By default the password fields should appear “empty” on the “Your Profile” page. Make sure your WordPress installation is up to date and try deactivating any plugins that extend the user profile page and commenting out any code in your functions.php file. There is most likely a conflict with one of these plugins.
not really sure what your point, but you can use body class to customize background images ( AFAIK twitter use this method too ). for example if you have two user : x and y you can customize the author page : yoursite.com/author/x yoursite.com/author/y with css like these .author-x {background:red} .author-y {background:blue}
Off the top of my head… I can think of a plugin that does this: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-search/ Perhaps this will provide you with a good starting point for what you’re trying to get done.
What you need to look at is hooking into the user_contactmethods filter. Perhaps something along these lines: function test_new_contact(){ $user_contactmethods = array( ‘aim’ => __(‘AIM’), ‘yim’ => __(‘Yahoo IM’), ‘jabber’ => __(‘Jabber / Google Talk’), ‘twitter’ => __( ‘Enter Twitter ID’ ), ); return $user_contactmethods; } add_filter( ‘user_contactmethods’, ‘test_new_contact’ ); Note the “core” user contact … Read more
You could either read the role of the current user, then show the desired sidebar elements, or (what I’d prefer) check for certain capabilities. User Role global $current_user; $roles = $current_user->roles; $role = array_shift( $roles ); switch ( $role ) { case … } Capabilities if ( current_user_can( SOME_CAP ) ) { } elseif ( … Read more
You have, at least, three wrong things in your code. First. You are “returning” before you try to update the user info, so the wp_update_user() function is not executed. Second, you have the user ID hardcoded, so you always trying to modify the nickname of the user with ID = 1 return $tableuserinf; $user_id = … Read more
The basis for making this work is actually pretty simple. Essentially, you just need to hook pre_get_posts and set the author query var to the value of the currently logged in user for each type of query you want to limit results on. function logged_in_user_posts( $query ){ if ( is_user_logged_in() ){ global $current_user; get_currentuserinfo(); $query->set( … Read more
the_author_meta() is going to echo content directly. It will not pass a string back that can be processed by do_shortcode(). You want get_the_author_meta(), which is essentially the same as the_author_meta() but it returns a string instead of echoing the data.
These are not default fields added by WordPress. They have to be added via a theme or plugin. You will need go and check where these fields are added. I would speculate that there are some kind of priority set when these fields are registered. You need to add a lower priority (higher number) to … Read more
Use get_userdata() to retrieve all user data. The function accepts user ID. So the following code will give you the user url. <?php php $user_info = get_userdata(1); /* replace 1 with dynamic user id variable in your context*/ echo ‘User url: ‘ . $user_info->user_url . “\n”; echo ‘Users name: ‘ . $user_info->first_name . “\n”; ?>