These nested/conditional profile fields will have many applications for creating larger websites, not just location related sites… If you can make it to the Core, many would benefit.
It would be great if next release of BuddyPress could come with this nested profile fields, and in addition, a functionality that allow admins to create initial groups based on certain user profile fields -which seems very nature. And as a social networking platform, these functionalities should come from the core of software, not from Plugins – as many group related plugins will be depending on these functionalities to make themselves sophisticated enough to make foundamental user experience more fullfilled.
have the same problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! help
Adding the template fields is one thing, but you’d need to write a bunch of glue logic to handle saving and fetching the input to/from the WordPress profile.
You shouldn’t need a plugin to have emails sent or to have profile fields. Are you using the BuddyPress default theme? I ask because something could be wrong there – not sure there is though.
Now, when I say you don’t need plugins to send emails or have profile fields it all depends on ‘what’ and ‘how much’ you want.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/#users-profile-fields should be a starting point for you on profile fields though.
If you are a PHP developer, you can rework the profile fields (in edit.php ) to use the wp_editor() function.
You’ll also need to take a look at the filters that strip tags from profile fields and set appropriately to your needs.
The question was asked recently on this forum — so, have a Google.
Paul, anyway it’s pretty simple to use both methods. We know that default wp_users support first_name, last_name, nickname and description (bio). Maybe you could make possibile to modify each of that from buddypress (i made it in my theme) and make a base group with these fields. Then if administrators want to add more fields and groups you could populate xprofile table. In this way you could have a more deep integration into WordPress.
Mercime’s pretty much right. There might be ways to use a custom post type with user meta, but revising the structure of the profile fields database tables isn’t a current priority.
== why buddypress doesn’t use user_metadata and have a proprietary xprofile table. ==
I believe one reason would be that WP doesn’t have an API for BuddyPress’ more sophisticated profile fields/groups, or something of that nature. At least that’s what I recall a core dev answering the last time that question was asked 
can anyone actually verify this plugin boone put up works? it appears to have the option but when i tested it the policy is not enforced and even logged out users can see the private fields on our site at least.
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Short answer is yes! You can use bp-profile-search plugin to search for specific profile fields. Not certain it works with the current versions of WordPress and BuddyPress though. It works great in WP 3.2.1 and BP 1.5.1
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-profile-search/
The standard search works well too but you have to know what your searching for. BP-Profile-Search shows a visible form and a user can choose what to search for based on the criteria you set up in the plugin.
Ok appologies they need to have data in to be visible.
Yes its working as it should then!
No they’re set to a mix of Logged in Users or My Friends.
But as I mentioned when i look at My Test Friend they dont show!
On each profile field in the admin there are visibility options. Are they open for all or only user?
God I hate this forum functionality – in the head of the post I have just made it says: “Deleted User said 1 minuit ago” what is that supposed to mean?
A fast solution in profile fields for the huddle theme…
Go to wp-content/themes/huddle/functions.php and open it.
At line 45 you should see
` $new_values[] = ‘‘ . $value . ‘‘; `
change it with this
` $new_values[] = strip_tags( $value ); `
I bought this theme today, and i did not have time to beautify the code and the functions, but i will write again probably the next days.
Apologies – forgot to add that I’m using BP 1.6.1 and WP 3.4.1
Also, when I export my user data, the custom profile fields are also missing. Where is the data everyone entered in my custom fields during the login process? Thank you in advance!
While looking for a solution to the same question, I stumbled upon this: dev update. Boone B. Gorges made a “sample plugin to show how these visibility levels can be extended”: BBG’s Sample Visibility Plugin. All you have to do is create a new folder in your wp-content/plugins, and upload bbg-custom-bp-field-visibility.php & loader.php into your new folder. Then, modify bbg-custom-bp-field-visibility.php to your liking.
In addition to my first reply, you need to have the ‘Extended Profiles’ component checked in your Buddypress settings under ‘Components’.
I’m running the same version of BP & WP that you have, and I can access custom profile fields under the ‘Users’ menu –> Profile Fields.
Hope that helps.
Yes it’s xprofile fields. Check your user menu in the backend, and your BP settings.
I need to be able to show / Hide XProfile groups based on select value during the registration phase. I’m a newbie to all this so could someone please help on how accomplish this.
Is that possible with buddypress? Has this plugin been created?
so is there a plugin to add these fields – country, state, etc to the registration and profiles…
