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Thanks for the feature request. At this time BuddyPress only provides visibility settings for individual profile fields. We’ve been putting off building a robust member to member permissions component until after we have attachments. Right now, everything in BuddyPress is loosely considered public.

Remember that BuddyPress is still powered by WordPress, and WordPress’s roles and capabilities system isn’t really powerful enough or scalable enough to handle permissions for millions to millions of users.

That said, there have been plugins that attempted to fill this void, but none of them gained a whole ton of traction unfortunately. We’ll get there, but it’s a bit of a long road.

Ok
After allot more research I found a solution. looks like I was putting your code in the wrong spot sure it would have worked as well @Barney

I used this code

<?php
   
  $state = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=State' ) ;
echo '<p class="profile-fields">State: ' .$state. '</p>';
?>

This displays my custom field state that i added via users > profile feeds in backend of wordpress

I put this code under

<span class="activity"><?php bp_last_activity( bp_displayed_user_id() ); ?></span>

this is all in the members_header.php in the bp_legacy section

@Barney

Thanks for pointing me to that.

I’m still struggling though PHP aint my thing 🙁

So the primary field “Name” and my other fields are called “State: and “Organization” and “Website” these are the field names I insert ?

Heres where i put it..But doesnt show full member-header

` </div><!– #item-buttons –>

<?php
/***
* If you’d like to show specific profile fields here use:
* bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=About Me’ ); — Pass the name of the field
*/
do_action( ‘bp_profile_header_meta’ ); // Here is one way you could add xprofile fields name as well as the value to the members directory!
// Just remember to replace “Field-Name” with the names of your fields in the 5 variables in my code.
// Also remember the field name is case sensitive. If you notice the pattern of 5 in my code you can
// easily see how to add more fields if you need them. You can also use the div class bph_xprofile_fields
// to adjust the CSS in your stylesheet. Place this code in bp-custom.php:
add_action(‘bp_directory_members_item’, ‘bphelp_dpioml’);
function bphelp_dpioml(){
$bphelp_my_profile_field_1=’Name’;
$bphelp_my_profile_field_2=’State’;
$bphelp_my_profile_field_3=’Organisation’;
$bphelp_my_profile_field_4=’Website’;
$bphelp_my_profile_field_5=’About-you’;
if( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_members_component() ) { ?>
<div class=”bph_xprofile_fields” style=” margin-left: 25%;”>
<?php echo $bphelp_my_profile_field_1 ?>: <?php echo bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=’.$bphelp_my_profile_field_1 ); ?><br />
<?php echo $bphelp_my_profile_field_2 ?>: <?php echo bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=’.$bphelp_my_profile_field_2 ); ?><br />
<?php echo $bphelp_my_profile_field_3 ?>: <?php echo bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=’.$bphelp_my_profile_field_3 ); ?><br />
<?php echo $bphelp_my_profile_field_4 ?>: <?php echo bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=’.$bphelp_my_profile_field_4 ); ?><br />
<?php echo $bphelp_my_profile_field_5 ?>: <?php echo bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=’.$bphelp_my_profile_field_5 ); ?><br />
</div><?php
}
}

?>’

@cdb3212 As far as I understood your problem, there are two articles that would save your life if you had a chance of looking in the Codex. These are:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/guides/displaying-extended-profile-fields-on-member-profiles/

bp_profile_field_data()

Take a look at those and try it out. =)

Hi @theatereleven,

I’d say that what you aim for is perfectly possible with BuddyPress. You could the following, just suggestions:

• Your users could register themselves;
• Just active the Extended Profile component;
• Use Extended Profiles Fields so that your users can add information when signing up or later;
• And you could customize the appearance customizing the template the way you want.

Maybe there is a better solution, but with BuddyPress you would get already built-in, profiles, profile fields, register process/page, user roles and etc.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/

>I think it occurs because the user can not see the hidden fields.

The field is not hidden.
It doesn’t exist in the form because you skipped it.
But it is included in the hidden input ‘field_ids’, near the bottom of the form.
BP will try to save it, based on the fields ids, but not find it and then throw the error.

Instead of skipping, try changing the field type to hidden.

If you don’t want it in the form at all, then skip it AND remove it from the string of included ids.
Use bp_get_the_profile_group_field_ids() and do your removals and then put the new string in the ‘field_ids’ input field.

I would like to have a better control over xprofile fields creation.
Specially maxlength and is_numeric declaration avaible on the editor page.

Something like:

Add a new field (select field type) > single line textarea
Maxlength ? [] Numeric ? []

Filtering bp-get-xprofile-field-data for each custom field is not always pertinent IMO. 😉

Did you already created some profile groups and fields in Users > Profile Fields?

Just a heads up, because I know a lot of people have asked and not gotten anywhere, but you can use this feature + Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields Type plugin to create a forum badges feature. That was my goal with this and it works. You just need to display:none; the field# class so that users dont see it as an option to edit in their profile. Then you have complete control and can give users badges that show up in the forums 😀

*flys away*

No, they’re not treated as posts. They are called xProfile fields and form part of the xProfile component. They’re saved in their own table which I do believe is called wp_bp_xprofile_fields

Two more methods that help. I recently had a crazy spam attack – probably 300 fake signups per day. I implemented these two methods and it dropped to near 0.

1. Change the /register/ slug to something unique. An example would be /create-your-account/, or something of that nature. It just needs to be unique and also make sense in a URL for your user. Spammers targeting BuddyPress look for /register/ as the signup page. It’s all automated so you want to filter them out at the first step.

2. Add this to your functions.php file in your theme or child theme.

It presents a dummy field that humans don’t see. Spambots will fill it out, and if the field captures a value it will reject the signup.

// BuddyPress Honeypot
function add_honeypot() {
    echo '';
}
add_action('bp_after_signup_profile_fields','add_honeypot');
function check_honeypot() {
    if (!empty($_POST['system55'])) {
        global $bp;
        wp_redirect(home_url());
        exit;
    }
}
add_filter('bp_core_validate_user_signup','check_honeypot');

Credits for #2 go to:
http://mattts.net/development-stuff/web-development-stuff/wordpress/buddypress/anti-spam-techniques/registration-honeypot/

I edited it slightly to remove the required redirect. Add that back from his tutorial if you want to. It requires that you make an extra page to send the spammer to, and I personally think that’s not necessary. I actually want them to have no indication their signup failed.

This hit me too, but with profile fields set to “only me.”

It’s about as big a potential problem as I can imagine.

How can I also make it so that the fields on the profile page are to be filled out when you have signed up and not on the registration page?

The fields added into the primary profile field group, named “Base” by default, will get collected on registration. The ones added to other profile field groups do not get collected on registration and are optionally added by users after register. So just make some profile field groups and put the fields you want to collect on registration into the Base profile field group, and the additional fields into another profile field group(s).