run a site [login to view URL] that recognizes the existence of genders outside the "normal binary" of male and female. I'm a social worker not a programmer. I hired a guy to do this with 1.1.3 xenForo and he "took the money and ran." Not going through that again.
Need addon for xenForo 1.2.4
I need someone who KNOWS xenforo and how it handles gender. I would prefer to use the existing function of adding a custom field to "feed" the gender entry in the mySQL database - something that does not heavily alter the core so the plugin can migrate with new releases rather than have to be recoded in the core every time.
My theory is that the custom fields allows entry as a pull-down of as many different options / answers as the administrator wants to put in, so this would be a good way to allow people to customize WHATEVER entries they want in gender. Then, piping the response to the gender variable in the database would not break the core functionality of searching by gender (hopefully).
Also, the plugin should be able to "pipe" in user default avatars representing the various added gendered identities.
The function MUST be stable and apply to all affected templates and functionality of xenForo.
A plugin exists to REMOVE gender completely:
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I want to MODIFY gender not remove it. According to this plugin developer, to remove gender requires working with the following templates:
account_personal_details
helper_user_search_criteria
member_view
register_form
user_edit
The right freelancer should be interested in the job because I will fund development of the plugin then post it to the xenForo site as a paid addon and split whatever proceeds come from it 60/40 (40 to me, 60 to the developer) until my up front costs are repaid. Then I will settle for a 10 percent royalty on sales leaving the developer with 90% of the proceeds from then on.
Successful engagement with me as a client will HAVE TO INCLUDE the reality that I will NOT pay for the work up front. I am willing to do a down payment to show good faith, but I will not once again be screwed by someone who takes my money and doesn't complete the work. I'm sorry to be blunt, but past experience has taught me that proof of success is required PRIOR to paying for the bulk of the work.
Questions I'd like answered by freelancers are obviously:
Level of experience working with xenForo as a programmer not an admin.
Level of php experience.
Estimated turnaround time and cost of development.
Past experience developing xenForo plugins.
Any other seemingly relevant information on why I should pick you and not some other fellow.
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We have a team of professionals,they have more than 11 year of experience,so we can manage this work and will give you quality solution.
What you describe can be done through template edits as long as you don't need more than 2 fields for 'gender'. Template edits will be carried over into subsequent updates without any action required by you assuming that there isn't major changes to the templates (there would probably would be with a XF 2.0 release).
Or, if you need more than 2 fields you can use the custom field system and conditionals to apply various default avatars.
I believe anything more than this is overkill. You really don't need a plugin to do this, but if that's how you want it done than I'm sure someone who knows how to code it could help you out :)