How To Display User Profile Information In Template ?
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How do you display user information on the sidebar template? I would like to show there number of posts and comments. The users, not the authors profile.
Is there a plugin or anyway to do it?
Thanks.
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There isn’t a profile widget. But if you go to the left menu bar and go down to appearance—-widgets.
You can put up a text widget with whatever info you want. The easiest way is to type it up like you’re doing a normal post. Then click on HTML (top right of editor) and copy the coding to be pasted in the widget.
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There is a “recent comments” widget, and also a “blog stats” widget.
Some themes don’t support widgets, and some support only certain widgets so a link to your blog would be useful:“Go into your dashboard -> users -> your profile -> then scroll down to ‘contact info’. In the spot where it says ‘website’ fill in the address of your blog and save the changes.
Now… when you comment here and on other blogs, your name will link to your blog. If you do this before you post your request for help, it will allow forum volunteers to be able to help you quicker since they won’t have to ask you for a link and wait until you come back to post one.”
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Can we have a link to your WordPress.COM blog? That way we can know if you are using self-hosted WordPress software or are blogging on WordPress.COM. The may both say “WordPress” but they are different programs.
The explanation is in the sticky at the top of this forum. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1
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is there a way to make that sticky a ‘pop-up’ note everytime someone leaves a forum question?
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is there a way to make that sticky a ‘pop-up’ note everytime someone leaves a forum question?
I believe that’s a good idea. But instead of a popup, make it a thickbox that would appear when a user comes for the first time to the forum.
Since no one really reads the stickies, it would be good to put a short notice in that same thickbox that if the user has a self-hosted blog, he needs to go to the .org support forum (providing a link would be good).
My two cents.
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Yeah, something like that devblog. Or even better, complete integration so profile info doesn’t need to be a second step for a new blogger. It’s just frustrating to see forum volunteers requesting the same thing over and over; and yet no long-term, viable solution has manifested.
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Long discussion with suggestions over here.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wpcom-not-wporg?replies=77
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Thats the test site, and url.
I would like it so after you login it shows how many posts you made, etc
Thanks.
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Thanks Jen! You’re a doll. I missed that thread as I was on my hiatus. Aren’t ya glad I’m back? :P Seriously, doesn’t wordpress notice volunteers getting frustrated? Why do they think dedicated volunteers just up and disappear, only to reappear after giving it some space? Or some stick around, when they should give it a rest, and start lashing at questioners. It’s like, let’s get something done!
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@aznganster94-OK then, off to the correct support forum you go. http://wordpress.org/support/ since you are self-hosted and there the sky’s the limit. Cheers!
@diamondfistwerny-see what happens when you leave? (Besides, that wasn’t the reason you gave before for having left. Just sayin’…) ;)
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Why do they think dedicated volunteers just up and disappear, only to reappear after giving it some space?
I know that’s why I had to take a small break it
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@ Teck, Um yeah, that’s why I keep honing in on things like “Visit Site” and Forums being visible, etc. Cuz it’s gonna be a new batch of the same questions over and over again. That’s why I scratch my head when I find fellow, long-term forumers defending it so vehemently; and seemingly kissing up to WP. I don’t get it!
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Just added a Forums link next to the Support link in the Dashboard footer. Now you can get to either from the top (through Help) or bottom of any screen in the Dashboard.
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