Hiding BuddyPress Profile Field Groups Conditionally

Assume that you are running a BuddyPress site and you have multiple profile field groups. Now, if you don't want some of the field groups to be visible to certain users, you can do that by filtering on 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args' and passing the field groups as the 'exclude_groups' parameter.

Here is an example where only the site admin and the user whose profile is viewed is able to see all field groups. Others will not be able to see the field group 2,3(you can change it with anything else)

/**
 * Hide Profile Field Groups from other users when viewing profile
 *
 * @param $args
 *
 * @return mixed
 */
function buddydev_exclude_profile_field_groups_on_view_profile( $args ) {
	//allow site admin and the user himself to view the profile
	if ( is_super_admin() || bp_is_my_profile() ) {
		return $args;
	}

	//these are the field groups we want to hide
	$hidden_groups = array(2, 3 ); //change it with your own profile field group ids

	//let us check if some groups were already hidden
	$excluded_groups = array();

	if ( ! empty( $args['exclude_groups'] ) ) {
		$excluded_groups = wp_parse_id_list( $args['exclude_groups'] );
	}

	$excluded_groups = array_merge( $excluded_groups, $hidden_groups );

	$args['exclude_groups'] = join(',', $excluded_groups);

	return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'buddydev_exclude_profile_field_groups_on_view_profile' );

/**

* Hide Profile Field Groups from other users when viewing profile

* @param $args

* @return mixed

function buddydev_exclude_profile_field_groups_on_view_profile( $args ) {

//allow site admin and the user himself to view the profile

if ( is_super_admin() || bp_is_my_profile() ) {

return $args;

}

//these are the field groups we want to hide

$hidden_groups = array(2, 3 ); //change it with your own profile field group ids

//let us check if some groups were already hidden

$excluded_groups = array();

if ( ! empty( $args['exclude_groups'] ) ) {

$excluded_groups = wp_parse_id_list( $args['exclude_groups'] );

}

$excluded_groups = array_merge( $excluded_groups, $hidden_groups );

$args['exclude_groups'] = join(',', $excluded_groups);

return $args;

}

add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'buddydev_exclude_profile_field_groups_on_view_profile' );

You can improve it adapt to your own use cases. Hope that helps.

2 Responses to Hiding BuddyPress Profile Field Groups Conditionally

Matthew Brown #
You are the answer to my prayers. Seriously. I have been struggling to get my head around BuddyPress and WordPress dev and these code examples are gold. You have literally made my day. For example, this conditional hiding of fields code, while not 100% what I am trying to do, could well be what gets me unstuck and developing again.
- Brajesh Singh #
  Thank you Matthew.
  I am glad, I could help in some way.
  All the best with your project 🙂