Profile matching for dissimilar characteristics

[Elijeh]

I want the members on my dating site to fill in profile fields about themselves and then be able to search for specific characteristics they desire (found in other members’ profile fields) to find a “match” – not just be matched with people who are similar to themselves.

I think it has to be two sets of fields because the language differs between when a member fills in info about themselves and when they input what they are seeking.

Please tell me how to set up and connect two sets of profile fields so that when a member searches for his/her “ideal date” (for characteristics that are different from his/her own), the info from other members is accessed and a matching percentage given?

Examples: her ethnicity is White but she’s looking for an Asian man or she smokes but wants a man who doesn’t. Or he is 6’3″ tall and wants her to be shorter than that.

I really hope you can help me with this. Thanks!

 

[Laura]

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[Radu]

Hi,

You can do that with this plugin : https://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-force-profile-photo/

It will redirect the users to fill all profile fields if not this will be continuous redirected to his profile to complete all of those, after that the user can use the site normally if you need additional rules and conditions logic you should hire a web developer.

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[Elijeh]

I’m sorry but I don’t think you understood my question. Perhaps I can explain better… I want members to be able to do a search based on characteristics from the profile fields they WANT their date to have.

Currently, a member can only get “matched” to another member’s profile if they share identical characteristics: a 5’2″ woman with red hair would be matched to a 5’2″ man with red hair, etc.

Most likely, members will want to choose dates from among people who have DIFFERENT characteristics than they themselves have.

So I want to keep the profile fields as I have them, but also want a separate search form (with the same questions as the profile fields) so members can choose what characteristics they want their date to have. I hope that makes it clearer.

[Radu]

Ok.

You can create additional forms using this plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/

The paste the shortcode for that form where you want

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[Elijeh]

Thank you, I’ll try that.

[Radu]

You’re welcome

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[Elijeh]

Thanks for your help, Radu. I was able to create another form but now I don’t know how to get my “search” form to pull correctly from members’ profile fields. Specifically I have an issue with the “I am a” and “looking for a” (gender) fields. When I search as a woman looking for a man, it brings up women and when searching as a man looking for a woman, it pulls up men. I’ve looked through the support forums but can’t find an answer so I’m hoping you don’t mind telling me how to resolve this.
Thank you.

[Radu]

Hi,

See the screenshot

So practically you invert the fields labels

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[Elijeh]

Thank you, that worked perfectly!

[Radu]

Great

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