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Override "Profile" in Easy Blogging to show content from Profile CCT plugin?

Hi WPMU,

First of all, you guys rock!

Ok now, I’ve just installed your Easy Blogging plugin and love the simple interface. However, I’m wanting to add one more menu area than what is shown by default.

I installed the “Menu Items” addon but am not clear what should go in the “Add menu item -> url” field.

The page I want to give access to is an area created by the Profile Custom Content Type plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile-custom-content-type/) which allows users to customize their profile.

This area is accessible by clicking “Public Profile” in the Users menu. It’s also found by clicking the “Edit Public Profile” button in the WP header.

The URL created by this plugin seems to be different for every user. For example, for user 1, when clicking the Edit Public Profile, I get directed to http://mosaicearth.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=56&action=edit. For user 2, when clicking Edit Public Profile, I get directed to http://mosaicearth.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=58&action=edit.

I’d like to know what info goes in the URL area of Easy Bloggin -> Menu Items -> URL?

Thank you!

-Rob

Wed, 5 Sep 2012 3:47:37
  • aecnu
    • WP Unicorn

    Greetings Rob,

    Thank you for the great question, it is certainly appreciated.

    Though this is certainly custom coding in which is not part of our support mandate, I do want to try to be of assistance all that I can.

    This one is going to be a little tricky because as you have indicated the URL is dynamic and I do not know what to do about that.

    Therefore I will see if I can get the lead developer in here with his invaluable insight into the Easy Blogging plugin for his advice/advise for us.

    Though this may take a bit longer then a normal ticket, I will try to get him in here asap.

    Cheers, Joe

  • Vladislav
    • Dead Eye Dev

    Hello,

    Thanks for the heads up with the “Profile CCT” plugin, I haven’t used that one before and, of course, we want to be compatible with as many plugins as possible. Fortunately, the authors of this one made it easy for us. The URL in Users > Public Profile is something like http://example.org/wp-admin/users.php?page=public_profile which, when clicked, redirects to proper profile page (/post.php?post=POST_ID&action=edit).

    So what I did is added a new custom menu item using the “Manage menu items” add-on. The URL field is the most important one here, and this is what seems to be working:

    users.php?page=public_profile

    Of course, you’ll want to fill in other fields too and once you add your new item, you’ll want to make it active as well (check the checkbox in the “Show or hide menu items” table). After that, you should be done – clicking the menu item in Easy mode should redirect you to the proper profile custom post to edit. Can you please give it a go and see if that works well for you too?