User Profiles is a plugin for Movable Type 4 that extends the user profiles in MT4. Version 1.0 adds the ability to user profile images (sometimes called avatars) from within the MT4 interface:
Profile images are just the first step for the User Profiles plugin. Look forward to more profile features in the near future.
How it Works
From admin MT4 interface, users can add a profile image by editing their profile. (System admins can perform this task for any user on the system):
Users will the be prompted to upload a profile image:
Square images are recommended, but if the uploaded photo is not a square, the plugin will automatically crop the image to make it a square.
After saving the profile image, the image will appear in the user profile:
Finally, the <MTAuthorImageURL> and <MTCommenterImageURL> tags can be used to display the user's profile image on your published blog pages.
Note: In version 1.0, authenticated commenters cannot upload their own profile images -- only users will access to the MT4 admin area can upload photos. In the next version, commenters will be able to upload profile images as well.
Profile images are stored as Assets within Movable Type. This means that these images can also be used in other ways, such as inserting them into entries. Movable Type will keep the full size image (cropped to square, if necessary) and create thumbnails when using the tags described below. Each profile image is tagged with 'profileimage'.
Template Tags
Version 1.0 of User Profiles includes 4 new template tags:
- <MTAuthorImageURL> - This displays the url to a thumbnail of the author's profile image. There is one optional argument:
- size - the size in pixels of square thumbnail, default is 50 pixels (each side)
- <IfMTAuthorImage> - This conditional tag displays its contents if the author has uploaded a profile image.
- <MTAuthorImageURL> - This displays the url to a thumbnail of the commenter's profile image. There is one optional argument:
- size - the size in pixels of square thumbnail, default is 50 pixels (each side)
- <IfMTCommenterImage> - This conditional tag displays its contents if the commenter has a profile image. Note: if you posted a comment on your own blog (while signed in), your profile image will be displayed using this tag.
Example: In your "Entry Metadata" template module, your could add the following:
<MTIfAuthorImage><img src="<MTAuthorImageURL size="50">" align="left" /> </MTIfAuthorImage>
This would display the author's profile image, if they have one in their profile.
Similarly, in your "Comment Detail" module, you could add:
<MTIfCommenterImage><img src="<MTCommenterImageURL size="50">" align="left" /> </MTIfCommenterImage>
Both example above can be seen in action on the MT4 Test Blog.
Installation
- Download the zip file and upload the contents of the 'plugins' folder to the 'plugins' directory of your MT installation.
- Go to the blog you want, then to Preferences > Plugins. Then choose User Profiles, then Settings. Entry the path for uploading profile images, then save.
- Upload a profile image from your profile. (Tip: the quickest way to get to your profile is to click the "Hi Username!" link in the very top right of the page.) Click the link to add a profile image and follow the steps as shown above.
- Edit your templates to display profile images, as described in the Template Tags section above.
Get User Profiles
User Profiles v1.0 is free for both commercial and non-commercial use. (Note that future versions will have additional features and may not free for commercial use.)
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Downloads: 470
Upcoming Features
This is just the beginning for the User Profiles plugin. Potential future features include:
- Enabling commenters to upload photos
- Public user profile pages listing profile information, plus recent entries and comments.
- Extended profiles (fields for birth date, hometown, etc.)
- Importing photos from other services, if possible.
- And more - please make feature suggestions in the comments of this entry
Comments (30)
This is GREAT! Will you send out an email when the next version is available? I'd love to implement this for the commenters' profile.
Posted by aeropause
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November 4, 2007 9:54 PM
Posted on November 4, 2007 21:54
I'm sorry. I meant to post this under VisitorStats... Craig
Posted by CraigV
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November 6, 2007 7:04 AM
Posted on November 6, 2007 07:04
CraigV, I have moved your comment here and replied to it.
Posted by Mark Carey
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November 6, 2007 10:02 AM
Posted on November 6, 2007 10:02
I really like the idea for this.
I installed it two days after release, however, I can't seem to get it to work 100%. The profile image shows up fine on the main home page. But I get errors on archive and entry pages. Also, I get the similar error message in the comment section. I think that I followed the directions exactly.
Basically, where the tag is (entry area or comment area), I get this error message (instead of the template section that is supposed to be there):
The error for MTIfCommenterImage obviously says 'myifcommenterimage' instead of where it says 'mtifauthorimage'. Once I delete the line w/ the new tag, everything looks just fine how it used to, so I've done that for now. Excuse me if this is an easy fix that I'm just missing.
Posted by Brian Moy | November 8, 2007 9:12 AM
Posted on November 8, 2007 09:12
Hi Brian, the template tags for this plugin are not currently supported under MT's dynamic publishing system. The error you quoted suggests that you are using dynamic publishing. A future version of this plugin may include PHP versions of the template tags.
