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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I love the admin_menu_field_hided function. I’m tooling around with how to get the Extended A&U form to come out the way I want it, since I went field crazy on my new reg form.
I’d be interested in writing a function to do the same thing with the custom fields. In the mean time, I’ve commented out the extra_fields loops for both the labels and data (around lines 1134 and 1205). Now, I’m trying to figure out how to insert just the fields that I want, as opposed to a loop.
I could use a little help with the tag syntax. Let’s say I wanted to add just one field to the table called PHONENUMBER.
Bella if you add this:
< ?php do_action('register_form'); ?>
at line 871 (just before “A password will be emailed to you.”) in the plugin you mentioned seems works, however this is totally untested and unsupported feature because it’s NOT a cimy user extra fields bug, but it’s only because you use a plug-in that doesn’t support WordPress 2.1
Scott be patient… this feature is planned
Do you think you are going to get this problem fixed pretty soon: “if you add too many fields in the A&U Extended menu they will go out of frame”? I need this feature to be working. Or is there a manual way to edit the wp files to solve this?
Renderfarmer: it is planned, but don’t know yet, as you can see it’s all work made in my free time
In the meanwhile I can say that 0.9.0rc1 is very near with very important features implemented
Does it work with 2.1.3? I tried to use it in author.php and want to display the extra fields, but no luck. Thank you in advanced for your help.
Thomas this plug-in works with every 2.1 versions but you have to read README file to understand how it works, there are two new menus that you probably missed.
Does anyone know if this will work with WordPress MU? Mille grazie!
Any chance this can be made to work with WP 2.1.2 and “whiteasmilk”?
Mille grazie!
SF
Scudfish I cannot try my plug-in with all variant of other plug-ins and themes, I can see if I can help you but *at least* provide me a link about this “whiteasmilk”.
John: never tried, hope someone else can give you an answer.
hello,
after updating to a 0.9.0 rc2, my checkbox fields on the registration pages are still gigantic. is there a way to fix this easily?
Thanks!
shawn here are ok, have you disabled and enabled plugin after update it as it is written in “UPDATE FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION” section?
is there any way I can export user profiles into individual pages????
Evan:
not for now, you have to wait for 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 they will have a lot of options about that.
Whoa, thanks for the quick reply. I’ll just have to wait patiently… if I can. :-/ haha
I am having a little difficulty with this plugin. I am trying to add two radio buttons. One for “Agree” and one for “Disagree”. The agree button must be selected and the disagree should not be selected. How do I do this? Everything I have tried when creating these radio buttons has not worked.
Kevin add two radio fields with the same identical name, in the first one put label to “Agree” and value to “Yes”; in the second one put label to “Disagree”.
That’s all
Can I beta test the new version?
Evan write me an email so I can contact you for betatesting.
Hi Marco,
Thank for your feedback. Infact i am using the final version on wp 2.1.x.
How i wish that the exact_length function can be made available. Also want to suggest that if possible, the future version comes with mobile phone verification of password.
Thanks again. Great job. U r great. Great people produce great product. Viva.
robin:
consider that this is a FREE project and I will add support for new stuff only when I have free time to do it.
As I can say no new controls in 0.9.1 because I’m working with options dialog that let you customize a bit user profile and A&U Extended list.
Then I want also make plug-in translatable, but this also need some works…
Then I will add new rules
Anyway stay tuned!
it is brilliant, but it is not compatible with plugin “Themed Login Plugin”, like how we can make it compatible? Thanks! plugin: http://www.jameskelly.org/wordpress-plugins/custom-login-and-registration-forms-plugin/
is there any way to set specific extra fields for certain roles?
Evan cannot understand what you mean, please give more details.
thanx
Joan please read comments before posting.
Your question is already asked and answered in comment #52
I repeat again: my plugin IS WordPress 2.1 and greater compatible, “Themed Login Plugin” is NOT, so it’s not my bug!
Would it be possible to have a type for date-fields? I want to be able to have the birthday of each user filled in, and some other date-fields. But I want to be sure they are date-fields, and not text stored in date-format…
Regards,
Sebastiaan
Well I’m planning to add more rules and fields yes.
probably will be in 0.9.3 or .4
Hi Marco,
First off great plugin! I’ve been searching forever for something like this, and loads of other people have too. You should really submit this to wp.org extend, the number of people on the forums who don’t know about this plugin is astounding.
Two questions:
1) Radio buttons can be grouped, but not checkboxes?
2) Styling issue for drop-downs: how can I reduce the length of the gap between the field’s description and the drop-down box? I’ve tried fiddling with the wp-admin.css but havent found anything.
Thanks a lot!
Arvin
well I’m subscribed to WordPress extend plug-in, but I found very restrictive that page, you SHOULD submit the plugin to their server, use a pre-formatted readme, you cannot simply link to this page.
Due to these restrictions you can see that there are not so many plug-ins
I will see if I want to put plug-in also there, but I want to keep here versions, faq, comments etc.
