More of the outdated plugin issue and possibly a theme issue, not sure.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 There’s the outdated https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-export-users/ but it’s good up to WP 3.1.4 and BP 1.2.8 only which a plugin developer could check out and should revise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
`
<?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?
Thank you for the advise, @neiloughton.
I know that the plugin can restrict from all and allow only friends, but best for our web site is to show information to all registered users and hide it from anonymous and bots
People are searching in our web site for o-negative blood donors and after they register, they should be able to see the information without becoming friends.
It is a matter of urgency and the minutes count.
I know the plugin which you suggest, but that doesn’t work with our type of community.
Hello,
Within that plugin you can set it (without having to modify the plugin) to just to friends, private or public, this is done from within the plugin page within wordpress, this then allows the user to chose on the front end.
I might also suggest,
http://bp-tutorials.de/2010/09/private-buddypress
This plugin makes your whole install private to non logged in users, thus creating another layer of privacy.
I hope this helps somewhat.
>You cannot use PHP in the button url field, only HTML.
You mean the onClick parameter?
Why not? Something like
`
global $bp;
$this_url = $bp->loggedin_user->domain . ‘profile/edit/group/1’;
<input type=button onClick="location.href=''” value=’edit profile’>
`
I prefer to use this approach
`
<a id="some-other-value" href="” title=””>
`
If you want to include a nonce, it’s a bit more complicated.
Hey VeeBee and karmatosed
Just to update – I made a page template and copied and pasted the contents from register.php into the template file, nothing showed up, then i changed put this on top of the template file:
`<?php
global $bp;
if(empty($bp->signup->step))
$bp->signup->step=’request-details’;
?>`
as mentioned here http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/move-registration-to-index-page#post-4235
and the form shows up but the profile field with Name does not, and after inputing data into the fields that do show up and hitting Complete Sign Up just redirects me to the same page.
Here is the page : http://lcfacademy.com/registeree/
I found this plugin to also be helpful, particularly at identifying the field names very clearly.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/navayan-csv-export/
Simply install, go to tools, find the wp_bp_xprofile_data and wp_bp_xprofile_fields and export.
Actually with that info you can do quite a bit. But I think the profile fields is a great reference to complete the code array( above.
Warm regards,
BJ
Hi @mercime, thanks! I will try that tonight!
