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  • May 8, 2018 at 8:26 pm #2186

    Jeff Adams
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    Is there a way to only show certain users on the front end?

    Like maybe only show “verified” users? or,
    certain users that have been approved in some other way? or
    users that have accomplished something through the profile progress? or,
    users the have profile pictures and cover photos? or something?

    Right now it shows everything and it’s just messy looking. Even my developer is showing as a user because he needs to be in order to develop and no one needs to see him as a user.

    May 8, 2018 at 8:41 pm #2192

    Jeff Adams
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    Another cool thing would be to only allow visitors to see users if they’re logged in. This would make users feel more secure. This is the way facebook is. At least, facebook gives you the option individually to allow or not allow your profile to be public. Are any of these an option or going to be?

    May 8, 2018 at 9:00 pm #2193

    Alex Rollin
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    The option available is to exclude certain users from the users list at:

    UsersWP – Users – Users to exclude

    Fields can have privacy settings.

    Feature request noted, thanks.

    May 9, 2018 at 2:00 am #2197

    Jeff Adams
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    Thanks Alex,

    I noticed the “Users to exclude” but I didn’t understand its functionality. I felt like it was for individual users, is there an explanation of this feature somewhere?

    Thanks for reminding me about the fields having privacy. That helps, it doesn’t totally resolve what I was after but definitely helps.

    May 9, 2018 at 6:41 am #2206

    Jeff Adams
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    I’ve toyed with this some more. I think the privacy settings you mentioned are great and may be all I need the more I mess with it. It’s great that there’s an option for users to completely hide their profile. The more I learn about UserWP and using it with GD the more I think it’s fine.

    What I am wondering about now is if there a way to find users in your area.

    Also, you may recall me not wanting to show Authors on my supreme theme listings. The more I use UserWP the more I can imagine certain CPT’s benefiting from this. What would be VERY COOL is to give the user control of whether a listing shows the author image.

    For example, if I add a listing for a restaurant on my site VeganLinked.com I think it would be fine to show me as the author until the listing is claimed. Then when the listing is claimed the new owner of the listing may not want to show the author. So, if they are “hiding” as a UserWP does this mean they do not show in listings for Supreme Theme? If so, that would be really cool. I may go ahead and take out all the CSS I added to permanently hide authors from listings.

    I can imagine a busy restaurant owner not wanting a personal profile and author image on their listing. However, someone that created a freelance listing that’s always looking for work may enjoy the social side and want to show an author image. I can see UserWP working nicely with Supreme theme like this if it doesn’t do this already. It’s super late, if I crash now I’ll get 3 hours of sleep. I just can’t test it right now or dig into your addons to see if there is some way to make this happen, does it do anything like this in any way or is there an integration addon or something?

    May 9, 2018 at 12:57 pm #2211

    Alex Rollin
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    find users in your area.

    There is not a functionality for this, but your other cases depend on your settings.

    Let us know if you run into a problem with usage.

    Thanks

    May 9, 2018 at 8:59 pm #2216

    Jeff Adams
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    Thanks Alex. I think it is definitely going to be important for userswp to be a good complement to a global directory that users are appear by location somehow. This is really how all socail global directories work. If there were thousands of users worldwide or potentially significantly more it would be pretty useless as a social directory otherwise.

    However, I still see plenty of value in UWP for my purposes since my site is more about listings. It may be nice for those creating the listings to showcase their work and/or promote their user accounts as affiliates. But, other than that it may be hard to extend it’s social functionality otherwise.

    May 13, 2018 at 4:23 am #2247

    Jeff Adams
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    It would be neat to at least by default see/sort users based how much they’ve done to their profile. My profile, because it’s my site is the most complete. It would be inspiring for others to see my profile and ones following that which are more complete. However, my profile is almost last by default.

    I’m not implying I prefer sorting by completeness over proximity. I think ideally it would do both; show users by location/proximity somehow and have an option to show users based on whether they have a profile photo and/or cover photo.

    I think a lot of sites, like YouTube and facebook base profiles off of completeness. I believe they don’t even make them public or allow other features without a profile pic and cover. I really like the idea of UsersWP and would love to see it as useful and effective as possible. Right now I don’t really want users to see other users though because I feel like I need to have more rhyme and reason to how they’re displayed.

    If users aren’t based on location this makes it hard to find someone you may know. This really inhibits it potential to be a social thing. It seems like that is the direction UWP is trying to go, to be condusive for a social side of a directory.

    So, profile completeness and location ideally would drive the list of users page.

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