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Well, with a bit more Googling I’ve gotten this solved for the most part. I know these pages get indexed so here’s what I did for anyone’s future reference. For this example’s sake I’ll just cover the “Member Since” field.

– Created a copy of profile-loop.php in the appropriate child theme directory for update-safe modification.

– In the child copy of profile-loop.php, right beneath <?php do_action( 'bp_after_profile_field_content' ); ?>, which is inside (and at the bottom) of the ‘if ( bp_profile_group_has_fields())’ if check, I put the following code to output this field for the base group only (assuming the base group has an ID of 1):

<?php if ( bp_get_the_profile_group_id() == 1 ) : ?>
  <table class="profile-fields">
   <tr<?php bp_field_css_class(); ?>>
    <td class="label">Member Since</td>
    <td class="data"><?php bp_custom_profile_fields(); ?></td>
   </tr>
  </table>
 <?php endif; ?>

And then finally, in my child theme’s functions.php file (this could probably also go in bp-custom.php) I found and pasted this code to define and format the join date:

function bp_custom_profile_fields() {
    global $bp;
    $currentuser = get_userdata( $bp->displayed_user->id );
    $joined = date("F jS, Y", strtotime($currentuser ->user_registered));
    echo '' . $joined . '';
}

UPDATE: okay guys, I figured out that I needed to click onto the word “Edit” and fill out the new fields to see them displayed in my new profile – after clicking the word “View”. But there is no way to change the stupid avatar.

What is the simple way to click onto a user profile link (when a user wants to view their own profile – not the profiles of other users), view just their own information and edit it?? We have to click a “Members” page, search for our personal profile and try to access it that way?

Why is there no “Profile” page listed among the “Pages” portion of this plugin???? That would be an easy, self-explanatory page that we could preview to see how profiles appear to all users, decide which fields to display or rearrange fields. Change avatars, etc. Why is this program not that simple? What am I missing?

@kaizerking you should probably start your own thread, as that is an entirely different problem ( actually, I would say same for you @dhyana , but your question was already answered haha)

but if I had to posit a suggestion (in a new thread of course) it would be to use the plugin Theme My Login. It has saved me a good bit of headache as far as getting xprofile fields to show up on registration

Got it 🙂

All you need is the value of the checkbox.
<input id="nieuwsbrief" type="checkbox" value="newsletter"
You can find/set this value in the users –> profile fields page

Then just set the value of $newsletter to ‘newsletter’ when the box is checked or any other value if it’s not and use:
$meta_update = xprofile_set_field_data( '<em>name or id of field</em>', $user_id, $newsletter);

Glad to answer any questions

Hi danbp,

I put the code you posted into functions.php but it didn’t seem to have any effect. I made the visibility of the date of birth field to ‘friends only’ first via the user selection, then via the profile fields settings area and ‘enforced default’. Is there a different way you mean for me to do that?

Thanks

No, I need to grant the user role permission to ‘edit users’. But by granting that, I’m granting them access too much access.

I want only want them to be able to change the information in other users profile fields. I don’t want them to be able to read private messages.

Is this a question for Buddypress, WordPress or my user role permissions plugin?

Now the function is runned, but no fields are shown. My code is:

//Prints xProfile
function PrintKontaktinformationer() {
	// we need the user_id first (mandatory outside a loop)
	$user_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
	// now we fetch the field data (separate field id's by comma)
	$my_field = xprofile_get_field_data('10, 9, 1, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15', $user_id);
	// we built the output
	echo '<div class="authorinfo">TEST'. $my_field . '</div>';
}
// the new hook
add_action( 'show_PrintKontaktinformationer', 'PrintKontaktinformationer' );

Thank you for the quick response.

when adding groups and more fields the groups and fields are displayed on the member page as a table.
I would like to create a tabs display to the member information (my created fields and group) when each group of (ex.wp-widget base) div\table is displayed on a different tab.

hope I am clear.
on the admin or edit cases I do not want to touch for now. This relate only for the view buddypress member profile as a member or as anonymous.

(and sorry, I meant how on topic and not hot)

found the answer here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-profile-fields-only-for-certain-fields?replies=3#post-5674749

@henrywright worked like a charm. Now I just need to style it a bit. Thanks!

And thanks to @johnjamesjacoby for the great plugin. The problem was (is) probably that all my profile fields are xprofile fields.

Thanks for the example @mercime !

I got this working with:

add_filter( 'bxcft_show_field_value', 'my_show_field', 15, 4);
function my_show_field($value_to_return, $type, $id, $value) {
  if ($value_to_return == '')
        return $value_to_return;   
   if ($type == 'number') {
        $value = str_replace("<p>", "", $value);
        $value = str_replace("</p>", "", $value);
        $field = new BP_XProfile_Field($id);
        if ($field->id == '18' ) {
		  

	 $f_value=number_format($value,2);
			  $new_value = "&euro; $f_value,-";
       

	   } else {
            $new_value = $value;
        }
        return '<p>'.$new_value.'</p>';
    }
    return $value_to_return;
}

Does anybody have an idea how i can use this for multiple fields? strangely something like ‘2,18,19’ isn’t working…

Hi –

I really appreciate your reply… it’s a little above my head but working on it. How would you then populate the buddypress Xprofile fields (which would be the same, say user_meta is occupation I would have a BP Xprofile field “occupation” and I’d want to copy it across.

I’d also want to hide the ability to change that field in the BP members profile, forcing them to use the Membermouse field in order to change their occupation both in the Membermouse Table and their BP profile…

Hope you can help! Many thanks.

To simplify my question, I’ve pasted the code in that Chris wrote. I just don’t know how to call the buddypress xprofile fields?

// Cleanup when done
function sr_old_user_data_cleanup( $user_id, $old_user_data ){
delete_transient( 'sr_old_user_data_' . $user_id );
}
add_action( 'profile_update', 'sr_old_user_data_cleanup', 1000, 2 );


@commoneasy

I found another solution that was suggested by someone in a different thread I had opened. Instead of modifying the edit.php file, I simply put the following code inside my functions.php file in my child theme. (Or you could put it in bp-custom.php.)

Please be warned that this solution didn’t work when I tried it on my site running BP 1.9.1. (Even though my desired fields were successfully hidden by this solution, I still received a “required fields” error message after clicking the Save button.)

So, in order for this to work, you need to be running BP 2.0 +.

The below profile field ids 1, 32, and 48 correspond to the three fields I needed to hide from editing.

function simple_one_hide_some_profile_fields( $retval ) {	
	if(  bp_is_profile_edit() ) {		
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '32,48,1';	//field ID's separated by comma
	}	
	
	return $retval;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'simple_one_hide_some_profile_fields' );

Try inserting the following into your functions.php or bp-custom.php and see if it works. I modified my above code specifically to hide your profile field id 15.

function commoneasy_hide_some_profile_fields( $retval ) {	
	if(  bp_is_profile_edit() ) {		
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '15';	//multiple field ID's should be separated by comma
	}	
	
	return $retval;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'commoneasy_hide_some_profile_fields' );