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When outside the members loop you have to pass it a user id.

bp_get_profile_field_data( array( ‘field’ => ‘cancer type’, ‘user_id’ => bp_displayed_user_id() ) );

hi @ronaldvogel,

this plugin will add a birthdate to BP profiles
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/
To make a widget for your need, read the Codex and also here:
http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/displaying-certain-profile-fields-on-your-members-profile-page/

hi @jakewho,

if your goal is to collect serialized informations about your members, you have to create your own data mining solution i guess. 😉

profile informations are stored in 4 different tables: wp _bp_xprofile_data, fields, group, meta

So if you are confortable with msql queries and php, you can recreate your own custom BP Profile Component.

If no one answered to you, it’s probably because nobody want to reinvent the whell.

In the WordPress Admin under the Users you will see a link called prifile fields. This is where you create fields.

I modified the function because $var strip the whole profile information.

Insert the $var in the if and it’s ok !<code>
if(  strtolower( $field_name ) == ‘youtube’ ) {
$val = strip_tags( $val );
return wp_oembed_get( $val, array(‘width’=>400) );
return $val;</code>

updated my blog post to include other services besides youtube

You’re right @modemlooper !Sorry…
Though i tried several times before posting, but now it works. Huh ! 🙄

Not true, http://dev.taptappress.com/admin/profile/

I have it in a second group called my info.

Thank you @modemlooper,
the code is ok, but it will work only on the first field group.
It would be better to have this “information” on a custom field group.

nice one thanks for that might have to add an embed field to see what folks do with that.

Yup.

ah gotcha so just put that into the bp-custom file then?

Any oEmbed WordPress allows but you have to match up field name with code

oh i figured she was just talking about as an update. That code you have there is pretty cool @modemlooper would that work with any oEmbed or just youtube? you know me and code but it looks like it would work with any oEmbed. Also is that something which would be placed inside bp-custom? BTW i like your site design.

I wrote you a code sample: http://modemlooper.me/allow-youtube-embed-in-buddypress-profile-fields/

no i’m saying if you put the link (as text not anchor tag) it will substitute the embed automatically it’s called an oEmbed more info here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

fyi you should not be pasting embed code you should be pasting the youtube page url or shortlink for the video

Adding and using custom user profile fields

You can show the bp profile fields loop and then write a custom save. Not too difficult but a little work.

have you correctly installed BP ?
Read here: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/

If you use only the BP’s profile component, somewhere it’s like using a hammer to kill flies. 🙂

nina