fields p {
	margin-top: 10px !important;
	margin-bottom: 10px !important;
}

or the kind of margin you want, to a custom css, and voíla!

I tried the exact code that you put in your first response. I put it in my Functions file then updated one of the xProfile fields and it was not in the activity feed.

Ok yes sorry I knew that. I tried to add it to my functions.php and I updated my profile but it did not show in the activity feed. I would like it to show in the activity feed if anyone updates their profile via the xprofile fields. It looks like from your code that it would only show if I update my profile. Any thoughts?

@mercime – I just fix the issue with notification tab – and that seems to has effect on this too.

Now logged in members can see other members full profile fields. I want to make the full profile fields including base fields and xProfile group fields public to everyone even not logged in, how can I do this?

To anyone who want the same thing, follow my below steps.

I have a text file contains about 600+ names of schools and I want to make a schools-drop-down – So It’s very time-consuming to click add option one by one. It needs another way:

1. Content of The Schools list text file.
Tamale Polytechnic
Kumasi Polytechnic
Accra Polytechnic
Cape Coast Polytechnic
Koforidua Polytechnic
Ho Polytechnic
….600+…
2. I go to xProfile and create a Drop-down named it Schools – I input one option say “A sample school” – save.
3. I go to phpMyadmin -to Database to table gsl_bp_xprofile_fields – Search “A sample school” to find the newly created Sample schools row – on the result look at the
columns: (group_id, parent_id, type , name) . they should have values like: (group_id: 1, parent_id: 127,type :’option’ ,name :’A sample school’).
4. Next I use a Core Java code(because I don’t know how to do this in PHP) to read the schools list text file one by one and custom the print out like this:

String fileName = "D://Schools.txt";
String line = null;
try {
  FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(fileName);
  BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
  while((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
    line = line.replace("'", "");
    String sqlBase = "INSERT INTO gsl_bp_xprofile_fields (group_id,parent_id, type,name) VALUES (1, 127,'option' ,"+"'"+line+"'"+");";
    System.out.println(sqlBase);
            }	
    bufferedReader.close();			
}

After running the above code I have a list of SQL insert commands printed on my eclipse they look like this:

INSERT INTO gsl_bp_xprofile_fields (group_id,parent_id, type,name) VALUES (1, 127,'option' ,'Tamale Polytechnic');
INSERT INTO gsl_bp_xprofile_fields (group_id,parent_id, type,name) VALUES (1, 127,'option' ,'Kumasi Polytechnic');
INSERT INTO gsl_bp_xprofile_fields (group_id,parent_id, type,name) VALUES (1, 127,'option' ,'Accra Polytechnic');

….many more insert commands until the end of the schools file 600+

5. Next, I copy all these commands, come back phpMyadmin database- table gsl_bp_xprofile_fields – to SQL tab, paste all commands, click run/go to insert all the options.

That’s all done for me!

For now, I’ve come to another solution, where I allow users to Register new account with base Fields and a Role selection (Student or Lecturer in my case). They then fill in only base field and then after account creation they can update their Student or Lecture xProfile Group Fields in their profile page edit.

I do these above by using 3 plugins:

1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpfront-user-role-editor/
This will allow me to add new Role: Student and Lecturer in my case (I have tried other Role plugin but they conflict with other plugins on my site, this one doesn’t).

2. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-roles-at-registration/
This one allow me to add a Drop down for New user to choose their wanted role : Student or Lecturer

3. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-xprofiles-acl/
This plug in allow me to set buddypress xProfile group to a specific user role. In my case, I created two xProfile Group fields named “Student” and “Lecture” each has different fields. Then using this plugin I assigne the xProfile Student to Student Role, and the xProfile Lecturer to Lecturer Role.

That’s all done!

Meanwhile I will use this, but I still want to be able to have two sign up forms with different fields so that I can require New user to fill in the Required field to make the profile better. I can’t code much so hope someone will help!