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Done that as well. Now to figure out how to style it properly to say Blog URL and be clickable... (and editable in the SP profile).

I'm assuming the chances of s2member and S:P exchanging custom fields in the future is slim to none? That said, s2member does connect straight into BuddyPress and syncs custom fields, so there is a possibility.

I could most certainly trade bringing it all in from BuddyPress. But s2member doesn't actually create BuddyPress custom fields, they simply push their own custom fields on to the BuddyPress profile (there are options that can be enabled under s2member). And of course BuddyPress custom profile fields are not pulled onto s2member profiles... I'll post on the s2member forum suggesting a bit more of a standard custom field handling.

In any case, a small SP plugin for a smoother connection sounds very interesting.

Good to know. I am actually using the buddypress plugin and have all options activated but am not seeing any SP fields appearing on the BP profile. I also couldn't find a codex entry on usage of that plugin. Perhaps it's colliding somewhere on the way with s2member. I can open a new topic for this if it makes sense.

Anyway, I am slowly getting somewhere. I posted on the s2member support forum, which isn't quite as helpful as they don't have a paid support system (they like to refer to outside coders for paid customization). But I got a function out of them to update WP blog_url whenever a users updates the custom blogurl field on their s2member profile. Now to go the reverse and sync blogurl with an updated user_url when changing so under the SP profile. I got a filter function from them but that doesn't help me much. I posted again and hope to get a bit further. BUT if there anything from an SP side I could implement instead I would certainly not mind that either.

I was just about to post the same. The thing is that s2member allows (or should I say forces?) capturing custom fields at registration. We're teaching blogging classes so the idea was to capture the student's Blog URL at registration. Inexplicably s2member refuses to use the standard blog_url field for that hence a custom field is needed. Having to do that we then also thought of capturing a Blog category upfront (drop-down), to be used on a blogroll for easy filtering.

Since this turned into to much of a headache I've decided to NOT use s2member custom fields and also NOT use the s2member profile and even disable access to the WP profile. Leaves BuddyPress and Simple:Press.

BuddyPress is used for all the social interactions in class. Its profile matches the overall look of the class. But, of course, it also doesn't pull in any standard WP fields (right, here we go again). One has to use custom fields. It is also not easy to remove BP's edit profile link in the topbar (needs extra filters/functions to do that) so this one's always quite visible since all social interactions happen there as well.

Now if we could sync BP and SP on desired fields, that would be great (like URL). And I certainly don't mind creating all current and future custom fields in SP if they can be pushed to BP as well. I do very much prefer to work with just one main option.