Title: [Plugin: Aleph] Needed features?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Aleph] Needed features?

 *  [Detective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/detective/)
 * (@detective)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/)
 * Hi,
 * I updated the Aleph plugin to 0.8.1. It now works ok with WordPress 2.7.1.
 * I’ll start working on new features (specially those listed in the [FAQ](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/el-aleph/faq/),
   but if you need anything, just say it, perhaps I can do it 🙂 (of course regarding
   Aleph 😉 ).
 * Thank you.

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 *  [blgdra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogadera/)
 * (@blogadera)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052498)
 * Could possibly integrate wp comments on profiles to behave as regular comments.
   Users can moderate their own from their subscriber accts.
 * If profiles could behave as pages…integrating post views would be good too.
 * Thanks for the new upgrade.
 *  Thread Starter [Detective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/detective/)
 * (@detective)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052680)
 * > Could possibly integrate wp comments on profiles to behave as regular comments.
   > Users can moderate their own from their subscriber accts.
 * Sadly, it’s incredibly hard to do that, because the comment system is very post-
   specific and allows anonymous comments. It’s better (and much easier) to create
   a “user comments” plugin that behaves like regular comments.
 * It is possible to create such a plugin and it doesn’t need to be part of Aleph,
   it could be made to work in author archives and with other plugins.
 * Maybe I’ll look into it in the future. Currently BuddyPress handles this very
   well and soon it will be available for WP single.
 * > If profiles could behave as pages…integrating post views would be good too.
 * Sorry, I’m not sure what do you mean. By post views do you mean showing a list
   of posts in a profile page? You can already do that, because in profiles you 
   can use all WordPress’ template tags. So you can do things like:
 *     ```
       <?php
       query_posts("author=" . aleph_get_user_ID());
       if (have_posts()) {
       // do something, display posts
       } else {
       // whatever you want to do in case the user is not an author.
       }
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  [blgdra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogadera/)
 * (@blogadera)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052689)
 * sorry I wasn’t clear. I was asking about having a page view counter for profile
   pages that could also be widgetized to show top users in the sidebar.
 *  Thread Starter [Detective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/detective/)
 * (@detective)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052691)
 * That should be straightforward to do. I don’t think it’s something that could
   be useful to most users so it seems to be more reliable to think about it as 
   a separate plugin.
 * I could add some hooks and template tags to make it easier to create a plugin
   like that.
 *  [zyrq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zyrq/)
 * (@zyrq)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052715)
 * role specific permalink structure perhaps? (=extra rewrite_rules)
    role=editor-
   >builds this URL: example.com/editors/johndoe role=author ->builds this URL: 
   example.com/authors/janedoe
 * in aleph terms that would be
    example.com/searching/people/editors/ example.com/
   searching/people/authors/ etc. (/people would be reduntant as I see it)
 * see my “attempts” and further explanation at
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/261040](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/261040)
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/263681](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/263681)(
   fwiw)
 *  Thread Starter [Detective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/detective/)
 * (@detective)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052716)
 * Yes, “searching/people” is redundant because in the future I would like to have“
   searching/something_else” (like flickr).
 * If you have few editors/authors/etc that need a custom rewrite rule, then you
   could just add their specific rewrite rules:
 *     ```
       add_filter('rewrite_rules_array', 'add_user_roles_rules');
       function add_user_roles_rules($rules) {
       $user_nicenames = array('zyrq', 'detective', 'other_user');
       $user_rules = array();
       foreach ($user_nicenames as $user_slug)
       $user_rules['editors' . '/' . $user_slug . '/?$'] = 'index.php?user=' . $user_slug;
       return $user_rules + $rules;
       }
       ```
   
