I recommend backing up the database before making any major/bulk changes to it. First you need to get all users with the role “contributors”, then update their roles to “author”. $contributors = get_users(array(‘role’=>’contributor’)); foreach($contributors as $contributor){ wp_update_user(array( ‘ID’ => $contributor->ID, ‘role’ => “author”) ); } echo “done updating contributors to authors”; You could have this … Read more
I think the wp_signon() function is unable to set the login cookies because you are calling it after the page headers have being sent. Try moving your auth code out of dlf_process() and into a separate function like this: function dlf_login() { if ( isset( $_POST[‘dlf_submit’] ) ) { dlf_auth( $_POST[‘login_name’], $_POST[‘login_password’] ); } } … Read more
I have found a great tutorial here that have helped me to developing a custom user search. This is my solution: <?php /* Plugin Name: Simple User Listing Description: Create a simple shortcode to list our WordPress users. Author: Damiano Fossa Version: 1.6.3 */ function sul_user_listing($atts, $content = null) { global $post; global $wpdb; extract(shortcode_atts(array( … Read more
I didn’t test it but I think you could use this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ban/ that should solve these issues
What about putting the city/regions/whatever into an array you can loop through? Something like this: $cities = array( ‘Richmond’, ‘Chicago’, ‘New York’ ); foreach ( $cities as $city ) { ?> <h2><?php echo $city; ?></h2> <ul><?php foreach ( get_users_by_meta_data( ‘school_division’, $city ) as $user ) { ?> <li><?php echo $user->first_name; ?> <?php echo $user->last_name; ?></li> … Read more
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