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It’s been a while since my original post, but I think I’ve figured this out and I hope this helps someone else.  The original problem changed a bit too.  Basically, now I want to show a profile group based on the value in an xprofile field (when editing a profile).  So, if my User Category field for a logged in user says Recruiter, then I want to show the profile group called “Recruiter” (show this for admins too).  Otherwise, I want to hide this profile group through php.

Thanks to the hint above, I was able to come up with a function in my child theme’s function.php file.

I’m just learning php/wordpress, and I don’t have a clear understanding why this works.  I do know that $group_name[3] is the Recruiter profile group.  Also, I do realize this snippet uses awful coding practices.  If anyone has improvements, please let me know.

function my_recruit($group_name){

if ( is_site_admin() || xprofile_get_field_data( “User Category”)===”Recruiter”) {

echo $group_name[0];

echo $group_name[1];

echo $group_name[2];

echo $group_name[3];

}

else {

echo $group_name[0];

echo $group_name[1];

echo $group_name[2];

}

}

add_filter(‘xprofile_filter_profile_group_tabs’,’my_recruit’);