Anyway you can always help me putting this link in the forums
answers:
1) this question is already asked and I don’t know why you have to group checkbox, checkbox are independent from one to one because you can select many of them, if you want to select only once you should use radio, so don’t understand your use, probably to have only one field in A&U Extended?
2) don’t understand, which gap?
you can see what i mean about the gap between the text and the dropdown box here: http://rokindia.com/wp-login.php?action=register
arvin use labels instead descriptions, descriptions are meant to be used for long text, labels for shorter
Hi Marco,
Thanks for the prompt responses. How shall I use the label to describe the dropdown box? For instance, if I want a question “Music?” and the choices to be “Electronic, House, R&B” I use:
Label: “Electronic, House, R&B”
Description: “Music?”
Is this correct? It seems to work for me except that “Music” is very far from the dropdown box.
EDIT:
only radio suffer from not having labels, dropdown has it, see how to do it in “add a new field” dialog, there is an example.
Label: “Music?/Electronic,House,R&B”
Description: nothing or whatever you want
to my question about about setting roles. i basically want only users with certain roles to be able to see certain extra fields. is that possible
ok Evan now it’s more clear.
No it isn’t possible now and first time someone asks.
I will see if can be not so long to implement, will see.
No guarantee that will be included soon.
Hi Marco,
I am not sure how I would provide a list of all users who have “red” value in field “favorite color”. Can you help me out?
well provide ALL users that has a specific value in an extra field is not possible yet, you have to pass the user_id and have back the value for that specific user.
0.9.4 will have a lot of new features about that function, stay tuned
Grazie mille! I look forward to the next version!
Really great plugin. Thx for the hard work!
Great plugin. It’s exactly what I have needed for a long time, to convert a certain site over to WP. Thank you!!
Now I have one really big issue: I have two text fields where I want the user to type the word “yes”. I want this to be required. I set maxlength to 3, also tried 5. No matter what changes I make, I still get an error message saying it “should say yes” when it does.
Also, I can’t rearrange the order of fields. When I change the number in the box, and click “update” it says the field was updated correctly, but it has reverted back to the same order number as before. I tried giving it a number that doesn’t exist, to “make room” for a number, but that didn’t work either.
Any thoughts on what might be the cause of either of these? The first issue is the larger problem.
Ooops….I can rearrange fields now…I just didn’t realize the check boxes were connected with the buttons at the TOP for Change Order, and for Delete Selected. Nice feature!
Still have the problem with “should say yes” when it does…and I tried check boxes and they do the same thing. It says “should say Yes” even when the box is checked.
Marci much thanx, there is a bug in equalTo rule that made case sensitive it.
Write “YES” in the rule (all upper case) and after you will be able to write “yes” or whatever.
Anyway this will be fixed in 0.9.4 thanx!
Thanks so much, Marco. That solved the problem. I have one other question: what controls the font size in the registration form fields, and can it be changed? You can see here (http://www.christianbirth.org/wp-login.php?action=register) that the fonts are very large in the drop down, and if you try to type in a textarea box. Each textarea only comfortably holds 2 lines of text, so if a person wants to write a paragraph or two, it gets hard to work with. Thanks again for a great plugin. This is so perfect for me!!
Marci this is due to the built-in css from WordPress, you can customize it.
its location is
[wordpress dir]/wp-admin/wp-admin.css
Textarea rows are only one that I can change from my plug-in and in 0.9.4 I changed from 2 to 3
Thanks once again, Marco. And now another question! Sorry but I seem to be getting the php code wrong to display the contents of a field. I am using $value = get_cimyFieldValue(get_the_author_ID(), ‘PROFESSION’); but apparently the surrounding php code I am using is wrong, because it always returns an error. You can see my whole author.php here: http://pastebin.com/930364
Marci see comment #27 and also WordPress documentation.
You cannot use get_the_author_ID outside the loop.
Thanks for the fast responses
. I do have that code in the loop, and it generates the “Error” message, but does not grab the field data from the database. I have checked that the user does have the associated information in the database.
Also, when it’s in the loop, if the author has multiple posts, it generates the “Error” message repeatedly, for every instance of a post. (I assume it would generate the field data repeatedly too, if it were getting it…) I just want it once, at the beginning of the profile. See it here: http://www.christianbirth.org/author/momof2girls
[smacks self on forehead] Was I working late? Not enough cocoa fueling my brain?? I didn’t UNcheck the security override box in admin!!! So very sorry to have bothered you with my blindness…..
I do still have the problem of this result showing up repeatedly with each post, because it’s in the loop. I want it to only show up once, before the loop. In my case, I am trying to display the author’s profession, which she chose from a drop-down at registration. I don’t need it to show up for every post she wrote, only once. Does that make sense? I am experimenting with different ways to pass the author ID so that it works outside the loop. I will post back if I get a working result, and check back here for your expert reply if I don’t! Thanks for bearing with me.
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