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Within the context of a wp post
$user_id would be get_the_author_id() ?

`
$authorBio = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Bio’, $user_id );

echo ‘Author’s bio: ‘. $authorBio;
`

@matthillcomer are you referring to posts by multiple authors in single WP or posts by members in subsites of a Multisite installation?

To clarify my post above, I do not have buddypress showing in the toolbar on the left under settings on the subdomain and when i network activate it, do not see profile fields…

i have declared the root blog as advised…

To display extended profile fields in the members directory, it’s easiest to add a function to your theme’s functions.php file. My theme is based on the bp-default theme, so in my file /wp-content/themes/theme-name/members/members-loop.php, there’s this action at the end of each member’s entry that we can hook into:

Open up your functions.php file and add something like this:

function add_member_custom_extended_profile() {
if ( $xprofile_tele = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=Telephone' ) ) {
echo 'Telephone:' . $xprofile_tele . '
';
}
}
add_action('bp_directory_members_item', 'add_member_custom_extended_profile'); 

You can get the exact field name to use by looking at a member’s profile page and copying the text in the left-most column.

I originally got this idea from here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/bp-add-profile-field-data-to-members-directory-with-links

That is strange.When you went to Dasboard/Users/Profile Fields and under Base(Primary) and clicked Add New Field it should have took to to where you can add a Field Title, and Field Description. Did you scroll to the bottom and click “Save?”

Install my plugin to get option to remove links. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-extended-settings/

Removing the links automatically created in a member’s profile ?

haven’t actually tried it myself but it would be something like:

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and I’d put that just after the latest updates endif in the members-loop.php

I’m not a great coder, just learning with buddypress. Let me know if it works

PS: by doing it that way, you can add some style in style.css

In what way? There is an option in the profile fields admin screen to allow an admin to set a specific profile visibility for a specific field.

It’ll be a profile field set up in wp-admin. Look for “Profile Fields” under the “Users” menu, and delete it.

@jloc14 Install and activate @modemlooper ‘s BuddyPress Extended Settings plugin from here https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-extended-settings/
In the dashboard go to BuddyPress/Extended Settings put a check beside “Profile Field Links Disable auto linking of user profile fields” and at the bottom click “Save Changes.” This will remove the auto linking of those profile fields. Alternatively you can create a file named bp-custom.php and place it in the plugins directory and copy and paste in the below code:
`<?php
// hacks and mods will go here
function remove_xprofile_links() {
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_value’, ‘xprofile_filter_link_profile_data’, 9, 2 );
}
add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘remove_xprofile_links’ );
?>`
Save the file and this will accomplish the same goal.

Just updated! the new privacy option added to the profile fields are creating confusion in my setup. Is there a way I can disable it?

I requested urgent help on this please.

Thank you very much

If you want validation as they type / enter — hook some jQuery onto your form. [That’s standard jQuery form validation, for which you’ll be able to Google for plenty of examples]

In your jQuery, you can call out (POST) to your PHP validation function. Look up AJAX in WordPress for details on how to do this – in particular you are interested in using admin-ajax.php and registering your function as an action. You then specify that action in your jQuery AJAX call.

You might also want to look at some of the WordPress data validation functions.

It’s not a perfect solution but have you look at gravity forms for registation forms and BuddyPress? http://www.gravityforms.com/

Anybody got this to work??

ok… as I guess you know, modifying the core code isn’t a good solution!

Am not sure why your original code isn’t working, as the later $r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults ); call should overwrite user_id with the one you supplied anyway.

Did you check that $curauth->ID was set correctly?