Ron Strilaeff

I just pulled this out of my child theme’s functions.php file

It’s not perfect, but what it does is creates a login/logout menu item on the primary menu and builds in some redirect logic.

As-Is … no guarantees that it will work in your theme or environment. In fact in mine, the simple modal plugin gives an “ERROR: OK” message on successful logins and after that it will not refresh the page or redirect. I don’t have time to try and fix it so I’m not even going to use this plugin, but I hope this login/logout menu snippet thing works for you.

<?php
function sv_get_logout_redirect_url() {
	$badurls = array('submit-form', 'dashboard', 'profile', 'guidelines');
	$current_url = get_permalink();
	$isgood = true;
	foreach ($badurls as $bad) {
		$pos = strpos($current_url,$bad);
		if (! $pos === false) {
			$isgood = false;
			break;  // no need to check any more "bads"
		}
	}
	if ($isgood) {
		return wp_logout_url(get_permalink());
	} else {
		return wp_logout_url(home_url());
	}
}

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'sv_add_usermenu', 10, 2 );

function sv_add_usermenu( $items, $args ) {
	global $current_user;

	if (is_user_logged_in() && $args->theme_location == 'primary-menu') {
		// menu items for logged in user
		$guidelines_url = site_url() . '/guidelines/';
		$dashboard_url = site_url() . '/dashboard/' . $current_user->user_nicename;
		$profile_url = site_url() . '/profile/' . $current_user->user_nicename;	

		//	http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
		//	some fontawesome names icon-arrow-down, icon-chevron-down, icon-caret-down
		$items .= "<li class='menu-item'><a href='#'>$current_user->display_name <span class='icon-caret-down'> </span> </a>";
		//$items .= "<li class='menu-item'><a href='#'>$current_user->display_name</a>";
		$items .= "<ul>";
		$items .= "<li class='sub-menu'><a href='$guidelines_url'>Usage Guidelines</a></li>";
		$items .= "<li class='sub-menu'><a href='$dashboard_url'>My Dashboard</a></li>";
		$items .= "<li class='sub-menu'><a href='$profile_url'>My Profile</a></li>";
		$items .= "<li class='sub-menu'><a href='" . sv_get_logout_redirect_url()  . "'>Log Out</a></li>";
		$items .= "</ul>";
		$items .= "</li>";
    } elseif (!is_user_logged_in() && $args->theme_location == 'primary-menu') {
		//menu items for NOT logged in user
		//$login_url = site_url('/a-page-name/');		// get login url and redirect to a specific page
		//$login_url = wp_login_url( home_url() );		// get login url and redirect to home page
		$login_url = wp_login_url( get_permalink() );	// get login url and redirect to current page
		//the contents of <a href""  must be a url
		$items .= "<li class='sub-menu'> <a href='$login_url' class='simplemodal-login'>Log In</a></li>";
    }
    return $items;
}
?>

The second last line of code is the tie in to this plugin where it simply adds that class name to the link for the menu item. The plugin magically takes over from there and replaces the standard wordpress login page with its modal overlay.

This is a critical piece of functionality that is not obvious until testing connections to multiple social media accounts.

So I’m with the OP.. how does this plugin prevent creating multiple wordpress profiles?

Here’s a simplified scenario to demonstrate:
– joe has an account on facebook and googleplus
– joe discovers my site and wants to leave a comment but I require him to be logged in.
– joe registers and logs in using the facebook link and WSL dutifully creates a user named “joe” and now he can leave his comment.
– 2 weeks later joe comes back to my site and wants to leave another comment, he vaguely remembers logging in and thinks it might have been with googleplus (but he really does not care or should care), so he presses the googleplus WSL icon.
– since joe is logged in already to his g+ account, it approves him easily and he leaves his comment on my site and goes away.
– what just happened is WSL created a user named “joe_1” on my site and there is no way to know it’s the same guy.
– joe likes my site and decides to upload his avatar, location and a small bio and whatever.
– later he comes back when in a facebook mood, logs in and goes to look at his profile to update his bio, but it is blank so he cusses and says “that site is broken and I don’t trust it, because it lost all my info”.

This would happen even if joe had the same username on both facebook and g+.

How is this situation prevented? Should WSL recognize that “joe” already exists and ask the google joe if he is the same guy who registered as facebook joe? This must be a basic question that has been answered thousands of times. Maybe that is what the big paid services like janrain, gigya, loginradius, oneall, etc do? … somehow keep track of all of joe’s social ids of which my site is just one insignificant player.

Can it be done using WSL?

Piggybacking … when a user logs in using twitter, it get’s stuck on the twitter page “Authorize <site> to use your account?” The big blue “Sign In” button appears to click but nothing happens.

I have checked the Application Type: “Read and Write” radio button and the “Allow this application to be used to Sign in with Twitter” checkbox.

What else could it be?

Wow, that’s a relief! Thanks for testing this.

I will install it on another barebones test site and see what may be conflicting. (It maybe the AJAX version, and I’m using the one found by the plugin “Use Google Libraries”.)

However, I won’t be able to get back to that for a couple of days though so will post my findings then.

We are kinda working on the same thing, and I’m currently testing the user meta plugin which lets you create and configure custom user meta fields and forms and put them on your own custom page template (or a generic page) with a shortcode like this [user-meta type='profile' form="aformname'] I would not hesitate to pay the $29 for the pro version of this if I run into a “must have” since it seems very well designed and expandable.

Update: I just want to include this link for some decent third party documentation on the above.

As far as letting users actually create posts from the frontend, Ninja Forms is pretty solid. It looks like it is for surveys and data gathering but I think it can be adapted to lots of other things. It is also well designed and maintained.

Good luck and have fun!

Sorry that was a bit cryptic (and this thread is closed).. starting a new thread.

Andy,

Where would I put that apply filter if my custom page template does not use the content of the page but is composed entirely of content generated from custom loops within a bunch of html to lay it out … plus get_header() and get_footer()?

Are you saying I would insert that code to apply filters in my template eventhough that template does not have the statement the_content(); ?

In that case, what variable or function call would I put as the second parameter? Maybe I’m just having early morning fog, but this should be very simple.

Thanks, Ron