Shrikant Joshi

Ah, 8 months and no reply. I figured, it’d be a long time before anyone answered to this thread, so I got down to get my hands dirty.

Now, I’m not a developer at all, so most of my hacks are just that – hacks. Well, anything will do as long as it gets the code working, I figured. If anyone wants to modify the hack into something more elegant, be my guest!! 🙂

Two changes:

1. Change line 45 in wp-content/plugins/bp-posts-on-profile/includes/bp-postsonprofile-core.php from:
$where = $wpdb->prepare('WHERE post_author = %d AND post_type=%s AND post_status=%s', $user_id, 'post', 'publish');
to:
$where = $wpdb->prepare('WHERE post_author = %d AND (post_type = %s OR post_type=%s) AND post_status=%s', $user_id, 'post', 'your-custom-post', 'publish');

where your-custom-post is the name of your custom post type. If you have more than one custom post, you’ll have to make changes to the part where it says: ‘(post_type = %s OR post_type=%s)’ to include all of them. (Like I said, inelegant, but mostly effective)

2. Change line no.25 in /wp-content/plugins/bp-posts-on-profile/includes/templates/postsonprofile/screen-one.php from:
query_posts('&author='. bp_displayed_user_id() .'&paged='. bp_pop_cur_page());
to:
query_posts('post_type=any' .'&author='. bp_displayed_user_id() .'&paged='. bp_pop_cur_page());

If you’re wondering, “Can it really be so simple?” The answer is, NO. There’s a tiny little problem – for some reason, it breaks the sidebar and pushes it below the content. I’m still racking my brains to figure out which part of the code is responsible.

As I’ve mentioned I’m NOT a developer – I’ve taken to learning PHP & WordPress from the ground up. If anyone else can chip in it’d be a great help! Thanks & hope it helps you as well.

You, sir, are a rockstar! Another beer for you! 😀

And yes, thanks for the wishes. These are, indeed, happy holidays for us – one can think of them as the equivalent of the Christmas holidays in the US… 🙂

Cheers!
Shrikant

PS: The rate you’re stacking these beers up, I might have to buy all the beer in Pune when you come down!

I’m on a shared hosting account currently, so I can’t make changes to my php.ini file unfortunately! I guess I’ll have to wait until I move to a dedicated server in the future…

And as for the jQuery issue, I’m on Chrome v6.0 & since I’m not a coder, I didn’t really understand what you said. I’m guessing you’re running into jQuery ‘choking problems’ trying to use the E4X standard instead of, well, whatever is used instead. 🙂

Oh well, I can wait – no hurry! 😀

That’s brilliant! I’m glad you guys look after the interests of small-timers like us, too. Super thanks! As for the suggestion, I’m honored. Thank you! 🙂

I have a few other ideas about some enhancements – I’ve already posted them in the forum. Basically, it’s just me being greedy & selfish but if it helps – hey, glad to be of service! 🙂

Cheers!

Thanks for the prompt response. And to corroborate your suggestion: that’s exactly what I’m doing right now. 🙂

I was wondering, how much will it cost me as a publisher? I have assumed that the service is free because I couldn’t see anything to the contrary. But I haven’t seen a statement on the site confirming that, either! You see, we don’t charge submission fees because we think of it as a platform to promote the short-fiction genre for budding authors.

tl;dr I would really like to know if you are planning to monetize the service, in which case I’ll have to figure out if I can afford it. 🙁