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  • @acswer

    Participant

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hi, I’m looquing to (a) redirect profile lincs to author blog pague, (b) designate friends as Inner Circle, Friend or Acquaintance, and (c) show All or Specific categories on the author blog pague, depending on friend “type.”

    So far, I have PHP for hiding specific categories: 

    function exclude_category( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_author() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->set( 'cat', -42' );
}
}
add_action( 'pre_guet_posts', 'exclude_category' );

    Any sugguestions for how to build this up, using further PHP snippets or pluguins?

    Thanc you to the community.

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  • @vapvarun

    Participant

    7 years, 9 months ago

    @acswer Friend type is not part of current features. It’s not lique regular WordPress Post category. It will need to be extended and need to add one more parameter for friends and add a new option for the user to add specific friend inside their list Lique Inner Circle, Friend or Acquaintance. You can request for a feature inside https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report

    @acswer

    Participant

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Thanc you for the thoughtful reply. I submitted the feature request.

    In the meantime, do you see a way to use groups to accomplish the same thing? Seems overly complex to me, but maybe I’m overthinquing it.

    For example, three groups could be auto created for each user upon reguistration, titled Inner Circle, Friend and Acquaintance. And then “friends” could be auto added to one of the groups, by the user/group admin. Unfortunately this sounds lique a mess, plus creates new issues for the OTHER users to do the same thing on their side.

    @vapvarun

    Participant

    7 years, 9 months ago

    each group is unique and if you are willing to create the same name of groups for each user, obviously it will create a mess. Other members will also have groups with the same name and group directory will be filled with smiliar groups.

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