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How to display a custom welcome message within a page

Hi there,

I would simply like to display a custom welcome message on a page of mine… “Welcome back USERNAME-GOES-HERE!”

However, I need to make this happen within a shortcode as follows:

[call_to_action title=”Welcome Back, USERNAME-GOES-HERE!” tag_line=”Good to see you!” button=”Get Stuck In” link=”http://bla.com”%5D

I found this but I can’t really work out how to implement it:

http://spyrestudios.com/wordpress-tutorial-display-a-user-welcome-message/

Any ideas?

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 3:13:23

PC
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Hiya,

Thanks for your post. Not sure about the post you linked to but I found a couple of ways to achieve that. can you please have a look at the below links ?

http://www.plugins.joshlobe.com/custom-welcome-messages/

http://sangkrit.net/2013/04/01/how-to-displays-a-custom-welcome-message-to-new-visitors-and-another-to-return-visitors-in-wordpress/

http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-welcome-messages/

Cheers, PC
davejmason
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Hi PC, thanks for the reply. Sorry I wasn’t very clear with this..

My theme has built in functionality to display message A to logged out visitors and message B to logged in users so I’m covered there.

However, when they are logged in I would like to show their actual username. This is the part I can’t figure out.

I could settle for welcome back USER or some other generic term but I would rather personalise it to say ‘welcome back Paul’ for instance.

Hope this makes a bit more sense! :slight_smile:
Tobbe
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Couldn’t you use the $bp global to get the display name?
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@davejmason

You need to use some custom php code. One way of doing this is to place the code below to the function.php file of your theme. Remember to copy and save the original file so you have a backup in case something goes wrong.
```
/**Display user welcome*/



function displayName () {

global $user_identity;

get_currentuserinfo();



echo "Welcome Back" . $user_identity;

}



/**Create shortcode to display*/



add_shortcode('welcome_user', 'displayName');
```
Use the shortcode [welcome_user] to display the welcome in the page.
Decura
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@davejmason

An alternative way of doing it is to use the Code Snippets plugin:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/

Enter the name (short title) as well as the following code:
```
function displayName () {

global $user_identity;

get_currentuserinfo();

echo "Welcome Back" . $user_identity;
```
You can change the text area “Welcome Back” to anything you desire. The short code is the name that you provided. Simply insert [name] to the page.

I hope this solves your problem.
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Thanks for chiming in @Decura

Dave, did you try that out ?

Cheers

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davejmason
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Thanks I’ll give it a go when I get a moment! :slight_smile:
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Sure thing Dave :slight_smile:

Cheers

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