nicolashili

Hi Sarah,

Glad to hear that ?? I am eager to see the next update,

All the best,

Nicolas

Hi Sarah,

Thank for digging into it,

I am new to WordPress, so I do not really know the impacts of that decision. In my case, the reason why I do not have any Page Not Found error is because I have an author.php page in my theme. This page does not display the list of posts, but instead the detailed contact info of the author. I tested it and you are right, when I remove the author.php page out of my theme, I have a Page Not Found error.

I guess that the default behaviour of WordPress is to display 1) the list of post of the author OR 2) a page saying that nothing is found. However, when overriding the default behaviour (by creating the author.php page), we can have an author page even though the author does not have any post.

There is a “Link to Author Page” option in the plugin. Would that make sens to have the following ?

1) Link to Author Page -> select field with three options:
– Never
– Only if author posts are found
– Always

2) Open in separate window -> checkbox

The drawback I can see when considering post numbers is that it excludes all websites (used in Research for example) that do not use posts at all. For example, for a Research laboratory website, pages are used for, e.g., showing the different Research axes, the list of publications, but also for displaying the list of members. We do not expect the group members to be active “posters”, but list of members should be constantly updated and provide access to updated information of a member.

Thanks again for your reactive support,

Nicolas

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your answer.
I totally missed the as_filter option ??

Nicolas

Hi Sarah,

No worries, thanks for your prompt reply ??

I do not want to force you to integrate it for free against your will. I am sorry if my message made you think the contrary. I fully understand that plugin authors want some returns on investment, and you clearly invested time in this plug-in which is reflected by the quality of its admin interface. You also might have already considered adding this feature to your feature list before I wrote this topic, so it is absolute not my call to influence your decision.

I am gonna send you an email with my code then. Whether you want to integrate this feature in the base version or as an add-on is your entire decision and I fully respect that. I would really appreciate if you can share your decision with me whichever you make and whenever you make it, so I will know if I can use this plugin for my laboratory.

Best regards,

Nicolas

Hello Sarah,

Thank you for the reply and your interest in this feature.

I am not sure to fully understand your answer though. I was proposing you to share my code if you were interested. should I understand that you are not interested and that you prefer to re-develop it on your end in order to be able to sell it ?

As I already implemented the solution (for my personal needs), does that mean that if I want to follow the next updates of “Dynamic User Directory” while having this feature, I have to pay for the add-on, even though I implemented it on my side ?

Although I am sure that the cost of using the add-on would be minimal, I have no fund from my University as I simply volunteered for developing the website of my laboratory and to comply with my department policy, I should only use free plugin features so they can keep maintaining it after my contract is finished without being obstructed by non-free solutions.

Thanks for your answer,

Nicolas

Hi Sarah,

Thanks for the reply. I let you see. I think it should not create any navigation problems in the sens that the author page is created when a new user is added, even though this latter does not have any post yet.

Regards,

Nicolas

As a workaround, I managed to do it with this following code:

html:
<div class="myDiv">[DynamicUserDirectory]</div>

css:

.myDiv .dir-listing {
    width: 32%; /* for three columns */
    margin: 7px 8px 25px 0px !important;
    float: left;
}

.myDiv > div:not([class="dir-listing"]) {
    display: none;
}

It is just a workaround though and I would also appreciate a new feature ??

Nicolas