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How to get a profile field content for a specific user outside BP pages?

kuching
Participant

@substrato

12 years, 9 months ago

I want to display a BP custom user profile field called “Bio” in WordPress custom posts to display author’s biography.

I can retrieve ID of the user with get_author().

However, how do I retrive that specific field from his profile? what function should I use? should I query $bp? how?

thanks

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shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

12 years, 9 months ago

Have you tried xprofile_get_field_data?

`
$bio = xprofile_get_field_data(‘Bio’, $user_id);
`

Not sure what you mean by ‘outside’ BP…

If you can’t use xprofile_get_field_data,
then a custom call to your database would work, but you’ll need to figure out the id of the Bio field.
`
$bio = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT value FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data WHERE user_id = $user_id AND field_id = $field_id_for_bio” );
`

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

12 years, 9 months ago

No, don’t make a direct SQL query. Use that function in the first example.

kuching
Participant

@substrato

12 years, 9 months ago

oh thank you guys I used the function as advised, works

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