user-registration

Google Apps login in wordpress

Use the plugin WordPress Social Login: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-social-login/ Does exactly what you want except the user doesn’t actually have to type in their username and password if they are already logged in to Google Apps – they just click the Google icon and it will log them in to WordPress using Google Apps. And yes, you … Read more

What’s the difference between wp_insert_user() and wp_create_user()

None. The whole source of wp_create_user() is: function wp_create_user($username, $password, $email=””) { $user_login = esc_sql( $username ); $user_email = esc_sql( $email ); $user_pass = $password; $userdata = compact(‘user_login’, ‘user_email’, ‘user_pass’); return wp_insert_user($userdata); } It just calls insert version almost immediately, basically a shorthand wrapper. As for why it exists – core works in mysterious ways … Read more

How do I customise the new user welcome email

SB Welcome Email Editor works by replacing wp_new_user_notification() with an own version. The original version can be found in wp-includes/pluggable.php, the plugin uses an elaborate replacement with all kinds of options. You can do this to: create a new plugin (just a PHP file in wp-content/plugins/), and define wp_new_user_notification($user_id, $plaintext_pass=””) there. This will then be … Read more

Customizing the URLs of WordPress Login and Sign-up Pages?

You can use a htaccess file to rename the login and registration addresses to easier to remember versions: http://wpguy.com/articles/an-easy-to-remember-login-address/ Using what was in that link we can further extend the simple login address into a simple signup and a simple register address as follows: RewriteRule ^login$ /wp-login.php [L] RewriteRule ^signup$ /wp-signup.php [L] RewriteRule ^register$ /wp-register.php … Read more

Display user registration date

get_current_user_id() give you the user id of the logged in user. And that is: you. You have to get all users: <?php $users = get_users(); foreach( $users as $user ) { $udata = get_userdata( $user->ID ); $registered = $udata->user_registered; printf( ‘%s member since %s<br>’, $udata->data->display_name, date( “M Y”, strtotime( $registered ) ) ); }

How do I programmatically set default role for new users?

This allows plugins to easily hijack the default role while they’re active. // Hijack the option, the role will follow! add_filter(‘pre_option_default_role’, function($default_role){ // You can also add conditional tags here and return whatever return ‘subscriber’; // This is changed return $default_role; // This allows default }); I use it to make sure some plugins that … Read more

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