Customizing user data

ACF is a very good option, it has specific options to create user fields. There are tons of tutorials and practical examples out there, just google it and you will find them. It is one of the most popular WP plugins, so don’t be afraid of compatibility problems, it’s well maintained. You can check its … Read more

UPDATE on SELECT results. A SQL query to swap Author with Meta Box value

I always find it way less confusing to get the results from one table and loop them rather than to try to join them like that… eg. global $wpdb; $query = “SELECT post_id FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key=’fake_author’ AND meta_value=”11111″”; $results = $wpdb->get_results($query); foreach ($results as $result) { $query = “UPDATE wp_posts SET post_author=”222222″ WHERE ID='”.$result->post_id.”‘”; … Read more

How to Access wp_usermeta Data Immediately After a New User is Created

The edit_user_created_user will work for when adding users via user-new.php: add_action( ‘edit_user_created_user’, ‘wpse_edit_user_created_user’, 10, 2 ); //for user-new.php page new user addition function wpse_edit_user_created_user( $user_id, $notify ) { $meta = get_user_meta( $user_id, ‘my_field’, true ); } For the sake of completeness, I used the following code for testing the user meta data, which I grabbed … Read more

How to create a front end user profile with a friendly permalink and a 404 trigger

I believe the solution here would be as simple as you’ve generally described it. Assuming conveniently that $wp_query->query_vars[‘user’] contains the username and not its ID: if ( array_key_exists( ‘user’, $wp_query->query_vars ) ) { if ( username_exists( $wp_query->query_vars[‘user’] ) ) { include( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/user-profile.php’ ); } else { include( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/404.php’ ); } exit; … Read more