Boone Gorges

CUNY Academic Commons

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. When activated, this plugin allows users and administrators to have more control over these links, in the following ways:
1) By using square 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”. By default, Buddypress will turn the entire phrase into a link that searches the community for others who like cartoons about dogs. If I instead type “[Cartoons] about [dogs]”, then the two words in brackets will turn into independent links.
2) Administrators can specify certain profile fields that will not turn into links at all. The standard setting for the plugin is that fields labeled ‘Phone’, ‘IM’, and ‘Skype ID’ will not become linkable (it doesn’t make much sense to search a community for what should be a unique handle, after all). See custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress.php to configure this setting.
3) Administrators can specify certain profile fields that link to social networking profiles. If I enter my Twitter handle ‘boonebgorges’ into a field labeled ‘Twitter’, for example, this plugin will bypass the default link to a BuddyPress search on ‘boonebgorges’ and instead link to http://twitter.com/boonebgorges. See custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress-bp-functions.php to configure this setting.
This plugin was created as part of the CUNY Academic Commons of the City University of New York. See http://commons.gc.cuny.edu to learn more about this bodacious project.
<h3>Notes</h3>
The plugin checks each profile for square brackets and activates if it finds any. If no square brackets are found, the default automatic filter will kick in.
You might want to insert a small explanation into your BP profile edit template (/wp-content/bp-themes/[your-member-theme]/profile/edit.php that tells your site’s users how to use these brackets. Here’s what I use:
“Words or phrases in your profile can be linked to the profiles of other members that contain the same phrases. To specify which words or phrases should be linked, add square brackets: e.g. “I enjoy [English literature] and [technology].” If you do not specify anything, phrases will be chosen automatically.”
Future features include: admin tab with toggle switch; ability to tweak BP’s automatic profile filter (e.g. to parse semi-colon separated lists in addition to commas).

Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress

Allows users to take control of the way that the links in their Buddypress profiles are handled.

itsdavidmorgan

Organic Themes

The Organic Profile Block is designed to work with the WordPress 5 block editor and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/" title="Gutenberg Plugin" rel="ugc">Gutenberg plugin</a>. This custom block is designed to display personal profiles. It includes options to add a profile image, name, title, biography, and social media links. The social media options include icon links to personal profiles for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and email. The profile block is an excellent solution for creating author profiles on posts, staff or employee pages, and testimonials.
Additionally, this plugin is a great reference for budding WordPress block developers. Since WordPress blocks are developed in Javascript, creating a block can be intimidating for WordPress developers more familiar with PHP, HTML, and CSS. That’s why we developed the Profile Block using the Javascript ES5 language, which does not require the use of a compiler to edit the code. For more information, please refer to our <a href="https://organicthemes.com/create-custom-block-wordpress-gutenberg/" title="Create Custom Block" rel="nofollow ugc">How To Create A Custom Block</a> article.
A premium version of the block is included in the <a href="https://organicthemes.com/blocks/" title="Organic Blocks Bundle" rel="nofollow ugc">Organic Blocks Bundle</a> plugin. The bundle includes 12 premium blocks for the Gutenberg editor. The premium Profile Block can display unlimited social media links, and features several more options for modifying the profile image size, colors, and style.
<h4>Premium Blocks</h4>
The following blocks are only available by upgrading to the <a href="https://organicthemes.com/blocks/" title="Organic Blocks Bundle" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Version</a>:
<ul>
<li>Content Slideshow Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/content-slideshow-block/" title="Content Slideshow Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – Display any posts type within a customizable slideshow.</li>
<li>Posts Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/posts-block/" title="Posts Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – Display a collection of posts from any post type in a customizable layout — perfect for blogs and featured news sections.</li>
<li>Portfolio Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/portfolio-block/" title="Portfolio Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – Showcase any post type in a masonry style portfolio layout.</li>
<li>Premium Profile Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/profile-block/" title="Profile Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – Showcase personal profiles with social media links — perfect for displaying team members and author profiles.</li>
<li>Testimonials Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/testimonials-block/" title="Testimonials Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – Display customer and client testimonials in a customizable slideshow.</li>
<li>Pages Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/pages-block/" title="Pages Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – Display a customizable section of featured pages.</li>
<li>Header Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/header-block/" title="Header Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – Create headers for your website displaying your logo, site title, and custom menus in a customizable layout.</li>
<li>Footer Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/footer-block/" title="Footer Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – Create a custom footer for your website displaying copyright information, legal links, social media icons, and more.</li>
<li>Widget Area Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/widget-area-block/" title="Widget Area Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – A unique block for registering widget areas on any page or post of your website.</li>
<li>Toggle Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/toggle-block/" title="Toggle Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – A custom block for toggling the display of content — perfect for documentation and FAQ pages.</li>
<li>Modal Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/modal-block/" title="Modal Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – Create content within a customizable popup box that can be viewed by clicking on a link.</li>
<li>Alert Block <a href="https://organicthemes.com/block/alert-block/" title="Alert Block Example" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a> – Notify your website visitors of important information using the Alert Block.</li>
</ul>
Contribute:
This plugin is open source software, and you may actively contribute on <a href="https://github.com/Invulu/organic-profile-block" title="Organic Profile Block Repository" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.
<h3>Installation & Setup</h3>
Note: This plugin requires the WordPress 5 block editor or the Gutenberg plugin active.
<ol>
<li>Upload ‘organic-profile-block’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.</li>
<li>Within a post or page, select the ‘+’ symbol to add a new block.</li>
<li>From the ‘Blocks’ tab, select the ‘Profile’ block.</li>
<li>Add your profile image and content to the block.</li>
<li>Within the ‘Block’ section on the right, add your social media links.</li>
</ol>

Organic Profile Block

Plugin works great. I like that it doesn't add a million other blocks and upsells, and just generally works as advertised. :)

I'm updating my previous review since the author added a bunch of other blocks and upsells to this plugin. The upsells especially are obnoxious. Not everything needs to be a money-making opportunity.

Used to be great.

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