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I cannot duplicate your issue.
In wp-admin, Users > Profile Fields, are your fields part of the ‘Base’ group of fields?
Or are they under another group, in another tab to the right of ‘Base’?

btw: instead of bp_get_profile_field_data, you should use bp_get_member_profile_data
That tutorial is for BP 1.5, very old.

but not in the admin menu profile fields section

What exactly are you referring to?
The adminbar at the top of each page? If so, member-header.php does not affect that.

How will the ‘tags’ be used?
As the basis for filtering members?
Or just as ‘notes’ about each member?

If the former, see the BP_User_Query codex page.

If the latter, you could use this premium plugin: BuddyNotes

Or you could simply create template overloads of these 2 files:

buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\profile\profile-loop.php
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\profile\edit.php

And check the fields via their id or name and then decide, based on who the logged-in user is, whether the fields should be displayed.

Sorry to answer you with a big laught, it’s not html but php. 😀
You should also find the time to read more attentively the forum, or search by keywords.
in this case: hide xprofile fields

https://buddypress.org/support/search/hide+xprofile+fields/

You’re welcome. Glad you got it. 😉

Hi @amic58, @tecca

When BP is installed and xProfile is activated, the original WP profile settings are not accessible to user.

The WP register process use only username, password and email and BuddyPress add by default a Name field as base for other extended profile fields.

In short this means that username and name fields can contain a same information(a name, a pseudonym, a first or/and a last name). The plugin you mention is best for a WP install where user had choosen first/last name as output on post, comments, etc Once BP is activated, this became a little different.

Now to the initial question.
The CSS trick is a very inelegant solution as it lets everybody knowing how BP works to surround this invisibility. You’re also loosing any flexibility if you want to show some fields privately for example.

You can do this properly with a little snippet, as explained here:

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

Here’s an example which let you hide fields or fiels group to members, but not to site admin

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 groups, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_groups'] = '1'; 			
	} 
	return $retval;		
	
	endif;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_hide_profile_field_group' );

Add it to bp-custom.php or your child-theme functions.php

Of course you can also choose to show a field or group, but remove the possibility for the user to edit it later. Simply add more conditionnal to the function.

Here another example:

function bpfr_hide_profile_edit( $retval ) {	
	// remove field from edit tab
	if(  bp_is_user_profile_edit() ) {		
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '54'; // ID's separated by comma
	}	
	// allow field on register page
	if ( bp_is_register_page() ) {
		$retval['include_fields'] = '54'; // ID's separated by comma
		}		
	
	// hide the field on profile view tab
	if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=54' ) ) : 
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '54'; // ID's separated by comma	
	endif;	
	
	return $retval;	
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_hide_profile_edit' );

Hope to be clear.

Add this snippet to your child-theme functions.php or bp-custom.php

function bpfr_hide_profile_edit( $retval ) {	
	// remove field from edit tab
	if(  bp_is_profile_edit() ) {		
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '2'; // field ID's separated by comma
	}	
	// allow field on register page
	if ( bp_is_register_page() ) {
		$retval['include_fields'] = '2'; // field ID's separated by comma
		}		
	
	// hide the field on profile view tab
	if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=2' ) ) : 
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '2'; // field ID's separated by comma	
	endif;	
	
	return $retval;	
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_hide_profile_edit' );

The BuddyPress codex is your friend:

Filtering by Xprofile fields

Read this for a better approach to your issue: Filtering by Xprofile fields

Another approach: bp_user_query

Is there any way to make the icons following the privacy rules of the related profile fields?

Hi @danbp

I tried the way you suggested and it works.

I would like to ask if there is any way the social media icons to follow the privacy rules of the related custom profile fields.

Thank you!