[Plugin: Register Plus Redux] How to Display RPR Fields in Comments?

wpmac, I’ve had some thoughts about that myself, I had some ideas about even using the metadata to create user options, like, selecting a theme from a dropdown to reskin your site according to user preference or something. That’s kind a lame example, but there’s definitely something there. Anyway, I’ll try to blog something on my website about using the metadata in a useful way, I think I might just your example as a matter of fact, it’s a pretty good case. Thanks for your feedback!

Hi radiok,
Just curious if you have given any more thought to how to use the metadata. I see from your blog and the update that you have been making some good progress on the plugin- congrats! If you find the time, I think others would also really appreciate this feature or some direction in how to implement it individually.

I figured it out! I’m so excited! (2 AM) For anyone following in my footsteps, in the twentyten theme I had to add the following to functions.php (I added it in with the class ‘comment-meta commentmetadata’):

<?php if ($comment->user_id) {
$user=get_userdata($comment->user_id);
echo $user->occupation;}?>

‘occupation’ was the registration field data I was looking for- you can replace it with middle_name, etc. This allowed me to display the commenter’s occupation when they post a comment. Awesome! If anyone has any questions I’d be happy to try to help.

Hi wpmac and/or radiok,

Here’s what I’m looking to do with the help of RPR: I’ve added Custom Fields for “First Name” and “Last Name.” Now what I’d like to do is display that RATHER THAN the username on Comments.

So rather than it saying “jdoe says…” (where jdoe is the username), I need it to say “John Doe says…” (where John is the First Name and Dow is the Last Name).

Where might I find this within my theme to change? Functions.php? single.php? (If it helps, I’m using WooTheme’s Gazette)

Many thanks!

wcmessenger, you’ll need to edit your theme and look for where it has the username inserted and replace it with something like this, give or take.

<?php if ($comment->user_id) {
$user=get_userdata($comment->user_id);
echo $user->first_name, " ", $user->last_name; }?>

Radiok,

Many thanks, that’ll get me started! Great plug-in!