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1. imagiscapeca
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Sites like google.com/ig allow users to "personalize your homepage". Users can add content from available add-ins.
   Can I make that available to my users?

   Related:
   Have you found a weather widget that automatically detects the user's location?

2. adamrbrown
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Can I make that available to my users?

   I've seen a really cool plugin that lets you do this to your admin dashboard, but not to your blog's frontend.

   Have you found a weather widget that automatically detects the user's location?

   No, but I've seen plugins that figure out a commenter's country and put a little flag next to their comment. Find something like that, and use their method to set which country's weather to display?

3. imagiscapeca
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Is there somewhere I can post a plugin request/suggestion?

   Would the solution for this be a plugin or could it be a theme or a core feature?

4. imagiscapeca
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Here's a start:

   From http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags:

   is_author()
   When any Author page is being displayed.
   is_author('1337')
   When the archive page for Author number 1337 is being displayed.
   is_author('Elite Hacker')
   When the archive page for the Author with Nickname "Elite Hacker" is being displayed.
   is_author('elite-hacker')
   When the archive page for the Author with Nicename "elite-hacker" is being displayed.

   See also Author Templates.

   I could custom-add items to some individuals pages, but I can't imagine how to create a form where users can self-manage which add-ins they want. (Ideally not just from several I make available, but from any site, in the way that some Google Gadgets can get their source from any site.)

5. imagiscapeca
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Doh!!!

   (not: Eureka!!!)

   The condition is_author won't help, we need is_user() or is_member() or whatever the term for a user/member/registrant is.

   And none of those exist.

   Do we need an is_user() thing?

6. ruzel
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Here's a fix for your problem (although I haven't got all the kinks worked out). What I think you're looking for is the user_data() function. In order to call up user data--like a display name, you call user_data() with the user's id as the argument. Butwaitthere's more!

   There is also a function called wp_get_current_user() You can use this function as an argument as well, ala user_data(wp_get_current_user()) and now what you have is an object with all the user's info stored in it. So your final code (as a simple example) on your template page would look like this:

   $user_info = get_userdata(wp_get_current_user());
   
   echo 'Hey there, ' . $user_info->user_login . '!';

   You can learn more about the user_data object here:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

7. ruzel
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Slight refinement to the code above:

   wp_get_current_user() also returns an object, so you need to do this instead:

   $user_obj = wp_get_current_user(); //fetch information about who is logged in
   
   $user_info = get_userdata($user_obj->id); //fetch user info based on known user id
   
   echo 'Hey there, ' . $user_info->first_name . '!';

   And that should do it!

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