Improving a Stackoverflow “inspired” badge system to display badges in author page

get_current_user_id(); gets the current logged in user id and you need the user whos profileUrl is views so try this insted to get the right id: $author = get_user_by( ‘slug’, get_query_var( ‘author_name’ ) ); echo $author->ID;’ yep, so instead of your code try this: $author = get_user_by( ‘slug’, get_query_var( ‘author_name’ ) ); if ($author->ID > … Read more

wordpress plugin that show my reputation (points) in any stackexchange project in my wordpress blogs

I don’t know of a plugin but the easiest way is to just embed your stack flair: https://stackoverflow.com/users/flair For a more detialed solution I recommend you just fetch the Stack API using the the WordPress HTTP API, the docs are here: http://codex.wordpress.org/HTTP_API The Stack API is very easy to work with and returns JSON. For … Read more

Conference website with ticket-sales + sponsorship sales with WordPress?

I recently used http://wpeventticketing.com/ for WDC2011 in October, I didn’t look to far in to all the options but I think it can do everything you’re looking for. I’d suggest also using MailChimp for emailing attendees as it is far better than anything I’ve found to plugin to WordPress.