Q: When will be supported mandatory accept of terms and conditions field?
A: Has been always there: is as easy as adding a checkbox and setting “equal to” rule to YES.
Q: What the Database options do exactly?
A: Basically you can:
- empty or drop extra fields or extra fields data (inserted by users)
- reset or drop plug-in’s options
Q: Yes but will this affect other data? It says “WordPress Fields table”, this is scary.
A: No, it will affect _only_ the data produced by the plug-in. Really.
Also keep in mind that if you do NOT have to restore default values or uninstall the plug-in, then you do not need to touch them.
Q: Cimy User Extra Fields is not compatible with “Themed Login”, how can I do?
A: The reality is this plug-in IS compatible with WordPress 2.1 or greater and “Themed Login” NOT, so it’s NOT a Cimy User Extra Field’s bug! However I have tried with a little success a workaround to make it works, but first please understand that this is totally untested and unsupported hack, if you want a better one ask the author of that plug-in to support new WordPress!
If you still want *my* personal and unsupported hack edit the plug-in “Themed Login” and do these 3 modifications:
- at line 773, after “global $wpdb, $wp_query;” add this:
global $errors; - at line 811, before “if ( 0 == count($errors) ) {” add this:
do_action(‘register_post’); - at line 871, before “A password will be emailed to you.” add this:
<?php do_action(‘register_form’); ?>
Q1: I got “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted [...]“, why?
Q2: I got blank pages after activating this plug-in, why?
A1: Because your memory limit is too low, to fix it edit your php.ini and search memory_limit key and put at least to 12M
A2: If you do not have access to your php.ini you can try this workaround (might not work)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP
Q: Your plug-in is great, but when you will add support to add more than one choice in radio and dropdown fields?
A: This feature is here since ages, for radio field just use the same name, for dropdown field read instructions in the add field area (in the plug-in).
Q: Uploaded images are not resized, why?
A: You should add php-gd module (under Ubuntu install php5-gd package).
Q: Why big files are not being uploaded?
A: Please check this website, tells you how to change your PHP configurations to fix this issue: http://www.radinks.com/upload/config.php
Q: Why admin user cannot see all fields even if I set to do it?
A: Probably you installed the first time WordPress on PHP4 and you experienced this bug: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8317
To fix the problem you need to create another administrator user and change admin user to another role and then back to administrator.
Q1: I’m using your plug-in on WordPress MultiSite per-blog installation and when I register one user all Extra Fields are ignored, why?
Q2: I get this error: ‘Fatal error: Call to undefined function cimy_uef_mu_blog_exists()’, why?
A: Because you missed to move cimy_uef_mu_activation.php file please check carefully the installation steps.
Q: I’m using your plug-in on WordPress MultiSite per-blog installation, I’m registering users on one blog but they appear on the main blog too, why?
A: Because WordPress MS is designed like that and I can’t do anything about, however all extra fields and relative data are saved per-blog.
Since I had already a long discussion with an user that didn’t believe this, don’t bother me to insist on this topic until you prove I’m wrong.
Q: I’m trying to use a regular expression in the rules, but the check does not work as expected, why?
A: Usually means your regex is wrong, please study how to properly build it: http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php
Q1: I do not see Extra Fields under the page user-new.php can you add there too?
Q2: How can I import new users with Extra Fields data into?
A: Unluckily due to a WordPress limitation I can’t add Extra Fields into user-new.php but you can quickly add all the users you want using my plugin: Cimy User Manager – http://www.marcocimmino.net/cimy-wordpress-plugins/cimy-user-manager/
Q: I cannot edit neither delete some Extra Fields, usually after the 10th one, why?
A: Your PHP server is probably limiting number of $_POST elements, Suhosin for example does it. Please allow at least 500 or more vars.
http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.post.max_vars
Q: I am trying to change the fields’ order, but whatever I try it doesn’t work, why?
A: First of all you need to select at least 2 fields if you want to change the order.
