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Backend and front user lists

Multi Lingual User Lists

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How to setup a multi language userlist with wpml.

  1. Finalise your fields ‘nice names’, your user lists and their headings.
  2. Make sure you have any available wp and plugin translations loaded, or create your own string translations for public facing strings.   The strings within the formatting of the lists can be translated & localised. see demo.
  3. If you have headings on the userlist or directory, either:
    1. create translations for the headings using wpml’s admin text translation feature.  Choose the option ‘amr-users-custom-headings’ – it will have all the headings for all the lists.  See screenshot below.
    2. OR, copy the list and make a version with translated headings.
  4. Last step – do one of the following:
    1. One userlist page for all languages.  All strings get translated in realtime. If you have no additional text on the page that requires translation, this may suit. This is shown here: https://lang.wpusersplugin.com/
    2. One userlist page for each language re-using the same userlist on each of the language pages. Good with translated custom headings as per above or if the userlist is not using headings.
    3. A page for each language with a separate user list for each language page. Copy the list you created for each language and change the headings to suit the language.

Where to get translations:

  • A language pack may be available from wordpress. For status of available language files, please see https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/amr-users/ and consider contributing translations for the languages you are skilled in. If a language for a plugin has reached 90% complete, a language pack for it will be automatically generated and made available. These are stored in …wp-content/language/plugins.
  • A plugin may provide some translations and load from ‘plugin_rel_path’. Eg: …wp-content/plugins/amr-users/languages.  For amr-users these have been provided by volunteers.  I have no way to judge their completeness or quality. Note: If a rel_path is not provided, wordpress will load translations from the plugins top folder wp-content/plugins/the-plugin
  • a translation editor may offer another way to translate strings and will probably add a filter to ensure that these are uploaded.  WPML stores these by default in …wp-content/languages/wpml
  • Own translations can also be loaded whereever you like and not have them overwritten by a language pack. Use a

Note:

amr-users-plus reuses some of the amr-users translations and the wp translations, so a scan of it’s files will show these domains too.

More info:

Screenshots:

MultiLingual User List Test Demo (apologies for the google translations!)

Custom Heading Translations added with wpml

Before and After text for fields

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It is possible to add text to the field value before or after the field value. There are not many good reasons to do this:

  • Repeated static text just clogs up the screen, headings are better.
  • Adding html for styling reasons is not suggested.
  • Better to style with css.

However let us assume for example that you wish to add the text ‘Born: ‘ to every Birthdate field with content. You can add it to the ‘before’ text of the Configure list> Before & After tab. See screen shots below.

Note that:

  • This ‘before’ text is not shown if the field is empty.
  • Note that the text becomes part of the field value.The full text is included in the cache and the csv and excel extracts.
  • It is strongly suggested that you do NOT use this feature for styling. CSS is a better way to style fields. There are a lot of meaningful css selectors offered in the user lists so that one can target almost any field.
  • It is also possible to keep the field values clean for csv and excel and to use css to add the extra text. This can be done using the before and after pseudo elements. These pseudo elements can also be used to hide and replace content as you can see on this user list demo page where the field content can be replaced by text or an image.
Specifying the text to display before a field
The ‘before’ text is displayed when there is a value in the field
In the current ‘cache’ versions the ‘before’ and ‘after’ text is included in the cache and the csv (historical reasons).
An alternative to adding text in the configuration, is to add the extra text via css, so that it does not appear in the csv or excel extracts.

Field types and formats

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A range of formats are available for each type of field.  The plugin will try work out what type each field is.  If it doesn’t, you can set it yourself in the ‘Fields & Nice Names settings.

Then if the ‘Format’ section of each list, formats can be chosen for that field.

Dates

For example:  Date Time fields and Unix time-stamp fields (and even an ‘ambiguous date in case you have inconsistent data) can be formatted as:

  • Date and time
  • Time
  • Date
  • Ago (human time difference)
  • Age
  • Birth month

The actual format of the date, time and datetime options can also be customised.  The options are the usual wordpress options AND the custom options from your general settings screen.

Email example:

user_email field will be formatted with the ‘mailto’ linktype and then each site can tailor this with their own css.  Perhaps use wordpress dashicons to show a email icon? 

You should ensure that your data adheres to the field type specified.  Any invalid data will generally be shown unformatted / raw.

See the screenshots below and the demo sites for more possibilities.

Some Field Types
More Field Types
More Field Types
Image Field Formats
Image Field Formats
Post Id Formats
Post Id Formats
Boolean Formats
Boolean Formats
Date Formats
Date Formats
Url Formats
Url Formats
Email Formats
Email Formats
Phone Formats
Phone Formats
Formatting Post ids – they might be images & they might not!

Change the displayed text in a plugin or theme

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Changing the text in a plugin or theme without editing the plugin or theme files is surprisingly easy IF the plugin or theme has made the text translateable.

Using a plugin like https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/, ensure the language chosen matches your wordpress language, and choose a location for your files (loco translate helps) that
will be accessed by the plugin or theme (some help with this) and
will not be overwritten by updates – loco translates helps and some plugins/themes help too by offering another lookup location. The recommended custom language file location is /wp-content/languages/.

For more information see http://icalevents.com/3445-an-accent-for-your-website/

change wordpress plugin text

Search users text replaced using translation tools – translating english into english!

Controlling access to user lists

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Define whether lists may be shown in public to non logged in users and whether they may be shown in the admin menu to users who do not have manage users capability.

