There is a better way to do this as of WordPress version 3.7. Use the WordPress property meta_key to select the last name property and then orderby => meta_value with an ascending order. <?php $args = array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘last_name’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’ ); $user_query = new WP_User_Query( $args ); if ( … Read more
You need to set the who parameter in get_users <?php $blogusers = get_users( ‘orderby=post_count&who=authors’ ); foreach ( $blogusers as $user ) { echo ‘<li>’ . esc_html( $user->display_name ) . ‘</li>’; } ?> EDIT Seems I was to fast answering. The code in your question and in my answer is the start to what you want … Read more
User-edit role setting distinct from wp_capabilities? [closed]
Generally speaking I agree with most of the other answers but, if for some reason you really had to merge two accounts here is how that could work. Merging User-B into User-A Reassign all of User-B’s content to User-A Determine the highest privilege of User-B If higher than the privileges of User-A elevate User-A’s privileges … Read more
The lack of mutiple roles has irritated me for a long time since the underlying WP_User class supports multiple roles. I have even considered looking for an alternative software solution. @lpryor – after reading your post, I was re-motivated to implement it myself. It took a surprisingly short number of lines to do although I … Read more
How about hooking ‘clear_auth_cookie’ with the cleaning you need to do? If you need even more depth, you can outright replace wp_clear_auth_cookie(), but that can get into issues where it will conflict with other plugins, so avoid that if possible.
Hi @Towfiq: Comments are related in the database to Posts. You’ll have to do a lot of work to get Comments to relate to Users. Have you considered creating a Custom Post Type for Users and then use either a user_meta field to store the post_id, or a postmeta field to store the user_id, or … Read more
If you have a large number of users to delete, you might consder using the wp user delete wp-cli command to avoid script timeouts. Here’s an example of a SQL query to delete all users without posts of any type and status. You can therefore try this untested one-liner: wp user delete $(wp db query … Read more
A base WordPress installation probably won’t do what you want it to. You could set up a multi-site instance and allow users to have their own ‘sub’ site, or use something like BuddyPress or Mingle that has a user profile feature.
Going by wp_get_current_user() information in the Codex, the function utilizes the global $current_user object and if necessary initializes it before use. As others have stated, get_current_user_id() uses this function on the backend. Consider /wp-includes/user.php, lines 323-327 (the function definition for this code). At the tail end, the return value is return ( isset( $user->ID ) … Read more