There is a premium plugin from wpmudev.org called Comments Plus for, I think, $17 that does include support. I’m not sure if it will add the user to WordPress but with support included they might help suss out a solution for you.
This list of filters at the top of admin screens are called Views. You can manage views using the views_{$this->screen->id} filter. Where you’d replace {$this->screen->id} with the name of the screen you’d like to manage. In order to filter the Users screen, you can try the following: // filter the ‘users’ views add_filter( “views_users”, “wse57231_filter_user_views”); … Read more
There are ways to trick WP into pre-populating the username field, but I’m pretty sure it would involve using POST and also tricking it into thinking there were errors in a previous submission. My advice would be to just use Javascript (or jQuery, as I’ve done below). It’s still ‘hacky’, but at least it gets … Read more
There’s the pre_user_query action called in the prepare_query() method of the WP_User_Query class defined in wp-includes/user.php: do_action_ref_array( ‘pre_user_query’, array( &$this ) );
The elegant way to get posts out of the database is to use wp_query. It has all the filters you need: function wpse70323_count_user_posts_by_type( $userid, $post_type, $year, $month, $day ) { $query = new WP_Query( array( ‘author’ => $userid, ‘post_type’ => $post_type, ‘date_query’ => array( array( ‘year’ => $year, ‘month’ => $month, ‘day’ => $day, ), … Read more
You’ll want to use the ‘meta_query’ argument of WP_Query ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query ) Here’s a snippet that uses two separate meta key comparisons: $query_args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘event’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘meta_key’ => ‘_start_date’, ‘meta_query’ => array ( array( ‘key’ => ‘_start_date’, ‘value’ => $_start_of_month, ‘compare’ => ‘>’, ), array( ‘key’ => … Read more
You need to make sure the new ID of the user in the user table matches the foreign key in the usermeta. Also a word of caution regarding your comment on Active Directory integration. For public facing websites be extremely careful, you could inadvertantly expose you domain controller information to the web. You might want … Read more
function is_user_a_member_of_this_group($user_id, $group_id) //return: bool return groups_is_user_member( $user_id, $group_id ); }
Might be overkill, but you might want to take a look at BuddyPress – it’s an actively developed project that extends WordPress with social networking features.
you can Disable users activation email: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-disable-users-activation-email/ and there is plugin to do its: https://timersys.com/free-plugins/bp-disable-activation-reloaded/