Ok, first of all, I feel like an idiot, although in my defense most of the articles that talk about this don’t mention a very crucial detail in making this work. The answer is that you need to set permission for at least one admin in the database. This info can be found in the … Read more
Yes, this is a good question and the answer is basic WordPress 101 (core), contrary to the two comments above. No plugin necessary. You simply go to Users and delete the author (user) that you don’t want to keep. WordPress then asks you if you want to delete their content or attribute it to another … Read more
Like SickHippie posted this functionality is native to WordPress but only for a multisite setup so here is the two functions you need to get this to work on a single site setup which are mostly code one for one from the core /wp-admin/user-edit.php file function custom_send_confirmation_on_profile_email() { global $errors, $wpdb; $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); if … Read more
I got this almost working, but refinements are needed to fit the specifics of the question and to deal with Attachments and Post-Types differently (see comments in code)… First, I think it’s worth noting how I found the filter: apply_filters( ‘views_’ . $screen->id, $views ) inspect element do a global search in /wp-admin and /wp-includes … Read more
get_user_meta retrieves a single meta field or all fields of the user_meta data for the given user. This means that all the values that are stored in user_meta table can be got using get_user_meta. Email is not stored as meta data so you cant get email using get_user_meta. Email is stored with username and password … Read more
Here’s an expansion of Mike’s tutorial answer. I added links to the types listed so you can click on one and be taken right to a listing of all the posts in that type for that author, which required an additional variable for $counts and some extra output for $custom_column[] add_action(‘manage_users_columns’,’yoursite_manage_users_columns’); function yoursite_manage_users_columns($column_headers) { unset($column_headers[‘posts’]); … Read more
Fastforward to WordPress 4.4 – it will support the role__in attribute! It looks like WordPress 4.4 is our lucky version number, because it will support both the role__in and role__not_in attributes of the WP_User_Query class. So to include the subscriber, contributor and author roles, we can simply use: $users = get_users( [ ‘role__in’ => [ … Read more
If you can stick to overriding just functions that are located in wp-includes/pluggable.php then you should be able to avoid any kind of plugin conflicts … unless you are using plugins that are overriding the same pluggable functions. Just make sure that your functions are declared before pluggables is loaded. Plugins are loaded before the … Read more
You can remove the default meta boxes with remove_meta_box and re-add them in a different position with add_meta_box: add_action(‘do_meta_boxes’, ‘wpse33063_move_meta_box’); function wpse33063_move_meta_box(){ remove_meta_box( ‘postimagediv’, ‘post’, ‘side’ ); add_meta_box(‘postimagediv’, __(‘Featured Image’), ‘post_thumbnail_meta_box’, ‘post’, ‘normal’, ‘high’); } The answer above is from the following thread: How to change default position of WP meta boxes? UPDATE If the … Read more
Yes, and no! The way users work in a multisite scenario is that there is a single pool of users, who are then associated with blogs. So, logged in status is common across all the blogs, but you can use is_blog_user($blog_id) to determine whether the current logged in user is a member of that blog. … Read more