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@nanaimomen

It’s easy to display profile fields in the Dashboard.

For example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16485925/extra-profile-field-not-showing-in-wordpress-user-profile/16491050#16491050

Editing the fields on that screen requires additional custom work.
If that is something you need, please go to
http://www.philopress.com/services/

A few questions if that’s ok to try and work out what is going on.

1. Did your theme work for BuddyPress before you updated BuddyPress? If so it could be your theme is causing the issues.
2. What template is being used for the site rendering – is it single.php or page.php or another page?

My first suggestion would be to do some user research. If you work there you can probably brain storm what you’d want from the site as a starting point. If you don’t then select 3-4 user types from the range of users that use them. A type can be gender, age, role, capability – something that makes them unique from other types. A simple format would be to interview / survey what they want from a site. Face to face for this rocks but you may need to do remotely depending on your situation.

Once you have these user types you can see the paths through your site and the user journeys needed. You can even create fake profiles for these user types – make them real in your mind. Think about what tools/ components will enable those journeys – what they need and want to accomplish. Write a list. That’s what should form the site.

Once you have this ‘shopping list’ you could even run it past your user group from the test (if you have one). Nothing like checking usefulness. I usually at this point create a site map using something like Balsamiq or another visualisation tool. This is setting the foundation and giving you an overview before you move onto fun stuff like wireframes.

From this list you probably will also get a list of functionality that you need plugins for (if you do). Do they want to upload documents (a common intranet request)? And so on…

That’s just a starting point but will create a picture for you.

A few other questions worth asking:
– Do you want a social network or do you want a community? A social network is purely connections and whilst can be part of a community isn’t one by itself. A community has deeper relationships and activities such as forums, working towards goals, a whole range of other actions beyond just a stream and friending. Do you want this to become their company home? Do you want this to be a full blown intranet or simply a social network?
– Do you need groups? Are there going to be enough people to create groups (nothing as sad as lots of 1-2 people groups fragmented just to use groups).
– How/who is going to maintain this? If you want a community it needs curation. Whatever format you go with you need moderation, encouragement.

Just a point, when you say editing won’t work. You can in your theme create templates and those won’t get overwritten. This would be the recommended way. I’d say you should be doing this if you want a custom site not just the theme compatibility default version.

@danesensei
Try this technique:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2091168/disable-a-link-using-css
Pay attention to nickf ‘s usage. It uses jquery so if your not familiar with it then you need to study:
http://learn.jquery.com/about-jquery/how-jquery-works/

http://www.s2member.com/kb/free-user-review-approval-process/ ?

@knromaine This isn’t really a question regarding BuddyPress, this ‘page’ isn’t a buddypress’ page it’s a WP page which is using the WP reading settings to set it as the page to use for your index or frontpage, this will have the effect of removing the default view WP provides of the primary posts loop display from your frontpage (so a further page is required that says where wp shows blog post loops) and also removes or changes the buddypress default frontpage view of showing the Activity stream. What is intended to be shown on this new page we can’t say that is dependent on what your theme provides and as such it’s to the theme authors that you ought to address further questions on this aspect of your site.

here’s a untested function. Would perhaps output the member name and the Class he belongs

function bpfr_member_class($myinfo) {
global $bp;

$user_id = bp_get_member_user_id();

$membername = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Name’, $user_id );
$data = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Class’, $user_id );

if( $data )
$myinfo = ‘<div class=”myinfo”>’. $membername.’ CLASS: ‘. $data .'</div>’;

return $myinfo;
}

I’m a newbie to php (me also) – this is not an excuse especially when you’re going to code on the fly without reading documentation and forum topics.

What you doing wrong 😉
– You’re coding directly into your theme
– You don’t read the answers you receive and you don’t answer the questions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5266945/wordpress-how-detect-if-current-page-is-the-login-page

this might also be helpful

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16121077/how-to-redirect-logged-users-to-a-custom-page-in-buddypress-wordpress?utm_source=BuddyPress+Users&utm_campaign=5fbdd3c4b4-BPMail_14_4_25_2013&utm_medium=email

Depends on if it requires a little wordpress and bp customization but you can try here:

BP Jobs Board

Just remember BP is a wordpress plugin and it requires wordpress to work. Good luck!