Anyone? This is kind of a big issue, not just with my site but anyone that has extended profiles activated. If you can delete a Primary/Required field, that’s big in itself. But if it can be automatically re-added by disabling/enabling XProfiles, and it doesn’t sync up when it’s re-enabled, then most people will not know there is an issue till it’s too late.
Since I disabled Extended Profiles then Re-enabled it, numerous times, I now have 8 (eight) Name (Primary)(Required) fields in the extended profiles area that do not sync up nor can they be deleted.
Very timely question. I came here to ask the exact same thing. (Originally posted here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/how-to-hide-specific-buddypress-profile-fields – they suggested I ask here)
Ummm…I guess this thread is spammed?
Thank you for the link, Aces, but my problem with that answer is that every profile field is filled in (5 or 6) and I only tweak my site vis CSS includes, so that would be alot of changing the .php files which don’t do.
I would like to figure out why it is happening, if at all possible.
I have some other issues, and I thought I’d line them up.
I tried searching around the web, but I couldn’t come to a sollution. I have two buddypress-related issues, that I was hoping to get some help with.
1. is that http://roskilde-open.dk/om-os/sidens-medlemmer should display all the sites registered users, but for some reason it only shows those that registered or have logged in with us, since I migrated the site to a new host. Maybe I could do a “log all in and out”-call and it’d fix it, but I have no idea how. Maybe you guys have a better suggestion, but I’m running out of ideas 
2. When a user uploads a new avatar, the crop function isn’t working as it should. It just shows part of the images not giving options to select wich area of the image to crop. I think it’s some js that’s either not being loaded or getting errors. I just don’t know where it’s going wrong and how I go about fixing it.
Thanks in advance
-Viktor
Just posting again, hoping someone can help with this issue (see above).
I don’t really know how to figure out if they’ve been loaded or not Should I just read it in with my theme to be sure, or will a double load of j-crop crash things?
Dashboard menu BuddyPress > Profile Fields.
Note that any fields in the “Base” group will appear on the signup page == registration page. So create another xprofile group for the fields which could be answered at a later date.
Sorry to bump, but if anyone has any idea about where this code lives then I’m happy enough to snip the bits out of it!
I use a combination of xprofile and BuddyPress Profile Privacy. Granted this does not automatically create new ‘tabs’ it does allow you to separate Profile Fields into Groups and give the user control of who has access to what. I have a separate group for Social Networks. This allows the user to enter their social network information. Facebook Profile, Twitter, MSN, AIM, etc. This Social Network ‘group’ is displayed below the user’s other profile information.
Adding them isn’t a problem at all, (although I am sure you know this, sorry if I am being over-simple) you just go to the dashboard, go to buddypress -> profile fields and then add the ones you want in there. You’d need to create a hook into the sign-up process to then restrict the sign-up based on age though, which becomes more complex
aces, that’s a good option, but many simply don’t even want to have to adjust their settings to hide what they view as very private data, and many won’t even check until they get someone telling them, “Hey, did you know a lot of your private data is showing on your profile?” By then, trust is lost, often permanently.
Here’s what my developer came up with, though I sure would prefer this solution in the long term: http://csplacemaking.com/images/profile-questions.png. I can’t understand why anyone would be OK with their birthdate publicly displayed. Anyway it’s a hack, but it works…
She put it in the CSS file, and you have to know the numeric field IDs. Scroll to the end of the themes/[your theme, in my case, Tachyon from Rocketthemes]/css/template.css file and adjust the following code:
.controlwidget {display: inline-block; float: left;margin-left: 1px;}
html body table.profile-fields tr.field_3, html body table.profile-fields tr.field_3 * { display: none !important; }
html body table.profile-fields tr.field_2, html body table.profile-fields tr.field_2 * { display: none !important; }
html body table.profile-fields tr.field_15, html body table.profile-fields tr.field_15 * { display: none !important; }
@dtay1985 , yeah I just tried it but I dont get how you get the additional profile fields that are unique, dependant on which user type that chosen..
By default, BP has only that ‘name’ profile field. All BuddyPress profile fields are separate and distinct from any field in the WP user profile. For example, creating a field in BP called ‘biography’ won’t have any link or relation to the WP profile field of the same name.
The “profile syncing” option in BP, I believe, only tries to take your BP profile field ‘Name’, and separating on a space, populate WP profile’s First name, Last name, and Display Name fields.
is this the issue I’m experiencing?
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3725
looks like fixed in 1.6, is it?
My crop tool wasn’t working and it ended up being an error with the way I had enqueued the scripts and a JS error. After upload I was just seeing two versions of the image I had uploaded but no crop tool and nothing was interactive.
Be sure that jquery and jcrop are actually being called.
And check out those type errors. It could be stoping JS on those breaks.
I had wp-activate-users installed and there was a big typo in the JS that ended up being my main culprit for breaking a few other things as well.
dont look lke a buddypress driven site! specialy he profile fields!
I’m a bit unclear on the use of the word ‘groups’ here (BP is not entirely clear either). There are ‘profile field groups’, which are groupings of profile fields, and then there are Groups. You’re talking about profile field groups, right?
Note that profile fields will only show up on a user’s profile if the user has filled in some data for that field. So if you’ve added new fields, they won’t show up on a user’s public profile until they have filled something in.
Hi @takuya and @cyrille13 – Sorry for some of the miscommunications above. It was only after seeing the linked bug report that I was able recognize that what you were reporting was actually an instance of https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3725, which we’ve known about for a while, but which was very difficult to track down. (See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3725#comment:7 for all the gory details.) It has been fixed for the next version of BP. In the meantime, you can fix your installation either by manually applying https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5778, or by doing what @cyrille13 suggests: changing the name of your Full Name profile field at Dashboard > BuddyPress > Profile Fields.
Thanks for your patience.
I looked at adding some $xprofile_allowedtags into the bp-xprofile-filters.php file. No luck with that either yet. Must be something else.
I’ve been searching for an answer myself for awhile.. I kinda gave up on it but still was able to put
“ in the css in home.php and created divs and allowed the users to change the size, color, ect of their profile.
@mysmallbizu
Please don’t hijack another thread with a different problem. It would be better start a new topic!
