BuddyPress.org

Wordpress Version: 4.3.1
Theme: Enfold
Plugins with media:

Better bbPress Signature
EWWW Image Optimizer
W3 Total Cache

There are more plugins but they are only for bbpress.
I also installed the Buddypress Beta, but the bug is still there.

And thank you already for your time 🙂

the basic php filter code was share with me, needed for this. Now i’m investigating how to put a ‘Rich Text’ checkbox on the fields editor.

Feel free to help over here
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-textarea-field-to-buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type

thx!

thank you very much!

your solution is slightly different from this other one, which helps me learn.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-textarea-field-to-buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type?replies=5#post-8009134

thx!

Why don’t you install it through WordPress?
Dashboard -> Plugins -> Install -> search for Buddypress and then install it.
Then go to Settings -> Buddypress -> Sites and you can change the site fore registration and activation, it can be, that the sites don’t exist, so you need to create them and link them to it.

hmm, ok, taking a different approach. i’m inspecting donmik’s files in ‘buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type’. Hope that’s ok, donmik!

i found ‘datepicker’ in:

bp-xprofile-custom-fields-type.php
classes\Bxcft_Field_Type_Datepicker.php
lang\buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type.pot
lang\en_US.mo
lang\en_US.po

(ignoring the non-english files for the moment).

i simply duplicated all the ‘datepicker’ code-chunks in these files, and replaced ‘datepicker’ with ‘textarea’.

also duplicated the file ‘classes\Bxcft_Field_Type_Datepicker.php’, renamed it ‘Bxcft_Field_Type_Textarea.php’, and removed any date-specific code i found there.

and so on and so forth.

then i zipped it, uploaded to wordpress, activate, and added my new Textarea field to a form.

i actually got no errors, and actually got a text field on my registration form!

unfortunately, it’s only a one-line textbox, not a multiline textarea.

hrm. In inspector, the displayed field is:

<input type="string">

so something in donmik’s code, or BP, or WP, is causing this to render as an <input> rather than <textarea>

….

Thanks for the reply! You couldn’t find any links because my post never gets posted. I have not repeatedly tried to post it – I waited 2 days between each post and there is only 1 link in my post and that is to my web site. I really need help with my issue and both my hosting company and wordpress.org’s support forum have told me to post on buddypress.

It is still not working after changing to your code. Seems like it is unable to capture the value of $_POST[‘bpcat’] and update to the database.

bpcat is still stored as NULL in the mysql database.
I am using the latest buddypress and wordpress.

again my full code http://pastebin.com/MBNcn2pe

Solved.

It’s this plugin:

Introducing Conditional Profile Fields for BuddyPress plugin

really appreciate the awesome developer who built this!

not this one. Unfortunately doesn’t work on WP 4.4.2
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-conditional-profile-field/

this thread says bp_core_signup_user does not work:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-hook-into-add-new-member-in-buddypress

the weird thing is, it’s doing something (because it goes to the login page with the hack, and to the activation page without the hack).

So i think bp_core_signup_user is working. The issue appears to be bp_core_redirect.

Paul Gibbs, Keymaster, suggests bp_core_redirect might get called in the wrong place– “too high up in the stack”. The OP also mentions that wp_redirect works, and in fact wp_redirect works for me.

So, unless there’s some special reason why i should not use wp_redirect, that’s my fix.

why does bp_core_redirect even exist, if wp_redirect is available? I assume it has some special function that wp_redirect cannot do. right?

any ideas why it doesn’t work in this scenario? Maybe something wrong with those parameters i’m passing it, 100 and 1? What are those params? Where can i find documentation for bp_core_redirect? can’t find…..

many thx

<?php
/*
Plugin Name:       Redirect After Register
Plugin URI:        http://laptopacademy.net
Description:       Redirect after user registration. 
Version:           1.0.0
Author:            John Weiss
Author URI:        http://laptopacademy.net/wordpress/instructor
License:           GPL-2.0+
License URI:       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
Text Domain:       redirect-after-register
Domain Path:       /languages
*/