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No plugin but you can hook into the profile fields save hook and send an email. Google a bit. Im sure this has been posted before

HI, I am a recent transfer website owner from ning.com. I have a community there, and i’m moving this weekend to the WP platform. I have many questions, that I can’t really seem to find the specific answers to. The plug-in that this user spoke of (The features and more) can buddypress really manage a social community like the ning platform, and what about other features? Here’s what the user wrote:

@boonebgorges thanks for your response and plugin link, in terms of functionality it is almost exactly what I need, only:
– Need it to manage users instead of groups
– Need it to show their full profile fields (including xprofile)
– Need options to deactivate(very important) or delete users
– Need function to export list to excel sheet

I need similar functions in a plug-in and need to know whats the BEST plugin or what combination of plug-ins will give me the features for a membership community that I want, members want, and that are essentially need to maintain a viable members community. Here is what I need as far as features and functionality:

-Secured membership registration and login seprate from WP admin. So members CAN’T access the backend of my admin panel.

-After they join they are sent to their members profile page to add a bio, photos, videos, music, etc..and everything post in their profile page, and in the community videos, photos, and music display like on a youtube page or gallery style. I also, need profiles that look more custom instead of simple layouts or designs. This is a BIG problem we had with our ning platform. Wish we could offer up to 6 or more profile page templates for members to choose from, complete with comments and a better layout for uploaded videos, photos, music (In a player on profile.)

-Members display in a four/five accross…four/five down style grid instead of up and down like a list.

-Search for members, based on attributes or career choice or find all member in a certain category.

-Want a upload feature on whatever page or place I designate for members to upload content like videos, music, photos.

-Add paywalls on whatever page I need to, for the purpose of selling premium content to members.

-Add featured profile/members and delete/block members at will.

-Don’t want to use multisite plug in if I don’t half to. Rater not use it.

Any help here, or a push in the right direction with plug-ins for buddypress please let me know. Thanks in advance good people. Blessings.

@James – to add more profile fields to registration, go to your dashboard and under ‘Users’, choose Profile Fields. Add as necessary.

Start with:

<?php $formloop = 0; ?>
<?php if ( bp_is_active( ‘xprofile’ ) ) : if ( bp_has_profile( ) ) : while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group(); ?>
<?php
if (bp_get_the_profile_group_id() != $formloop) {
$formloop = bp_get_the_profile_group_id();
$newfieldset = TRUE;
?>
<fieldset id="xprofile_<?php echo bp_get_the_profile_group_slug() ?>">
<legend><?php echo bp_get_the_profile_group_name() ?></legend>
<?php
}
?>
<?php while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field(); ?>
<?php$formlist[] = bp_get_the_profile_field_id(); ?>

—– Continue with the form code —-

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php
if ($newfieldset == TRUE) {
$newfieldset = FALSE;
?>
</fieldset>
<?php
}
?>
<?php endwhile; endif; endif; ?>
<input type="hidden" name="signup_profile_field_ids" id="signup_profile_field_ids" value="<?php echo implode(",", $formlist); ?>" />

@jules-colle

Finished almost exactly the same requirement for a private community, certain profile fields consist of data needed to be added by the site rather than individual users, so set specific edit profile fields to super_admin only but allowed the public view, then as admin you just need to navigate to the users account and then use the admin links on adminbar to edit users profile.

Users are not a BP managed item, Users belong to WP thus adding new users does not present the same xprofile fields for editing.

streams are not related to profile fields. stream is created by site activity. i don’t think theres a decent way to hide that other then for admin users using a plugin or by modifying code stuff.

Just wondering, in future releases, will hidden profile field data be excluded from site member searches as well or is there a way to do this at the moment?

You can use the regular WP export users plugin. There’s no plugin that I know of that exports user with BP xprofile fields at this time.

@sorbic you’re probably right about it being an example or whatever cause i tried it with new fields and those didn’t work either at least for us.

As @sheffieldlad suggests, wp-fb-autoconnect delivers a good off the shelf solution, and provides some integration with BuddyPress profile fields

[ note: wp-fb-autoconnect is a facebook only solution, and everything is installed / controlled on your site; Pro version is a one off payment. Loginradius is a SaaS solution, with monthly payment plans to enable full features, remove labelling, etc. If you want a full SaaS solution, you should also look at Janrain, Gigya and Oneall. ]

Further, just had a quick look at the db, seems visibility levels are saved in the wp_usermeta field bp_xprofile_visibility_levels. Buddypress reads this field and enforces the policy there, so even though you have changed the site wide policy it still enforces the per user settings (if that makes any sense). What you need to do is update each users policies each time the site wide is changed. The plugin was only ever supposed to be an example on how to do it so I don’t think it is robust enough for a live server.

I just installed this plugin and it does work but it seems that previous policies are remembered so even if you change the site wise privacy policy on a field to “Admin Only” each registered user still has it’s old setting. If you set the field so that the user can change their policy then log in as that user and change it to “Admin only” the policy is correctly enforced. I haven’t had time to delve into the db and see where the setting is saved but I suspect that when the site wise policy on a field is set to be enforced each individual user has to be changed at the same time.

You can choose the my friends option to at least block all fields to a users friends. You can also look over @boone code to add your own visibility options. https://github.com/boonebgorges/bbg-custom-bp-field-visibility

If the xprofile fields(custom profile fields) are not appearing, you may want to modify this in your code
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That should make them appear.

If a plugin doesn’t work, you need to contact its author for support. You’ll be glad to learn we’ve added this into the 1.7 version of BuddyPress (which is still in development) so it will help in future.

You could use jQuery to check the value of the drop-down.

Otherwise, you will need to hook into BuddyPress’ validation hook. Perhaps this link will get you pointed in the right direction:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-validate-required-registration-field-but-not-with-bp-profile-setup/

Go into the wp-admin Users > Profile fields and change the visibility options to profiles fields

You will need to edit your theme to pull this off.

Try googling the following: “display xprofile fields on member page buddypress”

You can remove the name field by going to the wp admin Users > profile fields.

Anything in the base/first section is required at sign up.