Secondly if you change for example field n.1 to position n.3 be sure that field n.3 goes into another position and finally that a field goes into position n.1
In short: every field should have a new position or at least the same one, but no positions can be skipped or be present multiple times.
Q: When feature XYZ will be added?
A: I don’t know, remember that this is a 100% free project so answer is “When I have time and/or when someone help me with a donation”.
Q: Can I help with a donation?
A: Sure, visit the donation page or contact me via e-mail.
Q: Can I hack this plug-in and hope to see my code in the next release?
A: For sure, this is just happened and can happen again if you write useful new features and good code. Try to see how I maintain the code and try to do the same (or even better of course), I have rules on how I write it, don’t want “spaghetti code”, I’m Italian and I want spaghetti only on my plate.
There is no guarantee that your patch will hit an official upcoming release of the plug-in, but feel free to do a fork of this project and distribute it, this is GPL!
Q1: I have found a bug what can I do?
Q2: Something does not work as expected, why?
A: The first thing is to download the latest version of the plug-in and see if you still have the same issue.
If yes please write me an email or write a comment but give as more details as you can, like:
- Plug-in version
- WordPress version
- MYSQL version
- PHP version
- exact error that is returned (if any)
after describe what you did, what you expected and what instead the plug-in did 
Then the MOST important thing is: DO NOT DISAPPEAR!
A lot of times I cannot reproduce the problem and I need more details, so if you don’t check my answer then 80% of the times bug (if any) will NOT BE FIXED!
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Marco, I corrected the diffs to be all new -> old.
http://envymags.com/cimymod/cimy-diff.tar.gz
Your package is great. I added one little feature which you may want to add to the distribution. In addition to case sensitive option for equalto, I added a regex option. This lets you specify a regex comparison string against which text, textarea and other equalto text types can be checked. In my case, I wanted to ensure that 4 digit entry was numeric, so I specify /\d\d\d\d/ as the equalto string. Quite handy.
If you want to take a look, the diffs and code are at
http://envymags.com/cimymod/
cimy-diff.tar.gz 12-Mar-2009 15:47 1.3K
cimy-user-extra-fields.tar.gz 12-Mar-2009 15:46 178K
Feel free to use it as you wish (or not). Thanks for your code!
-Shane
Shane Hartman:
thanks, I will take a look at it!
Next time remembers:
1. diffs should be from OLD to the NEW code
2. you should mention exact version you are patching, privately you said is 1.4.0-rc1
So I don’t need to worry about how the plugin interacts with the database at all? I wonder what those database options at the top of the control panel in settings mean.
snoogly:
as said here those options are there if you want to empty or drop database tables used by Cimy User Extra Fields or if you want to put back options to default values.
For normal use you can forget about them.
Hi, Marco.
Impressive work you did on the new versions of your plugin since I last tested it! Especially the implementation of the visual editor.
Question: is it possible to have different sets of extra fields per role?
example:
role=subscriber -> set 1: field 1,2,3,4etc
role=author -> set 2: field 2,3,5,etc
Thanks for the great plugin.
The rules don’t work or validate the field data when the fields are changed in the user’s profile in the wp-admin area. The rules only work at the point of registration. Seems a little strange to have “rules” that can easily be broken later on.
I’d happily pay to have the above rectified.
Please get back to me
Chris
fangio:
no that feature is not present, but you can sponsor it
Chris Sylvester:
this is a known issues, listed in the readme file and in the documentation in this website.
This ticket is preventing me to fix this issue:
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9302
Marco,
Would a translation be considered sponsoring?
fangio:
could be fair, which language you speak?
I could give the dutch (NL) version a try.
Here’s another thought: if I put in Latitude/longitude fields I could generate a GoogleMap of the location of my registered users. Only thing is how. That would mean I need to generate a GeoRSS file I think. Hm. Did you think about this already?
fangio:
no never thought about it.
Hey Marco,
great plugin! I honestly think you should rally to get it included in standard wp. I have just one problem that I hope you can help me with.
