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Some GROUPS import plugin would be great because the force of the buddypress and similar social network is mainly in Groups , groups represents local business as companies , sport clubs , company divisions , theaters , museums , schools (Groups =classes) . Members represents employees & athletes & students .
Many local activities , many associations has a list of those clubs & companies & schools in their CSV files , they would use it very nicely with buddypress , then they can use BP powerful forums for their employees , maps , reviews , docs , galleries .
I have a csv lists of bars , nightclubs from all over the world (200K) , with custom fields like :

name
country
province
city
address
phone
email
basic club description
and one Group profile picture =logo

which serves for everybody – girls searching for jobs (I am using Docs for explanation info ) , clients searching for reviews , photo galleries , club owners searching for both – girls working there , clients coming there , many BP webmasters are using Groups for similar purposes , many people who doesn’t know buddypress yet and has those huge csv lists would be potentially a new BP users , especially because of that great feature (bulk Groups import plugin).
Nobody will want to create one group for 5 minutes , they would like to import basic xxx groups to set up basic database and to give an example to the new group admins creators =(club owners as admins) in my case , maybe they would also like to sync it with their excel database in future.
I understand that BP developers have a lot of work to do , so I don’t ask that kind of code or plugin urgently , but if it is not too difficult (only you know it if it is , because for me 3 lines of simple code seems to be very difficult ) , would be nice to have it for all of us = BP users , if it is a quite difficult take it pls only as e new plugin suggestion .

Did you ever create a wordpress/buddypress plugin for this? I need to limit characters on activity, but I’m not a programmer. I can activate a plugin though! Also, I need to limit characters on a couple of custom profile fields. Thanks and Let me know!

very nice avatars , I am using facebook autoconnect premium , I am satisfied with that (except facebook fields support – location , age , language ) , I am also member of buddydev.com where I can use its facebook connect too, but avatars from there changes the size in sidebar and in profile and till now I didn’t have a time to play with css files to change it and to put it in live environment , I like Brajesh plugin more because of facebook fields = buddypress profiles fields sync , feature which autoconnect doesn’t have , do you support that too ? I am using facebook autoconnect a lot , so if you want I can try to test it out for you too . Using custom avatars like I have seen your examples would be great because many people doesn’t want to show their original facebook photos .

I had the same question 1 month ago here on BP and nobody responded , hope that somebody will respond you because I have a csv file with 20K nightclubs and I would like to create 20K groups where every club will have their forum , review , blog , gallery , wiki =docs . I would like to add there some groups profile custom fields where I should add custom fields to describe every club , but there’s no fully working plugin yet , Groups Extras from @slaffik seems to be left, Groups Frontpage has only a few fields.

@candy2012 just to clarify, the order of the fields should be

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<input type="hidden" name="signup_profile_field_ids" id="signup_profile_field_ids" value="” />

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It works great!

@jpfaraco the following method worked fine for me.

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But the methods discussed in other posts did not, namely;

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Perhaps somebody more knowledgeable than I could explain why, since the first method was recommended several times in the past by @hnla – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-custom-profile-fields-in-a-template-file/

You can read a full tutorial about it here:

http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/displaying-certain-profile-fields-on-your-members-profile-page/

For anyone else looking for getting an if statement to work, I got to work. This is from member-loop.
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Here is the same for the member-header.

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Hi Brandon,
I’d love to learn more about how can I implement what you suggested (I am not a programmer, so I’d really need some code here )

“hook in a profile edit action and check to see if all the fields you require have been completed. ” .. how ?!?!?
Can you help with the function pls?

“Then you could hook into bp_init, check that usermeta field, and if you don’t get the correct response, then you can redirect them to their profile, or display an error telling them they need to complete their profile.” – would be fantastic, but again … how to write that?

The issue with “friendly or not for the user” is all related with what your site wants 2 achieve; if you simply need all that information to make your site useful and do not want to end up as a fakes collection a la Facebook, than you just NEED to find a way to enforce that on users …

Thank you in advance, woudl be really great to have some feedback on that!

(I find that user progression pretty much useless, and it does not work properly in WP 3.1.2 either ); that’s just my opinion on it ..

what do you mean by “miss”?!? All those mandatory fields are useless if not forcing the user to fill them in (which right now does not happen)
It’s a complete lack of logics, don’t you see that?

right now you have so-called mandatory fields which actually are optional, cause no one, no where, can force the user to fill them in!

works well for me
I would have loved to have a splitted registration form though (like fields from group1 on the 1st page, fields from group 2 & 3 on the following form registration page, etc), to prevent scare away users if you happen to have more fields you want them 2 fill in …

but I must be honest, I have NO clue as of how to achieve that ..

