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That won’t work because the meta_key refers to a key in the usermeta table, and CIMY uses another table for its data.

However, I think it’s possible to do what you need.

First, register a view with a dummy key, like wp_user_level or something like that. Then, create a plugin wich adds a filter on the SQL query for users. There you can create a JOIN with the CIMY table and look for the value you need.

It’s not perfect, but at least it should work.

I’m working on a new version of the plugin, more flexible and extensible, and easier to use, but I have other projects with higher priority, so I can’t offer a better version yet.

What about the function aleph_the_user_email ? Try something like this (not tested):

function display_user_email() {
<dt>Email</dt>
<dd><?php aleph_the_user_email(); ?></dd>
<?php } ?>
add_action('aleph_user_profile_fields', 'display_user_email');

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 🙂

@zyrq: I’m glad it worked 🙂 Don’t forget to share your URL to see how the plugins works for you.

@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.

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.
}
?>