Create Frontend Author Boxes using Metronet Profile Picture

  • Resolved backpackingseries

    (@backpackingseries)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,

    I was impressed by the video on this plugin’s homepage and switched my site to WordPress V5.0 to make it work. However, Gutenberg does not allow assigning post authorship to ‘subscriber’ user role – an issue already tracked in the Github forum.

    So, I went back to Classic Editor but I am clueless whether Metronet Profile Picture provides shortcodes to output user profiles on the frontend. I found this thread, but I do not know how to get the plugin’s template presets, latest posts, fetch social media icons, etc. to construct an author box (as shown in the video) for individual user IDs.

    Is this possible with your plugin shortcodes? If not, is there a relatively easy way to do create such shortcodes? I am not a programmer. But if there are two-three small pieces of code, I could probably negotiate it to work together.

    PS: As you’d notice on the link I provide here, I am currently using an author box plugin on top of Metronet. It’d be great if I could make Metronet work as a standalone plugin for author boxes.

    Kind regards,

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter backpackingseries

    (@backpackingseries)

    Hello,

    Please ignore the link in my original post – had to make few site changes. Instead, use this as a sample.

    https://www.backpackingseries.com/northeast-india-travel-guide-to-sikkim/

    I’m a new user of Metronet. Can someone please help?

    Kind regards

    Plugin Contributor Ronald Huereca

    (@ronalfy)

    I’m afraid User Profile Picture has the same limitation as subscribers, in general, shouldn’t be allowed to publish posts, but contributors and above can.

    I’m also afraid there are no shortcodes for this plugin, just a template function mentioned under installation. It just returns the picture and that’s it.

    Thread Starter backpackingseries

    (@backpackingseries)

    Thank you for your response.

    I set an author using subscriber roles, i.e. without giving additional privileges. The code (to do so) from StackExchange worked well with classic editor but fails in Gutenberg. Here’s the forum request for reference.

    Appreciate your support.

    Kind regards,

    Plugin Contributor Ronald Huereca

    (@ronalfy)

    @backpackingseries

    I just released a new version of User Profile Picture allowing you to filter by a subscriber.

    I have code below that allows you to override User Profile Picture and Gutenberg’s author block.

    https://gist.github.com/ronalfy/a229b74462e31ff78f4f80c1eec213b8

    If this has helped, I would appreciate a rating.

    Plugin Contributor Ronald Huereca

    (@ronalfy)

    I would place the code in functions.php in your theme.

    Thread Starter backpackingseries

    (@backpackingseries)

    @ronalfy

    Thank you for the quick response and Plugin Revision. It took me rest of the day to test everything I wanted to verify.

    1. WP Filter: Works like a charm. Only thing, I had to retain part of the previous (classic editor) code to populate the user list in the Quick Edit area of posts.
    2. Social Links: Is there a way to a) open these in a new tab? and b) make these no-follow?
    3. Profile Photo: The plugin picks up the correct profile photo but is blurred initially. When I click the block to select it manually, the photo enhances just fine. Could this be a bug?
    4. Two ‘Author Details’ labels: This one’s a question – why have two similar labels in the Tabbed theme?

    Other things are minor – good to have. For instance, it’d be nice to have anchor text on tabs to enable page jumps to UPP blocks, or for that matter, to have the plugin pull (prepopulate) social media handles from WP User Profile. But look forward to your advice on the key points above.

    Yes, I’d be sure to leave a helpful review and also spread the good word.

    Appreciate your support

    Kind regards,

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