WordPress › Support » [Plugin: WP Biographia] Biographical Info formatting issue + Avatar + Exclude Posts

Bruce
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

When putting line breaks in the User Profile Biographical Info http://screencast.com/t/8DPktmZXKn, it is not reflected in the biography output http://screencast.com/t/uyQX5AXef.

Can the plugin be modified to allow for breaks?

Second, I noticed that when the avatar resizes, the surrounding height and width do not change with it (CSS).
It also appears that the Mail link does not work (I use Gmail, and it does not open a mail message window when clicked).

Lastly, when I do Exclude Posts (via Post ID), and use the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin, it is not excluded from those posts.

Continuing to love the plugin - it's better than anything out there.

Thanks!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-biographia/
vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Line breaks in the user's biography are, by default, stripped out by the WordPress wp_filter_kses filter. This is in item 7 in the FAQ. Adding the following to your theme's functions.php ...

remove_filter('pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_kses');

... should allow line breaks to be honoured. This might be a configurable feature in the plugin at some point in the future.

The issue you've seen where the CSS doesn't resize in line with the avatar image has been fixed and will be in v2.2 of the plugin which should be released this week.

As GMail is a web-app running inside a browser, most operating systems don't support URL schemes such as mailto for handlers inside web-apps, which is why you're seeing this not work as you might expect. But there's a work-around to allow this; see http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10966

I've never come across the Genesis Featured Widget plugin and as Genesis is a premium theme (in other words, I'd have to pay to be able to test this), plugin clashes or unexpected behaviour are really difficult to test out. But I'll have a look at the plugin's code and see if there's anything immediately apparent. Would you be willing to try testing some beta code if I am able to work out what's going on?

-Gary
Bruce
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi Gary,

remove_filter('pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_kses');

... should allow line breaks to be honoured. This might be a configurable feature in the plugin at some point in the future.

Great!

The issue you've seen where the CSS doesn't resize in line with the avatar image has been fixed and will be in v2.2 of the plugin which should be released this week.

Great again! :)

Would you be willing to try testing some beta code if I am able to work out what's going on?

Most definitely I would beta test. Also - Travis Smith is a developer and die hard Genesis guy. He might be able to tip you to the problem.

Thanks for the fast response!
vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Most definitely I would beta test. Also - Travis Smith is a developer and die hard Genesis guy. He might be able to tip you to the problem.

Thanks for the beta test offer; I really appreciate that.

Travis contributed a whole slew of code into v2.0 of WP Biographia so I'll definitely get in touch with him if I run into a roadblock on the Genesis plugin. I'll look at this as soon as I get v2.2 out of the door and into the WordPress SVN repository.

-Gary
Bruce
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Great Gary, thanks much.

Bruce
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

FYI -
wp_filter_kses actually removes all HTML from the profile description. This might not be the best idea, as users can get some things horribly wrong from time to time. So I added the below to provide some filtering for protection.

remove_filter('pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_kses');
add_filter('pre_user_description', 'wp_filter_post_kses');
add_filter('pre_user_description', 'wptexturize');
add_filter('pre_user_description', 'wpautop');
add_filter('pre_user_description', 'convert_chars');
add_filter('pre_user_description', 'balanceTags', 50);

vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Oooh. That's nice and really helpful. I'll add this information into the readme. Thanks!

-Gary
Travis Smith
Member
Plugin Contributor
Posted 1 year ago #

Bruce,

It would be better, even cleaner, to use the new (in 1.8) genesis_formatting_kses() function, so...
add_filter ( 'pre_user_description' , 'genesis_formatting_kses' );

This would make it much easier for you to control and be consistent on your site.

Gary, we could consider rolling the plugin's own with a filter for theme developers to short-circuit or apply their theme kses/allowedtags.

Thanks,

Travis
vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi Travis,

Nice to hear from you again; let's try and get this into the next version of the plugin. Ping me on email and we can work out the best approach?

