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You have to give the field a title when you add new profile fields via WP Admin > Users > Profile Fields. Whatever you’ve chosen as your field title is what you should use

Any suggestions on how to do with an existing drop-down select box field type in Profile Fields?

If you are referring to what the users see and not the admin like in your screenshot you can just target with CSS no need to use a function.

The CSS is:

#buddypress .standard-form .field_2 div.checkbox label

field_2 could be different depending on where you placed the checkboxes in the admin.

// Insert New Field
xprofile_insert_field(
    array (
           'field_group_id'  => 1,
           'name'            => 'Twitter',
           'field_order'     => 1,
           'is_required'     => false,
           'type'            => 'textbox'
    )
);

You would need to build a script to map the usermeta over to bp profile fields, then they will display automatically in the profile screens.

@serie3369
You really should still make a child theme and add that that to it. Otherwise if you update your theme it is likely that it will be overwritten.

FIX: I downloaded the firefox addon FireBug. I clicked on the label box for one of the Profile fields that were all showing up white text and were not able to see. This addon allows you to see where the source of the code lies. I found mine in my themes Bootstrap.min.css file. For an easier way to read your code or search for the text color, use your bootstrap.css file. But all final code changes need to be in bootstrap.min.css. My code looks like below:

.label,.badge{display:inline-block;padding:2px 4px;font-size:11.844px;font-weight:bold;line-height:14px;color:#000;text-shadow:0

I already changed the color to black, before it would’ve been #fff

You could use this or study it to write your own:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/

@randygootjes
This would be easy using just BuddyPress Xprofile fields:
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-components-and-features/extended-profiles/
You could create a dropdown menu and make it required and only allow the selection from say 21 to 120 years of age (“Not like most of us will live that long anyway unfortunately”) But also have a check box that is required that all information entered to join the site is true etc.

@serie3369
The codex is your Buddy:
https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

okay first, how do you create a child theme?

Second, how do you make the child theme to only change the color of the profile fields from white to black.

I would love some step-by-step here since I know little about editing code and what not.

P.S. I do have my themes original style.css posted above for convenience.

PLEASE HELP!

Good idea, though you’d want the code to look like this:

id="<?php echo esc_attr( bp_get_the_profile_field_name() ); ?>" ...

This ensures the output is correctly escaped to avoid XSS attacks.

@amareshsingh
Hi, you should first make a child theme for your theme, then paste code to child theme’s style.css.
That is the best way of making changes.

Well if you have access to a database, you can easily change the values. The coding would look something like this, I wrote it but didn’t test it. You’d need BP global enabled to fetch the User ID, and you’d also have to set the field ID to change as you needed it to, or just make a loop that iterates through all the available fields. But this will get you on the right path, I think.

<?php
if(isset($_POST['update']))
{
$dbhost = 'DB_HOST'; //Host of BuddyPress Database
$dbuser = 'DB_USER'; //Username of BuddyPress Database
$dbpass = 'DB_PASS'; //Password of BuddyPress Database
$dbname = 'DB_NAME'; //Name of BuddyPress Database
$field_id = '2'; //ID of the field you are updating
$user_id = $bp->loggedin_user->userdata->ID; //Must have $bp global enabled, can probably grab the user ID in a different fashion if needed
$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
if(! $conn )
{
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}

$input = $_POST['input'];

//This query will update the field set with the ID set above, you could have easily change it via coding, I just made it static for ease
$sql = "UPDATE wp_bp_xprofile_data ".
       "SET value = $input ".
       "WHERE field_id = $field_id AND user_id = $user_id" ;

mysql_select_db($dbname);
$retval = mysql_query( $sql, $conn );
if(! $retval )
{
  die('Could not update data: ' . mysql_error());
}
echo "Updated data successfully\n";
mysql_close($conn);
}
else
{
?>
<form method="post" action="<?php $_PHP_SELF ?>">
<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td width="100">Field data:</td>
<td><input name="input" type="text" id="input" value="<?php xprofile_get_field_data($field_id); ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<tr>
<td width="100"> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100"> </td>
<td>
<input name="update" type="submit" id="update" value="Update">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<?php
}
?>

@whitewolf1988
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 it 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. Place this code in bp-custom.php:

<?php
add_action('bp_directory_members_item', 'bphelp_dpioml');
function bphelp_dpioml(){
$bphelp_my_profile_field_1='Field-Name';
$bphelp_my_profile_field_2='Field-Name';
$bphelp_my_profile_field_3='Field-Name';
$bphelp_my_profile_field_4='Field-Name';
$bphelp_my_profile_field_5='Field-Name';
       if( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_members_component() ) { ?>
		<div class="bph_xprofile_fields" style=" margin-left: 25%;">
                          <?php echo $bphelp_my_profile_field_1 ?>:&nbsp;<?php echo bp_member_profile_data( 'field='.$bphelp_my_profile_field_1 ); ?><br />
                          <?php echo $bphelp_my_profile_field_2 ?>:&nbsp;<?php echo bp_member_profile_data( 'field='.$bphelp_my_profile_field_2 ); ?><br />
                          <?php echo $bphelp_my_profile_field_3 ?>:&nbsp;<?php echo bp_member_profile_data( 'field='.$bphelp_my_profile_field_3 ); ?><br />
                          <?php echo $bphelp_my_profile_field_4 ?>:&nbsp;<?php echo bp_member_profile_data( 'field='.$bphelp_my_profile_field_4 ); ?><br />
                          <?php echo $bphelp_my_profile_field_5 ?>:&nbsp;<?php echo bp_member_profile_data( 'field='.$bphelp_my_profile_field_5 ); ?><br />
                </div><?php
       }
}
?>

If you’re planning on hiding all access to the profile, I’d suggest just adding a link somewhere that takes you to the default edit page. It’s going to be much easier than essentially recoding the entire page – why reinvent the wheel?