Wordpress Tips

I am creating an Intranet wordPress site for the company that I work for. It has different sections for each part of the company. When you login to the site it will show you everything that you have access to, Graphs, Charts, Personal To Do’s. This is all using WordPress Multi Network, and it is slowly coming along and now I wanted to make it private. This is a two fold thing, We want you to be logged in to view whats going on, and we don’t want any outsiders seeing what we are doing. I could put this on a computer her in the office and host it internally, but thats no fun, We have a lot of satellite working and are often working off our devices. So thats why i made it possible to access anywhere.

Anyways, We wanted to make it so you had to login to be able to see anything. Essentially making it private. Luckily there is already a plugin out there and it is very small, and works magical to our needs, Private WP. But then I have to add it to every blog we have and activate it. But thankfully wordPress is smart and made a mu-plugins folder in wp-content. Whatever plugin you add in there gets activated and added to every blog in your install.

All you have to do is download the plugin and upload it to that folder and it is activated site wide.

This is the plugin, which is exactly how I would have done it.


function private_wp() {
if (!is_user_logged_in()) {
auth_redirect();
}
}

add_action('get_header', 'private_wp');


this is gonna be a quick one, cause I need to finish website. But I got this working today. This is for function.php file or in a plugin will work. This will add two forms to the register page in your wordpress, First Name and Last Name.

add_action(‘register_form’,'show_first_name_field’);
add_action(‘register_post’,'check_fields’,10,3);
add_action(‘user_register’, ‘register_extra_fields’);

function show_first_name_field(){
?>
<p>
<label>First Name<br/>
<input id=”user_email” type=”text” tabindex=”20″ size=”25″ value=”<?php echo $_POST['first']; ?>” name=”first”/>
</label>
</p>
<p>
<label>Last Name<br/>
<input id=”user_email” type=”text” tabindex=”20″ size=”25″ value=”<?php echo $_POST['last']; ?>” name=”last”/>
</label>
</p>
<?php
}

function check_fields($login, $email, $errors) {
global $firstname, $lastname;
if ($_POST['first'] == ”) {
$errors->add(‘empty_realname’, “<strong>ERROR</strong>: Please Enter in First Name”);
} else {
$firstname = $_POST['first'];
}
if ($_POST['last'] == ”) {
$errors->add(‘empty_realname’, “<strong>ERROR</strong>: Please Enter in Last Name”);
} else {
$firstname = $_POST['last'];
}
}
function register_extra_fields($user_id, $password=”", $meta=array())  {

$userdata = array();
$userdata['ID'] = $user_id;
$userdata['first_name'] = $_POST['first'];
$userdata['last_name'] = $_POST['last'];
wp_update_user($userdata);
}