A phrase consiting of words separated by spaces (“apples ocean barbarians”) can be easy to remember and type, yet strong due to the number of characters. Such a password works on WP, but not all web apps will accept this method.
copy the profile-form.php file located at template folder inside theme-my-login plugin directory to your theme folder, then you can edit all the look and feel and fields of the profile section.
Your core mistake is to let users get to the admin. A proper solution is to create “admin” type of screens for your users in which there will be a more focused UX for what they can and likely to do. As part of creating it you can also optimize the experience to low power … Read more
This cannot be done, it is not possible, and it would be an awful thing to do if it was. Do not attempt or pursue this. Why It Is Not Possible Passwords are ran through a 1 way hashing function before being stored in the database. This allows us to check if a password matches … Read more
If you want to completely disable the user from editing their profile, you can remove the user profile page. See a similar question here: disallow user from editing their own profile information.
You are using the wrong name on the radio inputs, radio-inline but when you try to get that value you are using $_POST[‘gender’] I’ve updated you code and made some improvement too, with the checked() function function show_extra_profile_fields( $user ) { $gender = get_user_meta( $user->ID, ‘gender’, true ); ?> <section> <label class=”label” for=”gender”>Gender</label> <div class=”inline-group”> … Read more
You can get the current user’s info by using wp_get_current_user() and then get the profile edit link by using the user’s ID as following: function wpse_125929_login_logout( $items ) { if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); $profile_edit_url = admin_url( ‘user-edit.php?user_id=’ . $current_user->ID ); $profile_link = ‘<li><a href=”‘ . $profile_edit_url . ‘”>Edit Profile</a></li>’; $logout_url=”<li><a href=””. … Read more
If you use WordPress author template to show user posts ( example.com/author/{user_name} ) the best solution will be to change the main query via the pre_get_posts filter hook. function se339534_author_any_post_types $query ) { // apply changes only for author archive page if ( ! is_author() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) return; $query->set(‘post_type’, ‘any’); } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, … Read more
The solution was to move the update_options into the second function.
I suggest using BuddyPress user profiles feature, you don’t need to enable all BuddyPress features. Gravity Forms can be used to create profile-like fields, but it is not really tied to real WordPress user profiles: https://www.gravityforms.com/creating-team-member-profiles/