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I told about BuddyDrive because you have a download button aside a description written in french. And that plugin author is french, like me. And i’m a user of this plugin….

You use a premium theme, and we can’t help you much here if you have an issue with it. As we have no free access to it’s code.

As site admin, you can configure the registration form and add some description if you need some near a field.
Go to dashboard > users > profile fields

If you need some more details about BuddyPress feel free to read the Codex. And don’t hesitate to ask your theme support.

Have a nice day too.

hi @mcpeanut,

this snippet useable from BP 2.0.1 and above, can be added to bp-custom.php
it will hide the field ID 1 which is the default Name field to all, except site admin.

it will also avoid the user to edit that field. So if you use this, i recommand you tell them on register page that once they entered a name it they could change it later. You can than ask them $$$$ to do it. 😀

function bpfr_hide_profile_field_group( $retval ) {
	if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :	
	
	// hide profile group/field to all except admin	
	if ( !is_super_admin() ) {		
		//exlude fields, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '1';  
		//exlude field groups, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_groups'] = '1'; 			
	} 
	return $retval;		
	
	endif;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_hide_profile_field_group' );

More here:

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

No.

Why ?

Because this is an error message. If you see it when you’re on profile fields admin, it is better for you to see this as nothing. As admin, it is you who set up field access. It is required ? Make it not required or fill in that field.

Hi @zigmund

This will all be possible, likely with xProfile fields. To get started with BuddyPress, check out the docs (there’s links to subpages on the left-hand-side).

Hope the info helps.

see if this plugin may help:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/

@matthias70,

these fields are required by the system.
WP ask for username, password and email. When BP is activated, he uses WP’s name option Public Name so he can rely to WP. This field called Name is the only one which is required by BP for that reason.

When you visit dashboard > users > your profile, you have a tabed page with profile options (the original WP user manager) and Extended profile (which belongs to BP) where you can edit your profile. On WP’s tab you see login, first name, last name and public displayed name. On BP’s tab there is only Name, which reflects what is in first and or last name.

In wp_users table, you have user_login, user_nicename and display_name

user_login and user_nicename have the same content
display_name contains first and/or last name (if exist from a previous WP install, before BP installation).

Depending what and where something needs a name to work (avatar, comment, notice, activity, etc), one or the other name option is fired.

If you don’t need/want real names on front end, you can use this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/

Go to your profile page on your site. Next to ‘View’ there is ‘Edit’. Click on ‘Edit’ and you can change fields like your name, etc. and you can also see it’s visibility. You can change visibility settings by going to your admin dashboard and playing around with the profile fields under the Users tab. Your users will be able to see their profile visibility under their profile tab and have the ability to change it (if you give them that option).

Hope this helps! Took me a while to get it too.

then added that to the buddypress pages

@seph
Make sure that you didn’t add the Register link under any of the main BP component pages (e.g. Members, Groups, Blogs, Activity) in the menu links.
Make sure that you didn’t add any text in your “Register” page so that BP can automagically add the Registration Form and the first group of the Profile fields in thepage.
Make sure that you’re not logged in when you go to the Register page.

^+1 wow, i totally need this too… DESPERATELY.

if i had realized just how difficult this was going to be to accomplish,i never would have started this project with buddypress. what is the point of xprofile fields if they are not easily searchable?

there are so many GREAT things about buddypress, it’s super frustrating that this thing which seems to straightforward is so challenging.

i have been searching … the “buddypress profile search” plugin is not the answer… it isn’t user friendly enough. I just want one search box – “find a teacher in your city” that will search 4 xprofile fields of all our teachers… ONLY THOSE FOUR FIELDS… and return the results.

i’ve tried a google site-search tool, too…
the trouble is that our teachers have bios, and in those bios they often include cities where they have trained, or toured, and we do NOT want those included in the “Find a teacher” results.

i have Base City, and 3 “additional teaching locations” fields… those, and NAME, are the ONLY fields i want searchable.

i can pay for help.
but i figured this would be something simple i could do myself!

function wdw_bp_get_field_options( $field_id ){
	global $bp, $wpdb;
	return $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT name FROM {$bp->profile->table_name_fields} WHERE parent_id=%d AND type='option'", $field_id ) );
}

You can call the above function passing id of the field( fieldabc in your example ). This will return all options of the field in an array.

Do you recommend I create text/content and install a form plug-in for my ‘register’ page associated with the BPress first before working on adding Member Profile Fields?

@dleit please do not install any form plugin for your “Register” page. Leave it blank as BuddyPress will dynamically add the necessary forms. What you need to do is set up the profile fields. Remember that whatever field you add in the first group of the profile field will appear on the right side of the Reigstration form.

It just doesn’t seem like it will solve the “user registration is currently not allowed” issue.

After you add the member profile fields/group(s) you want for your community, I suggest going to the admin menu Settings > General and Allow Registrations. BP Codex is your friend https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/register-and-activation-pages/