Allows users to take control of the way that the links in their Buddypress profiles are handled.
| Author: | Anton Channing (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.5 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.5.2 |
| Plugin version: | 1.1 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 08-04-2013 |
| Last updated: | 08-04-2013
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 2 |
| Plugin URI: | http://wp.antonchanning.com/buddypress-custom... |
| Total downloads: | 3 103 |
| Active installs: | 10+ |
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Out of the box, BuddyPress automatically turns some words and phrases in the fields of a user's profile into links that, when clicked, search the user's community for other profiles containing those phrases. It also removes any attempts at formatting with new lines.
When activated, this plugin allows users to have more control over these links, in the following ways:
- Auto generated links are completely disabled.
- By using curly brackets in a profile field, users can specify which words or phrases in their profile turn into links. For example: under Interests, I might list "Cartoons about dogs". Without this plugin, Buddypress will turn the entire phrase into a link that searches the community for others who like 'cartoons about cats'. If I instead type "{Cartoons} about {cats}", then the two words in brackets will turn into independent links.
- If the 'bbPress2 shortcode whitelist' plugin is activated, then users can also apply admin approved shortcodes to their profile fields.
- Administrators can specify certain profile fields that link to social networking profiles. If I enter my Twitter handle 'antonchanning' into a field labeled 'Twitter', for example, this plugin will bypass the default link to a BuddyPress search on 'antonchanning' and instead link to http://twitter.com/antonchanning. (Currently this list is hardcoded, but I plan to add an admin screen in future versions. See buddypress-custom-profile-filters-bp-functions.php to configure this setting for now).
This plugin is forked from a similar plugin from CUNY Academic Commons of the City University of New York.
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