You can fix this in 1 of 2 ways: change the call to add_user_meta() to update_user_meta() when your 1st conditional evals to true. As explained in update_user_meta(), “If the meta field for the user does not exist, it will be added.” pass true as the $unique (4th) param to add_user_meta(). As explained in add_user_meta(), the … Read more
After renaming MySQL database, I can no longer access my Blog page
Front end/Database connection in WP
Your concern regarding updating every relevant user row every 20 seconds or so is totally valid. One solution, then, is to store this data in a single row rather than using the metadata APIs or custom SQL to associate the data with each individual user. The Options API as well as the Transients API are … Read more
spambot registering without providing email or password, bypassing registration process
Sorry, I’m not familiar with gravity form plugin, but overall it should work as following: Build a custom plugin which retrieves vendor database values. Create a shortcode for plugin and integrate it into gravity form to retrieve values on the form. Once required information is on the form, you should be able to forward it … Read more
The option group (1st param to register_setting()) is not stored anywhere. The only use for option groups is to output a couple of hidden fields and a nonce, via a call to settings_fields().
How can we speed up wp_get_nav_menu_items()?
You can try this plugin ! https://wordpress.org/plugins/smf2wp/ SMF2WP is a simple one way bridge from Simple Machine Forum to WordPress. This means, this one uses databases of SMF Forum and sync to WP database every time a user performs log-in action in both WP and SMF.
It would be bad practice to have two sites running off the same database. This is especially true if you were to perform plugin / core updates on one or the other. You would be much better off using something like migrate-db (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/) to perform a migration. The maintainers of migrate db are also working … Read more