WordPress.org

Author: Marco Cimmino

WordPress is becoming more than ever a tool to open blog/websites and CMSs in an easier way. Users are increasing day by day; one of the limits however is the restricted and predefined fields that are available in the registered users profile: it is difficult for example to ask for the acceptance of "Terms and Conditions of Use" or "Permission to use personal data".

Features

The plug-in adds two new menu voices in the admin for the administrator and two for users.

Two new menus are:

WordPress: 1. "Users -> A&U Extended" - lets you show users lists with the new fields that are created 2. "Settings -> Cimy User Extra Fields" - lets administrators add as many new fields as are needed to the users' profile, giving the possibility to set some interesting rules.

Wordpress MU: 1. "Site Admin -> Users Extended" - lets you show users lists with the new fields that are created 2. "Site Admin -> Cimy User Extra Fields" - lets administrators add as many new fields as are needed to the users' profile, giving the possibility to set some interesting rules.

Rules are:

• min/exact/max length admitted [only for text, textarea, textarea-rich, password, picture, picture-url, avatar]

• field can be empty [only for text, textarea, textarea-rich, password, picture, picture-url, dropdown, avatar]

• check for e-mail address syntax [only for text, textarea, textarea-rich, password]

• field can be modified after the registration [only for text, textarea, textarea-rich, password, picture, picture-url, checkbox, radio, dropdown, avatar] [for radio and checkbox 'editonlyifempty' has no effects and 'editonlybyadminorifempty' has the same effect as editonlybyadmin]

• field equal to some value (for example accept terms and conditions) [all except avatar by default set to 512]

• equal to can be or not case sensitive [only for text, textarea, textarea-rich, password, dropdown]

• field can be hidden during registration [all]

• field can be hidden in user's profile [all]

• field can be hidden in A&U Extended page [all]

New fields will be visible in the profile and in the registration.

As for now the plug-in supports:

• text
• textarea
• textarea-rich
• password
• checkbox
• radio
• drop-down
• picture
• picture-url
• registration-date
• avatar

future versions can have more.

Following WordPress hidden fields can be enabled during registration:

• password
• first name
• last name
• nickname
• website
• Aim
• Yahoo IM
• Jabber/Google Talk
• biographical info