Andrea Tarantini

Hello kicker1212,

You can display a BP Profile search form in three places:

• In its target directory, using the option Add Form to Directory in the form settings
• In a sidebar or widget area, using the widget Profile Search
• In a post or page, using the shortcode [bps_form]

The search form is displayed using a form template, and the built-in form template displays the search fields in a vertical column.

If you need a search bar instead, you can write a custom form template that displays the search fields in a horizontal row. It’s not difficult, but it does require some programming skills. If you’re interested, you can find the documentation at https://dontdream.it/bp-profile-search/

You’re welcome, Jamie, and thanks for letting me use your staging site!

For other interested readers, the solution was to write a custom modification to a BuddyBoss Platform file.

Open buddyboss-platform/bp-search/bp-search-functions.php, locate line 600:

if ( in_array( 'geo-my-wp/geo-my-wp.php', apply_filters( 'active_plugins', (array) get_option( 'active_plugins', array() ) ), true ) ) {

and insert “false &&” after the first “(“:

if ( false && in_array( 'geo-my-wp/geo-my-wp.php', apply_filters( 'active_plugins', (array) get_option( 'active_plugins', array() ) ), true ) ) {

The downside of this solution is that you have to reapply the change every time you update the BuddyBoss Platform. Also, the change only works if BP Profile Search is active; if you decide to deactivate it, you should also undo the change.

I’m sure the BuddyBoss team could find a more general solution for this use case. On the other hand, I was just looking for the simplest possible change that could be easily applied multiple times.

Hi locker17,

Thanks for your report! I’m going to fix the form’s code in the next BP Profile Search release.

About your second point, are you using WPML? That code only runs when BuddyPress Multilingual is active.

In that case, the only way I can help is to take a look at a testing or staging site of yours, but this is not allowed by this forum policy. If you are interested, we can continue this conversation on my BP Profile Search forum:

https://dontdream.it/support/forum/bp-profile-search-forum/

Hi Jamie,

I don’t know if anything has changed recently, but I don’t get any errors if I disable the BuddyBoss built-in profile search.

In your dashboard, go to BuddyBoss -> Settings -> Profiles (the URL is wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-settings&tab=bp-xprofile), then scroll all the way down to “Profile Search” and uncheck the “Enable advanced profile search in the members directory” checkbox.

Are you still getting errors after this step? If so, deactivate both BP Profile Search and GEO my WP, then activate BP Profile Search first and GEO my WP second, and both should be up and running without any errors.

Can you confirm?

Hi Jamie,

The same problem is discussed here:

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/critical-error-when-installing-3/

and it looks like we need to edit the BuddyBoss code. If you are willing to do so, I can suggest a fix, but please note that you’ll need to reapply it every time you update BuddyBoss on your site.

Hi Flamuren,

Unfortunately BP Profile Search cannot create additional tabs in the member directory, but it can create additional member directories, that can be customized in many ways.

You can check out my documentation page:

https://dontdream.it/bp-profile-search/custom-directories/

and of course I’ll be happy to help you if you need more information.

Hi ma3ry,

Unfortunately the page you are linking to is a local page not visible to other Internet users.

Could you share a link to a publicly accessible page?