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I had the same register problem. I couldn’t see any group in “Profile Fields”.
I tried to create another one, i was getting a success message but still not able to see any group.
So i checked in the db and I noticed that there was a the column “group_order” missing in the wp9_bp_xprofile_groups table:

mysql> desc wp9_bp_xprofile_groups
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| id | bigint(20) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| name | varchar(150) | NO | | NULL | |
| description | mediumtext | NO | | NULL | |
| can_delete | tinyint(1) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
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4 rows in set (0.01 sec)

I reached that finding because I compared with another buddypress installation I have.

I added the column to the table and then everything was working again:

mysql> desc wp9_bp_xprofile_groups;
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| id | bigint(20) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| name | varchar(150) | NO | | NULL | |
| description | mediumtext | NO | | NULL | |
| can_delete | tinyint(1) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| group_order | bigint(20) | NO | | NULL | |
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5 rows in set (0.08 sec)

Here you are how I added the column:
mysql> alter table wp9_bp_xprofile_groups add column group_order bigint(20);
mysql> alter table wp9_bp_xprofile_groups modify group_order bigint(20) not null;

The “Base” group was again visible in the administration page and those fields were visible again in the registration page.
I could not find out what modified that table. Also reinstalling the whole buddypress doesn’t help as I noticed that the buddypress tables in the db are not deleted.

Hope this helps.

What versions of BP/WP did you upgrade from? You mentioned webpages from two years ago. If you upgraded from BP 1+/WPMU, then you have to upgrade major version by major version as in BP1.0+ to BP1.2/WPMU 2.9.1 to BP1.5/WP3.2.1 to BP1.5.5/WP3.3.2
WP versions download – https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/
BP versions download – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags

Just posting trac ticket you created https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4217

Ok where do you put the code and how can we make it for role.

members or s2members plugin should work along with xprofiles acl plugin to assign profile fields

In the Buddypress Settings menu, do you have the “Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?” set to “No”?

anybody have any idea how to solve this issue….?

Hello, im going to tell you a quick easy way to do step number 1.
Create a field called School or w.e you want to make it and make a drop down field of all the schools that you can think of.

I would also download buddyprress-better-directory ( it may not scale well with your theme depending on what theme you are using )

so now onto question number 2. As I said for your answer for number one, using the drop down menu for the schools will make it easier to search rather then having the members type in their school. as far as searching for UNC and University of North Carolina, Im sure the search would list all the UNC first, then list the University of North Carolina,

I would also suggest installing s2Members (plugin) and follow the steps to help make your buddypress/wordpress more secure,

@vuiet914

Best of Luck,
Ps, this is just a suggestion and it really isn’t a FULL answer to your questions.

@jaimebib nope still no luck for me I have basically given up on this plugin since I cannot seem to reach the author of the plugin..
@Marcella any news on the idea you had for developing the plugin?

I’d approach this a different way –

something like:
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$match_ids = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT user_id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data WHERE field_id = [whatever the field_id is for State] AND value = [whatever value you want to find] “);
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$match_ids will be a simple array.
So loop thru the array and create a comma separated string out of the ids.
Then pass the string to bp_has_members() using ‘include’

something like
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//$get_these_members is the id string you created
$get_these_members = ‘include=’ . substr($get_these_members, 0, -1); //trim the last comma

if ( bp_has_members( $get_these_members ) )
`

That way you could search for any value on any profile field.
Your approach might work, but… yikes.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-members-loop/

i’m looking for the same things to do with my site.
did you find a solution for that?

@bojan85 tried to work with this plugin aswell but seems non functional..anybody involved in developing for bp who knows if this is even possible to do? Seems like a very basic function that should be included…

OMG, this is almost what i need do you already have it working @davidveldt ?

what i need is:

you have the registrationform, the only things i want visible is Name and Email. and then i would like to have a selectbox with 2 options: Company or Student.

When you register as a company and then login you go to the company profile side. if you are a student then you go to the student profile side. The 2 profile have different profile groups to fill out.

how can i do this?

I would suggest creating a new profile field group for this sort of field, and put some logic into the appropriate theme template to not show fields in that group.

I’d be interested in this as well.

This is exactly what I have been trying to find an answer to. No one has seemed to provide a straight answer but this goes a long way. Thanks guys. I think I will reference this and work on this problem myself, too, and provide some feedback.

I think (not sure!) that one of the ways you can stop spam is to put required fields on the profile that utilize human input. Requiring fields like favorite color, or something where people have to actually input something may be helpful to slow down spam. At least, that’s a theory. Anyone have anything like that or provide some feedback on this theory?