If you happen to find a solution, I’d appreciate if you’d post it back here

C.

Is there a way to add extended profile fields info to the Bookings Report? When people register, I ask them if they are Vegetarian and I need that info when I manage the bookings to know how many vege meals to serve. I tried using for an added column but it only fetches my preference in all the columns.

Hope to see the option to add extended fields in Books report.

Custom Profile Fields Buddy press plugins… there is a also a few permission plugins in there also… wordpress.org i found them months and months back still work…

`one, too: cursor on “buddypress with logo” on menu, on left. it will show arrow to expand, see option there.`

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Just go to your dashboard and create more profile fields under “Profile Field Setup”

@paulhastings0 Try this filter, it will sync user name on the fly

just paste this block of code in your template functions.php

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///// To sync user names on the fly, it will show xprofile fullname of user
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function wpi_sync_member_name($data) {
global $members_template, $bp;

#$firstname = xprofile_get_field_data( 1, $members_template->member->id ); // 1 = firstname > wp_bp_xprofile_fields.id
#$lastname = xprofile_get_field_data( 51, $members_template->member->id ); // 51 = lastname > wp_bp_xprofile_fields.id
#$fullname = $firstname .’ ‘.$lastname;
#return $fullname;

return bp_core_get_user_displayname( $members_template->member->id );

}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_member_name’, ‘wpi_sync_member_name’ );
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https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

The “create blog” text only shows up if you’ve enabled multisite. Which I’m not sure the book covers.

do not shown create blog data or, the fields in Profile, created by me after install

What? Please rephrase your question, because I can’t understand your problem.

Here is a recap of some posts I posted at http://buddydev.com recently:

I use Bp-Cosmic-Pro Theme built of of bp-mag and have about one spam registration per couple of weeks (and it’s usually a real person that registers and gets through)… They are caught within minutes of posting something ridiculous and marked as spammers by the admins.

There are a number of reasons for that:

1. It’s a closed/ register only site (but free to all), (note: I do not require e-mail validation either)
2. I use BuddyPress Humanity Anti-Spam Plugin
3. I use Si-Captcha Anti-Spam
3. Multiple Profile fields are required to be filled-in at registration as an ANTI-SPAM measure – in part.
4. I have a TERMS and use that Requires THE CHECKING of a box to register.
5. I use the bad behavior plugin to keep out the crazies and use the Blocking-list feature of it.

Occasionally, I get the I can’t register e-mail, but it is rare and there is a note for people to contact me if they can’t register properly… I have 1700 active (non-spam users) on my site and virtually no SPAM.

I believe one of the keys to success here is that it is a “private site” and as such it’s not indexed (I realize this could be a problem for many sites, but not my niche site). So, sites don’t scrape it as a potential source to attack.

I would also recommend the ANIMAL BuddyPress Captcha plugin.

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I usually think about SPAM protection in the form of a Castle for open community WordPress Sites:
1. The Moat: Programs like Bad-Behavior and plugins that stop bots/scrapers before they get “through” to the site.
2. The Gate/Drawbridge: Programs like Captchas, Math Challenges, Reverse fields that SHOULDN’T be filled in to “trap” bots from auto-filling.
3. The Keep: Programs like Akismet.
4. The Guards: Moderators with the ability to knock out spam when they see it.

The biggest issue with BuddyPress is that THERE IS NO KEEP (no. 3 above) for the Activity Streams…
As far as I know, there are not programs like Akismet or any of the “KARMA” / Comment anti-spam plugins that work for the BuddyPress group/activity/forum streams… DJ-PAUL has talked about making Akismet work on BuddyPress Streams at the BuddyPress.org site, but there is nothing yet that I know of yet –

If anyone does know of something that will “auto-moderate” the BuddPress Stream updates/comments, please let me know…

Regards.

@wordpresschina @boonebgorges
Unfortunately, I cannot get it to work so far. I have 870 users with about 30 different profile fields from another CMS which I need to import, so it would be really important not to have to do this by hand… Could you provide an example csv file which shows how it should be structured? Are the names for the columns just given in the first row?

Cheers

Sebastian