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Hi … the two very quick answers to this are 1) that the Javascript code the plugin uses to render the checkin map deliberately disables the zoom (and all other controls) from the map to save on screen space as, typically, widgets are small(ish) and 2) that no-one’s ever asked for this before!

It is though, a perfectly valid request and I’ll look at implementing this in a future release of the plugin, though I’m afraid it won’t be the next version at that is ready to release today/tomorrow and I don’t have any timescales for when I’ll have the time to commit to future version right now.

-Gary

Is there any possibility to get venue location?

In the current version of the plugin, no. In the next version of the plugin, there’s a new filter available which allows you to get the entire JSON Checkin Response object which the Foursquare API returned, which should give you what you need.

The next version is ready to be released and will be pushed to the WordPress plugin repository either later today, if I get time, or tomorrow.

-Gary

So this is a known bug which is fixed in the next release of the plugin (which is currently running, albeit unreleased, on my personal blog).

The next release is all ready to be pushed out to the WordPress subversion repository. If I’m able to get the time (just back from family vacation), this will be done today. If not, then tomorrow.

-Gary

I’m not quite up to snuff to visually parse wp-biographia.php, so I was wondering if it was possible to echo both the excerpt and the full bio inside the bio box?

The quick answer to this is, I’m afraid, no. The current version of the plugin just isn’t designed or coded to do this, it’s designed to use either the full biography or the excerpt biography, not both simultaneously.

Having said that, it’s a good idea and implementing this would make a nice and logical extension to the way in which the plugin works (almost all of the extra features the plugin has had since the initial version was released in August 2011 have come from requests via email or the WordPress forums).

I think I’ll make this part of the next release; the amount of coding required to do this should be relatively minimal, though I’ll have to go back and read the code to make sure of course.

-Gary

I’m trying to only have excerpts show up with a ‘read more’ option but whenever I use [wp_biographia user=”*” type=”excerpt”] I only get the bio that is entered in the excerpt section in the user page (no option to display the full thing). Is this possible?

Just in case there’s some confusion around terminology, the biographical excerpt, which WP Biographia adds to the user’s profile under Biography Options / Biographical Excerpt, has no connection at all to a post excerpt (actually this terminology has the possibility to be downright confusion so I think I’ll change this in the next release of the plugin).

What you’ve described above seems to me to be precisely what the plugin should be doing and what’s documented for the behaviour of the shortcode’s type attribute. Using the shortcode …

[wp_biographia user="*" type="excerpt"]

… will output the Biography Box for all users on your site; the user’s excerpt biography will be used, unless a user doesn’t have an excerpt biography, in which case the full biography will be used , or if the user has no biography information at all, no biography text will be displayed.

I’ve also noticed the plugin author mention not to fill out the except portion on the user page, wondering if there’s another way to work around this

I did? I don’t recall saying this, though I might have albeit in a different context; have you a link to where I’ve recommended this?

-Gary

You’re very welcome. Hope it gets sorted out by your theme author. I’ll flag this thread as resolved as this really boils down to a premium/commercial theme support issue, but please do post back and let me know how you get on and whether you’re able to resolve this with your theme provider.

-Gary

This seems to be a word-for-word duplicate post of this topic, which I’ve just responded to, so I’ll flag this post as resolved and we can continue to conversation on the original thread.

-Gary

I have installed WP Biographia to use it as a sidebar/widget bio only. I have therefore deselected all other options on the “Design” page of the plugin.

Err, there isn’t a Design tab for the plugin’s settings and options … do you mean the Display tab?

But assuming you meant the Display tab, then deselecting all the checkboxes on this tab will stop the plugin automagically adding the Biography Box to the content of posts and pages.

Quick note – this won’t stop the plugin displaying the Biography Box if you’re using the plugin’s shortcode in the content of one or your posts or pages and/or if you’re using one of the plugin’s template tags in one of your theme’s template files.

For some reason, on all pages the avatar is not showing. “Show Avatar” is selected in Discussion/Settings.

