What you’re looking for is the theme customizer. This allows you to attach settings to any element of your site you want. Just take a look at one of the WordPress standard themes to see what this looks like. You’ll see that you can change colors, but also upload a new background image. Just follow … Read more
Your core mistake is to let users get to the admin. A proper solution is to create “admin” type of screens for your users in which there will be a more focused UX for what they can and likely to do. As part of creating it you can also optimize the experience to low power … Read more
If this is a medical record, you probably so use a transient download URL for the session when the profile is logged on, and destroy that URL when the users logs off, this ensures that the file is not accessible to others. I used WP Customer Area plugin on a CRM project and found it … Read more
There are a number of issues with the user of update_user_meta() in your function. First, you should never write the value directly from $_POST without sanitizing it first. That’s a good way to open yourself up to exploits. (Note: you didn’t indicate the field types, so I’m going to assume they are text input – … Read more
This code will boot out a user if they haven’t authored a post. For the purposes of this example, posts with a status of publish are considered “authored”. I’ve added some comments in the code to walk you through what’s going on – please reach out to me if you have any questions. <?php // … Read more
Are you sure? Look at the code of this function (at the bottom of the page). It just retrieves the posts count for the user from the database. I think you misinterpreted your code. Yes, it relies on get_posts_by_author_sql() function. But look at its code too… 6125 line. It justs adds posts types to the … Read more
Nevermind, turns out the Elementor Role Manager does pretty much this exactly by limiting out the more confusing or dangerous elements from being edited.
I’d look at your error.log file just after you access the admin page. I’d suspect that there is a plugin code that is failing on the admin page. The error log might point you to the culprit. Alternately, you could disable recently added/updated plugins by renaming that plugin’s folder (in wp-content/plugins folder), which will effectively … Read more
In your single.php template file: <?php if (has_post()) { the_post(); $user = wp_get_current_user(); $hasPermission = in_array(‘subscriber’, $user->roles); // or maybe instead of a role, you can check for your custom permission: // $hasPermission = current_user_can(‘view_access_codes’); $postTime = get_post_time(‘U’, true); $timeThreshold = time() – 60 * 60 * 1.5; $hasTimePassed = $postTime < $timeThreshold; if (!$hasPermission … Read more
WP_User_Query is a user search. This sentence… But I need to echo only those users name whose meta_key= something but meta _value is equal to current user ID. … suggests that that is not really what you want. I think you can accomplish this with: $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); $meta = get_user_meta($current_user->ID, ‘Something’, true); if (!empty($meta)) … Read more