Link to logged in person's listings – within a button, not the widget.

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  • September 28, 2014 at 3:27 pm #16775

    Tom
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    Dear support team,
    I’d love to use a simple button that links to the listings of a logged in person.
    Your widget is nice – but may partner doesn’t like the look of it, so we’d like to do that with a normal button.
    I see that the link is dynamically generated, with the name of the logged in person being part of it.
    Is it possible to write this link with some kind of placeholder, that get’s the name of the logged ins person somehow and links to the right posts?

    Thanks,
    Tom

    September 28, 2014 at 8:58 pm #16805

    Guust
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    Do you mean the “GDF > Welcome Login” or the “GD > Loginbox” widget?
    A URL would be helpful.

    September 28, 2014 at 9:08 pm #16807

    Tom
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    September 28, 2014 at 9:37 pm #16816

    Guust
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    The widget will link to the listings of a user if they have listings, and if you added the type of listings at GD > design > navigation > Show listing link in user dashboard.

    So if I understand you correctly, you want the heading of that widget to say something like “Welcome Username” when logged in, instead of just My Dashboard.

    September 29, 2014 at 6:11 am #16838

    Tom
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    September 29, 2014 at 7:13 am #16843

    Guust
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    I think it would be a lot simpler to change the CSS and the text rather than trying anything else, but let’s hear from Stiofan, he might have better ideas.

    September 29, 2014 at 8:21 am #16847

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    I Agree with Guust, CSS would be the easiest option otherwise you can copy the widget code to your child theme and make a custom widget as you described.

    Stiofan

    September 30, 2014 at 7:40 pm #17022

    Tom
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    Thanks for your answers.
    Custom widget sound great – something new to learn.

    I do not understand what you mean with changing the CSS. The link that is behind the button has to be different for every user that is logged in – because the username is in the URL: http://www.sitename.com/author/username/?geodir_dashbord=true&stype=gd_place

    So how can I get the username dynamically inserted into the link? Can I put soe kind of placeholder there?

    Thanks,
    Tom

    September 30, 2014 at 10:17 pm #17054

    Guust
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    What we mean is just to change the look of the link as it is now, just like the Register or Login buttons have been styled. The url of the link will not change at all, only the look of the button will change.
    http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/customizing-your-style/

    You seem to be using 2 different registration processes, so I suggest you look at this article:
    http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/redirecting-the-login-page/

    October 1, 2014 at 12:05 pm #17109

    Tom
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    Hi Guust,
    ah, OK, I understeand.
    Thanks, I will see which way I go,
    cheers,
    Tom

    October 1, 2014 at 12:50 pm #17122

    Guust
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    I’ll set this to resolved.
    Just post something here if you need more help, we’ll re-open it if we need to.

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