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Hi @caldwellysr,

Thanks for testing the 2.2-beta.

There was a bug concerning xProfile fields, which should be addressed in:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/9345

If you feel comfortable removing the lines referenced in bp-core/bp-core-template.php, please do so and retest.

Thanks again for testing!

I am guessing it would easy to add a function to one of the like / voter plugins mentioned above ( https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-like/#post-231535 ) – that would also write something to the BP activity table – which would then show likes or votes on posts and such on the activity stream – if those like / vote buttons also work on media that is uploaded through rTmedia (or the new (beta) mediapress plugin) then that would be pulled into the activity feed.

The tricky part beyond that is that buddypress does not have an integrated media thing – so there would need to be some kind of bridge between rtmedia, or mediapress or whatever was handling the media to display “likes” somewhere on the profiles.

Maybe this is something the rtcamp or mediapress plugin guy can add that functionality or someone can create some kind of bridge / api thing to let the three seperate pieces all talk to each other – then you would need code in your theme to grab that database table and display numbers next to whatever…

I think rtmedia’s plugin displays a number next to the media tab in my bp-social theme (for number of pics / videos someone has uploaded) – I wonder where this “# of likes” is to be displayed? Just a total number of likes in the main profile fields area – or number of likes broken down by media uploaded, blog posts liked, activity updates liked, etc.

I like you thoughts on this @disha76 – I’d like to see this work – it sucks that BP does not have integrated media handling – it’s a major issue I have posted about in the past – brings us to this “4 separate things need to talk to each other” in order to get basic functions working / displayed.

it would be awesome if the mediapress guy would offer to give that code to core BP – but then again, it appears there is not much work going into updating / maintaining BP these days – so getting things updated seems to depend more on third parties doing code for side projects money from what I can tell. Which of course means paying for custom stuff today – a future WP or BP update could cause the voting / like plugin to break and need to be recoded (by a dev that may not be responsive) and the media plugins could break.. and your theme may not display correctly – so you may have to try to pay all those people to make updates to keep those functions working in the future – if you can get those people to come back to projects.

So – I hope it happens, but like many things buddypress – I would not hold my breath that something that can be modded to work today will not break in the future without a fix – I’ve had to let a previous buddypress like system go, and a few other plugins from around 1.5 that were nice.

@mariovisie

I stumbled upon something today that may be what are you looking to achieve here..

Introducing Conditional Profile Fields for BuddyPress plugin

I know nothing about how it works, but when I saw it, I thought about you post here and think that is kind of what you were asking to do…

@ch1n3s3b0y – there are options to create your own profile fields, so you could add a new profile field with a radio button eg – choose customer or expert.

There are also different membership plugins and stuff that might enhance that a bit more – plugins like s2member.. maybe even something like press permit…

as far as having a different profile page for each – I think that is going to take some fancy custom coding.. some if then statements and such.. you will likely have to post on a job board to get someone with some skills on that.. it may be tempting to custom code a theme like this – but ultimately I think it would be better to custom code a couple of plugins and drop those into a sidebar or something – eg – “if bp_profile-field-2=customer” then display these fields / this code…

IF you custom mod up a theme and things change in the future where you theme has issues with new buddypress, or you want something different for another reason – then it will be more custom coding to bring over your custom profiles stuff..

just some random thoughts from a BP user – I am not an expert on any of this.

Hi @ndh01,

I think you could do this just with buddypress.

(just please backup database before….. etc)

Go to Profile Fields—> (Click) Add New Field Group

Add New Field (text) say Field Name virgin

Then add the following to your functions.php

function vub_login_redirect($redirect_to, $set_for, $user){

	global $current_user, $bp, $wpdb;
	$val = 'no';
	if (bp_get_profile_field_data (virgin, $user -> ID )!=""){
	$redirect_to = bp_core_get_user_domain($user->ID) .'/groups/';	
}else{
	xprofile_set_field_data( 'virgin', $user -> ID, $val);
	$redirect_to = bp_core_get_user_domain($user->ID) .'/profile/change-avatar/';
}

	wp_redirect( $redirect_to );
	exit();

}

add_action('login_redirect', 'vub_login_redirect', 20, 3);

Alternatively you could as you have suggested create a new meta.

