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@theandyreport –

Putting members into different categories isn’t a built in feature.

You could perhaps implement your requirement using groups, i.e. assigning your celebrities to a group. You’d then have to do a fair bit of template / loop manipulation, and enabling / disabling features dependent on whether members were in the group or not.

If @modemlooper finds something with roles, it would be interesting. However, similarly to grouping, you would still probably have to do a fair bit of template manipulation to enable / disable features based on role.

It’s doable but with work. You basically would need to create new roles and then do custom member loops to only call those from a certain role.

I’m not sure roles is the correct solution to this.

What we really want is the capability to extend the existing category / tags concept to include member profiles as well as posts.

I’m sure there’s probably a lot of discussion on this topic already, under the heading ‘taxonomies’. Unfortunately, most articles using the term ‘taxonomy’ descend rapidly into unintelligible tech speak !

@modemlooper – roles would restrict you to just one level of categorisation

Category and tag taxonomies for members would allow you to implement much more complex groupings, e.g. hierarchical nested groups of members, allocation of members to multiple categories, etc.

[Edit: This argument applies to groups as well as members, and is something Burt Adsit tried to achieve in the early 1.0 BuddyPress days]

I agree about more control but seems easy to use WP roles now to filter.

Yes! It’s a much needed feature

+1

+1

+1 super essential

I am looking to do the same, would love it as an added feature.

Might mess with creating hidden groups to achieve this, but ouch its a lot of loop template editing!

While the greater minds continue to work on patch or plugin of some sort, I’ve simply added an additional profile drop down field with three member types and added a flyout to my main nav that queries the member directory for their answer to that particular field – “http://www.example.com/members/?s=Member Type X”. Not incredibly useful, but works for a quick sort into categories.

It’s been almost a year and a half and wanted to see if this feature has been added in to the plugin yet. Any news?