My network is a bunch of baby boomers selling crafts. I teach them how to be a merchant more effectively. Their stores on Artfire.com has a widget per seller where they can add a rapid cart, shopping window or a collection. All the code is clean and safe, no other code will be allowed. I’m aware of the spammer risks..been there, done that.
The field should look similar to a blog post editor or text widget. Besides, the rapid cart code won’t work unless a shortcode is made by adding the script to the widget area and then shortcode for it in the field. This is why I’m wondering if the multisite is a better fit, harder, but better fit for what I want to offer.
The Ning sites had pages for members like such. They were drag and drop fields with the ability to accept code. Like a comment box might. This is what I need for members. I already have a member approval mechanism installed. They have to attend the basic instructions of how to blog, to be able to use the field I need made. A sign of who they are.
It’s dangerous to allow code to be entered into profile fields. Why HTML?
@karmatosed I had seen that but didn’t see an answer on how to do what I’m trying to do. I need a live validation to show the user whether or not their entry is a valid url for facebook or twitter.
Are you referring to the profile fields or the tabs?
Like Juan mentioned, XProfile already autolinks various profile fields.
eg. http://testbp.org/members/johnjamesjacoby/profile/
Check out the links in the profile page. They will automatically redirect to the members directory with the search term.
It might not fit your spec exactly, but maybe it can give you some pointers.
The BP Profile Search plugin also enhances the xprofile search a bit as well.
I think that depending on the final result you want to achieve, there are already a few tools that will get the work done. For example: if you want to mention your users, you can use de bp labs plugin that will add the “autocomplete” feature to the mentions for more usability (also could be used vía comments for mimicking the picture-tagging like Facebook). In the other hand, you can use profile fields to let members “tag” themselves on a different number of topics… etc.
Maybe if you tell us what would you use it for we can think of a posible way to achieve that 
Hey Modem Looper bud the plugin you wrote custom profile fields is there anyway to prevent some not all profile fields to show up on registration page? and also about the age drop down so is there really cure for that year problem with wp? because it goes up to 2037.
BuddyPress comes with a default “Name” field in the Extended Profile components. Are you using the Extended Profile component; have you renamed the default Name field, and what are you using that field for?
Hello,
registration process has nothing to do with BP, it’s WP stuff. For some technical answers to your question, be inspired by reading here:
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/open-source-security/top-5-wordpress-vulnerabilities-and-how-to-fix-them.html
To avoid robot resgistration, there is nothing definitve to do at this time. But to get sure you don’t get a robot in your user list, you can add a mandatory field to your registration via custom profile fields.
For example, “city”. Because this field is custom, no robot will fill it correctly. And most will not fill it at all. Each subscription with “doe” as city name or empty city field can be banned and/or erased from your DB. This will calm down spam activities for a while. The price of this is a constant admin work. But consider that a daily managed site is lesser spammed than a site with randomised webmastering each 31th february… And a site with 50 000 unique visitors will be more attacked that a 70 hits/day site. Just the price of glory, nothing to do with buddypress. [exit] 
What was the problem you encountered with your approach?
Paste your code, and let us know the error messages, and someone may be able to assist.
@djpaul – Just the standard, out-of-the-box BuddyPress registration process for now. Couple of additional fields, all added as standard (via BP profile settings).
We are looking into using Gravity Forms for user registration in the future, mainly so that we can hook Twitter (& other social url’s) into extended & custom profile field, and also to make the registration process self-contained (not requiring email activation), but right now, we’re just using out-of-the-box functionality/forms.
FYI – We’re also using the Mingle theme by Parallelus but having raised this issue over on their support forums, I was informed that it’s highly unlikely to be a theme-related issue, which is fair enough really.
Well, yes and no @hotsitez….
Here’s what I have:
I went into WordPress/BuddyPress via wp-admin — then navigated to Buddy Press > Profile Fields
On the Extended Profiles Fields page, I added a “Start Date” for our members to populate which is the date they started with our company. Then on the Base (Primary) tab on that page, I got my extended field positioned where I want it to display.
Perfect (so far).
Now what I want to do is apply some PHP to calculate how many months and years the person has been with our company and parenthetically display it next to the start date value on the member’s profile page in Buddy Press when people view a person’s profile.
How To Do That?
So where/how in member-header.php do I add that bit of PHP code? Note, I am a PHP coder, so I have no problem producing the code to make the calculation — I am not asking for that guidance. I simply need to know (a) what script/document file do I go to to add my code, (b) where in the page production stream in that script/document file do I add my code, and (c) how do I grab the start date value that is stored in the BuddyPress DB?
This maybe too complicated for Buddypress to do, but I am willing to give it a shot.
