Yes, there should be a way, but I was not able to follow the instructions / to realise that way.
The basic idea is:
- Create two (or more) new WordPress user roles, e.g.: Users-UK and Users-USA.
- Then you can assign one xProfile-field, ‘In which [federal] state do you live?’, exclusively to your users with the user role Users-USA; and another x-Profile, ‘In which county do you live?’, to your users with the user role Users-UK.
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The instructions for that solution you find there:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-different-profile-types-and-different-user-roles/
(The user roles there are ‘bands’ and ‘fans’).
And my report about my attempt to apply that instructions you find there:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/different-profile-types-and-different-user-roles-part-ii/
My user roles are (sport) ‘teams’ and ‘fans’.
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But unfortunately, I was not able to hinder, that ‘fans’ get displayed the questions (xProfile-fields) for ‘teams’ was well; and the ‘teams’ the questions for ‘fans’…
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Further problem:
Even if there is a solution regarding later profile edits – even complicate seems to be, to make already the registration page “input senstive”, because during registration the new user isn’t yet registered (i.e.: has no user role yet).
Cfr. there:
http://forum.wpde.org/buddypress/133961-registrierungsseite-umgestalten-anleitung-und-fragen.html (section 4. – unfortunately in German).
A less elegant, but working solution regarding locations within states you can find on my registration page (section: ‘Profile Details – Teil III: Geographisches’):
http://1a-spielwiese.de/registrieren/
You can ask at first:
- In which state (USA or UK?) do you live?
and then:
- In which US-federal state respec. in which UK-county to you live?
- and finally you can introduce the names of the federal states of the USA with ‘US-‘ and the names of the counties of the United Kingdom with ‘UK-‘.
(You can ask this questions within the ‘base group’ of your xProfile fields – then they get displayed on your registration page automatically. Or you can make your further xProfile fields displayed on your registration page as well:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/reshaping-the-registration-page/#post-203615 [section 2nd].)
Hi @1a-spielwiese,
Thanks for this. I had a look on your registration page where you have a few countries for members to select, but when I choose one, the same dropdown menu appears. Im not using any plugin at the moment – just the extended profiles in the components of Buddypress at the top of the list which includes checkboxes for activity streams, friend connections etc. I don’t want to use a plugin that hasn’t been updated in two years either.
If I go to Users>Profile fields, this is where I was hoping to do this but the only way I can see to do it is to add, UK, then a list of counties. USA and then a list of states, and so on which would mean I would have a list a mile high of all the different countries and local areas.
Am I missing something?
Thanks a bunch,
Kris
I had a look on your registration page where you have a few countries for members to select, but when I choose one, the same dropdown menu appears.
Yes, a better solution I do not have for the moment.
the only way I can see to do it is to add, UK, then a list of counties. USA and then a list of states, and so on which would mean I would have a list a mile high of all the different countries and local areas.
Yes – if you do not trust in the old plugins, which @noizeburger recommands:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-different-profile-types-and-different-user-roles/ –
or trust in them, but find (like me) no way, to make them working as they should.
I would have thought this was something that would be really popular for a Buddypress site because finding people in certain areas is what a lot of social networks need. Im going to have a look at some BP sites and see what they are doing. There must be something for this surely – although seems not as am sure you ahve searched for yourself. Maybe need to get someone to code it for me. Thanks again, you put a lot of effort into trying to help me.
