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AC ACvanRijn
ACvanRijn
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Jun 14, 2009 · 7:24 pm · Edited

First of all I'd like to thank the devs for creating this software. I use it with my wordpress install and it has been great. I noticed that the progress update on 4.1 mentions that the profiles will be overhauled. What I would really love to see as part of profiles for 4.1 is the ability to view profiles on a separate page instead of as a popup.

A second feature that I would love to see is structuring the links to profiles in such a way that they are dependent on the wp user id of the user. That way it would be possible to link to the profile of a user throughout a wordpress site, instead of just from the forums. E.g. when a user posts a comment to a new post, clicking the user name would link to the user profile.
As long as the user ID is part of the link structure of the simplepress forum profile this could easily be accomplished using <?$user = get_userdata($comment->user_id); echo $user->ID; ?>. This would allow the simplepress user profile to be used throughout the wordpress site instead of having separate profile pages just for simplepress.

What do you think?

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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Jun 14, 2009 · 8:34 pm

I will let Andy answer this one as he is right in the middle of the implementation of the profile updates. we are hoping for beta of 4.1 in early July, so time is tight if its not already on his list as part of the overhaul.

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Jun 15, 2009 · 1:22 am

I think the safest response is that we are taking all suggestions and requests on board – trying very hard to fit in the most popular but all get reviewed. Comes down t time at the moment.

AC ACvanRijn
ACvanRijn
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Jun 15, 2009 · 10:34 am

Thanks for your replies. All I'm saying is that if you guys come up with an awesome profile system that it would be great if we could access & use it throughout our wordpress websites and not just for the forums.

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Jun 15, 2009 · 11:02 am

Well – I am not sure what an 'awesome' profile is to be honest and I will tell you now – just about everyone's opinion is different on that score. What gets requested by one person – the next person wants to remove!

We have taken the requests that get repeated and put them on the list… whether that measures up to 'awesome' only time will tell!

AC ACvanRijn
ACvanRijn
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Jun 16, 2009 · 8:27 pm

Yellow Swordfish said:

Well – I am not sure what an 'awesome' profile is to be honest and I will tell you now – just about everyone's opinion is different on that score. What gets requested by one person – the next person wants to remove!

We have taken the requests that get repeated and put them on the list… whether that measures up to 'awesome' only time will tell!

Well, whatever you come up with I'm sure that it's going to be better than what wordpress currently offers (which is, with all due respect, really basic and kind of crappy – even with plugins). I just hope that I'll be able to use the sp forum profiles throughout my wordpress website and not just for the forums.

Thanks for all your work!

MP Mr Papa
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Jun 16, 2009 · 8:33 pm

what Andy is doing is shaping up nicely! I get to watch it develop and armchair quarterback! 😉

okay, back to my own tickets!

UN
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Jun 21, 2009 · 12:30 pm

Hello,

Sounds great. Can't wait to see the 4.1 version. Profile pages would be perfect.Smile

These would be great:

1) By clicking on the name, it could take you to the profile page instead the 'Website URL' field value.

2) Ability to add external PHP code snippets in profile page to customize it more. (like to get the person's recent comments about the articles OR my_fav_posts plugin could display favourited articles)

By the way:

  • sf_hook_pre_profile
  • sf_hook_post_profile      <—- Can I insert PHP code from another wordpress plugins there?

Thanks,

Peter

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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Jun 21, 2009 · 12:33 pm

you will have several options on what to do with #1…

yes, we will be adding more hooks for the profile too…

yes, the hooks (like the ones you point out) are for adding php code… keep in mind they must return any data, not echo it… of course, they dont have to return anything and can just perform actions (like db queries for example).