Adding fields to the “Add New User” screen in the dashboard

user_new_form is the hook that can do the magic here. function custom_user_profile_fields($user){ ?> <h3>Extra profile information</h3> <table class=”form-table”> <tr> <th><label for=”company”>Company Name</label></th> <td> <input type=”text” class=”regular-text” name=”company” value=”<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( ‘company’, $user->ID ) ); ?>” id=”company” /><br /> <span class=”description”>Where are you?</span> </td> </tr> </table> <?php } add_action( ‘show_user_profile’, ‘custom_user_profile_fields’ ); add_action( ‘edit_user_profile’, ‘custom_user_profile_fields’ … Read more

how to get list of all users and their metadata

I think you should use wp-api functions which will do everything for you. get_users() function will get all users data just define fields which u require. get_user_meta() function will get usermeta data. $users = get_users( array( ‘fields’ => array( ‘ID’ ) ) ); foreach($users as $user){ print_r(get_user_meta ( $user->ID)); }

How to get a buddypress user profile link and a certain user profile field for the current post author?

For an author’s profile link, use bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id ) to get the URL, and bp_core_get_userlink( $user_id ) to get an HTML link element, including display name. For the xprofile data, use xprofile_get_field_data( $field, $user_id ) $field can be either the name of the field (like ‘Biography’) or the numerical field id.

user_login vs. user_nicename

user_nicename is url sanitized version of user_login. In general, if you don’t use any special characters in your login, then your nicename will always be the same as login. But if you enter email address in the login field during registration, then you will see the difference. For instance, if your login is [email protected] then … Read more