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Publish author posts only with editor approval?

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

Prevent Authors from viewing each others Posts

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

Change the author slug from nickname to ID

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

Possible to search by author name with default WordPress search function?

Maybe you can try adding your condition directly in the query string, using something like this function wpse_29570_where_filter($where){ global $wpdb; if( is_search() ) { $search= get_query_var(‘s’); $query=$wpdb->prepare(“SELECT user_id FROM $wpdb->usermeta WHERE ( meta_key=’first_name’ AND meta_value LIKE ‘%%%s%%’ ) or ( meta_key=’last_name’ AND meta_value LIKE ‘%%%s%%’ )”, $search ,$search); $authorID= $wpdb->get_var( $query ); if($authorID){ $where = … Read more

Hook that get’s triggered when the author of a post is changed

There is no special hook to author change. But you can achieve it by using post_updated hook. Example: add_action(‘post_updated’, ‘prefix_on_update_author’, 10, 3); function prefix_on_update_author($post_ID, $post_after, $post_before) { if ($post_after->post_author != $post_before->post_author) { // author has been changed // you can add your own hook here or write your code } } Here is the codex … Read more

How to display a public profile page for registered users with custom slug?

Every registered user can have profile, they don’t need to have posts. To change WordPress author’s profile permalink, paste the following code in your functions.php: function change_author_permalink_base() { global $wp_rewrite; $wp_rewrite->author_base = “user”; } add_filter( ‘init’, ‘change_author_permalink_base’ ); After pasting the code, visit Settings->Permalink Structure under your wordpress admin, to flush the rewrite rules. This … Read more

WordPress Internal @ Mentions

This is a little tricky because sanitize_user allows spaces in usernames, meaning it difficult to avoid grabbing the whole phrase ‘@johndoe said that … ‘ as opposed to just the actual username ‘@johndoe’ and you have no separator at the end that would help. To avoid that I imposed a requirement that spaces in the … Read more

Extend WordPress search to include user search

You can’t achieve this easily with WP’s built-in search system. Even if you managed to build a complicated query that pulls data from the user table, it would be incredibly slow. Search Unleashed had this functionality, but I’m not sure about compatibility with WP 3.2. I used it in the past as inspiration to add … Read more

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