CUNY Academic Commons

Currently, pronouns appear basically everywhere a user's display name is shown. See https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/blob/9a14e471c6da7fc37ad8d32fc6fb85d713ac74a0/wp-content/mu-plugins/cac-functions.php#L2798 More fine-grained control will definitely increase the technical complexity, but I don't foresee any dealbreakers, so you should design the system you want without worrying about the technicas aspects.

Hi All,

This could get really complex if we want to change WHO the pronouns are displayed to (i.e. logged in vs. out users). For the sake of simplicity, I guess pronouns will be displayed to anyone who can view the commons, so it's a question of where they display.

My initial thought is add several options below the profile area where a user inputs the pronoun information. The options could be something like:

Display Pronouns:
[] Site-wide (anywhere my username appears)
[] Profile only
[] Profile + created content (i.e. site pages, posts, comments; forum topics, replies)
[] Created content only (i.e. site pages, posts, comments; forum topics, replies)

As a foil to Laurie's well-reasoned suggestion :) here's a way of conceiving the settings in a way that's tied to "who" rather than "what":

Display pronouns to:
[ ] Everyone
[ ] Logged-in members of the Commons only
[ ] My friends and members of my groups and sites
[ ] My friends

The third option in particular seems important, because it's in the context of groups and sites where people are likely to be in conversation with each other, thus necessitating the use of pronouns.

Thanks for laying out this other option Boone.

From our chat on the dev call earlier this week it sounds like controlling for WHO can see pronouns would be better route to go.

So, perhaps we can add a drop down option in the profile>edit area that allows a user to select:

Display pronouns to:
[ ] Everyone
[ ] Logged-in members of the Commons only
[ ] My friends and members of my groups and sites
[ ] My friends

Just wanted to note that we do have a page where users can change the visibility setting for each profile field under "My Settings > Profile Visibility".

The "Pronouns" field is already on this page with the following options:

- Everyone
- Only Me
- All Members
- My Friends

The one option that is missing is "My friends and members of my groups and sites". I believe we might be able to plug in this option into BuddyPress, but we'd need to take a further look.

Then we'd need to reference this visibility option before outputting the user's pronouns.

Thanks, Ray! I was planning to integrate into this. (It's currently ignored in many contexts, given the way that the display names are filtered.)

Sorry, Laurie! I needed to make a database-level change on cdev for you to see the options. Please try again.

Yep, this worked as intended for me. Looks good!