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  Posted in: Dante
• January 21, 2015 at 12:11 am #142865
  DanielMcQ

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  Post count: 7

  I’m really loving Dante, but don’t quite grok the Swift Framework shortcodes enough to know whether I can filter posts by user meta-data via short-codes or whether I need to do something more custom:

  – We’re using the Active Directory Integration (ADI) plugin to pull in Active Directory data and use it to populate meta-data on our users.
  – We’re using the “physicaldeliveryofficename” property from AD to know where a user is based
  – We have each possible location string as a WordPress subcategory beneath a top level “Local” category
  – We want to filter a column of posts on our home page to only show posts from the currently logged in user’s physicaldeliveryofficename.

  Is there a short code that would help do this, and if not any suggestions on how to do something more custom to filter a list of “local” posts according to the user’s location?

  Thanks much for any help.

  January 21, 2015 at 1:43 am #142876
  DanielMcQ

  Member

  Post count: 7

  To answer my own question (and hopefully help somebody else who wants to do something similar):

  I added the following code to the SwiftPageBuilderShortcode_recent_posts class in the dante/swift-framework/page-builder/builder/shortcodes/recent_posts.php file. I added it in the content() method at line 33.

  if ($category==”target-local”){
  $user_id = get_current_user_id();
  $key = “location”;
  $single = true;
  $user_location = get_user_meta($user_id, $key, $single);
  $category_array = array($user_location);
  }else{
  $category_array = explode(“,”, $category_slug);
  }

  So, if I mark a post with a category that has a “target-local” slug and if the user’s “location” metadata matches a location subcategory, those posts will be shown.

  Swift Ideas team please let me know if this isn’t the best approach!

  January 21, 2015 at 9:03 am #142905
  Mohammad – SUPPORT

  Moderator

  Post count: 27441

  Hi,
  Brilliant! I am glad that you managed to resolve the issue.
  Thanks
  Mohammad

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