Plugin Author
donmik
(@atallos)
I’ve been looking for an answer and I don’t know one easy…
For now, if I were in your situation, I would filter first the authors using something like BP Profile Search plugin http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/bp-profile-search/. In this plugin, we can search members looking in xprofiles fields.
With this, we obtain the user_id of the authors and you can use it to make a query of posts written by these authors. Maybe there is another way but I couldn’t find it.
Try this it just might work! if i have understood you correctly!
1) put this into functions.php or ……
function include_by_meta($theMetaValue, $theMetaField) {
$memberArray = array();
global $members_template;
if (bp_has_members()) :
while (bp_members()) :
bp_the_member();
$theFieldValue = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field='. $theMetaField );
if ($theFieldValue==$theMetaValue) {
array_push($memberArray, bp_get_member_user_id());
}
endwhile;
endif;
$theIncludeString=implode(",",$memberArray);
return $theIncludeString;
}
2) Make your pages —- copy members-loop into each page account_type_1, account_type_2, etc
And
begin each page
<?php do_action( 'bp_before_members_loop' ); ?>
<?php if ( bp_has_members( bp_ajax_querystring( 'members' ) ) ) : ?>
<?php $yvar= "account_type_1"; if (bp_has_members( array( 'include' => include_by_meta($yvar,'account_type'), 'type' => 'newest') )) : ?>
etc etc
don’t forget the endif
<span class="update"> <?php bp_member_latest_update(); ?></span>
<?php endif; ?>
Cheers and hoping it works
i have assumed your bp xprofile field is account_type
obviously replace account_type_1 with account_type_2 etc
I am looking to do something similar.
I want to be able to filter a custom post post type with the details provided in the xprofile. The problem i have is that the data field i want to search by has many things in them.
What im making is a custom post type of jobs advertised on the site and when they get to the site i nead to search the posts custom fields or tags with the xprofile data field.
I hope that makes sense
Plugin Author
donmik
(@atallos)
Sorry to answer so late, I’m kind of busy lately.
Mmm, I think I understand. For example, you can have custom post type of jobs in London and you want to show them when a user from London is logged in.
Well, for the custom posts types you can use tags or maybe Types plugin (Great plugin!). With this code, you can get any data from profile field of the current logged in user:
global $bp;
$your_data = bp_get_profile_field_data('field=nameofprofilefield&user_id='.bp_loggedin_user_id());
Next thing to do is to filter your custom posts types using this data.
Brilliant! thank you for the reply. I’ll let you know how i get on!
Plugin Author
donmik
(@atallos)
Ok, I think this is solved now…
