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Hello all,

I’ve been creeping around these forums for a few days, but I’m unable to find a post that explains what I’m looking for in any decent detail.

I’m trying to remove one of the xprofile fields from the edit page. My end goal is to limit what fields may be modified by the user, based on their membership level using s2membership. I feel if I can figure out how to hide one field, I’ll be able to go from there.

Now I have found a few posts describing this same action, but the responses seem very vague. What I’ve been trying to do is modify the edit.php file in the “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/profile” directory. I realize that modifying the core files is not the best practice, and this will be replaced with the next buddypress update, but I also have not found a detailed explanation on the proper way to edit these files, so I’m sticking with this for the moment just to see if I can get it working.

I see there is a while loop in this file, and it looks like it iterates for each element in an array containing all of the profile fields. Each iteration grabs the fields type as a string, and compares it to a list of valid options. When a match is found, it performs some html/php magic, and adds a field on the screen to be modified. (php and html are new to me. I am familiar with c++, java, and c#)

modified snippet from file:

<?php while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field(); ?>		

     <div<?php bp_field_css_class( 'editfield' ); ?>>

          <?php if ( 'textbox' == bp_get_the_profile_field_type() ) : ?>

              *html/php magic*

          <?php endif; ?>
     </div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

No matter what edits I make to this file, it does not seem to change anything.

Any information would be great, and I appreciate your time. Thank you.

Wordpress v4.4.2
BuddyPress v2.5.1

Trying to see if there’s a way to exclude the year from the birth date (datebox) field. Probably have some users that would be okay displaying the month and day information but may not want to share their age.

I was able to find the “BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Fields Type” plugin, but ran into a problem with that. The edit form still loads the three fields for the month, day, and year and didn’t want the year to be a requirement.

WordPress 4.4.2
BuddyPress 2.5.1

Not sure how to change up the form where users would update their extended profile.

I was able to setup a custom registration page by copying the source file to here and making my changes…

/wp-content/themes/genbu-child/buddypress/members/register.php

On the user Profile – Edit page I’m seeing the different fields I wanted to include, but wanted to add some extra description to the three birth date menus that show up. Is there a file similar to register.php I could copy to my child theme and fix up the HTML how I want it?

We have a multisite where we provide templated blogs and also have Buddy Press for xProfile fields and to create a community site. We have latest WP and BP versions.

When a new users logs into their own site and the first thing they want to do is update their profile picture / cover image, in order to actually go to their profile, they need to login again (actually the login is requiring 2 times). This creates a strange user experience. Is there a way to have a single login for the user at their own site and the buddypress community site so that they can freely go back and forth between them?

I need to add some html attributes to some Xprofile fields such as max-length. I was trying to find a filter so I could use str_replace to add attributes, but I eventually found the filter bp_xprofile_field_edit_html_elements in bp-xprofile/classes/class-bp-xprofile-field-type.php.
I’ve now got this code which works, but I’m not great with PHP so just checking if this is the best way to achieve this:

function hp_xprofile_add_attributes($r){

	$field_name = bp_get_the_profile_field_name();
	
	if( $field_name == 'Name' ) {

		$new_attribute['maxlength']= '20';		 
		$attributes = array_merge($new_attribute, $r);

	} elseif( $field_name == 'Short Description') {

		$new_attribute['maxlength']= '160';		 
		$attributes = array_merge($new_attribute, $r);
		
	} else {
		
		$attributes = $r;
	}
		
    return $attributes;
	
}
add_filter('bp_xprofile_field_edit_html_elements', 'hp_xprofile_add_attributes', 11);

Any help appreciated.

Hi Would like to setup a page for our members that does the following:

1) has a profile page for each member.
2) each member can be sent an email with their log in details.
3) has custom fields displaying the members position on a number of views on topics.
4) member will be able to log in and change their views.
5) members can not send messages to each other or edit any other content on the site – only their profiles.
6) there would be pages where you could view all the members that have a particular view on a particular topic.
7) you could search for members with particular views on topics

Is buddy press capable of all of this?

Many thanks

Hi, I’m wondering if anyone has had success in creating a ‘Save and Next’ button on the BP custom profile fields. I currently have 7 tabs, instead of having a “Save” button, which just reloads the page, I’d like to have a “save and next” button that will save the current fields, and then go automatically to the next tab.

Using WordPress 4.4.2 and BuddyPress v2.5.0

I had setup a child theme so I could make modifications to WordPress and BuddyPress without messing with the core program. I’m using the Genbu theme so based on the information here (https://buddypress.org/support/topic/register-php-3/) I copied

Copied: /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/register.php

Child theme: /wp-content/themes/genbu-child/buddypress/members/register.php

I was able to modify parts of the form that were part of WordPress, but wasn’t seeing any HTML related to the BuddyPress profile fields. I dug around and found this BuddyPress file that would affect the profile form fields on the register page and user profile page.

/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/classes/class-bp-xprofile-field-type-textbox.php

I can’t figure out how to get that working in my child theme though. What directory location am I suppose save to on my child theme? I tried setting it up here, but doesn’t look like it’s loading at all

/wp-content/themes/genbu-child/buddypress/bp-xprofile/classes/class-bp-xprofile-field-type-textbox.php