BP Distance Search

by Andrea Tarantini

Description

BP Distance Search adds a new Google Place Autocomplete field type to your BuddyPress extended profiles, and registers this field type with BP Profile Search.

After installing this plugin:

Admin can create new profile field(s) with type Google Place Autocomplete
Members can fill in the new profile field(s) on their Profile Edit page
Admin can add the new profile field(s) to a BP Profile Search form, selecting either the distance search mode or one of the usual text search modes contains, is, or is like
Visitors can use the search form with the new profile field(s)

See the screenshots below depicting the above steps.

Installation

Get a Google API key

Get a Maps JavaScript API key, and enable the Geocoding API and the Places API.

Follow the standard plugin installation procedure, see Installing Plugins

This plugin doesn’t require any configuration, you’ll need your API key when you create your first Google Place Autocomplete profile field.

Screenshots

Admin creates a new profile field with type Google Place Autocomplete
Members fill in the new profile field on their Profile Edit page
Admin adds the new profile field to a BP Profile Search form
Visitors use the search form with the new profile field

Reviews

Great job!

By Peter (pijag) on April 4, 2023

Very nice, little plugin which solves quite big problem of the missing location field in the user's profile in BuddyBoss.

Thank you so much!

Please keep developing this plugin🙏🏻

Great plugin

By itsabhist on February 1, 2022

Thanks for great plugin

Very useful plugin and amazing support!

By alexbosch on January 23, 2021

Andrea has created a nice plugin and he offers a quick and efficient support

Very Good Plugin

By a3132 on September 7, 2020

There is only one thing I would change. I wish you could limit how much information users could give. For example: require city - but prevent users from giving their full address for security reasons. I think this is really about Google though and not the plugin. The plugin just uses Google’s APIs. I just added a warning on my registration page advising users not to give their full addresses. The plugin is very useful and does just what it’s supposed to do.

Great addition to BP Profile Search

By Carsten Lund on May 9, 2019

First BP Profile Search, now BP Distance Search, Andrea did it again, adding priceless functionality to BuddyPress. Thanks for listening to the users!

Simple to use and effective

By Kieran (kierantaylorio) on April 17, 2019

As simple as installing the plugin, adding the field and API key. Perfect. Another exceptional plugin by Andrea. Thank you so much for your continued development of this plugin and BP Profile Search.

Changelog

1.4.4

Removed loading=async as it doesn’t work with WordPress 6.6

1.4.3

Fixed old bug that prevented Loco Translate from working properly

1.4.2

Added loading=async when loading the Maps JavaScript API

1.4.1

Added code to help users select a location from the dropdown list

1.4

Added message reminding users to select a location from the dropdown list

1.3

Added support for the BuddyBoss Platform built-in profile search

1.2

Added ability to sort the search results by distance
Added ability to show the distance in the member details area
Updated for BP Profile Search 5.1

1.1

Added location pin to get the current location

1.0.3

Fixed bug in back-end profile editing

1.0.2

Fixed conflict with the BuddyPress Date Selector field type

1.0.1

Added call to load_plugin_textdomain

1.0

Initial version released to the WordPress Plugin Directory