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Hi folks, I’ve tried searching for this but perhaps I can’t find the correct words to search.

I’m looking to make it possible, in edit profile, to add a profile field that allows the user to select other users of a certain role type or member type, and then they will display at their profile page with an avatar.

So if my users were all shops and products, with role or member type shop, and role or member type product, and I would like to allow shops to perhaps type into a multi-select box to pull up from the user database, the users in the role or member type products, and select them, and they would display on their page.
It’s kind of similar to a ‘relationships’ plugin but a bit more basic I guess. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Kind regards