CC User Data

Add certain company centric fields and images to your user profiles, the following fields are added to the edit user page.

• job title
• sort (a hidden field for contorlling display order)
• html bigraphy (bio is already present, this adds an additional one which supports html)
• skills
• phone number
• start date
• picture
• thumbnail
• twitter
• facebook
• google+
• linkedin
• youtube

Also gives access via [cc-user-data-list] shortcode to display a list of users/authors anywhere on your site.

Attributes supported by the shortcode:

• show_thumbs=”false” – hides the thumnail from the list
• show_picture=”false” – hides the picture from the list
• show_bio=”false” – hides the bio from the list
• show_title=”false” – hides the job title from the list
• show_email=”false” – hides the email from the list
• show_name=”false” – hides the name from the list
• show_posts=”false” – hides the authors recent posts (if any) from the list
• show_social=”false” – hides the authors social links (if any) in the list

Roadmap

Things in consideration for future development

• Create your own fields interface
• Drag/drop update sort order
• Sort by sort order on user index page
• Calendar for date
• Add fields…
• Add shortcode options for sorting behavior
• Add shortcode option for getting specific users, or roles only

Install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload cc-user-data to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Edit users and fill in exra details as desired
4. Place [cc-user-data-list] in your post/page to display the author list
5. (optional) Add a User Data widget to your site to display a random user spotlight.

None yet
Initial install

1. 

   A view of the shortcode in a post.

2. 

   Check out the extra meta data on the user edit page.

3. 

   Here is a preview of the widget you get.

4. 

   Here is the front end with a couple authors from the shortcode in the first screenshot.

1.1.1

• typo fix- update

1.1.0

• adding a widget to display a random user

1.0.0

• initial release