I think I figured this one out. I had misread this answer and hooked the function I wrote to wp_clear_auth_cookie (actually a function itself!) instead of clear_auth_cookie (the real hook), so that wasn’t working. But now using the real hook, I think it might be. Correct me if I’m wrong. Below is the function with … Read more
Just to put here the suggestion that came up after discussing the requirement on chat. Due to the complexity of user filtering/search required, the wordpress user data tables is not a very good place to store the user’s attributes. Instead it will make more sense to have a CPT and related taxonomies to store the … Read more
User meta conventions / name registry, for social media links
Hook or action to save profile fields at specific time
Allow role to edit users at lower level with only specific metadata
Add custom fields to the user profile
Unique User Account Number + Displayed Via Shortcode
Search user metadata with checkboxes via ajax (almost working)
WordPress admin deleted user details not removed in database. How to delete WordPress Users from Database
Indeed, get_usermeta() behaves differently from get_user_meta() and all the other get_*_meta() functions. That’s why it was deprecated. Unfortunately, the subtle differences couldn’t be explained properly in a deprecation notice.