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> they’re totally inaccessible afterward
They are accessed on the front-end on a member’s profile page.
your-site.com/members/peteratomic/profile/

>Clicking the “your profile” link in the backend brings up a page
In the Dashboard, that link takes you to the DashBoard > User > Edit screen which is a standard WordPress screen.
If you want to view and edit BuddyPress Extended Profile fields on that screen,
then you might be interested in this premium plugin:
http://www.philopress.com/products/bp-dashboard-user-profile-edit/

We have a premium plugin that shows xprofile fields on the User > Edit screen in the Dashboard:

http://www.philopress.com/products/bp-dashboard-user-profile-edit/

No direct way of bulk-editing profile fields; sounds dangerously powerful. If you are a PHP/WordPress developer, or know someone who is, I’d suggest writing a script to make these changes for you.

You could do this by adding a conditional check around the tr markup in the while loop that generates the field name and data while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field();

With that check in place you would then remove the bp_the_profile_field_value() function and replace it with something like echo do_shortcode( '[myshortcode user_id=' . bp_displayed_user_id() '] );

Not utilizing the profile search plugin alone. If you were using a custom registration form like Gravity Forms Registration you could create additional profile groups with the fields worded how you want and the gravityforms registration could automatically update both sets of profile fields accordingly to how you set them up.

To my knowledge, profile fields accept HTML. Have you tried inserting tags to see? try adding <strong>test</strong> to a profile field to see if the text is bolded.

* Better options for users to self delete

Expanding. Without backend access, it would be nice for a site allow a user to delete in several ways. Purge all their profile fields and networks (‘destroy all personal data’), Retain their profile fields and networks whilst making it look like they have vanished (‘hide’ if you like), Delete Uterly.

* Multiple networks. We have friends, and with plugins one sided friendships (aka followers). sometimes its useful to have different types of relationships identified – “close friends” or “have done business with” or “merely online buddies”. It would be nice for an admin to be able to define additional types of friendships either independently, or by associating a scale (an integer valued friendship, 1=I want to see your feed stuff 2=online mates 3=actual real life chums 4=we’re married).

@noizeburger I think I get what you mean. To show all members of type ‘fan’ in a “fan directory” you would do this

<?php

$fans = get_users( array( 'role' => 'fan' ,'fields'=>'ID') );
$fans = implode( ',', $fans );

if ( bp_has_members( '&include=' . $fans ) ) :
    while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member();
        // you can output whatever you like here such as member name, avatar, role and so on
        // we will output just member name for now
        echo bp_member_name();
    endwhile;

else:
    echo 'Sorry, no fans';
endif;
?>

Not sure what you mean by meta key, but…

Use something like phpmyadmin to look at the database tables.

There are 4 tables, for example wp_bp_xprofile_fields
The info you need is in one or more of those tables.

Hi Martin,
I am interested to know if this is a custom registration page that you built or is it an available plugin. Registration has been a big issue for me. I am using WPUF Pro with their Buddypress Integration Add On to create a custom registration page but am having issues with user meta compatibility at the moment and therefore am looking for a better solution.
The issue for me with my solution is that the user fields map to Buddypress but do not save correctly due to user meta incompatibility. Still working on this and trying to solve.
Please let me know if you have found a good solution. Registration form in buddypress is a big problem and needs a multi-tabbed solution in my opinion.

Hi @henrywright-1,

A similar question was solved here: http://wpquestions.com/question/showChrono/id/3529

hmag is highly customized. if you do not know css and php you will not be able to achieve that.

You can create profile fields and sections in the wp-admin under the user menu but having a custom profile will take coding skills

@paralys there’s no plugin which would implement the synchronization of the BP xProfile fields and the WP User Profiles in the backend. Either you need to hire a developer to create this plugin for you, create it yourself or wait for someone to create one and release it to the public.

Hi @samgeppi108,

wow what a video you did for such a common issue. PBCAK ! Sorry to say that, this IS working but you haven’t completely set up the right component (profile).

Now the good news. Take a breath man, you’re saved ! In 5 mn you can start your community 😀

Connect to the WP admin as super-admin. Click on Users on the left col, and select Profile configuration from the sub-menu.

This will open a window where you have by default only one group of fields named BASE. This group is the one showed by default on the register page, so new user can enter some information such as their name, and anything else you want to have in that place.

If you prefer to let them complete their profile skills after registering, you should create a second group of fields on the previous mentionned setting page. You cal add as many groups you want, with as many fields and type of fields you need.

Once done and saved, connect you as a normal user and go to the profile profile setting tab. You will see 2 tabs. Name and X, you just created. You can fill in the fields and save.
If you go on the profile tab, anything will be on !

Read here the documentation:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/ Users>profile fields

Keep the Codex in mind, because it’s the first place to go before coming up here to claim “it doesn’t work !” 😉 It does !

The way to do this would be to wrap info fields in conditional statements like this

if member type is X then
    // display info field

hi thanks @shanebp i am really biggner for my self i did what you said but matter is when i tried but never got result kindly check my code tell me i already spend 4 days.

<?php
global $wpdb, $bp;
$result = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT user_id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data WHERE value = ‘$_POST[language]’ OR value = ‘$_POST[budget]’ OR value = ‘$_POST[style]’LIMIT 0 , 30”);
print_r($result);
$result = array();
//$values = maybe_unserialize($result);
//echo var_dump( maybe_unserialize( $result ) );
//$values = $result;
//$value = bp_unserialize_profile_user_id( $values );
//$values = implode( “, “, $value);
//echo $values;
//print_r($values);
//so you have to ‘manually’ unserialize them
foreach($result as $user_id=>%d)
{
echo “Key=” . $user_id . “, Value=” . %d;
echo “<br>”;
}
//$values_str = implode( ‘,’, $getty );
//print_r($values_str);

//)

echo $get_these_members;
$get_these_members = ‘include=’ . substr($get_these_members, 0, -1);

?>