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We have a premium plugin that shows xprofile fields on the User > Edit screen in the Dashboard:

http://www.philopress.com/products/bp-dashboard-user-profile-edit/

No direct way of bulk-editing profile fields; sounds dangerously powerful. If you are a PHP/WordPress developer, or know someone who is, I’d suggest writing a script to make these changes for you.

You could do this by adding a conditional check around the tr markup in the while loop that generates the field name and data while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field();

With that check in place you would then remove the bp_the_profile_field_value() function and replace it with something like echo do_shortcode( '[myshortcode user_id=' . bp_displayed_user_id() '] );

Not utilizing the profile search plugin alone. If you were using a custom registration form like Gravity Forms Registration you could create additional profile groups with the fields worded how you want and the gravityforms registration could automatically update both sets of profile fields accordingly to how you set them up.

To my knowledge, profile fields accept HTML. Have you tried inserting tags to see? try adding <strong>test</strong> to a profile field to see if the text is bolded.

* Better options for users to self delete

Expanding. Without backend access, it would be nice for a site allow a user to delete in several ways. Purge all their profile fields and networks (‘destroy all personal data’), Retain their profile fields and networks whilst making it look like they have vanished (‘hide’ if you like), Delete Uterly.

* Multiple networks. We have friends, and with plugins one sided friendships (aka followers). sometimes its useful to have different types of relationships identified – “close friends” or “have done business with” or “merely online buddies”. It would be nice for an admin to be able to define additional types of friendships either independently, or by associating a scale (an integer valued friendship, 1=I want to see your feed stuff 2=online mates 3=actual real life chums 4=we’re married).

@noizeburger I think I get what you mean. To show all members of type ‘fan’ in a “fan directory” you would do this

<?php

$fans = get_users( array( 'role' => 'fan' ,'fields'=>'ID') );
$fans = implode( ',', $fans );

if ( bp_has_members( '&include=' . $fans ) ) :
    while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member();
        // you can output whatever you like here such as member name, avatar, role and so on
        // we will output just member name for now
        echo bp_member_name();
    endwhile;

else:
    echo 'Sorry, no fans';
endif;
?>

Not sure what you mean by meta key, but…

Use something like phpmyadmin to look at the database tables.

There are 4 tables, for example wp_bp_xprofile_fields
The info you need is in one or more of those tables.

Hi Martin,
I am interested to know if this is a custom registration page that you built or is it an available plugin. Registration has been a big issue for me. I am using WPUF Pro with their Buddypress Integration Add On to create a custom registration page but am having issues with user meta compatibility at the moment and therefore am looking for a better solution.
The issue for me with my solution is that the user fields map to Buddypress but do not save correctly due to user meta incompatibility. Still working on this and trying to solve.
Please let me know if you have found a good solution. Registration form in buddypress is a big problem and needs a multi-tabbed solution in my opinion.