Bio line beneath pp in BuddyPress?

Question

I’m new to BP and WP! I have a quick question:

How can I show a one-line bio beneath usernames in the list of members in the ‘Members’ page of my BuddyPress website? For example, Facebook has a similar feature; it shows a name with a description beneath, e.g. ‘John Smith’ with ‘Engineer at Nuts & Bolts Co’ right beneath it.

I found the following line of code in member-header.php: <h2 class=”user-nicename”>@<?php bp_displayed_user_username(); ?></h2>1

I thought about adding another line beneath for the bio field, but I’m not sure what to replace “bp_displayed_user_username();” with – I don’t think there is a “bp_displayed_user_bio();”. Should I create it? If so, how?

Thank you for your time!

Answer 1

'member-header.php' is for single member pages. If you want the bio to display on singe member pages, create a template overload.

Then add this:

<?php
    $bio = xprofile_get_field_data('Bio'); 
    //If the field is not called Bio, then change it above

    if( !empty( $bio ) 
        echo 'Bio: ' . $bio; 

?>

If you want Bio to display on the members page that shows all members, then create a template overload of this page: \buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\members-loop.php

And look for this: bp_member_profile_data( 'field=the field name' ); Uncomment it and change to to, for example, bp_member_profile_data( 'field=Bio' );