Comments on: Add User Widget

By: Andre Malan

Andre Malan — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:42:08 +0000

To all reading this article, as mentioned in the text, I no longer maintain this plugin, it is maintained by UBC CTLT and is only here for historical reference. To see the latest version you can find it under Add user Widget on WordPress.org.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:14:26 +0000

Dear Sirs:

How we can use Add User Widget in two languages ? We are working in a multilingual BP site and need to have this widget in both languages, Spanish / English.

I can provide you the Spanish translation, in fact already have translates all string to Spanish.

Regards,

By: Sharron Clemons

Sharron Clemons — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:10:03 +0000

I installed v1.2 of your plugin on a WPMU 2.6 install and noticed that if you are logged in as the admin of the blog, the plugin can inadvertently change your user status from admin to contributor/author/subscriber if you refresh the blog page. It’s a great idea & seems well designed except for this small bug! Let me know if you find a way to prevent this, I’d love to use it on my .edu WPMU install.

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By: Alexandru-Dan Fratean

Alexandru-Dan Fratean — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:43:56 +0000

WordPress – episodul 2 – Widgets & Plugins…

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

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By: Ted Burrett

Ted Burrett — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:52:01 +0000

The style of writing is very familiar to me. Have you written guest posts for other bloggers?

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By: Andre Malan

Andre Malan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:55:36 +0000

Hi Jon, sorry that the installation instructions were a bit unclear… you did indeed put the plugin in the right place.

As for your second problem, I have not tried to do that before, but the forum topic looks very promising.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:43:30 +0000

Andre I haven’t had time to work with this but I think the issue I described above is addressed here:

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=8041

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:29:34 +0000

Hi Andre,

Thanks for developing this widget. I have a problem using it, though. I think this issue is relevant to all widgets in MU unless I’m misunderstanding something.

As an aside, the installation instructions are unclear but I got the widget to work by installing the PHP file in the *root* of the mu-plugins folder. Is this correct?

OK, regarding the problem. I can use the Plugin Commander plugin to automatically activate yours (or any) widget plugin in a new blog. However, unless the user blog is using the same theme as the main site the user will have to manually add the widget to their sidebar. On my site a user blog will never use the same theme as the main site. I don’t want users to have to manually add the widget to their sidebar. In fact, I will be hiding the Widget menu from them.

Is there a solution other than to add the form and form processing code from your plugin to the sidebar.php in each of the themes I make available to the blog owners? If so, can you give me any pointers for migrating the widget code into sidebar.php?

By: Andre Malan

Andre Malan — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:57:48 +0000

It is still working. Newest version can be found at http://blogs.ubc.ca/blog/2008/11/18/add-user-widget/

By: tzone

tzone — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:53:38 +0000

Is this not working anymore?

By: Stephane

Stephane — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:11:04 +0000

Links works fine Thank you! Merci.

By: Andre Malan

Andre Malan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:27:02 +0000

Why am I having so much trouble keeping this link active? Meh, it’s all fixed now!

By: Stephane

Stephane — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:07:34 +0000

Hello, sorry but there is an error when one try to download the 1.2.4 file.

Thank you

By: Andre Malan

Andre Malan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:34:15 +0000

@cgz Ah, don’t know why I did that. Link is now a zip file!

By: cgz

cgz — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:47:56 +0000

Hi,
Could you reupload your script as zip file? It’s currently impossible to download it…

By: Andre Malan

Andre Malan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:59:51 +0000

I’ve updated so that the reloading works better. Try it out.

By: Gaboinked

Gaboinked — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:58:48 +0000

Hey, great additions and it seems to work okay. Is there a way to reload the page after the user clicks the Add me button so they do not need to log in a second time on a specific blog.

I am using a Prologue based theme, and the post box will not display until the user logs out of current session and logs back in.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:14:27 +0000

Andre, thanks for this plugin. I’ve added it to our campus blogging service, and think it’ll help quite a bit for classblogs as well as community blogs. Great stuff!

By: Esther

Esther — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:05:57 +0000

Thanks for adding that fix, I’m not having the change of user-type problem anymore!

Esther

By: Andre Malan

Andre Malan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:00:59 +0000

I’ll try and get it fixed today. Which options did you have selected?

By: Esther

Esther — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:04:37 +0000

I installed v1.2 of your plugin on a WPMU 2.6 install and noticed that if you are logged in as the admin of the blog, the plugin can inadvertently change your user status from admin to contributor/author/subscriber if you refresh the blog page.
It’s a great idea & seems well designed except for this small bug!
Let me know if you find a way to prevent this, I’d love to use it on my .edu WPMU install.

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