😆 oh if you had a programmer you should have thrown it his way first- anyway it’s an easy enough problem to deal with one way or another.
Thanks Hugo, I’ll have to pass this one on to our programmer 
You’ll need to do something like wrap the custom xprofile loop section in a check for a specific field name ‘birthdate’ and do something like ‘if not’ ‘birthdate’ go ahead and display field item or display if is_admin if you want to be able to see users data as a site admin.
To remove a field you could do:
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in the profile loop; equally if you wanted to remove a complete field group you can copy the approach seen in the file for ensuring that the base group is not shown `if ( 1 != bp_get_the_profile_group_id() ) ` adding an OR followed by a check on the group id to hide.
BP should fulfil all your requirements in respect of the opening post and you can extend that profile functionality with a little work – by default all profile fields are shown excepting signup fields such as email.
The easiest way is to create a new profile field group, and move the fields you don’t want to appear on the registration form into it.
The more involved way is to edit the /registration/register.php file in your theme, and tweak the section that begins “Use the profile field loop to render input fields”. This is also the place where you’ll want to move the markup to arrange the form to your liking; you will probably also need to add some CSS to your theme.
Profiles are by default public, you can also extend them by creating your own custom xprofile fields, these and any profile fields can be further modified if wished to show or hide some based on whether the displayed user is also the logged in user.
My avatar cropping is still not working. My console says:
wp-e-commerce.js:273Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method ‘livequery’
(anonymous function)wp-e-commerce.js:273
f.Callbacks.njquery.js:2
f.Callbacks.o.fireWithjquery.js:2
e.extend.readyjquery.js:2
c.addEventListener.Bjquery.js:2
jquery.cycle.all.js:27[cycle] terminating; zero elements found by selector
jquery.cycle.all.js:27[cycle] terminating; zero elements found by selector
/members/viktor/profile/change-avatar/:52Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method ‘Jcrop’
rx/members/viktor/profile/change-avatar/:52
f.event.dispatchjquery.js:3
f.event.add.h.handle.ijquery.js:3
Any help?
Member can change avatars by going to their user profile > Profile tab > Change Avatar.
When you say no profile content, do you mean the tab is empty? There are no tabs? Can you be more specific? If you haven’t added any extended profile fields, the only data that will display is their name, I believe.
@marcella1981, that sounds awesome, please let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
Cheers,
My webhost purged the cache and that seemed to solve the problem
The cropping still doesn’t work, though 
Hi Bojan
Thanks for your reply. It’s a good start but what I really need is to have two fields in one row. Let’s say two named in one row. There’s a woman and a man and their names, for example, I’d like to show in one row.
Thanks a lot
Hotstaffevents
@Marcella,
Although most of this is way over my head, it looks like you’re on to something great. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help!
There’s no limit to the number (or type) of profile fields that you can use at the same time.
Also, the crop profile picture after upload doesn’t work.
Any help and suggestions very welcomed! Behind schedule because of this hickup Thanks in advance!
Membership – have you seen S2members? https://buddypress.org/community/groups/s2member/
The name, city ect, you can get that by default in buddypress via your wp-admin – go to buddypress/profile fields.
The profile stuff you can achieve by modifying the members/single/* files in your theme https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
Search – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-better-directories/home/
To answer your last question – Pretty much. The only plugin i couldn’t find was the one that forces buddypress to do my laundry… 
– Single wordpress install version 3.3.1
– BuddyPress version 1.5.3.1
– The theme is called Torn 1.7.6 by Louis Zuno
– Of plugins I have:
Akismet, bbpress, Bowe codes, BWP Google XML Sitemaps, Cubepoints, CubePoints Buddypress Integration, GD bbpress attachments, Maintainence Mode, Sociable, Social login, User role editor, wp e-commerce
– I tried deactivating all the plugins and changing to the default buddypress theme, but that had no effect
– WP/BP versions?
– Single WP or WP multisite?
– What theme are you using?
– What plugins do you have installed?
– Have you tried basic troubleshooting like changing to bp-default theme and deactivating all plugins except BP to see if issue is corrected?
Hmm would be cool to add that feature. Has anyone out there done this?
Newly-added mandatory fields stay unset until a user goes to edit their profile (for whatever reason); then they must set them.
I even changed to a buddypress theme and am still having this issue. The profile fields are not showing on the search option form.
Hi man, yeah pretty much. You’ll connect the dots in the back-end and the previously discussed functionality will be applied on the front.
Does seem fairly bespoke though, and wouldn’t necessarily define this as “much needed” as the information can always be captured later.
All depends on the audience though, also…. if you need to capture specific information from others and don’t care how they use the site afterwards then you could use a Gravity Form.
Wow that looks great!! So if I understand it right depending on what role the user selects on the drop down menu at the buddypress registration the relevant registration form will show up below?
The screenshot looks awesome and I think the ability to direct users on 1st stage to specific xprofiles group will be a much needed addition to bp, especially for us novices
Ahhh “search_terms” Is what I was missing. I was looking for the “fields” which would only yield the contents of the profile fields correct?
Would I really need to use a loop? Doesn’t the search_terms inherently search all profiles with that term and display the search terms page?
I mean all I would need to do is display all search terms as links (just as they would display on a profile page) in a navigation bar on the member directory.
Another way to do this would be if you can allow people to use tags in the signup form. Essentially all I am looking for is some type of taxonomy I can use for members that the members set for themselves. I am not married to the idea of using the search_terms.