I am using your image uploader, and it works well in regular situations, but if a user tries to upload an image with a space in its name (ex. ‘image 1.jpg’), then the pic does not show up. I checked in the source, and the file url does show up completely with the .jpg at the end. But even pasting the url in browser shows nothing. Could you suggest a solution?
Greendude:
thanks, but to enter in WordPress code should change a bit, also admin interface should get heavily rewritten, but time is the issue.
Regarding spaces into filenames:
I have to try myself and check what’s wrong, will update you.
“but time is the issue.”
lol, I hear you!
thanks
Hi,
I wanted to use this plugin in my family website. But it’s not working. I don’t know what is the reason. No errors giving either. Plugin is activating nicely but menu items not showing.
I have hosting for that site from http://www.ipower.com & server configurations are as follows.
Platform Type: Debian
MySQL Version: 5.0.45
Perl Version: 5.8.8
PHP Version: 5.2.5
If you can help me soon would be very great help for me.
Cheers,
Chamara
Chamara Peiris:
yes you just missed the most important things: which version of the plug-in and WordPress are you using?
Hi Marco,
WordPress version: 2.7.1
Plugin version: 1.4.0
I am really confuse, this is working on my Dreamhost server & not in ipower server.
Thanks for your prompt reply.
Cheers,
Chamara
Chamara Peiris:
so it is active the plug-in but not visible? Can you make me a screenshot where it is visible this statement and send to my email address?
Hi Marco,
I sent the screen shot.
Cheers,
Chamara
Great plugin – I’m having a small issue though.
When I upload an image via a Picture field I created, the user directory is created under wp_content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/ directory, but no image is uploaded to the newly created directory. Cimy_User_Extra_Fields has 777 permissions.
Craig:
please read FAQ how to report an issue.
Cimy User Extra Fields v1.4.0
WordPress 2.7
MYSQL 5.0.45
PHP 5.1.6
Uploaded image via picture field is not saved.
User directory in wp_content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/ is created, but no image is uploaded to the newly created directory. Cimy_User_Extra_Fields directory has 777 permissions.
Further: PHP $_FILES array is populated, including tmp_name. Error is 0. move_uploaded_file() returns false.
Other file uploads work on same PHP installation.
Sorry I just talked myself into answering my own problem.
Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10011 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/username owned by uid 33 in /var/www/vhosts/raceface.com/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/cimy-user-extra-fields/cimy_user_extra_fields.php on line 726
Craig:
ah you have the SAFE mode activated… I have to reproduce the issue to understand exactly.
Think this plugin may be exactly what I’m looking for
but have question.. is it possible to embed the users profile – with the extended field – into a single post? reason being I want to be able to see a list of users with their extended fields but I also want visitors to be able to click on just one user and see their profile on it’s own? – kinda like a directory I suppose
D:
there is a plug-in that does this, but not sure if supports mine. I can implement that feature, but I need a donation to do that.
Hallo Marco,
Have just tried out your plugin and it seems to work great – thanks!
I was trying to find some information about uploading PDF or other documents and saw a comment or two about it from 2008 and wanted to ask if this is likely to make it into the plugin?!
Karl:
yes this feature is still not implemented, but if you want to speed it up you can help it with a donation
Hi Marco,
Thanks for the update, now I know. Bit tight for time, so for this project I might see if I can find another plugin just for this part, or re-write an image upload plugina little. But maybe for a future project – do you have any recommendations for how much to donate to get you to implement such a feature?! ; )
Karl:
I guess 20 EUR could be enough
Thanks for the advice Marco – I went ahead and donated 20 EUR, maybe it’ll help to make you feel like implementing this feature on a rainy day!
Thanks again for the plugin.
Karl:
thanks a lot, it is in the TODO list now
Marco,
as there is no support for a multi select dropdown, what would be the best solution to let a user choose say 3 out of 10 possibilities?
Example: I specialize in (user choozes) A, D, F out of A-J possible specializations.
Say A = VBA, D = PHP, F = CSS
I would then like to return this as: I specialize in VBA, PHP, CSS.
