Allow displaying of LinkedIn user profile data

[arbet]

Allow displaying the data as a listing or on a user's profile details. See here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fetch-profile/

[palmiak]

I'm thinking about doing this issue. I just want to be sure about the strategy. I was thinking about two basic functions:

• get_linkedln_userdata( field_name )- to get the field user wants
• has_linkedln_userdata( field_name ) - to check if data exist - it can be usefull for some logic

Also we would need a linkedin_userdata( field_name, params ) for echo - the params would be the wrapper, label etc.

At the end there also should be a shortcode for showing every field.

What do you think about it? If you think that is the right way I can start working on it in spare time.

[arbet]

@palmiak - that certainly works. How do you think the shortcodes would be implemented:

• What parameters would each shortcode have?
• Would it allow listing a directory of users or just one user profile?

[palmiak]

I was thinking about:
[linkedin_useradata field='' params] - which would be just a shorcode version of linkdein_userdata function.

I can also make aliases like [linkedin_location] - it would be just a short version of [linkedin_useradata field='location' params]

It would work based on user ID or based on current query (if in loop or on author page etc) - so it could be used anywhere.

Maybe later we could thing about an extra template/shortcode to display a page that would a clone of user's Linkedin profile. But that is less important I think.

[arbet]

Hey @palmiak - I think we're spot on here. This is certainly a feature that would be used by a lot of users.

Please submit a pull request once this is completed and reference this issue. In the meantime, any questions let me know.