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The profile labels and data are rendered in table rows. You could copy over the profile-loop.php file to your child theme folder /themes/childtheme/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php and change the table/rows/columns into divs/spans etc.

Or how about something like https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/interactive-profile-fields-during-registration/#post-121132 ?

Is there any reason why you can’t have both/all fields on the initial signup and let the user choose which they complete? Fields required to display on registration need to go in the ‘Base’ group.

@aces

I do not want to completely turn this off. Instead, I want to disable this only for specific profile fields. How can I do that?

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/#examples ?

By default everyone has a profile page within a Buddypress site under domain.com/members/username. You can edit the information that gets added to that profile in Buddypress/Profile Fields. If you want to centralize the community around the profile you can add something like this: http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/ which would redirect your users directly to their profile when they log in.

You could also allow them to customize the background of their profile with this if you really want to go wild: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/allow-your-users-to-change-their-profile-page-background-using-bp-custom-background-for-user-profile-plugin/ although that has the potential to get really ugly.

fix? It’s like that by design, it allows a user to search for other .users with similar interests..

However, if you want more control – Their’s a plugin for that. (we should seriously steal apples “theirs an app for that” marketing.)
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

Could this plugin be the solution for this problem? https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-conditional-profile-field/

Anybody got this plugin to work? Seems non-functional to me…

1. Can I control what fields are visible during registration?
By default everything within the ‘base’ profile group is shown in the registration field, you can mess around with the stuff within the registration template, removing the call to the base group and then adding the required fields in manually… but your better off just moving things you don’t want on the register page into other groups.

2. Can I control when certain Profile fields are displayed in the Profile Section?
Sure can. https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-profile-data-loop-bp_has_profile/
3. Can I control when certain Profile Group Fields are displayed?
See codex link above.The profile data loop includes two loops, one for the fields and another one for the field groups.

I would like to have this, but I want to also upload my own avatars in random order out of a list of say 10 different avatars. Similar to what wavatar does but I want my own images.

== I tried to create a group name under profile setting, But it can’t allow me to create one ==

First, in your new test site, do not activate any plugin except BuddyPress; and only use the bp-default theme.

Just so we’re on the same page, when you say you created a “group name”, do you mean you clicked on the button “Add New Group”? Only the fields you create in the base group will show up in the registration form.

Test: click on “Add New Field” as seen here https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/#bp-xprofiles then add a field with description and save. Log out. Then clear cache and go to registration page.

What other plugins are you running?

This plugin works in thousands of sites. Re-reading your previous posts, have you checked whether you can add profile fields in BuddyPress > Profiles in base group? Have you contacted your host’s tech support and/or checked your forums re any issues about BuddyPress installations?

This looks like the exact kind of thing that I could do with.

I have a site for actors where actors can network.

So that the profiles are uniform and can be searchable, I HAVE to set many fields as required.

I don’t want people signing up with incomplete profiles as it looks bad, so I have to have required fields.

I want to now enable industry businesses like photographers etc to sign up, and they will need a business profile.

The profile can be the same fields for all business that sign up, (they can select a business type as the first drop down) but the business profiles will obviously require different fields to the actors.

I’ll need things like business name, an about us text field, web address and contact info.

Would this plugin be suitable for that?

Any guidance on how this would be possible would be great!

Ross

Closing this for same topic https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/problem-editing-xprofile-fields-1/

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/interactive-profile-fields-during-registration/ ?

If I’m reading it right, it looks like this removes them completely. Is there a way to customize which ones link and which don’t?

@BossX – As in, similar to the wordpress profiles (https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt)?
Yes, it’s possible through a custom theme.

The top part with the profile information is simply the members/single/member-header.php file with code to insert their bio and other info – See: http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/displaying-certain-profile-fields-on-your-members-profile-page/

The bottom part is the members/single/profile.php template (their activity is an external custom built activity stream, but the theory is the same… just add the activity loop) – See: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

And then they changed the default profile view from the activity view to profile with – define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ );