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@mercime – I just fix the issue with notification tab – and that seems to has effect on this too.

Now logged in members can see other members full profile fields. I want to make the full profile fields including base fields and xProfile group fields public to everyone even not logged in, how can I do this?

To anyone who want the same thing, follow my below steps.

I have a text file contains about 600+ names of schools and I want to make a schools-drop-down – So It’s very time-consuming to click add option one by one. It needs another way:

1. Content of The Schools list text file.
Tamale Polytechnic
Kumasi Polytechnic
Accra Polytechnic
Cape Coast Polytechnic
Koforidua Polytechnic
Ho Polytechnic
….600+…
2. I go to xProfile and create a Drop-down named it Schools – I input one option say “A sample school” – save.
3. I go to phpMyadmin -to Database to table gsl_bp_xprofile_fields – Search “A sample school” to find the newly created Sample schools row – on the result look at the
columns: (group_id, parent_id, type , name) . they should have values like: (group_id: 1, parent_id: 127,type :’option’ ,name :’A sample school’).
4. Next I use a Core Java code(because I don’t know how to do this in PHP) to read the schools list text file one by one and custom the print out like this:

String fileName = "D://Schools.txt";
String line = null;
try {
  FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(fileName);
  BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
  while((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
    line = line.replace("'", "");
    String sqlBase = "INSERT INTO gsl_bp_xprofile_fields (group_id,parent_id, type,name) VALUES (1, 127,'option' ,"+"'"+line+"'"+");";
    System.out.println(sqlBase);
            }	
    bufferedReader.close();			
}

After running the above code I have a list of SQL insert commands printed on my eclipse they look like this:

INSERT INTO gsl_bp_xprofile_fields (group_id,parent_id, type,name) VALUES (1, 127,'option' ,'Tamale Polytechnic');
INSERT INTO gsl_bp_xprofile_fields (group_id,parent_id, type,name) VALUES (1, 127,'option' ,'Kumasi Polytechnic');
INSERT INTO gsl_bp_xprofile_fields (group_id,parent_id, type,name) VALUES (1, 127,'option' ,'Accra Polytechnic');

….many more insert commands until the end of the schools file 600+

5. Next, I copy all these commands, come back phpMyadmin database- table gsl_bp_xprofile_fields – to SQL tab, paste all commands, click run/go to insert all the options.

That’s all done for me!

For now, I’ve come to another solution, where I allow users to Register new account with base Fields and a Role selection (Student or Lecturer in my case). They then fill in only base field and then after account creation they can update their Student or Lecture xProfile Group Fields in their profile page edit.

I do these above by using 3 plugins:

1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpfront-user-role-editor/
This will allow me to add new Role: Student and Lecturer in my case (I have tried other Role plugin but they conflict with other plugins on my site, this one doesn’t).

2. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-roles-at-registration/
This one allow me to add a Drop down for New user to choose their wanted role : Student or Lecturer

3. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-xprofiles-acl/
This plug in allow me to set buddypress xProfile group to a specific user role. In my case, I created two xProfile Group fields named “Student” and “Lecture” each has different fields. Then using this plugin I assigne the xProfile Student to Student Role, and the xProfile Lecturer to Lecturer Role.

That’s all done!

Meanwhile I will use this, but I still want to be able to have two sign up forms with different fields so that I can require New user to fill in the Required field to make the profile better. I can’t code much so hope someone will help!

Well, with a bit more Googling I’ve gotten this solved for the most part. I know these pages get indexed so here’s what I did for anyone’s future reference. For this example’s sake I’ll just cover the “Member Since” field.

– Created a copy of profile-loop.php in the appropriate child theme directory for update-safe modification.

– In the child copy of profile-loop.php, right beneath <?php do_action( 'bp_after_profile_field_content' ); ?>, which is inside (and at the bottom) of the ‘if ( bp_profile_group_has_fields())’ if check, I put the following code to output this field for the base group only (assuming the base group has an ID of 1):

<?php if ( bp_get_the_profile_group_id() == 1 ) : ?>
  <table class="profile-fields">
   <tr<?php bp_field_css_class(); ?>>
    <td class="label">Member Since</td>
    <td class="data"><?php bp_custom_profile_fields(); ?></td>
   </tr>
  </table>
 <?php endif; ?>

And then finally, in my child theme’s functions.php file (this could probably also go in bp-custom.php) I found and pasted this code to define and format the join date:

function bp_custom_profile_fields() {
    global $bp;
    $currentuser = get_userdata( $bp->displayed_user->id );
    $joined = date("F jS, Y", strtotime($currentuser ->user_registered));
    echo '' . $joined . '';
}

UPDATE: okay guys, I figured out that I needed to click onto the word “Edit” and fill out the new fields to see them displayed in my new profile – after clicking the word “View”. But there is no way to change the stupid avatar.

What is the simple way to click onto a user profile link (when a user wants to view their own profile – not the profiles of other users), view just their own information and edit it?? We have to click a “Members” page, search for our personal profile and try to access it that way?

Why is there no “Profile” page listed among the “Pages” portion of this plugin???? That would be an easy, self-explanatory page that we could preview to see how profiles appear to all users, decide which fields to display or rearrange fields. Change avatars, etc. Why is this program not that simple? What am I missing?

@kaizerking you should probably start your own thread, as that is an entirely different problem ( actually, I would say same for you @dhyana , but your question was already answered haha)

but if I had to posit a suggestion (in a new thread of course) it would be to use the plugin Theme My Login. It has saved me a good bit of headache as far as getting xprofile fields to show up on registration