Develop a WordPress plugin with no programming skills? Easy!
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Apr
Variables? Loops? Arrays? Huh?! Don’t Panic! This black art, over a series of articles, will start with the development of your first plugin, through to arming your with know-how that will let terms like these trip of your tongue as easy as getting a cat to ignore you.
Changing the Profile page menu text
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Jul
[Edit: From v12.09 this is no longer necessary, and the menu items for your profile page, and other member's profile pages can be switched on/off and the text changed on the profile page.] The default menu items (My Activity, All Activity, etc) may not fit your site and you might want to change them to [...]
Adding content at top of WPS pages with filters
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Jun
From v12.06.23, there are a number of additional filters available to let you add content above WP Symposium content, to display your own content. For example, the following will display some flags at the top of the profile page that if clicked on will go to specific pages (www.example.com used for the sake of this [...]
Styling the forum, member lists, etc
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Jun
Note that this will also style the forum, and other items across your WPS installation like the list of group member, member directory, friends list and so on. For your user’s experience, this will keep a common style. It can be used with WP Symposium styles enabled, or not. Via the admin dashboard, go to [...]
Adding profile fields to the Member Directory
Posted by Simon Goodchild at May
You may want to include certain “meta” information for each member on the directory, and it’s quite easy to do. Recommended for v13.02 (release candidate 23+) of WP Symposium or higher. First, add the following to your functions.php file to show the common WP Symposium member information you can show, and how to show your [...]
Styling jQuery dialog box (and the gallery in particular)
Posted by Simon Goodchild at May
So jQuery dialog box isn’t particularly colourful out of the box, and will need some “jazzing up”! The easiest way is via the WP Symposium->Styles->CSS section where you can copy and paste CSS, and it stays there when WP Symposium is upgraded. Copy and paste the following, for a particularly drug-induced colour scheme, and then [...]
Create a WPS Forum page template, part 3
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Feb
What’s next? Well, when clicking on a forum topic you want to see the post and all the post replies – that’s what we’re going to do in this tutorial. Dealing with permalinks, or not…. So far, all the tutorials have assumed that you are using permalinks (www.example.com/thispage instead of www.example.com?page_id=5) In this tutorial, and [...]
WP Symposium CubePoints module
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Feb
CubePoints is a point management system designed for WordPress sites. Users can earn points by posting comments creating posts, or even by logging in on your site. And now you can reward points for WP Symposium activity (posting on profile pages, getting involved in the forum and making friends). Encourage your users to “do stuff” [...]
Create a WPS Forum page template, part 2
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Feb
So we have our list of categories, in this part of the tutorial we are going to do two things: Add breadcrumbs (so you can navigate back “up” the forum) Display the list of topics within the current category Looking to end up with the following: You can see that within a given category, sub [...]
Create a WPS Forum page template, part 1
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Feb
Let’s make a forum page template! In the order of things, it’s best if you follow the profile page template tutorial first as it explains a few things that I’ll take for granted here, like what a class is! I’m using wps_forum_page_1.php and wps_forum_page.css files for this part – you’ll find them in the tutorials folder in the wp-symposium [...]
Create a WPS Mail page template, part 7
Posted by Simon Goodchild at Feb
Final part (doubtful, but for now….!) adds search to the mail page, follows on from part 6. I’m going to focus on the lines of code that matter here, how you use them is entirely down to your imagination! This is using wps_mail_page_7.php. The most important parts are the additional parameters to $wps_mail->get_inbox() and $wps_mail->get_inbox_count() that filters [...]
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