 * After adding that code to a plugin and flushing the rules, the url `editors/zyrq`
   should be working. The important thing here is that the query string that the
   rewrite rule has to point needs the `user=user_nicename` parameter.
 * The situation becomes more complex when you change your team of editors frequently,
   in that case you should provide a function to get the editors (instead of hardcoding
   the array as in the example) and hook in some action in WordPress when a user
   role has been changed.
 *  [zyrq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zyrq/)
 * (@zyrq)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052717)
 * You know what? I tried a million things to get this kind or URL to work.
 * I tried your suggestion but with 2 functions and 2 filters in functions.php: 
   one for each role and with each role an array of nicenames.
 * I only have 5 editors and 30 authors (users). The setup is a bit of work but 
   it gets the job done.
    Now if I can combine this with cimy_extrafields (as aleph
   says) –which I’m currently using for my author pages (example.com/author/whoever)–
   I have 2 types of user profile pages! Thanks Detective!
 *  [niska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niska/)
 * (@niska)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052718)
 * Feature request: Let users in a wordpress-installation be friends with each other.
   One user should be able to add and remove friends. Like a community.
 *  Thread Starter [Detective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/detective/)
 * (@detective)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052719)
 * [@zyrq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zyrq/): I’m glad it worked 🙂 Don’t
   forget to share your URL to see how the plugins works for you.
 * [@niska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niska/):
    Friends _was_ a feature
   of Aleph some time ago. But i removed it because it wasn’t useful for all users(
   in the sense of the plugin users, no the site users).
 * If you need to build a social network perhaps BuddyPress is for you.
 * If you just need a simple friends system, the system could be reimplemented again
   as a complementary plugin for Aleph, but that would be custom development.
 *  [zyrq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zyrq/)
 * (@zyrq)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052720)
 * Detective, I’m afraid it’s still dev on localhost.
 * Your integration of cimy-user-extra-fields is impressive!
 *     ```
       $myinfo = aleph_get_user_cimy_field("myinfo");
       $mypic = aleph_get_user_cimy_field("mypic");
       ```
   
 * works like a charm.
    One question though: is there a way to get the thumb from
   the image in aleph like in cimy_get_thumb_path?
 * from the cimy-user-extra-fields readme:
 * > If you want to get the thumbnail url and you have only the image url you can
   > use this function:
   >  $thumb_url = cimy_get_thumb_path($image_url);
 * **\*\*\*edit\*\*\***
    Nevermind, I called cimy_get_thumb_path directly from my
   function `$thumb_url = cimy_get_thumb_path($mypic);` Thanks for your help.
 *  [niska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niska/)
 * (@niska)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052726)
 * [@detective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/detective/) – is there an old
   version of Aleph that includes Friends that I can look at?
 *  Thread Starter [Detective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/detective/)
 * (@detective)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052727)
 * There isn’t a direct link, but you can browse the SVN repository at [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/el-aleph?rev=55661](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/el-aleph?rev=55661)
 * However, that version doesn’t work with the latest WP.
 *  [arlieth-tralare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arlieth-tralare/)
 * (@arlieth-tralare)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052756)
 * Just wondering, is there an easy way to sort the user list alphabetically? Or
   would that require a messy sorting script?
 *  Thread Starter [Detective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/detective/)
 * (@detective)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052758)
 * This is not tested, but you could add this to a file named aleph-tweaks.php in
   your plugins folder (don’t forget to activate it).
 *     ```
       <?php
       /*
       Plugin Name: aleph-tweaks
       Plugin Script: aleph-tweaks.php
       Description: Tweaks for Aleph
       Version: 0.1
       License: GPL
       Author: You
       */
   
       add_filter('users_order_by', 'my_users_order');
       function my_users_order($order_by) {
       global $wpdb;
       return " ORDER BY $wpdb->users.user_login DESC ";
       }
   
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Please tell me if this works for you 🙂
 *  [arlieth-tralare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arlieth-tralare/)
 * (@arlieth-tralare)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-aleph-needed-features/#post-1052761)
 * Odd, it seems to have done some sorting, but since not all of my users have filled
   out their information, the sorting seems to prioritize incomplete profiles. :
   X But it’s definitely a start! I’ll report how it works out once all the profiles
   have been filled out. Thanks!
 * You can see the results here:
 * [http://www.meltybread.com/bbnto/members](http://www.meltybread.com/bbnto/members)

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