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

Tom — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 15:27:26 +0000

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

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Guust — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:58:32 +0000

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

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Tom — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:08:00 +0000

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Guust — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:37:39 +0000

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.

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Tom — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 06:11:07 +0000

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Guust — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 07:13:38 +0000

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.

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Stiofan O'Connor — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:21:15 +0000

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

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Tom — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:40:51 +0000

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

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Guust — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:17:36 +0000

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/

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Tom — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 12:05:48 +0000

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