Summary of access control options:

  • List overview settings:
    • ‘public’ lists (ie lists ticked ‘public’ in the settings) can be viewed by anyone
    • non-public lists can only be viewed by people with ‘list_users’ capability
    • ‘show in menu’ (v 4.48 upwards with matching amr-users-plus) will cause  that list to be shown separately in the admin menu under users for users with ‘manage_options’ and ‘list_users’ capabilities
    • if some lists are not shown in the menu, an ‘all lists’ submenu will show for users who have ‘manage_options’ capability
  • Users with ‘manage_options‘ or ‘manage_user_lists’ can create and edit user lists.

Define public lists for front end

User list overview settings
Who can see list with setting:PublicNot Public
Non logged in User✔❌
Subscriber✔❌
user with ‘list_users’ capability✔✔
user with ‘manage_options’✔✔
User List public setting

Define which lists appear in the admin menu

  • As per the screen shot above, use overview settings available when amr-users-plus is active to remove or select which lists appear in the admin side menu.
  • An all lists menu option is shown to users with ‘manage_options’ or ‘manage_user_lists’ capability.
Organise, sort with drag & drop, rename and renumber list
A menu option will list all lists

Define which roles see which lists in admin menu:

Who can see list in menu with setting:Show in menuDo not show in menu
Non logged in User❌❌
Subscriber❌ ❌
user with ‘list_users’ capability✔✔
user with ‘manage_options’✔✔
User List ‘show in menu’ setting (admin menu) available with amr-users-plus v3.2 upwards. If addon not acrtive, all lists will show in menu by default.

Registered Days Ago and Registration Date

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There are two fields that show details of date of registration.  When the plugin started I wanted to see a human based ‘days ago’ view as I found that much more helpful to assess how long a user had been a member.

Thus that is the real wordpress registration date fields default formatting.  If one hovers over the field full details of the actual date will show.

It is also possible for you to write your own formatting function to format the date any way you would like.   For those people who are unable to write their own functions from the example and just want to display the registration date, there is a ‘pseudo’ field created which is called ‘Registration Date’ – it is not a real field though and does not sort well.

 

Days ago for registration date

Days ago for registration date

Registered days ago

  • real registration date field formatted using wordpress’s human time difference date time function
  • has hover text so you can see the actual date
  • will sort by date
  • will display the date in the csv extract

Registration date

  • pseudo field created on the fly in display only
  • doesn’t sort.  Sort by the ‘days ago’ field and then remove the display order to hide the field
  • doesn’t show in csv

Registration and days ago in excel

Registration and days ago in excel

Future

In the future there may be the possibility for one to choose from a range of formats. For  example I can imagine a number of possibilities:

  • a range of date formatting options using php date format options
  • human time diff, days ago
  • birthday (no years)

Roles, First Role, bbpress forum roles, s2member levels…

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[2019 Note: Please watch out for major update.  First_role will be replaced by Capabilities/Roles.  There will no longer be a separate first_role field ]

Do users on your websites have more than one wordpress role ?

users with multiple roles

users with multiple roles – requires the amr-users-plus addon

On a basic wordpress install, a user usually has only one role.  At the simplest, many sites only deal with administrators and subscribers.

The free amr users user listing plugin will extract the first role found in the wordpress usermeta capabilities value and present that as the ‘first role’.  This is great for most installs, some may need more reporting possibilities.

WordPress does actually allow for users to have multiple roles.  Add in the bbpress plugin and possibly a membership plugin which may create it’s own set of roles in parallel to the wordpress ones (ie not instead of), then you may find a single user may have many roles even if you actually need them to only have one.

single role fields

single role fields

Depending how/when a user was created in the system, (converted? created before or after the forum etc)  they may/may not have a wordpress default role, they may just have a bpress role for example.     Even more confusingly the ‘first role’ may no longer be useful.  For example, someone may have been created as a forum participant with  while someone else may be wordpress ‘editor’ and then a forum participant.  The ‘first roles’ may then differ, when one might think that they should both have participant.

In such a case, other role fields may be  useful too.    The free amr users plugin will automatically extract all the roles it finds and present each as a field where the user either has a that value (1 or true) or does not.    One can use these to exclude or include users from the user lists, or to interrogate the db looking for users with multiple roles etc.

If you need more than that, then you need the amr-users-plus plugin.  It adds

  • a ‘roles’ field which will list in the one field all the roles a user has.   It also adds filtering functionality where one can do realtime selection.  This will work for any roles stored in the usermeta capabilities record.
  • a first bbpress forum role, in case you just interested in forum access only

Exclude meta keys, and delete them too

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The latest update (3.9) adds a admin screen that allows you to

  • see and change which meta keys are excluded by default from the plugin and
  • exclude more meta keys
  • delete user meta records for selected metakeys (cleanup)
  • see totals of meta records for meta keys

This became essential for anyone using S2member, and handy for anyone using Advanced custom fields which seems to create additional hidden metakeys for every custom field.  Thisplugin will attempt to help you out by default excluding as many unnecessary fields as possible.  You can then update.

The S2member access cap times field is keyed by time, which means that as time goes by there will be more and more sub fields detected by amr-users and the fields and nicenames page will become impossible.

s2member access cap times

s2member access cap times field

This is clearly unworkable.  So a admin page to exclude meta keys was added. This page will also allow you to delete meta records. Be Careful!  This is a confirmation step, but no undo.

excluded meta keys

excluded meta keys

The “find fields and nice names” page has been updated to help highlight what’s going on.

new nice names

updated nice \names