In other news, v2.2 of WP Biographia is ready to roll and I'll be pushing it to the WordPress SVN repository this morning London time.

-Gary
Bruce
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi Travis,
I did not realize that was a new feature in Genesis 1.8. That's great!

Gary,
Looking forward to 2.2 version
Thanks!
Bruce
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi Gary,

Love the new features in 2.2. Nice job.

I have one issue. When setting "Exclude Posts (via Post ID)", the posts are not being excluded. I have tested several times.
Here are the plugin settings: http://screencast.com/t/QGW9ggTHo3h

I have tested in on the Genesis framework, and also on the Twenty Eleven (v1.3) theme.

Thanks
vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

That's odd ... I specifically test for post exclusions prior to releasing and I've just tested this out on my local live mirror and on my live site and excluding the Biography Box via Post ID works for me ...

Using http://www.vicchi.org/2011/12/20/wp-biographia-hits-v2-1-in-time-for-christmas/ as an example, this is Post ID 2284 ...

Without any post exclusions, the Biography Box displays as configured ...

http://www.screencast.com/users/Vicchi/folders/WordPress%20Screen%20Grabs/media/4d42719f-f847-44b5-84c4-a89ca7bd164c

With Post ID 2284 entered into the Exclude Posts setting, the Biography Box is suppressed ...

http://www.screencast.com/users/Vicchi/folders/WordPress%20Screen%20Grabs/media/d6b34fa3-5e50-4d6c-9f85-b74bc6ecca33

I'm using a child theme based on TwentyTen (not "raw") TwentyTen ... I'll go back and check this with both TwentyTen and with TwentyEleven to see if I can duplicate it.

-Gary
vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Post exclusions are working for me on "raw" TwentyTen ...

http://www.screencast.com/t/meyw0PwKGA

... and on TwentyEleven too ...

http://www.screencast.com/t/ZJoUTji8VjjS

... not too sure what's going on here for you?

-Gary
Bruce
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Huh... me either :)

Would you be willing to look at it on a development site? I can give you admin login credentials. It might take me a bit to upload the site though.
vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Sure. Only too happy to. The day's drawing on here so I'll probably not get a change to look at this until tomorrow, once you've got everything in place.

Ping me by email with details, off of the forums (for obvious reasons!) ... contact details are over at http://www.garygale.com/.

One other thing, are you OK with me uploading a couple of development plugins so I can get some debugging/logging messages going to see what's going on?

-Gary
Bruce
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi Gary,

Will you need FTP on the development plugins?

I'll email you once I get the site set up.

Thanks!
vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

FTP or SCP, whichever is easiest for you to set up (and more importantly to take down afterwards!).

-Gary
Bruce
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi Gary,

I have emailed you the credentials. Thanks much for looking at this!
vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Credentials arrived safe and sound.

-Gary
vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #

Just to wrap this topic up ... turns out that WebEndev and myself are talking about two differing types of post exclusions.

The current version of WP Biographia is designed to exclude single posts by Post ID, in other words when the Single Post Template is being used and thus, the is_single() API call returns true. This type of exclusion is working as designed.

What WebEndev is asking for is a global post exclusion facility that acts on all the other ways a post can be displayed, so that's via the front page or via post archives.

I'll take this as a feature request and add this into the next release, which will be forthcoming in a few week's time.

-Gary
Bruce
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Thanks much Gary. Glad we got this all sorted out. This will be a nice addition to an already great plugin.

Can't wait for the next release to see the other new features!
Naser
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

Hello Vicchi and WebEndev,
I need to add nofollow to URL's author description. I tried the above method and it worked, but as specified above, allowing all html tags can be a problem, can you let me know a filter which only allows adding of rel="nofollow" attribute within author description?

Thanks in advance.
vicchi
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 11 months ago #

Hi Naser,

Is this within the author's biography text or on one of the author's contact links?

If the latter, then this is supported natively within the plugin. If the former then a little more detail would help, but I don't think this will be easily accomplished.

-Gary

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