Group pages and member listings?

  • Resolved parakeet

    (@parakeet)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,
    This looks interesting. I’m wondering whether it fits my needs…

    My in-development site has many hundreds of users. They each belong to one of several dozen companies. But I have no way of recognising this in WordPress.

    Right now, I store many custom user meta profiles fields against Users in wp_usermeta. I am also in the process of storing many more fields about the person’s company, also as user meta fields – this is wrong and a big waste of space, through duplication.

    Instead, I need a way to create companies and store their information once, and relate Users to them. Sounds like this plugin does that. However…

    * Can this plugin let me show company index pages, containing eg. a list of related members, company-related info?
    * Can that info be custom fields, or only the ones you have prescribed?

    Thanks very much.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-user-groups/

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  • Did you try it?

    I think this plugin would fulfill your need: the user groups are nothing else than a WordPress taxonomy, every user-group is a taxonomy term, which supports title / description … and since WP 4.4 gave us Term Meta, you can even add custom fields to them!

    Plugin Author John James Jacoby

    (@johnjamesjacoby)

    Hey @parakeet!

    This plugin will definitely solve the immediate need of grouping users together. Because it uses WordPress taxonomy API under the hood, it is actually quite trivial to build theme-side support for taxonomy/term pages to represent your groups.

    And, now that we have taxonomy term meta, it’s also really easy to build custom fields into WP User Groups. But, this functionality isn’t built in per-say, because form-field building falls outside the scope of this plugin specifically.

    If you need some custom code written to help with your implementation, get in touch! https://flox.io/consulting/

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