anyone written a display profile shortcode?

You can build a member directory for specific community role. Is that what you’re asking about?

Thanks!

No, because I don’t want to end up having a dozen different roles, since the main one is already highly customized, which means I’d have to edit too many roles if we make changes. Plus I want to have more control over the member directory, so want to build it from scratch.

So the goal is simply to have a shortcode like [member id=”4″] so that I can create my own categories for members on a custom directory page.

Does that make sense?

That feature does not exist in UM as of yet I am sorry.

Thanks!

Yes, I know it’s not an existing feature. Are you saying it’s not even possible to write a shortcode for it?

Yes exactly what I mean, we’ll work on something like that though.

Ah, ok. I’ll look at building something purely manual in the meantime.

Thank you!

peteratomic,

While you wait for the official UM shortcodes, you can build a custom display using the “Shortcode Exec PHP” plugin. It lets you create your own shortcodes using php.

Quick outline would be (using ‘role’ as that’s what I use):

extract(shortcode_atts(array(
	'role' => 'Subscriber',
), $atts));

// The Query
$user_query = new WP_User_Query(array('role' => $role));

$html = '';
if (!empty($user_query->results)) {
	$html .= '<table>';

// add table header row to html string

	// Loop on users
	foreach ($user_query->results as $user) {
		$user_meta = get_user_meta($user->id);

		$html .= '<tr>';
		$html .= '<td>' . $user->id . '</td>';
		$html .= '<td>' . $user->user_login . '</td>';
		$html .= '<td>' . $user->display_name . '</td>';

		// add user metadata to html string

		$html .= '</tr>';
	}

	$html .= '</table>';
} else {
	$html = 'No users found.';
}

return $html;

If you have complex fields (checkbox or dropdown) with multiple values, you need to unserialize them and loop on the values:

$html2 = '';
		$serial_str = $user_meta['custom_field_name'][0];
		if (is_serialized($serial_str)) {
			$count = 0;
			foreach (unserialize($serial_str) as $choice) {
				if ($count > 0) { $html2 .= "<br />"; }
				$html2 .= $choice;
				$count++;
			}
		}
		$html .= '<td>' . $html2 . '</td>';

Hope this helps.

Hi @yk11 – looks like that plugin was removed from the plugin repository for some reason. But maybe I can find something similar. Thanks for the tip!

This feature remains unavailable in UM core as of this moment, just as a note.

@peteratomic,

You can always add your own shortcode using the functions.php file.

Example (my own shortcode for logged in state):

function logged_in_func($atts, $content) {
  extract(shortcode_atts(array('override' => false,), $atts));

  $html = '';
  if (is_user_logged_in() || $override == true) { $html = do_shortcode($content); }
  return $html;
}
add_shortcode('logged_in', 'logged_in_func');

Yes this is possible to add your own custom built shortcodes.

Looks like a good shortcode for a personal sidebar… I’m using something like that, but in this case I need something a bit different… something that effectively works like:

[umprofile id=123]

So that I can grab the photo, name and title from a specific user, as I want to build a custom members directory.

(Was hoping someone in the UM community might have done this before.)

We’ll look at implementing such feature in the future.