I don’t really understand why you want to use a menu to control this but it wouldn’t be very hard. First you obviously need a new page template for your grid which you will use get_users to pull your users for display – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_users Now if you want to control the order and whom is … Read more
Answer from comments: First, create a conditional to check if the user has already ‘published’ a post. If yes, simply redirect them. One can use update_post_meta with the post ID without any problem. Simply use that information to populate the fields.
This plugin called “WP Extended Search” looks like it would do the trick.: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-extended-search/ There’s also this answer that may work for you: Possible to search by author name with default WordPress search function?
You are missing a “NOT” logical operator (!) in your if statement. You want to say “if comment author IS NOT empty”. As of now, the function is reading that the author is not empty and defaulting to your else statement that tells it to output the author’s full name. Use the second block of … Read more
Your best option is to get a random post author which is a user ID so here is a function to do just that: function get_random_author_wpa91320(){ global $wpdb; $id = $wpdb->get_var(” SELECT post_author FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type=”post” AND post_status=”publish” ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 “); return $id; } And once you have that function in … Read more
Using Role editor or role scope you can set contributors to edit you custom post type but not publish so every change will be set as draft until approval, and to limit the creation of new posts of your custom post type you can use my plugin Bainternet Posts Creation Limits Update To force re … Read more
Add the following code to your functions.php: function allow_contributor_uploads() { $contributor = get_role(‘contributor’); $contributor->add_cap(‘upload_files’); } if ( current_user_can(‘contributor’) && !current_user_can(‘upload_files’) ) { add_action(‘admin_init’, ‘allow_contributor_uploads’); } This will add the upload_files capability to the Contributor role. It only needs to run once; just login to admin as a user with the Contributor role. After it successfully … Read more
If you want to prevent a user with the “Author” role to view other users’ posts in the overview screen (they won’t be able to view the details anyway), you can add an extra filter on the author: add_action( ‘load-edit.php’, ‘wpse14230_load_edit’ ); function wpse14230_load_edit() { add_action( ‘request’, ‘wpse14230_request’ ); } function wpse14230_request( $query_vars ) { … Read more
Surprised to see this unanswered for this long. This is pretty simple to do with a simple block of code: function set_my_nice_name() { global $wpdb; $user_table = $wpdb->prefix . ‘users’; $wpdb->query(“UPDATE $user_table SET `user_nicename`=`ID`”); } add_action(‘init’, ‘set_my_nice_name’); This works because the visible portion of an author slug (or profile slug in BuddyPress) uses the user_nicename … Read more
Any reason this is commented out? //setup_postdata($post); This function setups global variables for current post and author data is pulled from one of those.