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Sounds like a lot of info for the sign up form. What about jus putting a dropdown with the ‘person type’ in the first profile field group (which is the one that appears on the registration page by default), and then putting further type-specific fields into their own profile groups.

With a little bit of coding, you can deny visibility or access to these other profile groups depending on user type, without too much diffficulty.

If I am understanding you correctly you want people to be able to search for others by category?

You could add a profile field with a drop down selection box with the categories you have in mind.

I don’t know if you can select more than one so you may have to add this field 5 times if you want them to choose up to 5 categories.

I’m fairly new at this myself but I’m sure all the profile fields are searchable.

Anyway – just a thought.

You lost me at “but new members registering in these fields should never be visible only to the four basic fields “

Hi all,

I modified the code from DuableLLC a bit to check for roles. I post it in case someone is looking for a solution like that:

This function goes in the functions.php

`// to exclude only defined roles in the Buddypress Members LOOP

function exclude_by_role($exclude_roles) {

$memberArray = array();

if (bp_has_members()) :
while (bp_members()) : bp_the_member();
$user = new WP_User( bp_get_member_user_id() );
$user_role = $user->roles[0];
foreach ($exclude_roles as $exclude_role) {
if ($exclude_role==$user_role) {
array_push($memberArray, $user->ID);
break;
}
}
endwhile;
endif;

$theExcludeString=implode(“,”,$memberArray);

return $theExcludeString;
}`

Then in the template members-loop.php you use:
`$excluded_roles = array (‘administrator’, ‘author’, ‘subscriber’); // this can be any roles you have set up

if (bp_has_members( ‘exclude=’ . exclude_by_role($excluded_roles) . ‘&’ . bp_ajax_querystring( ‘members’ ) ) ) : ?>
`

What theme are you using? Has it been updated for BP 1.5+ ? If you change to bp-default theme, is issue corrected?

Pinging the entire core team and a forum moderator is not going to help get a quicker response.

This sounds like a weird bug, I have not seen it before. Is it all profile fields? Or just custom fields which you have created? Have you renamed the default profile field (if so, to what)?
Is it always the same user’s data, or does it change? Is this user an admin or have any other special role on your site?

If it’s the same problem, r-a-y suggested a different fix in https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-clear-the-previous-registration-form-data-1/

Facebook book login integration can be done with the WP-FB-Autoconnect plugin. I have tried it myself and it is a solid plugin, however FB avatar support is a tad wonky.

Really will depend on what your needs are. I am actually looking for answers to mapping profile fields between FB and BuddyPress so that I can roll my own integration.

Tried this is custom php, but got error message:(Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_get_profile_field_data() in /home/content/42/8142642/html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 4)

if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( ‘field=user-groups ‘ ) ) : ?>

Hey! I know, its an old topic.

But did you get a solution?
I have the same problem. I want to have two fields for first- and lastname instead of fullname (field_1).

Best regards,
Razz!

Either you’ve forgotten you created that xprofile group name several weeks ago or another Site/Super Admin created that profile group

It’s not a Groups component but a Profile component. To edit the name of the Profile Group Name, go to wp-admin dashboard menu BuddyPress > Profile Fields and click on the Tab “Getting to know you” and click on Edit Group button under Profile Group Name.

As for adding an image fields in user profile, can’t do that in default and there’s no plugin for that at this time. You’d have to develop this or find a developer to do this for you.

This may get you part of the way there:

BuddyPress Custom Background For User Profile

Im trying to do the same thing, this is a code that im using to config to something just like it.
Instead im using it to over lay the whole background of the users profile ( just a quick fix for privacy settings ) But for some reason it isn’t working like i wanted it too.. ( nor is it working at all ) Maybe you could use this in hopes it could lead you to your answer. Once again this is not a answer to your question, its just a code to help you get started.

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Set to Private!

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Ps. Let me if this helps and if you found a fix for it.

I think that is the default way that BP works.. (unless you have some addon).. I have found an addon called Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress which lets you selectively create links so that you can make all fields not links except for maybe twitter usernames, or account type, etc.

The core reason why it’s difficult to do infinite filters like this is because BP xprofile fields are abstracted. That is to say, in order for our profile fields to be extensible (so that your site can have different profile fields from mine) we have moved the profile data to a separate table, which is essentially a key-value table. This is in contrast to a solution where you store all profile data in a single table, making it very easy and fast to filter by many criteria at once (the trade-off being that the table structure needs to be set in stone).

The numbers you cite shouldn’t be much of a problem. You may experience some slowness if you try filtering along 7, 8, 9 criteria at the same time, though I suspect that this is probably an edge case. In any case, some solid MySQL query caching will help.

Hi Guys

Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Bojan

First, you should enable registration in admin dashboard menu Settings > General

Capture more data from user by adding more profile fields. See Extended Profile fields https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/