In short, I have a website that serves artists. Depending on what kind of artist they are I want them to have different profile fields. Conditional fields would solve this problem but I understand that the conditional fields feature won’t be coming for a while. So how can I have a certain profile for a Musician and a different one for a Visual Artist or Fashion Designer?

I’ve looked into roles, but I’m not a developer and am having problems with the drop down menu showing ALL the available roles instead of the ones I want to show.

Do you have a single site install or are you using Multisite?

Yes, I believe I see what you are talking about with wanting to have categories of members. With regard to “Profiles” being replaced by “Members”, are you talking about the title of the profile page? That part I’m not quite clear on. If that is one thing you are wanting to do, just renaming the slug and changing the slug in the Pages where the shortcode is should take care of that. You can also rename the page to match the slug. UserPro should pick that up and the link shouldn’t be broken.

In fact, before posting this, I went to my test site and went to UserPro > Page Setup > changed the profile slug to “member”. Then I went to pages and found the profile page and edited the slug to say “member” and clicked okay. Then I changed the title of the page to say “Member”, and updated the page.

I went back to UserPro > Page Setup and I saw that the page has been changed to reflect the correct slug. If you have any menu items pointing to that page via links in the menus, you will need to change those. But, if the menu items are navigated to via the default WordPress navigation, they should have changed with the change of the page, but I would want to verify that before someone winds up on an error page. Is that what you were looking for with regard to changing profile to members? I couldn’t change my example to members because I have a page called members for the member directory already. That would have made a members-2. I don’t want that..

With regard to separating members into groups of members, are you wanting to have specific fields changed per category of member? Or are you just wanting them to show up within the correct category, with all the same fields?

Thank you for the informative reply, I’m specifically interested in your last paragraph. “With regard to separating members into groups of members, are you wanting to have specific fields changed per category of member?” Yes, this is what I am wanting to figure out how to do. If UserPro had conditional fields, I could have a selection where they choose “type of artist” then fields would populate based on their selection. Since this doesn’t exist, I’m not sure what to do.

Once that is done, I also want them to show up within the correct category. Meaning, when I view Visual Arts Members page, I’ll see all the members that selected visual arts as their scene. I also want that page to be searchable.

That’s what I was afraid of, I’m not sure the conditional fields is possible yet, if you had all the same fields, you would be able to place an identifying field in the profile of each and then have separate pages for member lists, listing based upon the content of that field, or a radio button choice, thus creating categories of members. But having different fields per member category, while it would be great, I’m not sure it is possible yet. I will check to see if I can come up with something for that, if DeluxeThemes isn’t able to do something fairly soon about that. I know it would be a welcome thing for a lot of users.

Especially as we hope for the social aspect of the project to develop. This conditional fields thing would be great. Working with different levels of membership and all.. 🙂

Conditional fields was brought by me in the past and was refused due to multiple nested shortcode options involvment resulting in a messy code.

If you want to create multiple users, as I did for a project, do as follows.

Create a CUSTOM VIEW page by using the following options and place the users in tabs or anyway you see fit:

[userpro_loggedin]DATA HERE[/userpro_loggedin]
[profile_by_url]DATA HERE[/profile_by_url]

This is not documented and will allow you to break down sections and display only specific data for each user type. Simple select the view option without the header and pick the fields you wish to show for each user type.

Of course, you could place all of the fields in the Profile Edit Fields, and only those fields that apply to the certain roles would be showing. That would really constitute a conditional field. The display of those fields is only to those roles they are selected for.

Then go into the global Options and choose which Roles are available. Each member would choose their role upon registration. Then, display them on different pages based on the Member Directory shortcode with the role option. Would that work for you?

I might have left a step out, but I think you might get the idea.

Hope this helps some. 🙂

I’ve installed a role editor and created my different roles. I’ve then set up the fields to display per certain roles. It seems like this may work out for what I need, but one issue. When I try to add the role selector to the registration form, it shows all the roles.

How can I make the role selector only show the roles I want?