Assuming you want avatars to work natively with WordPress and the plugin’s widget (and not via a plugin which locally hosts avatar images), then you need to ensure that …

1. Show Avatars is selected in Settings / Discussions (which you’ve done).

2. Show User’s Avatar is selected in the widget’s settings in Appearance / Widgets

3. The email account associated with your WordPress site’s user is the same as the one you’ve used to register with on gravatar.com and that you’ve uploaded an avatar image on gravatar.com.

If you’ve done all of the above, then your avatar should appear. If it doesn’t then it’s possible that either your theme or another plugin is somehow now playing well with WP Biographia. In this case, the standard WordPress troubleshooting technique of reverting to a stock WordPress theme (one of the Twenty series) and disabling all other plugins and then re-enabling them one by one, testing after you’ve enabled each plugin, should help narrow down the problem area.

Addditionally, on my Blog(gathering page of new posts) and About Me(a regular page) page neither the avatat nor my bio are shown.

Probably a silly question, but do the page templates for these pages support widgets and if so, have you added the widget to the correct widgetized sidebar or footer? The number of sidebars/headers/footers that support widgets varies considerably from theme to theme.

Another question I have is whether it is possible to change the hyperlink the Username in the widget currently redirects to. I’d like it to redirect to my About Me page.

I’m afraid this isn’t possible. The link is generated by the WordPress get_author_posts_url API call and this only returns the link to the author archive page for the current author. If you want a custom link to another page, you can accomplish this by using the plugin’s wp_biographia_contact_info and wp_biographia_link_items filters to add another contact link type.

-Gary

I appreciate this … at a guess, I’d say that your theme is either calling the WordPress the_content and/or the_excerpt filters more than once, probably within a custom Loop (a lot of premium themes use custom Loops) and as WP Biographia uses these filter hooks to append/prepend the Biography Box, this is why you’re seeing it duplicated.

You can try to lock the output of the Biography Box to the main Loop by setting Lock Display Of The Biography Box To The Main Loop in the plugin’s Admin tab; this might work for you but it depends on how your theme’s authors are using the WordPress Loop and whether it plays well with the WordPress API – some themes do, some don’t unfortunately.

But this is all guess work on my part; without actually digging around in the theme’s code I can only make an educated guess. It’s very much a case of me not being able to help more, rather than not wanting to or not being willing to.

As this is a premium theme and you’ve parted with cold hard cash for this; I’d strongly recommend that you get in touch with the theme’s authors. Feel free to point them at this forum thread to give them some background. You’ve paid for a premium theme, you should be entitled to support for it.

-Gary

Reverting to a stock WordPress theme and/or disabling and then selective re-enabling plugins are the quickest way to work out whether it’s a theme specific issue, a clash with another plugin or a problem with this plugin.

I appreciate you have a live site, but can you not try and duplicate this on a test site?

Usually I’d install the theme on one of my test environments, but as this is a premium theme I can’t do that (it’s not really reasonable to pay for a premium theme just to test).

-Gary

It certainly looks like a theme issue; have you tried changing your theme to a stock WordPress theme (one of the Twenty series)?

Off the top of my head it could be one of two things …

Either your theme is using both the content and the excerpt of each post and the current version of WP Biographia will append/prepend the Biography Box to both (this is already fixed in the as yet unreleased next version).

Or your theme is somehow running two loops; but this looks less likely given how the page is laid out.

What theme are you using?

-Gary

Sorry to hear that … this will be a configurable feature in the next version of the plugin, which is coming out soon-ish.

-Gary

Did this also get resolved as part of the other thread we’ve been discussing? I think so, but want to check with you before flagged as resolved.

You’re very welcome. Let me know how you get on and whether you get the layout and effect you’re looking for.

The plugin’s home page is always the best place to find this sort of information; it’s pretty much the same as presented on the WordPress plugin repository, just arranged in a way that hopefully makes it easier to read and find the information you need.

There’s just a single shortcode for WP Biographia … [wp_biographia] and this shortcode supports 7 attributes to tailor the output of the shortcode (the plugin’s template tags mirror this). It sounds like the order attribute might be what you’re looking for. When in wildcard mode, you can sort the authors by account name (the default), by first name, by last name, by nickname, by display name or by numeric login id (the first/last/nick and display names are as configured as part of the author’s user profile).

-Gary