RDP inGroups+

1. 

   Login button shortcode in sidebar.

2. 

   Group shortcode, using the ID attribute to specify a LinkedIn group, embedded in a page. Notice that the user is not logged in. The first ten discussions have been scrapped from LinkedIn and displayed. If the group is open, a public RSS feed is made available, displaying the five most recent discussions.

3. 

   Group shortcode, using the ID attribute to specify a LinkedIn group, embedded in a page and with the user logged in.

4. 

   Popup action menu for logged-in user. Additional custom links can be added with a little PHP coding.

5. 

   Single discussion as seen by a non-logged-in visitor - must log in to see comments.

6. 

   Single discussion as seen by a logged-in user.

7. 

   Offer sharing of single discussions, using the Bitly API.

8. 

   Settings page.

9. 

   Button to launch the shortcode embed helper form

10. 

    How to find a group ID

11. 

    Discussion URL dissected

Installation Instructions

From your WordPress dashboard

1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
2. Search for ‘RDP inGroups+’
3. Click the Install Now link.
4. Activate RDP inGroups+ from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org

1. Download RDP inGroups+.
2. Upload the ‘rdp-linkedin-groups’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plug-ins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
3. Activate RDP inGroups+ from your Plugins page.

After Activation – Go to ‘Settings > RDP inGroups+’ and:

1. Get LinkedIn Application API keys using the link and settings shown at the top of the settings page.
2. Enter API Key.
3. Enter Secret Key.
4. Set other configurations as desired.
5. Click ‘Save Changes’ button.
6. Add the [rdp-ingroups-group] shortcode to a page and save the page.

Extra

1. Adjust the CSS widths on the settings page to make everything pretty, if necessary.
2. For more control, add an ingroups.custom.css file to your theme’s folder. Start with the ingroups.custom-sample.css file located in the ‘rdp-linkedin-groups/pl/style/’ directory.

Special Notes About Company Auto-Follow Feature

To have a user auto-follow companies, Register New Users? must be enabled.

The auto-follow feature is a one-time process for each user who is registered with the WordPress installation. Adding new company IDs will not retroactively join existing site users to the newly added companies.

So what does your plugin offer?

It’ll pull content from publicly viewable groups by scrapping LinkedIn, with the content in both HTML format for display on a page and RSS format for displaying a feed.

How do I access the RSS feed designed for Mailchimp newsletters?

Click on the RSS icon in the group header to open the standard RSS feed in a browser window. Now, modify the URL in the newly opened window by changing rss.php to rss_1.php.

1.0.6

• added checks to prevent plugin from running code unnecessarily
• updated close script for popup login window

1.0.5

• added ability to do a redirect after log-in, by setting a rdp_lig_login_redirect cookie
• added jQuery Cookie plugin

1.0.4

• minor code modifications

1.0.3

• minor fixes and modifications

1.0.2

• re-worked code to address log-in loop experienced by some users

1.0.1

• minor code re-factor

1.0.0

• added prepend attribute and append attribute to the member count shortcode
• added 30 minute caching to member count shortcode
• added attributes parameter to rdp_lig_render_member_count filter
• re-factored code so that the group discussions shortcode outputs results as expected, rather than writing directly to the browser
• added ability to sort group discussions by recency and popularity
• added paging to discussion comments
• added comment count and like count to posts’ meta data
• fixed bug with popup shortcode helper form
• allow paging of group discussions for non-logged-in visitors
• added code to ensure consistency with WP user logged-in/logged-out state
• added images to help identify group IDs and discussion IDs
• re-factored code for RSS feed output

0.7.0

• re-worked code to pull discussions from group home pages
• added setting option to control display of Manager’s Choice items in discussion lists and RSS feeds

0.6.3

• minor bug fix

0.6.2

• modification to make the shortcode media button show up for all post types

0.6.1

• modification to Sign Out links to continue displaying current group or discussion after log out

0.6.0

• removed code to re-write hyperlinks with a cache-busting query string parameter

0.5.2

• minor bug fixes
• updated sign-in procedure to update usermeta table with current LinkedIn picture URL and public profile URL

0.5.1

• added ability to detect if BuddyPress is active

0.5.0

• Initial RC