Posted by Simon Goodchild  at May 26th, 2012

Release code name: John

• Implemented @tags
• Set your own labels in Summary widget
• Ensures that Hey’s sent can be replied to
• Added CURL and JSON check to Installation page
• Hide town/city admin option on profile page
• Photo comments no longer causing broken images
• Added option to hide distance
• Fix to last active value on Following/Followers

Set your own labels in Summary widget

Some sites could do with different labels on the summary widget – now you can set your own labels. Do so via Appearance -> Widgets -> summary widget settings.

Ensure Hey’s that are sent can be replied to

People who send a Hey (or whatever you call it on your site!), are temporarily added to the mail recipient list so you can send a reply by mail.

Add CURL and JSON check to Installation page

If not activated, currently a messy warning box is shown (if PHP warnings enable) or it just fails. A clean check has been added to the Installation page with the ability to show phpinfo() if DEBUG mode is on.

Photo comments causing broken images

Fix an error as described on the forum. Tends to appear in activity stream. See forum discussion.

Hide town/city on profile page

Added an admin option to profile page to hide the town and city profile options as this is not always wanted on a social network.

Also hides the distance option from the member’s directory if enabled.

Bronze Members

The following are applicable only to Bronze members.

Implement @tags

Activated via Profile Plus admin page:

@tags appear as links to a user’s profile page. First display names are searched to see if there is a match (without spaces), if not user login names are checked as a fall-back. If no match is found, it is displayed as entered. Also WPS ensures that display names set on profile page are unique to avoid duplication.

If enabled, on a member’s community settings page, their @tag is shown to them.

You can style the @tags, for example, this is the CSS for the above, added via Dashboard -> WP Symposium -> Styles -> CSS (if you need to, put !important after a class value and before the semi-colon at the end of the line):

.symposium_usertag {
 text-decoration: none;
 background-color: #333;
 border-top:1px solid #E49A60;
 border-left:1px solid #E49A60;
 border-right:1px solid #A35315;
 border-bottom:1px solid #A35315;
 padding: 2px 4px 2px 4px;
 border-radius:3px;
 cursor:pointer;
}
.symposium_usertag:hover {
}
.symposium_usertag:active {
 border-top:1px solid #A35315;
 border-left:1px solid #A35315;
 border-right:1px solid #E49A60;
 border-bottom:1px solid #E49A60;
}

A new profile menu item “Forum @mentions” can be added to the member profile page via the admin page:

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