A useful plugin for that would be User Meta Manager

Add Custom Meta say a text field Name — firsttimer

then add the following (instead of the above) to your functions.php

function vu_login_redirect($redirect_to, $set_for, $user){

	global $current_user, $wpdb;
	$firsttimer = get_usermeta($user -> ID, 'firsttimer',single);
	$val = 'no';
	if (!empty ($firsttimer)) {	
	$redirect_to = bp_core_get_user_domain($user->ID) .'/groups/';
}else{
	update_user_meta( $user -> ID,'firsttimer',$val);
	$redirect_to = bp_core_get_user_domain($user->ID) .'/profile/change-avatar/';
}
	
	wp_redirect( $redirect_to );
	exit();

}

add_action('login_redirect', 'vu_login_redirect', 20, 3);

Obviously change the redirects to wherever you want the user to go.

@sbraiden – I recently helped migrate a site off of wpengine because of performance issues and the price wpengine wanted for more horse power under the hood. Their next level of service was going to cost $3200 a month. I suggested linode.com and was also amused by the fact that wpengine runs on top of linode.

The page generation times for wordpress/buddypress/bbpress along with various plugins (gravity forms, buddypress xprofile custom fields type, gravity forms upload rules, gravity forms wysiwyg, gd bbpress toolbox, cloudflare…) was not good. It is still not where we want it either, unfortunately.

The site is quite active, pushing 30,000 members and over 1.3+ million rows in the posts table. On average the page generation times are about 1.5 seconds for logged in users. Adding a new bbpress topic/reply can time out sometimes though. (still on the list to track down and fix)

We utilize Cloudflare out front for a CDN and their threat/spam protection. Their service is free but if you need more page rules to balance out caching the pro service level is $20 a month.

On linode we have a node balancer in front of two 4 core app server nodes. The app server nodes each connect directly to their own 8 core database nodes in a master master setup. This will be changing down the road once the database indexes are trimmed down with some denormalization. The cost for the node balancer, two 4 core and two 8 core nodes is $260 a month but that’s also allowing for some room to grow, capacity wise.

Server software is a combination of nginx, apache (threaded), php-fpm, glusterfs (upload directory only), memcache, zend opcode cache and mariadb. Nginx is the web server in front of apache which serves up static files from the glusterfs file system. Nginx is caching the static content being served up by apache along with full page caching (fastcgi) for anonymous visitors. Cloud flare is also caching the static content and to date we aren’t having any performance issues with IO and glusterfs.

I hope this helps. It can be done but it takes some effort (and money) to do so.

This will hide fields on the profile edit page and on the register page.
You need to add the field IDs.
Put the function in bp-custom.php.

function oazar_hide_profile_fields( $retval ) {
	
	if( is_super_admin () )
		return $retval;

	if(  bp_is_profile_edit() || bp_is_register_page() )
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '3';	//field ID's separated by comma

	return $retval;

}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'oazar_hide_profile_fields' );

@mariovisie – you say after you choose the radio button for man, when you login you always see the other fields… you mean when viewing a profile you see all the filed option? OR you mean if you click “edit profile” you see all field option?

I have not seen all fields show when viewing profiles that are already created, so I am confused if you are seeing this in this way.

as far as “Only an administrator must have the option to change this.” – I don’t know about setting permissions for that, another bp expert may be able to chime in on that – or maybe the “press permit core” plugin can lock that down somehow. Not sure on that one.

under “users” -> “profile fields”

add new field.

I choose “field type” radio buttons – you might use checkboxes or something.

put “guy” in the field option under radio buttons.
then click “add another option” text under that.
put “girl”
click add another option
“couple”