You’d be better off moving your function that updates the meta to a hook that runs on the front end and during AJAX calls. Then you don’t need to bother about checking if the request is an AJAX request or not. init is a good choice for this: function wpse_297026_update_user_activity() { update_user_meta( get_current_user_id(), ‘last_activity’, time() … Read more
I haven’t an ready to use solution. However I think you should enhance the query, so that you have the field of the users inside this. I think the follow example demonstrate it more. The two filter hooks are necessary and get an result for the query like this: SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wpbeta_posts.ID FROM wpbeta_posts JOIN … Read more
WordPress used MD5 for password hash in the past, but had since moved on to more secure phpass. The good thing is that it retains backwards compatibility – if user had old MD5 hash then it will be checked as such and automatically re-hashed and re-saved using current algorithm, see wp_check_password(). You are correct that … Read more
I think you are using it right. I think it is actually a bug in WordPress. When you do the same for roles $somerole->add_cap( ‘some_cap’, false );, it works as expected.
Observation: following the guidelines suggested in this article, I’m trying to improve the quality both of the Q and the A. It’s a learning process… In your original code, you were displaying different input fields according to the user role and other conditionals. add_action( ‘show_user_profile’, ‘user_fields_for_admin’, 10); add_action( ‘edit_user_profile’, ‘user_fields_for_admin’, 10); function user_fields_for_admin( $user ){ … Read more
Found and combined some code that seems to work for categories. So leaving the code if somebody else runs into the same problem. For reference. – Filter all queries with a specific taxonomy – Adding Custom User Profile data based upon Categories The below allows a user to choose categories on this profile, after which … Read more
Here’s how I managed to modify the page. For the submenu highlighting, however, I haven’t managed to figure it out, so I resort to jQuery. Here’s the code: /* – Set user filter links according to users pages * – Set Role Change dropdown menu * */ function custom_user_filter_links( $views ) { global $wp_roles; // … Read more
Look what count_user_posts() does inside and change the post type parameter: global $wpdb; // ‘page’ is the important part here $where = get_posts_by_author_sql(‘page’, true, $userid); $count = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts $where” ); Then you change your snippet to: global $wpdb; $user = wp_get_current_user(); $where = get_posts_by_author_sql( ‘page’, true, $user->ID ); $count = $wpdb->get_var( … Read more
As @t-f pointed out in his comment to question, you have an error on checking current user capability: ‘delete_published_posts’. $post_author_id simply doesn’t exist. After that, for your scope probably is a better hookin the filter wp_insert_post_data instead of the action save_post: because this one run when the post was already saved / updated, so if … Read more
I think you should use the default class for this job – WP_User_Query. The query have a lot of possibilities, also get the display name. WP_User_Query is a class that allows querying WordPress database tables _users and _usermeta. Also it is helpful when you use a cache for the values. Also here I prefer the … Read more