How to edit profile fields?

Your users will distinguish themselves through their profile page. You must give them profile fields that allow them to describe themselves in a way that is relevant to the theme of your social network. 

Demo profile fields

If you installed the Olympus demo data, you already have 4 sections installed here: 

• Profile Info
• Hobbies and Interests
• Education and Employment 
• Contact Info

This information shows up on the profile page inside the About tab:

Each member of your site can fill in all the profile fields or only some of them during the registration process. This depends on the registration form you selected. Check out possible registration forms in Olympus here. 

Then, site member can complete filling in the rest of the profile fields or edit those were already filled within their own Profile Setting page:

If you want to edit the demo profile fields or add your custom fields, you can do it via the admin dashboard Users > Profile Fields. From the admin interface, these sections called Field Group:

Here you can configure your profile fields, which show up for your site members. 

Custom profile fields

If you dint install the demo data or want to edit it, you can create a custom field. As well as the demo groups, they will be looked like separate sections inside the About tab and the Profile Settings page. Let's look fields group creation in detail. 

Creation of a new field group

1. Go to Users > Profile Fields in the admin panel and press on the 'Add New Field Group' button:

2. In the opened window, you need to add a group name and save it. Besides, here you can add a description and select a group icon, but it's optional. 

3. Once the new group is created, it shows up in the list of groups. Now it's time to start adding profile fields to it. 

Creation of a new field

4. After pressing the 'Add New Field' button, you can configure it.

5. You ought to fill in the name (this field is required) and description (this field is optional) and select the rest of the settings:

• type (select multi or single the field will be);
• requirement (whether the filed will be required for members or not);
• visibility (who will be able to see the field: everyone, all the site members, only a user or only user's friends).

6. You can also enable an autolink, which links this field to a search of the Members directory, using the field value as a search term.

7. Then, you simply need to save changes, and your custom field is successfully created!

When you come to select the field type, you can choose between multi and single fields. Let's spot the difference between them:

The multi filed types are checkbox, dropdown select box, multi-select box, and radio buttons. They will be looked like the following:

• Checkbox

• Drop Down Select Box

• Multi-Select Box

• Radio Buttons: 

The single filed types are date selector, multi-line text area, number, phone number, text box, and URL. They will be looked like the following:

• Date Selector:

• Multi-line text area:

• Number:

• Phone Number:

• Text Box:

• URL:

In order to find out more about how to configure BuddyPress profile fields, check out the official BuddyPress documentation.