That was a tricky one. For the user meta update to happen only on first name update you will need the following. Create a constant that will contain the current user first name Check to see if the current user first name is different from the submitted user name on profile update For the constant … Read more
You can use insert_user_meta($user_id,’meta_key’,’meta_value’); when you want to get that keys, you can get like $keys = get_user_meta($user_id,’meta_key’); in $keys variable you get an array of all keys.
WordPress has wp_get_current_user() function for getting the current (logged in) user, which you could use. If the returned WP_User object doesn’t have all the details you need, you can get either all or a specific user meta with get_user_meta(). For getting the user’s avatar, you could use get_avatar(). Have a look at the function docs … Read more
If you need to get the value of a field in a custom database table you can try using an SQL query. You’ll have to check the column or table name to construct final version of the query. add_action( ‘profile_update’, ‘my_profile_update’, 10, 2 ); function my_profile_update( $user_id, $old_user_data ) { global $wpdb; $status = $wpdb->get_var( … Read more
The mistake is with this line: // Add the school ID as a meta data add_user_meta( $user_id, ‘school_id’, [$school_id] ); No need for the array brackets when you store the user meta, change it to: // Add the school ID as a meta data add_user_meta( $user_id, ‘school_id’, $school_id );
You cannot use update_user_meta on its own here. You would need to get_user_meta first, decode your json into an array, update the last_seen element of the array, re-encode it and only then update_user_meta. Unless there is a good reason not to, I would consider just saving these as serialized data (to avoid the json step), … Read more
You would not do this using SQL, and you don’t need to. Use PHP instead. For example, this code adds a search parameter to the query, but the value changes depending if the user is logged in: add_action( ‘elementor/query/article_video_together’, function( \WP_Query $query ) { $foo = is_user_logged_in(); if ( true === $foo ) { $query->set( … Read more
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