[pinballnate]

Hi, I used the JetEngine Profile Builder to create some custom fields that I want to use in my discussion boards. They are both stored in the User Settings post type. one is a text field (neighborhood) and the other is a media field (profile-picture).
I would like for the neighborhood meta field to appear after the user name when they post and would like the profile-picture to show up where their avatar is.
Is there a way or a plug-in that would achieve this? I tried BBP Profile Information, but there does not seem to be a way to map or link my custom fields.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Robin W]

are you sure it is stored in a custom post, not in usermeta?

and if in custom post, how is each user stored?

[pinballnate]

Hi Robin, You are correct – it is in usermeta.

[Robin W]

ok, so do you know how to amend files and ftp them to your site?

[pinballnate]

I don’t, but I can learn.

[Robin W]

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

before line 56 which says

<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details' ); ?>

add the following

<?php echo 'hello' ; ?>

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

You should now see ‘hello’ where you want the neighborhood field

If you get this far, then come back

[pinballnate]

I will get to work on it, thanks.

[pinballnate]

OK – so far so good.

[Robin W]

great, so now I need to know the names of the fields you want in the database

so I need to construct a bit of code that looks like

$neighborhood = get_user_meta ($user_id, ‘%what_the_field_is_called%’ , true) ;

so I need %what_the_field_is_called% for both field 🙂

[pinballnate]

The avatar field is profile-picture
The neighborhood field is user-subdivision

[Robin W]

ok replace the

<?php echo 'hello' ; ?>

with

<?php 
$neighborhood = get_user_meta (get_current_user_id(),  'user-subdivision' , true) ;
echo '<li>'.$neighborhood.'</li>' ;
?>

and let’s see if that does that one first

[Robin W]

for the avatar, I need to know what is stored in the usermeta, so can you try adding this after line 44

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

to get

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$avatar = get_user_meta (get_current_user_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
echo '<li>'.$avatar.'</li>' ;
?>

I need to see if this produces a url or link to media item etc.

[pinballnate]

I’m not sure what is wrong – it is not changing anything. The funny thing is, it still says hello. I checked in the file manager to make sure the file was changed and it is. I cleared the cache on the website and cleared my browsing data. Even when I write a new reply, it still says hello.

[pinballnate]

I will start over and see how it goes.

[pinballnate]

My problem was I put the file back in the bbpress directory instead of the theme directory. Here are the results:
You can see the page here: http://www.staging8.commercecitynorth.com/forums/topic/a-discussion-board-is-such-a-good-idea/

[pinballnate]

The neighborhood is showing up, the thing is though – it is the current logged in users neighborhood, not the person who posted.

[Robin W]

oops sorry, I’ll correct that

[Robin W]

try

<?php 
$neighborhood = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'user-subdivision' , true) ;
echo '<li>'.$neighborhood.'</li>' ;
?>

come back if that doesn’t work

[Robin W]

ok, can you change the other one to

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$avatar = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
echo '<li>herestart'.$avatar.'hereend</li>' ;
?>

[pinballnate]

The neighborhood works. the image does not:

[Robin W]

that’s fine, I wanted to see what was in the database ie in this case 1345, I suspect it is a reference to a media image

[Robin W]

ok, so we are making progress.

I don’t expect this to work, just to return the next stage

so amend that to

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$image_id = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
$image = get_post_meta ($image_id, _wp_attached_file, true)
echo '<li>herestart'.$image.'hereend</li>' ;
?>

[pinballnate]

that didn’t seem good?

[Robin W]

oops semi colon missing from $image = line

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$image_id = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
$image = get_post_meta ($image_id, _wp_attached_file, true) ;
echo '<li>herestart'.$image.'hereend</li>' ;
?>