Posted by Mark Carey
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November 8, 2007 12:10 PM
Posted on November 8, 2007 12:10
Ah, then that makes perfect sense.
Thanks.
I'll go to .html for the archives to play around with it a little bit.
Posted by Brian Moy | November 8, 2007 3:03 PM
Posted on November 8, 2007 15:03
Maybe include a template for use in making a foaf.rdf that can be used with the template installer. Only missing a few things from being able to make a full profile already. Excellent plugin as always.
Posted by Wilbur Longwisch | November 8, 2007 5:43 PM
Posted on November 8, 2007 17:43
Mark, I'm very interested in purchasing a dynamic version of this with the upcoming features you suggested. :-)
Cheers. You have the best MT plugins by the way.
Posted by aeropause
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November 12, 2007 2:56 PM
Posted on November 12, 2007 14:56
I installed the user profile plugin and the upgrade said it was successful, but it's not working correctly. I click on add image under a user and I'm able to upload the image (i see the image upload to the file system), but the preview during the upload doesn't work and the image doesn't show up in the profile. It also continues to ask if I want to upload an image to the profile.
Even though the upgrade said it was successful, I'm not sure that any fields were added to the database. Can you tell me what fields get added and to which table?
I installed a fresh copy of MT version 4.01 and the issue is still happening.
Thanks!
Posted by Kyle | November 20, 2007 11:16 AM
Posted on November 20, 2007 11:16
I'm having a problem with the User Profile edit page and PHP. Plugin works great, but the PHP in my footer stops working. (Only on pages generated via mt-userprofiles.cgi). Any advice?
Many thanks!
Posted by tomwademurphy
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December 5, 2007 2:55 AM
Posted on December 5, 2007 02:55
Hello im problem in the installation, when upgrade my MT see me this:
Error durante la actualización: failed loading package UserProfiles::Pro::Util for routine UserProfiles::Pro::Util::import_images: Can't locate XML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/UserProfiles/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/CommentRegistration/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/AjaxRating/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/CustomFields/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/WidgetManager/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/WXRImporter/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/Textile/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/StyleCatcher/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/spamlookup/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/MultiBlog/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/feeds-app-lite/lib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/extlib /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/extlib lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/extlib/XML/XPath/XMLParser.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/extlib/XML/XPath/XMLParser.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/extlib/XML/XPath.pm line 13. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/extlib/XML/XPath.pm line 13. Compilation failed in require at /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/UserProfiles/lib/UserProfiles/Pro/Util.pm line 103. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/www/vhosts/tuneaelmovil.com/cgi-bin/blog/plugins/UserProfiles/lib/UserProfiles/Pro/Util.pm line 103. Compilation failed in require at (eval 47) line 1. MT::handler_to_coderef('MT','$UserProfile::UserProfiles::Pro::Util::import_images') called at lib/MT/Upgrade.pm line 2212 MT::Upgrade::core_update_records('MT::Upgrade','from',-1,'type','author','label','CODE(0x9af82ac)','condition','CODE(0x9518818)',...) called at lib/MT/Upgrade.pm line 1025 MT::Upgrade::run_step('MT::Upgrade','ARRAY(0x9af93e0)') called at lib/MT/App/Upgrader.pm line 440 eval {...} called at lib/MT/App/Upgrader.pm line 430 MT::App::Upgrader::run_actions('MT::App::Upgrader=HASH(0x89d813c)') called at lib/MT/App.pm line 1753 eval {...} called at lib/MT/App.pm line 1645 MT::App::run('MT::App::Upgrader=HASH(0x89d813c)') called at lib/MT/Bootstrap.pm line 75 eval {...} called at lib/MT/Bootstrap.pm line 59 MT::Bootstrap::import('MT::Bootstrap','App','MT::App::Upgrader') called at mt-upgrade.cgi line 11 main::BEGIN() called at lib/MT/Upgrade.pm line 11 eval {...} called at lib/MT/Upgrade.pm line
11
What i can do?thanx
Posted by nevado
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December 24, 2007 4:01 PM
Posted on December 24, 2007 16:01
Now im test with the User profile and work, but with the User profile Pro not working, see the error up
Posted by nevado
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December 24, 2007 4:06 PM
Posted on December 24, 2007 16:06
Kyle, it sounds like you don't have Image::Magick on your system. Run mt-check.cgi and it will tell you.
tomwademurphy, since the "edit profile" page is displayed by the mt-userprofiles.cgi Perl script, you can't use PHP code on that page.
nevado, that error suggests that you are missing the XML::Parser perl module. This required for importing photos from other services. That said, I can try to update the plugin so that you can still use it without XML::Parser, but it won't be able to import photos from all of the services. If possible, you should ask your web host to install XML::Parser.
