Posted by Simon Goodchild  at May 19th, 2012

Release code name: Freddie

• Multi-line activity boxes
• WPS + WP Site search (Bronze only)
• Autocomplete in Members Directory
• Make public mean public
• Migration check
• Privacy on Member Directory (Void)
• Extra smilies (Void)

Multi-line activity boxes 

If Elastic Textboxes is enabled, activity and gallery comment boxes will now stretch to content. If this causes a problem with other plugins, you can de-activate Elastic Texboxes and an HTML Textbox will be used instead.

WPS + WP Site search (Bronze only)

Created an autocomplete search for use in templates or shortcode that autocompletes. Includes options for members, groups, gallery, forum, WordPress pages and WordPress posts.

Set which you want to include on the Profile Plus admin page. You can include it as either a shortcode [symposium-search] or in your page templates (like I have in header.php on the WPS website) with “echo symposium_search()”.

It should only appear once on screen, so if you use it in your page header that appears on every page, don’t then add is as widget content or page/post content (but then, why would you?!)

If you’re interested, in header.php, I replaced the line that includes get_search_form(); with

echo '<div id="searchform">'.symposium_search().'</div>';

Autocomplete in Members Directory 

Using jQuery autocomplete, the member directory search box will provide a dropdown of matching user’s.

Make public mean public

This was a piece of checking sparked by forum discussion.

Migration check

Added a check to stop migration process re-starting when users are deleted for WP admin (users). May have to run one more time if you are experiencing this, then a check ensures it isn’t run again.

Privacy on Member Directory (Void)

As security on privacy is at member page level, allow all members to be shown in the directory (but hide any personal information such as location, based on privacy level). Shows member’s that they are not alone!

This was actually void as this was already the current way it works.

Extra smilies (Void)

Using the WYSIWYG editor (maybe also the text editor), the extra smilies are showing as broken links. Fix! eg. {{solider}}

Ah, erm, yes. Okay. Turns out I can’t spell soldier. Please, no comments….!!!!