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I am using the SweetSate theme, a dating/matching theme which is built on Buddypress.

Instead of people searching for people with profile fields, I want to match people with universities/colleges.

I have my colleges entered in through my admin.

I want students to register on the site but I do not want them visible to anybody else.

I only want the universities/colleges to be visible.

How can I do this?

In the search box for University Locations I can have Medchool – UK or Medschool – Overseas, but it also includes a null/blank field. I want blank fields in all the other search fields but not this one. If all the fields are blank it finds and displays all members.

Site can be seen here: http://hotzoc.com/medical-schools/

I have colleges registered as site role contributors and site users who sign up as subscribers.

Is there any way I can restrict the search only to my ‘contributors’ group not the ‘subscribers’ group?

I want users registered if possible so I can contact them and monitor their profile preferences. I cannot do this if I do not allow registration and just have my colleges as the only registered users.

Any ideas or help greatly appreciated.