AmmoPT

Hello Jan,

Thank you for moving the post to the appropriate area, I apologise since I don’t participate in forums as much as I would like.

OAI-PMH is an international standard protocol used for metadata harvesting via the web.
It’s used by librabries, museum, archives and all sorts of institutions to provide their data to others, with interoperability in mind.

OAI-PMH example image.

There are 2 actors in an OAI-PMH system:
1) OAI-PMH data providers
2) OAI-PMH harvesters

The first actor needs to implement an OAI-PMH repository, so harvester can access the base url of said repository.
The second actor needs to implement OAI-PMH harvesting, in order to define the arguments in the request to the provider.

After a couple of battles I managed to put it to work the way I wanted only to see that to customize menus is very complex, at least using a custom child theme as I am.

I decided to go with Polylang, it seems to suit my needs better.

Anyhow, thank you for your support and I wish you to keep up the good work.

Regards,

Ammo

Remember, this is fresh installation of plug-in and I only tweaked on the ‘User Login’ panel.

Could it be some misconfiguration on the multi-site install? Everything is working as intended up untill now. Multi-site wise.

One thing I hate is bumping into a rare problem on the internet that someone else has bumped into and the thread has died with no answer.
SO
After several hours of trial and error and investigation, I finally solved my problem.

This is how the constructor looks like in side-user.php:

function __construct( $query_vars ) {
		$this->query_vars = $query_vars;
        $this->query_vars['orderby'] = 'display_name';
        $this->query_vars['order'] = 'ASC';
        $this->query_vars['meta_query'] = array(
            array(
                'key'     => 'nickname',
                'value'   => $_REQUEST['s'],
                'compare' => 'LIKE'
            ));
}

This is how the function abstract_query looks like in directed-connection-type:

private function abstract_query( $qv, $which, $output = 'abstract' ) {
		$side = $this->get( $which, 'side' );

		$qv = $this->get_final_qv( $qv, $which );

        unset($qv['search']);

        $query = $side->do_query( $qv );

		if ( 'raw' == $output )
			return $query;

		return $side->get_list( $query );
	}

The key here is unset($qv['search']);.
The meta_query was absolutely correct and functional but it turns out it was intersecting with the original code.
Example: when typing ‘a’ in the input field, the results had to have ‘a’ in user_login AND in the nickname.

I hope this helps someone who eventually runs into something like this.

I understand Scribu is no longer supporting ‘Posts 2 Posts’.
I’m asking someone who has altered the core in order to meet their needs.

So far I’ve been going through files item-user.php, side-user.php and query-user.php but I’m struggling to find the code I need to alter in order to search the users by nicename or first_name instead of user_login.

Any light on the subject would be greatly appreaciated.

Thank you.

Hello Jose Castaneda
It’s a custom theme and I was inserted in the project after the kick-off.
I’m pretty sure it has nothing to do with the plug-ins I am using.
Any other possible cause for this problem?
Thank you.