minor enhancement requests for extended-profile

  • I love the extended-profile, and being able to have all of my contact information in a machine readable format, centralized in one place. However, I think there are a couple of ways this might be improved – cosmetically anyway.

    It’s easy to accumulate a long list of “additional websites” (rel=”me” links), and it would be nice if there were more control over how they’re displayed, for instance:

    • Favicons (if they exist) from each site, displayed next to the URL
    • Option of only displaying a grid of favicons, which link to the remote profile pages (perhaps also in widget form)
    • Option to use link text, instead of the URL itself in the profile, since some profile URLs can be long and ugly.
    • Larger text field for entering the URLs in the My Profile page – or maybe one that scales with the number of URLs entered, or just go ahead and separate them out line by line into different text fields (instead of a textarea), especially if link text could be used instead of the URL
    • Allow the user to choose which URLs are displayed to humans, and which to machines coming to the site.
    • Maybe it already does this and I’m just not aware of how, but it would also be nice if for the blog owner, all these rel=”me” links could somehow be integrated into the contents of the XRDS document.

    The default formatting of the physical address is kind of wonky – it double spaces it for some reason. The formatting of the middle name, and organization information, beneath the person’s header name is also just kind of run together into one string of words, without any indication as to what pieces of data they represent.

    It would also be good if one could include multiple email addresses and multiple organizations.

    Anyway, I’m sure you know some of this stuff already… Thanks for the great plugin! I’m really looking forward to seeing all the DISO stuff really get integrated with WP, and with each other here some time soon.

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  • Regarding your thoughts on multiple profile URLs, you might want to take a look at the ActionStream plugin. It includes an “ActionStream Services” widget that lists all of your services with favicons. While the plugin is designed to include an action stream of your activities, you could just use the list services without the activity stream if you want. Now, right now it only supports a fixed set of services, but that can be extended by other plugins. We’re also working to make it more flexible so it can work with any services, not just the listed ones. You can see an example on the right column of my website.

    Regarding the formatting of other fields, there are hooks that you can implement to override the default formatting. We don’t have any good examples published yet, but they are documented on the DiSo wiki.

    I definitely want to allow for multiple emails, addresses, phone numbers, etc. Just haven’t gotten around to it yet. ??

    Thread Starter zaneselvans

    (@zaneselvans)

    You know, I had the ActionStream plugin installed initially, but its default CSS was a disaster, and didn’t use unique class or id values to make styling it easy, so I uninstalled it and went with the FriendFeed widget instead. I’d certainly prefer to keep all that information within my own system though… so hoping that ActionStream’s default setup gets cleaner. Will check out the presence widget though. Hopefully it allows just a grid of favicons, with site name on mouseover, like the presence widget at: https://theory.isthereason.com/ (which is really just a table of images…) Otherwise it’ll be an overwhelming amount of realestate.

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