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Hi Henry

I went to ‘plugins’/buddypress/settings, and found the following (I note that “account settings” is not ticked – could this be it?)
I have bolded the ones that are ticked currently.

Settings:

Component Description
Component Description
Extended Profiles Customize your community with fully editable profile fields that allow your users to describe themselves.
Account Settings Allow your users to modify their account and notification settings directly from within their profiles.
Friend Connections Let your users make connections so they can track the activity of others and focus on the people they care about the most.
Private Messaging Allow your users to talk to each other directly and in private. Not just limited to one-on-one discussions, messages can be sent between any number of members.
Activity Streams Global, personal, and group activity streams with threaded commenting, direct posting, favoriting, and @mentions, all with full RSS feed and email notification support.
Notifications Notify members of relevant activity with a toolbar bubble and/or via email, and allow them to customize their notification settings.
User Groups Groups allow your users to organize themselves into specific public, private or hidden sections with separate activity streams and member listings.
Site Tracking Record activity for new posts and comments from your site.
BuddyPress Core It‘s what makes time travel BuddyPress possible!
Community Members Everything in a BuddyPress community revolves around its members.

Nope, it returns an error that there are no members to display. I guess that I could replace ‘Robin van Persie’ with something blank like this

substr( strstr( ' ', ' ' ), 1 )

Just to clarify, this is the full code in my functions.php to sort the members:

 function alphabetize_by_last_name( $bp_user_query ) {
    if ( 'alphabetical' == $bp_user_query->query_vars['type'] )
        $bp_user_query->uid_clauses['orderby'] = "ORDER BY substring_index(u.display_name, ' ', -1)";
}
add_action ( 'bp_pre_user_query', 'alphabetize_by_last_name' );
 
// To reflect the alphabetical sorting of the member directory, you
// could also format the names to show the last name first. Here is
// a helper function to format names as follows: Last, First Middle
// Etc.
//
// To use this function every time a user's name is shown or queried,
// simply add it as a filter:
//
// <code>add_filter ('bp_get_member_name', 'format_last_name_first' );</code>
//
// To only reformat the name in the member directory, change your
// members/members-loop.php file in your (child)theme. Look for
// <code>bp_member_name()</code>
// and replace it with
// <code>echo format_last_name_first ( bp_get_member_name() );</code>
 
/**
 * Helper function for formatting a name: Last, First Middle Etc.
 *
 * @param string $name
 * @return string Formatted name
**/

function format_last_name_first( $name ) {
    if ( $first_space = strrpos( $name, " ") )
        $name = substr( $name, $first_space + 1 ) . ", " . substr( $name, 0, $first_space );
    return $name;
}
 
// BONUS: To make alphabetical sorting the default sorting, use the
// function below. 
//
// In order for this to work properly, <code><option value=&quot;alphabetical&quot;></code>
// must be the first option for the members-order-select in
// members/index.php.
 
function sort_members_alphabetically( $qs = '', $object = false ) {
    if( $object != 'members' ) //for members only
        return $qs;
 
    if ( empty( $qs ) || ! strpos( $qs, "type=" ) ) {
        $args = wp_parse_args($qs);
        $args['type'] = 'alphabetical';
        $args['action'] = 'alphabetical';
 
        $qs = build_query( $args );
    }
 
    return $qs;
}
add_action( 'bp_ajax_querystring', 'sort_members_alphabetically', 11, 2 );

I guess that members are sorted by the default WordPress first and last name fields right? Just because we’ve added some custom fields to the member profile pages to split their names in first name, ‘surname prefix (it’s for words like ‘van’ ‘de’) and last name. Not all members have a surname prefix though.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

Basically is as follows:

Profile fields > Base (Primary) > Category

Then, field type is a drop down with options

I just need to list those options in a frontend page, click on it and get the members for that option.

@shanebp yes, its enabled but nothing happens.
The filled fields on WordPress profile arent showing on buddypress profiles :/