To accomplish user activation process you need to do following steps: after create new user add a custom user field which indicates that this user has to activate his account send an email with activation code, provide a link in this email to a page where user will be activated implement activation page when user … Read more
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
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, $plaintext_pass=””) there. This will then be … Read more
Ok, first of all, I feel like an idiot, although in my defense most of the articles that talk about this don’t mention a very crucial detail in making this work. The answer is that you need to set permission for at least one admin in the database. This info can be found in the … Read more
You can use a htaccess file to rename the login and registration addresses to easier to remember versions: http://wpguy.com/articles/an-easy-to-remember-login-address/ Using what was in that link we can further extend the simple login address into a simple signup and a simple register address as follows: RewriteRule ^login$ /wp-login.php [L] RewriteRule ^signup$ /wp-signup.php [L] RewriteRule ^register$ /wp-register.php … Read more
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( $registered ) ) ); }
This allows plugins to easily hijack the default role while they’re active. // Hijack the option, the role will follow! add_filter(‘pre_option_default_role’, function($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
I’d recommend Auth0 plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/auth0/ oAuth plugins should auto populate the data that your API call allows. And your users should be able to edit their profiles also. LinkedIn also has an AutoFill function here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/plugins/autofill-plugin
DB Access layer & deleting rows WordPress uses the wpdb class to manage access to the database layer using the global $wpdb. The class provides a method named delete() to delete rows from tables: $wpdb->delete( $table, $where, $where_format = null ); Multisite tables & activation keys WordPress has some MU specific tables, where one is … Read more
Jeff Starr wrote a great tutorial on front-end registration, login and password recovery taking the similar approach as suggested by onetrickpony. So take this as a follow up to his answer and as another resource that might help you get it done: http://digwp.com/2010/12/login-register-password-code/ Now you have two examples how to code this yourself and trust … Read more