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Hi there,

I had the issue with posting a reply yesterday too. Weird.
That is why I split my message in 2 and than I could post it.

I was able to read your share txt and the next replies and also view that images.

Anyway… I am willing (if you are willing to put the time in it) to give you access to my staging site, but I rather not post the link in public, to avoid traffic from Google and such to that staging website. But there does not seem to be a way to share the link with you in private. Do you have any suggestions?

To further explain my situation: I did not make any customizations to my buddypress or xprofile plugin that have anything to do with the profile fields. From the clean install, the “Name” field is already there from the start, when installing the buddypress plugin.

I am not adding users via the admin section, I am letting them signup via the website register form. So following this process, the situation is as described before, where the “Name” will be filled in by the user as part of the registration process. The Name field is mandatory, set by Buddypress, which I can not influence nor rename.

I did nothing to influence the Name field, other than translating it like I explained before.
The Name is operating as a seperate field, that does not seem to link to username by default. And that is also not what I want. Because it would lead to the username being shown twice on a profile page, which is ridicilous of course. Since you can not block or hide the Name field, it will be there. Also, the Name field is always on the register form, and the field is mandatory (which you cannot change), so people CAN and probably will fill in something different than their username. Most likely their first name. Which is what happened on my site anyway, people fill in their regular first name. Only a handfull will choose like a second username/nickname for the field value. Anyway, in 99% process of the time, the Name field is populated with a different value than the username as a result of the website registration process (which is not changed, it is by default like that, since installing buddypress).

I use the BuddyX theme. But the issue is not related to the theme, because using a default WordPress theme (like twenty two or so), will have the same result.

So, it poses as a problem, if the usernames show up on the userlist, but the sorting will go on the “Name” field, which is not identical to the username. This will lead to a really undesired situation, where the sorting does not seem to work properly on the frontend, because “invisible” the userlist is sorted on the Name field.

And also, this is new. Before, this was not the case. It did NOT sort on the “Name” field. And I’m oblivious why it does now, what is the intent by changing this.

So, to address the situation, and to avoid having duplicate usernames on the profile page, I would rather stick with people using the Name field as their first name or something like that.

I would like to sort on display name. Is there a way to do that? Do you have a suggestion?

Screenshot of test user “debugger” field information in bp_xprofile_data:

On the screenshot you can see field name 1 (Name) come in as “Annie”. So, this is not the same field and not the display name. The display name CAN become “Annie”, when i choose to change it after I edit my profile, but not as standard, than it will use my username. This is also the desired situation, I want people to show with their usernames.

So, after the WordPress update the following has changed:
– It is now mandatory to use “Name” for mandatory base field, I am not allowed to translate that. I can do it probably with Translate press as you suggested and I will look into that. But it is a new thing, it was not like that before. Thanks for your suggestion!
– The “Alphabetical” sorting option in the memberlist is now sorting on this “Name” field and not on the “display name”. If a user their username is for example: robinhood and their “name” is “patrick”, it will give a really weird non-alphabetical result in the userlist, as you can still see their usernames, but the sorting is now done on a different field than before. Do you follow?

Anyway, I would like to have it that it sorts by default on alphabetical and that it will sort on “display name” rather than “Name”.

Do you think this is a release bug, or is this change intentional?

Any suggestions? Wait for a fix, or will it have to be manual code in wpcode?

Thanks for your support again.

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Also from my side, very much appreciated all the help and effort -> sorry for not mentioning that before! I was so hyperfocussed on the issue that I forgot human interaction.

Anyways, again, thank you.

To further empathize what I mean with the display name is this:

Screenshot of a test user I just registered via the normal process on the website signup form:

You see username, nicename, display name are automatically set same as the username (which is debbugger)
I filled the “Name” field on signup with “Annie”, as a random name. and some other random fake user information. As you can see “Annie” is not showing up, only that “debugger” which I choose as my username.

Screenshot of bp_xprofile_fields, where you can see the “Name” base field (1):

As you can see, “Name” is hardcoded in the database. And this is mandatory. I had this translated to “Naam” before, but after the wordpress update, that was no longer allowed. It took me days to figure that out, but I am happy I found out. This thing was the sole reason everything like friendlist, userlist, etc. did not work anymore. Please note I am not allowed to rename or change any setting with regards to this field. I am also not allowed to delete it. I am stuck with it, it seems.