[Note: I toyed around with member-header.php per @hotsitez suggestion. The profile area that this script impacts is the upper “header’ area for a member. I am interested in getting into the flow of the Profile > Base page.]
@natetheaverage –
an outline solution (there are lots of areas where you’d have to work to implement it):
When a group is created, you could write a hook that creates a corresponding xprofile field group (remember to hook on delete group as well to remove the profile field group)
In the member’s profile screens, you would hide that xprofile field group if the member is not a member of the group
In a hook on Join Group, you’d want to display an additional screen that prompts for the user fields, and when that is submitted use the xprofile API to write the data to the user’s profile
I guess finally, you’d also want to modify the members loop inside the group to show that information
There’s a lot of code for you to trawl through
Frank – while I am new to BuddyPress (started it on a site today), i think you are working on similar layouts at moment that I am. The file I just finished re-working was “member-header.php” – I had added Profile Fields like Gender, Age, Etc. to display Gender for Example I used:
‘[?php bp_profile_field_data( ‘field=Gender’ );?]’
basically add the name of the Profile Field you wish to display and use the Field Title name you gave it in the format above.
Other than that its just editing CSS and adding text etc to layout. I am still working on many things – its the one area I really want to pop is the Profiles pages.
I hope it helps!
This is really not easy to change. The options for the date field are generated deep inside the bp_get_the_profile_field_options() function, right near the bottom of it:
`for ( $i = 2037; $i > 1901; $i– )`
I would suggest you use the ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_datebox’ filter and manually strip out the OPTION fields that you don’t want.
@RogerCoathup Thanks for that I will look in to it- it didn’t happen to me when I built first edition on local server. It may be one of a number of plugins, I will test each one to see if they cause problem and then try another theme. Shouldn’t be the theme because custom community theme is supposed to be compatible with BP but hey ho you never know.
@cj-kruger Yes I think I am, BP Klout and BP Twitter. I’ll look to see how it goes but at the moment the two plugins seem to be fine together unless of course they are causing the problem.
I will test this week and report back. Thanks all.
Im guessing from what you have said you are using my twitter and klout plugins, what I could do is build a custom plugin for you – having all your requested features in one interface..
It will not be free though it wont cost a arm and a leg, if you are interested contact me at nit3watch@gmail.com
BuddyPress profile fields do show by default when you visit a profile. So, it sounds like either your theme, or a plugin is causing the problem.
Did you create your profile fields from the BuddyPress menus in wp-admin?
The most likely candidate for the problem sounds like the plugin you are using to add buttons and maps to the user profiles.
Try deactivating that plugin – do the profile fields show?
Try switching to bp-default theme – do the profile fields show?
If they are still not showing — deactivate all your plugins except BuddyPress, use the default theme, and go to the Profile Fields section in wp-admin … are they definitely set up correctly in there? Are privacy settings correct? Do the profile fields show now in the front end?
By breaking your search down for a solution step by step like this, you’ll be able to determine what is causing the problem (your theme or one of your plugins).
Well (I’m sorry I don’t have a clue how to insert a pic like you have) I’d like them to show up on the member’s profile page, i.e. when they click on your name. I want it to be in the header I suppose, or just somehow accessible. At the moment, when I click on a member, there is no “public profile” tab or anything like there is on my own, so all you see is the activity module.with activity, groups, forums etc.
I just want other people to be able to access this info even if it means an “info” tab a la Facebook!
To briefly explain, I have a similar set up to yours – Twitter button and klout score and a user location map so these things are in the header already, but other info like for example, Facebook page url, web address – I want these custom fields to also show and not just serve as input for plugins etc.
Thanks
They will be there under Profile>Public
Where is it you would like them to show up?
For example these are custom fields being called in the group header, same thing can be done with the members header
So I have managed to list all of the profile fields by including the edit.php file from my buddypress theme.
I have then tried to trick the $bp object into looking like its setup for the profile component and edit action by setting the follow items like so:
`$bp->current_action = ‘edit’;
$bp->current_component = ‘profile’;
$bp->displayed_user->ID = $user_id;
$bp->displayed_user->userdata = $bp->loggedin_user->userdata;`
How do I get the fields to populate with the current users data?
In 1.6 beta 2 https://buddypress.org/2012/07/buddypress-1-6-beta-2/ there is a facility to restrict visibility of profile fields to —-> Anyone, Logged In Users or My Friends.
In addition there is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-privacy/ for earlier versions of buddypress. This can restrict visibility of profile fields to —-> Everyone, My Friends, or Only Me
I’m interested too. Some users might want that.
It’s possible – but not via the extended profile fields.
The best solution probably involves developing a custom BP profile component to handle the images, and then some front end manipulation to make it appear ‘in position’ in profile edits / views.