Any ideas?
fangio:
multiple dropdown are on the way thanks to a donation…
further testing with 10 dropdowns with these categories:
label1/item1,item2,item3
label2/item1,item2,item3
label3/item1,item2,item3
…
label10/item1,item2,item3
even if the user does NOT select an option, option *item1* is saved and returned.
How can I tell if a user really chooses the option? Add a ‘–pick one–’ option and check for this return value might do the trick?
label1/pick one,item1,item2,item3
unless you have a better idea.
Thanks for looking into this.
fangio:
I prefer to not add anything that is not requested, I let the user does what he/she wants.
Solution you provided is what everybody uses for this particular problem.
cool!
Great plugin. I have everything working and running through the example of displaying member (author) information like a members listing. I am using the code to dsiplay all members all extra fields. The one that is missing is their image uploaded. How can I add that to the loop?
Thanks.
$values = get_cimyFieldValue(false, false);
$old_name = “”;
foreach ($values as $value) {
$user_id = $value['user_id'];
$new_name = $value['user_login'];
if ($old_name != $new_name)
echo “”.$new_name.”";
echo $value['LABEL'].”: “;
echo cimy_uef_sanitize_content($value['VALUE']).”";
$old_name = $new_name;
}
The House of Husar:
check ‘PICTURE AND get_cimyFieldValue FUNCTION’ section in the readme file
I’d like to add a field for users to add their work/school organization. Will this then be retrievable by get_currentuserinfo() ?
Thanks.
Mark:
no, there is a special function to retrieve extra fields, see readme file.
Okay, I have the photo showing like I need. But I have another questions. On the options page the group for WordPress Hidden Fiends. What exactly does the show check boxes do? When I uncheck them they still show in the registraion so it doesn’t control that. Checking and unchecking them don’t really have any impact that I can tell.
Cheers,
Ed
The Hosue of Husar:
please read FAQ (this page) how to report an issue
I don’t need to report an issue since I am not sure what the standard functionality is suppose to be. It is not covered in the read me file.
Thanks Marco.
Hey Marco, I figured out the correct functionality. Not need to address me last post.
One addition that would be great would be to not only upload images but other file types. In my case I need a user to be able to upload an audio file. Specifically a MP3.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Ed
Willing to make a donation to support the mp3 upload as well.
The Hosue of Husar:
uploading file is under development, a donation for sure will speed up finishing it, thanks.
Cimy 1.4.0 WP 2.71 php V. 5.2.9 MySql V.5.0.67
I am trying to integrate cimmy and another plugin wordpress-users. (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-users/) WordPress-users plugin displays all users in a page list. Click on a user and it returns his profile page wrapped in the theme. I’m trying to output cimy extra fields in that specific users profile page by inserting cimy templates. In the wordpress-users plugin. I’m getting 2 faults when I do this.
1- I’m getting a double output and I don’t know where to put the $flag as there is no post loop.
2- I’m trying to show cimy extra data fields for the specific user, clicked on from the list. The other plugin uses $curauth() to do show profile details, so I’m using this code: get_cimyFieldValue($curauth(), but it always returns the admin profile page. (get_the_author_ID(), doesn’t work either.
Can you help me integrate this? paypal donation coming If I can make this work and I’ll share the code and method I’m using. These 2 plugins will make a great members area if we can make them play together! Why? because cimy is great at collecting input data for profiles and wordpress-users has a very nice data output for user profiles.
I’m inserting this template from cimy in wordpress-users.php in line 220-225
$html .= “Who do you want to meet ” . $value = get_cimyFieldValue(get_the_author_ID(), ‘MEET’);
I’ll add more fields when this works. Posted online http://houseofstrauss.co.uk/wp-users.txt is the full file with hack for cimy extra fields highlighted so you can see what I’m doing. (line 220-225)
http://houseofstrauss.co.uk/s-shot.jpg Shows the output with the faults…
Many thanks… hope you can help.
Can this plugin possibly be used to capture and store input from registered users outside the initial registration process? For example I want to present a checklist for completed tasks
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