BP’s xProfile component is not intended to be used as text editor, like the one you use to publish posts.
So far i know, ACF plugin doesn’t handle xprofile fields. But you can use it on Group component.
More about ACF
“BP’s xProfile component is not intended to be used as text editor, like the one you use to publish posts.”
However, if someone decides to have xProfile-fields like ‘Favorite Books’ or ‘Favorite Movies’ it would be nice, if the users could style the
- titels in italics
- and the authors respec. directors in regular.
As well ul- and li-tags for lists like, ‘favourite bands’ or ‘favorite dishes’ would be nice.
@1a-spielwiese
Maybe nice, but it’s a commonly admited bad idea to let users style your site.
If you want italics for some field title, you can do that by CSS.
As stated by Boone for BP 2.1
Extra CSS classes have been added to Profile Field visibility field elements, allowing greater CSS customization.
For more indeep customization, consider this plugin (thought needs a good coding level)
Thank you all,
As ACF doesn’t do the job,
is there any other way to add an edit box to the fields profile as my client wants?
Thanks in advance
I. Lesher
No, not without heavy core hacking. You have to find another solution for the edit part. Probably “near” profiles, but not “on” profiles.
Some hints here.
@danbp / https://buddypress.org/support/topic/creating-a-new-profile-field-type/#post-198965:
‘Maybe nice, but it’s a commonly admited bad idea to let users style your site.’
As I alreday said elsewhere, I would prefer anyway to place the profiles within the subdomain-blogs and not in root-blog.
Then it would be not “style my site” (by my users), but “style their [my users] own site” (by themselves).
‘If you want italics for some field title’
No, what I imagined what not a field title, rather a book or movie title, e.g.:
Favorite movie [= Field title]
Mädchen in Uniform by Leontine Sagan [= user content within that field]
Favorite Book [= Field title]
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein [= user content within that field]
Don’t ask if you don’t understand the answers.
Writing Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in italic is a choice which i won’t discuss…
There is no text editor for form fields. This doesn’t exist. Or give the url if you know one.
The only way to get this in italic is to use CSS. Punkt.
‘Don’t ask if you don’t understand the answers.’
Don’t answer, if you do not understood the question (request)!
‘There is no text editor for form fields. This doesn’t exist. Or give the url if you know one.’
@triplebit and me know this! But we want to have it (in future times).
Best
🙂
@triplebit:
Now there is such text editor for form / profile fields:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-xprofile-rich-text-field/
Thank you @needle (Christian Wach) for writing and @danbp for information.
PS.:
I just installed and activated the plugin, and my user ‘Fan Eins’ used it, for writing the word ‘Keine’ in italics:
http://1a-spielwiese.de/members/fan1/