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On second thought… this is within the Buddypress coding, so something that must have changed for WordPress 6.7 is not interacting correclty anymore with Buddypress.

The “Alphabetical” sorting of the user list is sorting on the “Name” base field of bp_xprofile_data table (field 1). This field I had renamed to “Naam” (which is Dutch for Name). This is hardcoded in the database and not avaibable as translation string. After switching back to “Name”, everything worked again. Before, I was allowed to use switch the name of the field. How do you translate this? I now have used a filter function in my functions.php, but it shouldn’t be necessary.

Furthermore I discovered the memberlist is sorting on that particular “Name” field, instead of the “display name” I want to use. Any idea’s how to get the userlist to sort on display name instead of “Name” ? Why do we have a mandatory “Name” field anyway?

I managed to locate the issue. After the wordpress update, it was not allowing my translations for the xprofile fields anymore. For some reason it has to be English now, it is no longer allowing it to be Dutch. I’ll flag this with the WordPress development team.

I’ll close the topic as the issue is likely not because of Buddypress but because of WordPress.

How can I resolve./close this topic?

Yes – cache is cleared.
I tried on 2 different servers.
I have used the basic wordpress theme – which was updated today.

At this moment the issue is only with alphabetical. All 2 users are “activated”.

I will send you a dm with link of the website url.

Found plugin that does the job:

BP Fan Page

I installed a blank wordpress on a test environment, clean sheet.
I installed a clean, blank install of buddypress.
I use the lastest update of twenty seven theme.

I have only 1 user, which is me (admin) of the test site, and I show up.
I added a second user, via the admin, that did not show up.
I added this user as a friend, this user show up in “my friends” but not in userlist.
Than I did database repair (fix total members) and fix friendship total.
Than the second user show up.

But when trying to sort on “Alphabetical”, I get “no members found”

All my plugins have been de-activated except for Buddypress.

I tell you, something is wrong. Please believe me.

This is the screenshot: https://ibb.co/W6drH8p

I am not using caching of any kind. It is a clean install. No plugins or other things running. Only my theme and buddypress.

Please do me a favor, go to your latest buddypress and wordpress version and try to use the userlist/friendlist, I am 1000% sure you are having the same issues.

Figured it out (I’m stupid lol).

I can confirm that the snippet from Brajesh Singh still works. Just make sure to place it into your bp-custom.php (/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php). Turns out my role wasn’t called “Basic” (as shown/named within the backend). Since I use Paid Membership Pro it used pmpro_role_1 set by PMP.

Remember to change the role within the code down below to the one you want to exclude. 🙂

Credit: https://buddydev.com/hiding-users-on-buddypress-based-site/

/**
 * Exclude Users from BuddyPress Members List by WordPress role.
 *
 * @param array $args args.
 *
 * @return array
 */
function buddydev_exclude_users_by_role( $args ) {
	// do not exclude in admin.
	if ( is_admin() && ! defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) {
		return $args;
	}

	$excluded = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? $args['exclude'] : array();

	if ( ! is_array( $excluded ) ) {
		$excluded = explode( ',', $excluded );
	}

	$role     = 'administrator';// change to the role to be excluded.
	$user_ids = get_users( array( 'role' => $role, 'fields' => 'ID' ) );

	$excluded = array_merge( $excluded, $user_ids );

	$args['exclude'] = $excluded;

	return $args;
}

add_filter( 'bp_after_has_members_parse_args', 'buddydev_exclude_users_by_role' );

Hi @thinlizzie,

Yes, that is correct. It won’t be from the logged-in user. Currently, I am pulling the username from a page url. The username is located at the very end of that url. Here is an example of what it would look like for @johnsmith:

http://www.samplewebsite.com/bpmembers/johnsmith

*The url structure above does not change based on login status. The url would be exactly the same for both logged-in users and visitors (not logged in) viewing that page.

I want to pull information from any user’s account that is stored in my site’s database (profile image, bio, etc.) and use separate shortcodes to display each piece of information on any page I create in my WordPress admin. Also, the information will not be different, but display the same profile information regardless of login status. So a visitor or logged in user would see the same profile information.

I hope I can achieve this using PHP codes and custom shortcodes that look something like this:

Examples:

[show avatar username= “johnsmith”]

[show description username= “johnsmith”]

This way, I can manually swap out the username within the quotations to display information for any user’s profile.