@kirkslater,
you are most welcome. Checking that thread in a minute 
@sbrajesh worked perfectly many thanks
Could I be a pain and ask you to take a look over this issue as well? If not, no worries 
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/display-age-on-profile-page/
I can still see a problem in making this whole thing dynamic. I.e: have seperate loops for lets say ‘students’, ‘academics’ and ‘staff’. Would that be possible to implement? Basically the values that are passed to inclide_by_meta would have to change according to which name/value/role I want to filter by. That is a bit over my head, as I’m not a coder. Any help is appreciated!
Hi there,
how does your code behave in BP 1.5? I am trying to filter members by user role and used the following code:
`
<?php
$user_role = array (
‘role’ => ‘author’,
);
$all_authors = get_users ($user_role);
$members_to_be_included = array ();
foreach ($all_authors as $all_author) {
$members_to_be_included[] = $all_author->ID;
}
?>
`
The problem I run into though is that when I use the filter members by ‘active’, ‘alphabetical’ etc. those filters would not work anymore. Do they work with your code? Will definitely try this out!
PS: my profile fields are changed to spanish names/labels. ie: “Full name” is “Nombre Completo” and so on… thanks
@boonegorges yes, please forgive me. I’m using BP 1.5 (the “definitive” version) and the last version of WordPress. Here’s the thing:
After editing the profile fields of a user and hitting the “save” button, an error shows telling that there was an error while saving the changes and if the fullname of the user was changed, it shows the username insted of the previous one.
(i.e: I set my fullname to “Boone Gorges” and hit “save”. Then the fullname field shows the value of “boongorges”).
Now checking my Database I see in “wp_users” -> boongorges I see that this fields and values… (among others):
|| user_login || boongorges
|| user_nicename || boongorges
|| user_url || (empty)
|| display_name || (empty)
This was fixed on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4939 but that worked on BP 1.5 beta 2 but now with the release of “Lombardi” it got back to the same problem.
Thanks for your help, very much
I am disappointed that BuddyPress does not simply use and extend the WP profile fields. It complicates things.
And synching profiles with mailchimp plug-ins is now more complex – ok it doesn’t work – for me anyway.
BuddyPress is a WP plug-in, not a standalone system so it should plug in to WP, including profiles. Bp says it offers extended profiles, not different profiles.
Incidentally my users want Last name, First name, just to complicate things further.
Hi
Just what I am looking for I think. So if I understand right I create user profile fields for Facebook, twitter and linkedin and instead of displaying the user entered link it will display the icons for each.
Next question where do and in which file do I place the suggested code?
thanks
Safari browser can use the gps API on an iPhone, I’m not sure about Android. You could create code that attaches user meta to a logged in user and save the gps coordinates then filter members list by distance.
There are a couple location plugins but those are address based in which you enter address into profile fields. They do not update your current info.
So yes it’s doable but no plugin currently exists.
BuddyPress has it’s own integrated with WordPress users – you can add profile fields and have other control things. In theory they are the same but with additions.
Yes, if you want to maximise what the site does getting a theme designed from the start for BuddyPress is a good step. But, with the template pack as said you don’t have to do that.
I am using gravity forms to fetch the directory data from user . The fields in gravity form are mapped with the custom fields of custom post type ‘listing’ ,the one i mentioned above. Therefore when the user fill the gravity form , it will dynamically create a post .Now i need to list this post in user’s profile.Sorry if i am not clear .To put it shortly, I need to display a custom post in user’s profile.
I’m having this same issue as well, sort of. I upgraded my production site to 1.5, since all worked well with my test installation. Upon upgrade, all Full Name fields were replaced with the data from the usernames field. So, usernames are displayed in place of the Full Name in the member header as well as the profile section. Only after reading jorge’s issues did I attempt to change the field names.
What’s odd is that in the activity stream, new entries retain the Full Name while replies to entries display the username – even when a user is replying to their own activity. I’ve tried rolling back to 1.2.10 – just the buddypress plugin itself, not the whole database – but the problem persists. Any ideas devs? @boonebgorges @djpaul
Members edit profile fields on their profile. Click the profile tab and then edit. These extra fields do not show in the WordPress user page in the admin
Read this page a code snippet for displaying profile fields in member header https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/tips-tricks/
Did you update that theme to the (if it has one) BuddyPress 1.5 version? I’m a thinking if you didn’t my theory over scripting could be the problem. Doesn’t ‘overly’ solve the how it’s working now but lets just consider that a positive
thanks @karmatosed – the other two sites are on default bp theme. while this dennis-the-menace is on a canvas child theme.
I’m a thinking something squiffy is up with either another plugin or theme or browser cache on that one then. It would be using scripting for the drag and drop so perhaps that’s what is sticking.
Did you try using firebug or even the default BuddyPress 1.5 theme with no other plugins and browser cache cleared? Just trying to level the playing field.
That said if it works now you probably can’t test but worth noting for future maybe.
…I wonder if the W3TC is causing a conflict…I did have it on on this trouble site and i didn’t turn it off while i was having trouble. I’ll see if the problem pops up again.
what was strange is that it all worked on another site with fresh new profile fields, and also on another site with old profile fields but is a newer install. So this must be isolated to this one site that is much older, it usually causes me trouble.
Lol you beat me updating . I’m not sure that a reinstall was required but glad it is working.
My only thoughts why the dragging wouldn’t work could be some scripting clash or browser cache.
*update
I ended up reinstalling wordpress and de/reactivating bp and it seems to have done the trick.
I’ve just given this a sanity check (all be it on a fresh site) and I was able to move from one group to another a field.
Can you confirm when you click and hold on the field and then move to the tab above (the one corresponding to the group you want to move into) it doesn’t work? That’s what worked for me.
#1 – see JJJ’s profile page on testbp.org http://testbp.org/members/johnjamesjacoby/profile/
By default, data entered by members in their profile fields are turned into links ala tags. So on that page, when you click on the USA link, a page will be generated to show all members who have entered USA in Country field.
On your end, you could just create your own links in sidebar or elsewhere like
`Rock and Roll`
`Swing`
of course replacing yoursite.com with your own domain name and replacing Rock and Roll with any text you want to match up.
#2 – You can make sure that the first page visitors will see will be the member’s profile instead of the activity page by adding this to your wp-config.php at root of your WP installation
`define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ ); `
Ref: https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/
I want to use this http://www.weather.com/weather/today/30075
and replace it with
http://www.weather.com/weather/today/%zipcode% from the zipcode field of my users profiles. But, I can’t get it to work. I want the weather to show up in a bottom widget area unique to the users zipcode field from their profile.
Anyone know how I can do this?
I think it is failing to pull the user’s zipcode field setting because the RSS feed is from weather.com and not my domain.
Any ideas?
Try using this http://github.com/modemlooper/buddypress-group-fields
You have to edit the code your self to add fields. i’m going to develop it so it matched the profile fields editor that comes in default BP.
