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Option 2 sounds viable, depending on your audience I hear there are “points” type plug ins where members gain points if they do things like upload an avatar, follow you on twitter etc…there is also a plug in I saw that gives a profile completed status type bar, as you complete the different profile fields, the bar fills up…does that make sense?

To use it elsewhere you would need to get the value of the field and pass it to wp_oembed_get. This is not tested:

$val = bp_member_profile_data('field=youtube'); // in members loop
$val = xprofile_get_field_data( 'youtube' , $user_id ); // outside members loop

$embed = wp_oembed_get( $val, array( 'width' => 400 ) );

echo $embed

In my previous example I have a provider array. These are the names of your profile fields not the actual service.

http://modemlooper.me/allow-youtube-embed-in-buddypress-profile-fields/

@jancbeck Maybe with a few coding that would be possible…

Awesome @maddogmcewan! Thank you for sharing! =)

you should also look at an old plugin called BP Resume it nay be of some use to you…. I tweaked it a bit at smeak.com and it works quite well

@henrywright-1

Bingo re elephant.

While it’s easy to change by editing the register template, the why-is-it-there question seems worthy of a trac ticket.

@henrywright-1 As you can probably see, my ‘huge mis-understanding’ was quite easily done :} yep and I meant no offence in the phrase ‘huge mis-understanding’ 🙂

@henrywright-1 ah you were labouring under a huge mis-understanding of what this meant, as Boone says it’s pseudo privacy for display of users details on their profile – if admin allows users to configure that given field – it’s NOT anything to do with whether the field is hidden on registration view.

However there are still issue with how this works with reg form or it needs a good review.

This has definitely come up, the text label jogs my memory.

It may make sense that one had change link on pre-registration if the value selected was being passed along with the registration and setup of the user_meta and if the admin setting allowed users to change the field value but as I doubt that’s in fact possible and fact Boone has said it’s simply meant to impart the status of that given profile field visibility then the change select needs to be removed.

Regardless of what it refers to, why would
“This field can be seen by: etc. ” under each Base field on the register page
and a ‘change’ link be visible on a register page to a non-logged-in visitor?

That’s what I meant by it failing the bp_current_user_can() check.

@henrywright-1

Do you see “This field can be seen by: etc. ” under each Base field on the register page?
And a ‘change’ link?

Per the image above ?

This rings a bell, think it may have been discussed ( I certainly have a recollection of looking at this aspect of profile visibility and registration processes) before in some respect or another and there may already be a ticket raised.

I believe you’ve found a bug.
The Base group allows an admin to set default visibility levels.
I was going to suggest you set each field to “logged-in users” and allow users to change their visibility.

But those settings are not honored on the register form.

You can submit a bug here.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
Log in with the same user / pw you use for these forums.

Also – do you also see “This field can be seen by: etc. ” under each Base field on the register page?
And a ‘change’ link?

There is a check in register.php, but it apparently fails by returning true for logged out users.

`if ( bp_current_user_can( ‘bp_xprofile_change_field_visibility’ ) ) `

Like this image taken while logged out on a vanilla install of WP 3.5.1, BP 1.7, 2012 theme

I’m sorry @jancbeck, I wasn’t understanding what you wanted. Now I do and can’t think of a way, but if I come across of something, make sure I will let you know.