DrHariri

Hi Yannick,

Could you help me understand how I would get a certain value like link_name? I am mostly used to using get_post_meta and I am guessing in this case I have to somehow do something like:

$link_title = $linkdata->link_name;

Or is this completely wrong? I thought I’d test a few ideas before paying someone to do it lol.

Thanks!

Good work Yannick! Will test it and let you know!
I’ve donated in the past and certainly will do so again :).

Thanks!

Excellent! =)

That would be nice ?? I can think of many uses for that:
1) Post to Buffer
2) Add points to the user for contributing, etc..

Is it possible to access these variables with the action hook:
– URL
– Title
– Description
– User_ID or User meta
I am new to hooks but I guess if we could fetch the user variable or user meta that would be great, but hopefully this is do-able and not too much to ask :).

Many thanks for your very quick response!

I am also getting this error when contributors are trying to write.

Update: The code in #2 isn’t working as intended. I have posted a request for help on StackExchange. Hopefully someone will help me spot the issue and I would update it here.

You are welcome! Thanks for this great plugin :).

Again, no developer/coder here but I tested these and they work for me. If anyone have any suggestions or edits, please comment.

I hope some of you find it of use!

2) If you want the status to change as soon as the author loads the page editing page, which can be useful to track who started an initiate an e-mail or something, you can use something like this:
————

//------------ Start Swtich from Assigned to In Progress on post edit page load ------//
function educadme_assigned_to_inprogress( $post_id ) {
	if ( current_user_can('edit_post', $post_id) && !current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {

				$post = get_post($post_id);
			    if (get_post_type()=='post' && $post->post_status =='assigned' && strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'wp-admin/post-new.php') || strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'wp-admin/post.php')) {
			    		$post->post_status = 'in-progress'; // use any post status
						wp_update_post($post);
					}
		}
}
add_action('add_meta_boxes', 'educadme_assigned_to_inprogress');

I figured this out. I am not a coder but this does the job for me.

1) Limit available statuses based on current post status. This is a modified version available on the “extend” page of the plugin.

Basically, $permitted_statuses lists all possible statuses which you want to allow users to choose from at any given stage.

Then, I used $permitted_on_initial, $permitted_on_assigned, and $permitted_on_inprogress to limit available statuses based on these stages.

For instance, I am allowing draft to only show when the status is in progress.

—————–

function efx_limit_custom_statuses_by_role( $custom_statuses ) {
    $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
    // $post = get_post();

    switch( $current_user->roles[0] ) {
        // Only allow a contributor to access specific statuses from the dropdown
        case 'contributor':
            $permitted_statuses = array(
                    'initial-idea',
                    'assigned',
                    'in-progress',
                    'draft',
                );

            $permitted_on_initial = 'initial-idea';
            $permitted_on_assigned = 'assigned';
            $permitted_on_inprogress = array(
                    'in-progress',
                    'draft',
                );

            // Remove the custom status if it's not whitelisted
            foreach( $custom_statuses as $key => $custom_status ) {

                if (!in_array( $custom_status->slug, $permitted_statuses ) || $custom_status->slug =='initial-idea' && !in_array( $custom_status->slug, $permitted_on_initial ) || $custom_status->slug =='assigned' && !in_array( $custom_status->slug, $permitted_on_assigned ) || $custom_status->slug =='in-progress' && !in_array( $custom_status->slug, $permitted_on_inprogress ) )
                    unset( $custom_statuses[$key] );                               

            }
            break;
    }
    return $custom_statuses;
}
add_filter( 'ef_custom_status_list', 'efx_limit_custom_statuses_by_role' );

Forgot to mention that allowing the user to define the slug only on creation and locking it after that is another approach :).

Thanks!

I can see where you are coming from for sure. I will give the DB change a go.

Is there a way to make these statuses translate-able? Therefore, having the slug as it is but being able to change the actual name that appears on the drop-down menu for example?

This might be another way of achieving it without causing the issues you referred to.

Many thanks!

It’s seems to be working fine now. Please delete the post is possible!

Was looking to do the same thing and hopefully be able to map a custom field to Credly instead of the default ones.

Thanks all!

I have the core and:
BadgeOS Sensei Add-On
Leaderboards
Messages

However, the last 2 are not yet activated.

There seems to be something off but I can’t tell from what. I am passing user meta fields to an external service normally but can’t seem to pass a value for the points anymore. for all of the other meta fields, I am passing them with profile update. Could this be related to how the points might be calculated for the admin?

Thanks!