The text widget built into WordPress strips shortcodes. However, thankfully, there are a plethora of options to allow you to work around this minor issue. Take a look at the Shortcode Widget plugin.
Did you upload the plugin through FTP or through the WordPress installer? Changing permissions to 777 isn’t necessary (I’m running UserPro on a WPE site with no issues), it’s usually actually a folder owner or group issue.
@MyMasterKey It can’t be done without modifying the core of the plugin at this time. However, if you’re willing to hack at the plugin a bit, it IS fairly straightforward and I’d be happy to help you.
@Tomas Really? If everyone was a developer there would be no need for plugins. If you can’t do anything but criticize users, why bother posting at all?
Hehe… I did say that the filter wasn’t the efficient way. As for why it’s not displaying, I couldn’t tell you. Is the data being stored in the correct format? I ran a quick test on my local copy and it worked fine, but the logging system isn’t really intended to be used externally, so documentation is a bit scarce. I’d also like to point out that I’m not a UserPro developer, just another user who happens to be a professional WordPress developer who likes to help out with plugins that are worthwhile… getting feedback from the official UserPro staff on this might be beneficial.
I think you’re misunderstanding the word ‘filter’. In WordPress, a filter isn’t necessarily ‘removing’ something like it’s seen in the traditional sense. Rather, it’s a type of hook that allows modification of a given variable.
Yes, this is a VERY simplistic example, but running this function will append a single status item displaying nothing but ‘Hi there!’ to the activity stream for the user with ID 1. Hopefully that makes sense, and I apologize for the ridiculous way of displaying it, but the bbPress code formatting kinda sucks…
You actually can modify that text, it’s just not as obvious as some of the other emails. Each line in the email is a translatable string which can be modified through the plugin Say What?.
It kinda depends on what you are trying to do and how comfortable you are with PHP. The feed itself is filterable… userpro_public_activity_filter for the public feed, and userpro_private_activity_filter for the private. The aforementioned filters allow you to modify the feed itself before it is displayed. However, this requires processing the additions each time the feed is displayed, and as such is more memory intensive than you may like, depending on use case. The activity feed itself is processed from a stored activity log. Ideally, you would want to add log entries to this log, but this method is much more complicated. Adding log entries of types which are unsupported is easier said than done, but it is possible.
