Your textarea needs to have a proper name in order for the browser to send it to the server for processing such as be saved to a database. Secondly, textarea fields do not have a value and they also need a closing tag </textarea> because textarea is a multi-line form field. So the proper format … Read more
Yes, it’s a good practice to sanitize input and escape output. It’s important to use the correct function, though, so that you don’t inadvertently mess up your data. Since it’s for a URL, use esc_url_raw() (it is specifically for db usage). (Note: it may seem odd using a function with the “esc_” stem for sanitizing, … Read more
Use this function to register a new column in the users table: function users_custom_columns( $column ) { $column[‘security_answer’] = ‘Security Answer’; return $column; } add_filter( ‘manage_users_columns’, ‘users_custom_columns’ ); And this function to display the new custom column: function display_users_custom_columns( $val, $column_name, $user_id ) { switch ($column_name) { case ‘security_answer’ : return get_user_meta( $user_id, ‘meta_key’, true); … Read more
$wpdb->get_results() returns an array on success, so you can’t simply echo $result;. Instead, you can use foreach to loop through the results and display whatever the data that you want to display: $results = $wpdb->get_results( $q ); foreach ( $results as $row ) { echo $row->meta_value . ‘<br />’; } But I can see that … Read more
Short answer to “Which property am I supposed to use“: Use first_name and last_name. Longer answer: The properties first_name, user_firstname, last_name and user_lastname are defined in the WP_User class, and despite the different names (i.e. one with user_ and the other without that prefix): Both first_name and user_firstname use the value of the first_name meta. … Read more
Basically, you can’t show the button and update the meta at the same moment. This has to be done in two separate requests as follows: Show the button whereever you want. It needs to be a form that submits to the same page (or an ajax call to another URL, but let’s keep it simple … Read more
Edit: to clarify, the answer to How can I merge them together for results? Is that you really can’t, not without a lot of custom SQL and using filters. The complexity of going that route far outweighs any perceived benefits and wouldn’t be very future-proof. I’d recommend using the solution below and putting it all … Read more
For anyone else with this issue, the fix was simple. I changed the hook and most importantly, I changed the priority so my action comes later. Default wordpress priority was 10, so I set priority to 11 and it works. add_action( ‘profile_update’, ‘BB_WP_SYNC_update_BB_profile’, 11, 2); And my function changed due to the different hook: function … Read more
user_registered is not a meta field, it is a field in the users table. Try: $register_date = $user->user_registered;
I use this function on functions.php in all my development websites function imp($a){ echo ‘<pre>’; print_r($a); echo ‘</pre>’; die(); } now just use imp($user); where you are using get_user_meta ($user->ID). you will have all the info about the $user, maybe this will tell you the answer you need… You will find inside an object with … Read more