Go with Paul’s second suggestion, you could make it a simple text input and instruct the user to add items comma separated and then grab the field and run an explode function on the comma to get a list you can loop over and display.
I don’t know about date range, but for your dropdown box, you would have to manually build that list of universities yourself.
The easiest would be for you to create multiple profile fields (job 1, job 2…) and prompt users to leave blank if not appropriate.
Another approach is to use a text area (one job per line), and then customise the output of this particular field to display how you wanted it to.
xprofile wasn’t built with the idea of letting *users* (vs admins) creating new profile fields. I think trying to do this would be full of difficulty so I’d recommend against it.
== how do you get that field to upload into that users profile? ==
Profile fields show up in member’s profile page by default. What else do you mean by upload into users profile?
== I would like to be able to track the members and the dates that they lost the love one ==
@enjoywellbeing You can create profile fields for a) date when their loved one was born and b) date died. Then make the fields required.
== I am looking for an easy theme to use for this purpose ==
I would suggest using the default bp-default theme while you’re building your site and adding plugins so you can know that if anything goes wonky, it could very well have been caused by the plugin, etc.
When you’re close to launching the site, you can use a WordPress theme and use BP Template Pack plugin to transfer BP template files and JS goodness. If you need assistance in fixing alignment, check out the list of WP themes we’ve “Template-Packed” so far.
@mercime so i fixed it by decativating, deleteing, and reinstalling BP. Everythings kosher so far.
Thanks,
More of the outdated plugin issue and possibly a theme issue, not sure. The best thing is to set up BuddyPress and check everything out using bp-default theme without other plugins activated. When everything’s doing as expected, only then do you change to custom theme and add on plugins (only those which have been upgraded to current WP/BP versions). That way, you’ll know when anything goes wonky and can fix it asap. Only my 2 cents.
@mercime now i understand what you meant, i did try the BP default theme, no luck. I may need to revert to my backup. I have a developer working on the fix now. Any ideas, could this be a BP & WP issue?
@mercime yes sorry that is a typo. I did deactivate it with no luck. I also deactivated BP and reactivated it with no luck. How do I change to bp-default?
@fmeroney just to clarify, you mean you updated to WP 3.3.2 and WP 3.2.2 was just a typo, right?
Looks more like Buddypress xProfiles ACL plugin needs to be updated. If deactivating xProfiles ACL doesn’t cut it, change to bp-default to see if issue is corrected.
You mean the description field ?
That’s tougher. How good are you at php ?
afaik – you need to modify the
/themes/your-theme/members/single/profile/edit.php
You won’t see a form field for ‘description’
BP uses bp_get_the_profile_field_type() to show fields.
So you need to do an ‘if’ on the bp_the_profile_field_input_name()
And then use javascript to limit the number of chars allowed – lots of examples of this online.
Thanks Paul, I’ve been able to add the extra fields as suggested and displayed them on members page using echo bp_member_profile_data(‘field=the field name’); in members-loop
There’s no member/xprofile exporter compatible with BP 1.5.5 at this time. There’s the outdated https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-export-users/ but it’s good up to WP 3.1.4 and BP 1.2.8 only which a plugin developer could check out and should revise to be compatible with BP 1.5.5.
You can probably start off by exporting the tables from your database: wp_bp_xprofile_data; wp_bp_xprofile_fields; wp_bp_xprofile_groups and wp_bp_xprofile_meta but the best bet is to have a developer set this up
Can anyone help with this please?
Is there a reason why you don’t want to use BuddyPress’ Profile Fields? You wouldn’t have to write any code. (wp-admin BuddyPress > Profile)
Hi Chris… In the list of group members it as default has Name & Last activity…. But instead I want to display name and a couple of profile fields… in the members loop you can use bp_get_profile_field_data() but it wont work in the group loop
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<?php
/*
Template Name: Who is online
*/
?>
<?php
get_header();
if ( bp_has_members(‘type=online&per_page=30’)) : ?>
-
<a href="”>
<?php
$image_status=””;
if(is_user_online(bp_get_member_user_id())){
//$user_info = get_userdata($postcontent);
$image_status= ‘
‘;
}
else {$image_status= ‘
‘;}
echo $image_status;
?>
<a href="”>
–
<?php
/***
* If you want to show specific profile fields here you can,
* but it’ll add an extra query for each member in the loop
* (only one regadless of the number of fields you show):
*
* bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=the field name’ );
*/
?>
`
The devil is in the detail if asking for help, please provide it initially rather than us having to ask for it!
== I set up a membership setup page with custom fields? ==
Is this via a plugin or did you mean the fields you added in BuddyPress > Profile Fields?
What do you mean by “none of the info she input in the fields is available”? Doesn’t show up when you open up her profile page? What theme are you using?
BP/WP versions? What theme are you using? What plugins are activated in your installation?
okay, I gave up trying to do this from WordPress, and now have a custom field via Buddypress custom fields – but the field is editable by the user, I’d like it to be editable only by admins – is this possible?
Thanks.
Thank you very much, @shanebp
Works perfectly.
You are a savior 
You want to not show profile fields on the profile pages for non-members ?
Try this – it should not show profile fields for users who are not logged-in
In /your-theme/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php
At the very top, replace this:
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with this:
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At the very bottom, replace this:
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with this
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Sure, it solves the problem, but for web site like our, people need to browse it as anonymous and then decide whether to register or not.
Closed web sites are for closed communities, and we are widely open community
Wouldn’t locking the whole community to unregistered users solve this? You leave profiles open and then just stop anonymous users from looking?