Posted by Mark Carey
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December 28, 2007 8:48 AM
Posted on December 28, 2007 08:48
How can I find out what my Blog ID is?
Posted by shuttersbuddy | December 28, 2007 6:12 PM
Posted on December 28, 2007 18:12
Ditto: I don't know what a Blog ID is. I never had to use this before.
Posted by amy
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January 7, 2008 12:37 PM
Posted on January 7, 2008 12:37
Hello,
I have just installed the User Profiles Pro plugin and now when I log in the Movable Type administration board, I get the following error message : "Can't call method "file_extension" on an undefined value at /var/www/html/contrefeux/cgi/plugins/UserProfiles/lib/UserProfiles/Pro/Publisher.pm line 103."
... anyone had the same problem ?! please help me stay away from Perl code!
Thanks in advance
Posted by simon | January 14, 2008 9:28 AM
Posted on January 14, 2008 09:28
Hi
Can't seem to get this working right.
It's installed okay and everything and I've got an image uploaded and attached to my Author Profile.
But, I can't seem to find any way of attaching an image to a Commentator's profile.
Any help appreciated.
Posted by Bowch
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January 16, 2008 1:36 PM
Posted on January 16, 2008 13:36
Solved; just needed to change permissions on the cgi script...
Posted by Bowch
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January 16, 2008 1:55 PM
Posted on January 16, 2008 13:55
I spoke too soon.
Clicking on Edit Profile works but it won't let anybody upload a photo.
Posted by Bowch
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January 16, 2008 3:18 PM
Posted on January 16, 2008 15:18
I'm getting the following error, when I try to "Install Templates":
Can't locate object method "install_blog_templates" via package "MT::Plugin::TemplateInstaller" at /home/sdeals/public_html/cms/plugins/UserProfiles/lib/UserProfiles/App/CMS.pm line 12.
Template Installer works fine on it's own. Using 1.1.
Posted by Neop | February 4, 2008 3:35 PM
Posted on February 4, 2008 15:35
I'm getting the exact same error as Neop. I'm using version 1.11 of Template Installer and UserProfiles 1.5. Any suggestions?
Posted by Chris O'Donnell | February 26, 2008 8:57 PM
Posted on February 26, 2008 20:57
I have purchased the Pro version and may have made the error of dropping the Pro folders on top of the non-pro version. I don't believe the installer ran which set up the additional DB entries. How do I back out and uninstall the files/folders? Simply remove the folders?
Thanks
Posted by Rob Cherny | March 11, 2008 5:52 PM
Posted on March 11, 2008 17:52
I have installe duserprofiles from mthacks.com, but i cannot get it to work.
My site is published statically.
in the "edit user profile" template I get:
Unrecognized Tags
*
*
When trying to show the template, it just shows up as an empty page
Posted by einjen
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June 15, 2008 5:57 AM
Posted on June 15, 2008 05:57
Seems the two tags doesn't get displayed:
* mtapp:setting
* mtapp:statusmsg
Is this a problem related to the plugin or to the installation itselfe?
Posted by einjen
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June 19, 2008 4:20 PM
Posted on June 19, 2008 16:20
Now im test with the User دردشة صوتية
الولة
شات صوتي
profile and work, but with the User profile Pro not working, see the error up
Posted by دردشة صوتية | April 8, 2009 1:18 PM
Posted on April 8, 2009 13:18
Seems the two tags doesn't get displayed:I have just installed the User Profiles Pro plugin and now when I log in the Movable Type administration board, I get the following error message : "Can't call method "file_extension" on an undefined value at /var/www/html/contrefeux/cgi/plugins/UserProfiles/lib/UserProfiles/Pro/Publisher.pm line 103."
شات صوتي
دردشة صوتيه
دردشة زين
Posted by شات صوتي | May 25, 2009 6:32 PM
Posted on May 25, 2009 18:32
profile and work, but with the User profile Pro not working, see the error up
http://www.t7b.com/dlil
Posted by دردشه | August 3, 2009 10:16 PM
Posted on August 3, 2009 22:16
When trying to show the template, it just shows up as an empty page
http://www.t7b.com/dlil/show80156.html
Posted by دردشة الشلة | August 3, 2009 10:17 PM
Posted on August 3, 2009 22:17
When trying to show the template, it just shows up as an empty page
http://www.ksavip.com
Posted by شات | December 2, 2009 10:27 PM
Posted on December 2, 2009 22:27
good
Posted by شات صوتي | January 20, 2010 7:49 AM
Posted on January 20, 2010 07:49