Filtering posts by user meta-data

[DanielMcQ]

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.

[DanielMcQ]

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!

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

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