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biographical information, fax and maybe even addresses. These are WordPress or theme specific fields which are not visible on frontend profiles. BP doesn’t use them if you use the xtended profile component.
Anyway…

Try this snippet, and use it to your need from within your child-theme functions.php

function remove_user_fields(){

// Print jQuery that removes unneeded elements
  ?>

  <script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready( function($) {
    // the magic goes here...
      var ids = ['#description', '#comment_shortcuts', '#color-picker']; // Check in page source for other ID's
      for (var i = 0; i < ids.length; i++) {
        $(ids[i]).closest('tr').remove();
      }
    });
  </script>

  <?php
}

add_action( 'admin_footer', 'remove_user_fields' );

@baldarab – well you can add some more original text to each of the “groups” and get some “Above the fold” – that may help a bit,
some other problems..

your sitemaps (http://www.freakyrivet.com/sitemap_index.xml ) (created by yoast) – are not showing any of your “activities / groups” – however if you create a sitemap with a tool like: https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/download/freakyrivet.15149203/sitemap.html?view=1

It does show your groups pages in the sitemap created by an actual spider – so add this to another fail with BP and yoast not playing well. I am guessing same for members page since those are “pseudo pages”.

Looking at how another sitemap maker sees your pages, it obvious that you should add some code to get original page titles and meta descriptions. You have about 70 or so pages with the same page title and description.

I just tested that code from wpmudev that I posted above with a newer BP install / updated version and it is working for me. SO you could give that a go – although you will likely have to edit the code and change the name of the profile fields to match your site profile fields (for the code to pull and create info on the member’s pages)

So – your pages are a bit thin on original content, especially above the fold, you have no or duplicate page titles and meta descriptions – and your site is instructing google and others that those pages are not important as they are not in your published sitemap.

I would tell yoast to not make your sitemap and just upload your own.

I would also – not sure why your yoast settings are having it makes mpas for categories and tags – I normally put settings to noindex nofollow all tags and category pages and author pages.. well that’s a lot of free advice – anyhow – hope that info makes sense / helps..

Hey Pixelguy,

you raised an issue I had to tackled and thanks to @graylien it works fine.
As you also mentioned I had the save button repeated each “tab” and I found a solution that seems working so far but I would love real tech guy to confirm it’s not a mistake 🙂

at the end of the edit.php file we worked on you can find this :

	<?php do_action( 'bp_after_profile_field_content' ); ?>

	<div class="submit">
		<input type="submit" name="profile-group-edit-submit" id="profile-group-edit-submit" value="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Save Changes', 'buddypress' ); ?> " />
	</div>

	<input type="hidden" name="field_ids" id="field_ids" value="<?php bp_the_profile_field_ids(); ?>" />

	<?php wp_nonce_field( 'bp_xprofile_edit' ); ?>

</form>

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

<?php do_action( 'bp_after_profile_edit_content' ); ?>

what I understand is that it says :
– after the form you call bp_after_profile_field_content
– then you show the button and the hidden fields
– then you close the form
– and you close the loop by endwhile – endif

and @graylien gave us a trick to make the loop “looping” for every tab and not only just one so what I did was to take the endwhile -endif closing the loop inside the form and before the button so the button will remain in the form but not repeated as the loop is closed now.

	<?php do_action( 'bp_after_profile_field_content' ); ?>

	<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

	<div class="submit">
		<input type="submit" name="profile-group-edit-submit" id="profile-group-edit-submit" value="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Save Changes', 'buddypress' ); ?> " />
	</div>

	<input type="hidden" name="field_ids" id="field_ids" value="<?php bp_the_profile_field_ids(); ?>" />

	<?php wp_nonce_field( 'bp_xprofile_edit' ); ?>

</form>

I hope that my trick is right and that my explanations are clear as I’m neither a developper nor an native english speaker 🙂

Please come back to me wether if it works,

Cheers,
vincent

Do you guys have any snippet to display the xprofile fields ID in admin?
The lesser I go to my db, the happier I am! 🙂

You can get the ids by going to .../wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup
Click or roll-over the Edit links for group or single field.
And you’ll see group_id & field_id.
btw – you can delete groups and / or single fields on that wp-admin page.

You could put it in your functions.php file, or even your bp-custom.php file if you have one. It only needs to be run once so make sure you remove it after visiting your website in a web browser.

Finding the group ID or the field ID is something you’ll need to do yourself. Take a look in your database and find table bp_xprofile_fields. Then look for the id column and the name column. Say the name of the field you want to delete is ‘Social’. Just look for ‘Social’ in the name column and find the id of that particular row. Then you have your field ID.

Hi

instead using a link field type, use a normal text box and harcode the link to social account in the function. That way, the user has only to enter his account name and the link is build when the data is on front-end.

profile fields are stripped
profile datas are made clickable by default for search purpose in BP
We don’t want this for icons or when linking to a social network.

Here an usage example which use fontawesome to add the icons. That the general idea, change it to your need.

function bpfr_socialize_profile () {	

echo '<br>'; 

if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Twitter ' ) ) : 
?>

<a href="http://twitter.com/<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'Twitter', bp_displayed_user_id() );?>/" target="_blank" title="Twitter"><i class="icon-twitter"></i><?php echo $data; ?></a>&nbsp;

<?php endif;

if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Facebook ' ) ) : 
?>

<a href="http://facebook.com/<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'Facebook', bp_displayed_user_id() );?>/" target="_blank" title="Facebook"><i class="icon-facebook"></i><?php echo $data; ?></a>		

<?php		
endif;
}
add_filter( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'bpfr_socialize_profile' );

Right. So it looks as though it could be something the BuddyPress core team might need to look at. Can you open a Trac ticket explaining how the profile fields are displaying in the wrong order? If you could provide as much info as you can that’d be great.

You can use the same username and password as you use here in the forums.