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1. members are searched by profile fields
2. you can create unlimited profile fields
3. there may be an events plugin
4. BP has invite only private groups
5. there was a geo plugin, not sure its up to date
6. members are unlimited

You should look into the style.css of your theme, and edit the profile field div, and change the html color code from white to black.
You can edit your style.css of your theme either from the dashboard by going to editing, or through FTP access.

Good luck!

I would love to know this too. I cannot see my profile field label. Its white on white. How do I change the text color of that?

@haykayltduk check through tickets if you haven’t as there was one a while back on issues with setting default select options or something to do with that aspect of profile fields.

@r-a-y
Any reason not to use bp_xprofile_get_hidden_fields_for_user() ?

Try first and ask after when you receive some help ! 🙄

in the example, simply replace Amount by Budget and give it a try

The function checks for “Budget” and the “foreach” looks for the checked box. So you will finally only see the checked box value. This data can be styled by using this:

div.checkit span {your css stuff}

@applegateian

You create a new field on profile (ie. title=Amount)
This field is a checkbox type field
You have 4 items to check, so you need to create 4 checkboxes.

The field name called by the function correspond to the title you give to your new field. So you actually have 1 field name and 4 checkbox values.

The example above will output the checked value by the user on the member profile header (bp_before_member_header_meta)

function my_moneytizer() {
if ( $money = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Amount', bp_get_member_user_id() ) ) :
    foreach ( $money as $mon ) { 

	echo '<br/><div class="checkit">';
            echo '<span>Earned today:&nbsp;</span>';
		echo $data;
	echo '</div>';
	}
endif;
}
add_filter ( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'my_moneytizer' );

My portal theme only lets admin / editor users view all members profiles or other users view other profiles if they are friends. If you want more info on how I did this let me know.

@budskab
The code I provided calls the current user dynamically if that is what you are wondering. Even thought it is one link it will take each user to their edit profile field group you created. Feel free to experiment around with it. Try these as well:

<a href="<?php global $current_user; echo home_url() . '/' . $current_user->user_login . '/profile/edit/group/1/'; ?>">Edit My Profile</a></div>

Or:

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
<a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain(); ?>">Profile</a>//link to users profile
<a href="<?php global $current_user; echo home_url() . '/members/' . $current_user->user_login . '/friends/'; ?>">Friends</a>//link to users friends 
<a href="<?php global $current_user; echo home_url() . '/members/' . $current_user->user_login . '/messages/'; ?>">Messages</a>//link to users messages
}

As a final thought if you add those links I would wrap them in a conditional to check if the user is logged in like the links just above.

@budskab
This link should work below. You could also add an image to replace the text providing you know some basic html.

<a href="<?php global $current_user; echo home_url() . '/' . $current_user->user_login . '/profile/edit/group/2/'; ?>">Edit My Profile</a></div>

@budskab
They are not visible until the user fills them out. In the My Account Menu at the top right hover over it and select Profile/Edit. When you are on the next screen below the profile tabs you will see “Base” and whatever other field group you created. By default you will be on “Base” these fields are the ones that correspond with your registration form. The other Field Group button you made will display the other fields you created within that field group. This is assuming your theme is functioning correctly. If you are still having issues you may want to try some basic troubleshooting by activating a known theme that works well with BP like Twenty Twelve or bp-default as well as disabling any plugins other than BP. Good luck!

you can’t really hid the entire profile out of the box but you can hide most of the fields and info by setting the default visibility in the profile field setup screens.

hi @famous,

so far i know, is the registration process a fully part of WordPress who use a function called wp_create_user.
This function requires 3 variables: name, pwd and user email to authenticate.

As a templated plugin, BP let you handle visualy a part of this process, particulary with extended profile fields. But BP doesn’t alter the orignal registry handling. The only 2 other things you can do is to change the NAME field name and allowing synchronization between WP and BP.

So the BP name field stays mandatory in any case and you cannot remove it.