CrappyCodingGuy

I’ll take a look and get back to you. Do you have a sample page set up somewhere I can look at?

I’ll add that to the list.

The plugin is designed to track distance and time. You can leave the distance fields as 0 if you just want time. You can view overall totals and embed reports aggregated by month or year, but not week. And no graphs or charts.

So it does at least some of what you want. Let me know if you have any additional questions.

The latest version of the plugin has support for stats and ranking views. There’s also a new Help menu in the admin panel that gives a detailed description and samples on how to configure these views. I’ll give a very brief overview here…

The stats and ranking views use short codes, just like the main log view. There are a number of parameters you can use to configure what sort of stats or ranking is displayed. To see overall distance statistics aggregated for all users you can add this to a page or post:

[wrs_walking_log view=”stats” by=”distance” period=”overall” user=”all”]

And make sure you set up the custom field as discussed in the setup instructions.

Hope this helps!

I did find the reason adding text or spacing above the short code wasn’t working. In fact any text that appeared before the short code in the editor was showing up after the short code when viewing the page. This has been fixed in version 1.3.

This opens up a number of possibilities for adding some spacing before the log. One of the simplest would be this:

1. Edit the post or page that contains the short code
2. Make sure you’re on the “Text” tab instead of “Visual”
3. Add <p> </p> on a line before the short code.

This will give you some space above the short code when viewing the page. If you want specific control over the spacing you can add styling:

<p style=”height:100px”> </p>

Just change the 100 to however many pixels of spacing you want.

Took a bit longer than expected, but ranking and user stats are now available in version 1.3. Please let me know if I can be of any more assistance.

The new version (1.3) adds global settings that will take effect when no user is logged in. With these you can now control the default display format for time and distance. User specific settings will still override the defaults.

The plugin settings for how to display the time (hours/minutes/seconds vs. minutes) is controlled by the logged in user, so when nobody is logged in it uses the default format (which is minutes). I’ll add a global setting for this soon.

As long as each person has their own account on the blog, each can edit their own log easily. Just create a Page according to the instructions, and add the short code with no user name specified:

[wrs_walking_log view=”main”]

When a user logs in and goes to the page they will see their own log and can edit it. They will also be able to see and edit their own log in their dashboard area.

There isn’t currently a built-in way to see reports, ranking or anything like that, but I’m in the process of adding that, and expect to have it out by the end of the week.

Hi Clarissa,

There currently isn’t a way to combine users into a single log without doing your own custom coding. This shouldn’t be too bad for me to add though, and I’ll add it to my todo list.

How do you envision it working? I’m thinking it would be a new short code, where the view parameter would be something like “combine” or “all” instead of “main”, or something similar. This would be a view only thing, nobody would be able to edit their logs that way since it would add a lot of complexity.

For the spacing, I’m not sure why adding text or spacing above the short code is always showing up after the short code, so adding spacing to the top of the page itself doesn’t work at this time. As a workaround, follow these steps:

1. Go to plugins menu in WordPress admin
2. Find the Walking Log plugin and click the Edit link
3. On the right side of the page, click on the walking_log.css file, it should show up in the editor.
4. Right underneath the copyright message, after the */, add this:

   #wrswl-month-select { margin-top: 100px; }

5. Change 100px to whatever margin you prefer – e.g. 50px. Make sure you keep the “px” text right after the number.
6. Click the “Update File” button at the bottom.

This should allow you to control the vertical spacing.

How do you have the short code configured on the page? You need to use the shortcode form that specifies a user name, i.e.

[wrs_walking_log view=”main” user=”yourusername”]

The name is required because otherwise the plugin doesn’t know which user’s privacy settings to use.

This is called out on the General options page…

“You can also show a specific user’s log by including the user name in the short code: [wrs_walking_log view=”main” user=”dave”]. Only the specified user will be able to edit the log there, and everyone else will be able to view the log according to the user’s privacy settings.”

But it’s not very obvious that the privacy settings work only when the user is known. I’ll update that in the next release so it’s more clear.

Let me know if this doesn’t fix things.

So sorry I didn’t see your message before now – not sure why I never received an email when you posted.

I’m assuming you’re on a single user version of WordPress…

– In the page where you want to display the log, add this, and nothing else (once you get it working, it should be no problem to add other content):

[wrs_walking_log view=”main”]

– While still in the page editor, click the “Screen Options” button in the upper right of the page to display the screen options settings. Make sure the Custom Fields option is checked.

1. At the bottom of the screen, click the “Enter New” link to enter a new custom field.
2. Type in wrs_walking_log for the name, and 1 for the value.
3. Save the page and view it. The walking log should display on the page.