You just created an empty link, it has correct link but no inner text: echo ‘<a href=”‘ . esc_url( the_author_meta(‘snapchat_profile’)) . ‘”>Follow on Snapchat</a>’; And since you already stored the link in $snapchat_profile variable, no need to call the the_author_meta(‘snapchat_profile’) function once again (it will only reduce in a few bits of extra memory usage … Read more
Use get_user_meta() to get the meta data associated with the users in your loop: <?php $roles = array(‘autobuyer’); $users = array(); foreach ( $roles as $role ) { $args = array( ‘role’=>$role, ‘orderby’ => ‘registered’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘search_columns’ => ‘nicename’, ‘number’=> 0, ‘date_query’ => array( ‘after’ => ‘October 14st, 2013’, ‘before’ => array( ‘year’ … Read more
The above function looks fine, and I tested it just to be sure. It may be that you don’t like what you’re getting. It adds user meta to the particular author with key Points and value 100, like so: [Points] => Array ( [0] => 100 ) On the second publish, it will produce the … Read more
Without a proper SQL query in the question is not possible to write a proper query in the response, but following your pseudo-code approach: SELECT custom-data FROM custom-table LEFT JOIN wp_users ON custom_data.user_id = wp_users.ID LEFT JOIN wp_usermeta ON wp_users.ID = wp_usermeta.user_id WHERE some-condition AND wp_usermeta.meta_key = ‘flag’ AND wp_usermeta.meta_value=”flagvalue” So basically, you need to … Read more
If I understood the question correctly, what you want can be achieved by storing serialised array of post_id and ACF value as key value pair. So for each user, there will be user_meta which will contain post_ids and collectible_status.
How to use get_user_by in plugin
You have already found out that using update_user_meta() if the meta field for the user does not exist, it will be added. ie update_user_meta() can do the task of add_user_meta() However, the difference between them is the return values update_user_meta() returns False if no change was made (if the new value was the same as … Read more
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
From what I can tell, it sounds like you need to be using AJAX to update that user meta. Also you might need to retrieve the “content” with AJAX as well, so as to get the updated information if the popup modal is called again. There is a lot of documentation on AJAX in wordpress, … Read more
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