Default BuddyPress profiles ask too little. This plugin extends them properly.

Education and Professional Experience ship as repeater groups, so a member adds one row per degree and one per job without you building a custom form. Fields land in the content area or the sidebar of the profile, and the data is real xProfile data the rest of BuddyPress can read.

Members fill in extended fields, then visitors search the directory by those fields through a search form you place with a shortcode. Profile search is enabled per field, so you decide which fields are searchable on the member directory.

Turn on field visibility mode and each member sets every extended field to public, logged-in only, friends only, or admins-and-owner only. A field set to friends only is hidden from everyone who is not a confirmed friend, enforced on the profile render.

The Google Place Autocomplete field type suggests addresses as a member types, backed by your Google Maps API key, so location fields stay clean and consistent instead of free-text that never matches in search.

The wbbpp_show_profile shortcode renders a member's extended profile on any page and the wbbpp_member_form shortcode renders the search form anywhere, so profiles and search are not locked to the default BuddyPress member tabs.

Filters let you register new field types, add group display areas, and reshape the search results and query, so you can bend the profile and search system to a niche community without forking the plugin.

Build profile fields from fourteen types: textbox, textarea, select dropdown, year dropdown, a textbox-and-dropdown combination, Google Place Autocomplete, calendar, selectize, checkbox, radio button, email, phone number, URL, and image. You add a field, pick its type, and assign it to a group in the Field Settings tab. New field types can be registered through the wbbpp_add_extra_field_types filter.

Groups can be marked as repeaters, so a member adds as many rows as they need: one row per degree in Education, one per role in Professional Experience. Three groups ship pre-built, Education and Professional Experience as repeaters and Contact Details in the sidebar, and you create more in the Field Groups tab. Each group is assigned a display area, either the profile content area or the sidebar.

Turn on field visibility mode and each member controls who sees every extended field: public, logged-in members only, friends only, or admins and the profile owner only. The choice is stored per member in user meta and enforced when the profile renders, so a friends-only field stays hidden from non-friends. The friends level uses the BuddyPress Friends component to check the relationship.

Enable profile search and pick which extended fields are searchable, then a search form appears on the member directory so visitors find members by their profile data. Search runs over the extended xProfile fields, and results and the underlying query are both filterable through wbbpp_search_results and wbbpp_search_users for custom matching.

The wbbpp_show_profile shortcode renders a member's extended profile on any page, and the wbbpp_member_form shortcode renders the member search form anywhere, so profiles and search are not confined to the default BuddyPress member tabs. Drop either into a page, a widget, or a template wherever the layout needs it.

The Google Place Autocomplete field type suggests real addresses as a member types, so location data stays consistent instead of free-text that never matches. It uses your Google Maps API key, verified from the settings screen, and the request URL and arguments are filterable through wbbpp_google_maps_api_url for sites that proxy or customize the Maps call.