One of the features Wordpress is lacking over the other CMSes that I’ve worked with is user profile pages. Like Drupal and others. I tried to set some up within the Wordpress framework and all I could find was shit about the author.php template. I don’t think that works. At least I couldn’t get it to work for registered users who weren’t authors and/or didn’t have any posts of their own.
If you want to give all the registered users on your blog their own page (for example http://www.biggnuts.com/user/biggnuts/) then just install this plugin. You can also make ALL the comments on your blog automatically point to their user profile page instead of their individual URLs.
UserGasm also gives you a list of all your registered users.
Check it out in action biggnuts.com/user/
I don’t have any users on my blog, so it doesn’t look cool, but you probably do.
I hope this functionality doesn’t actually exist and I missed it — because then I wasted my time.
HOW TO INSTALL
1. put the usergasm.php file in your plugins directory
2. put the user.php and users.php file in your active template directory
That’s it. If you want to customize the user and users pages, that’s up to you. There’s a crapload of variables to pull from. Also, if you’re using this plugin and you have more users than me, post it here so people can see. I set up some test users.
The users.php and user.php files might take some tweaking for your theme. They did on mine, but that’s because I totally screwed my theme up.
10 responses so far ↓
1 dummy // Oct 10, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Check me out. I’m a test guy with a user profile. Cool!
2 Mediadonis // Oct 11, 2006 at 1:43 am
Great plugin - thanks Dax!
3 vlp // Nov 30, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Hi, I was looking for plugin such as this for a long time, thanks very much.
You can check it on my site http://www.tasty.sk
4 hammer // Dec 20, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Wow, you sure are using it, vlp. That’s a shitload of users.
5 Kit // Jan 27, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Looks like a great plugin! Thanks for sharing Dax.
6 hammer // Jan 28, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Hey awesome. Hope it still works on 2.1
7 SEOsnafu // May 9, 2007 at 5:39 am
Cool. How ya think this shit up?
8 vlp // May 26, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Hi,
because I have some much users - it is possible to someway paginate the users page? Maybe 20 or 30 on a one page would be cool.
thx:)
9 vlp // Jun 18, 2007 at 5:57 am
I have update the plugin with pagination, I can share it if anybody need.
10 Zach // Nov 24, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Can someone please explain how to get this into the active template directory?
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