Searching the main table Simply use WP_User_Query with a search argument. So if you want to search for example for a user with a keyword in his user_email or similar columns from the {$wpdb->prefix}users table, then you can do the following: $users = new WP_User_Query( array( ‘search’ => ‘*’.esc_attr( $your_search_string ).’*’, ‘search_columns’ => array( ‘user_login’, … Read more
I see two ways to solve this problem: changing the data that forms the author URL, or changing the author URL. You probably should handle redirects too, so old URLs to user archives keep working when a user changes their nickname. Changing the author URL There are two parts to this question: handle incoming links … Read more
If people you want to show publicly on a site are users, i.e. have an account and write posts, in my opinion it’s much better to use the WordPress user functionality: all the information you would put in a CPT can also be put in user metadata, and creating users is mandatory (they have to … Read more
Determine your Multisite Blog ID. I will use 99 as an example Go into the database Go to this table: wp_##_options (wp_99_options) — you will have a table for each blog Find the record where option_name = wp_user_roles Change the text wp_user_roles to wp_##_user_roles (“wp_99_user_roles”) The table you are editing will have option_id, blog_id, option_name, … Read more
The first thing to do to implements such task is to be able to recognise which page an user can edit. There are different ways to do it. It could be a user meta, some configuration value… For the sake of this answer, I will assume that a function lile this exists: function wpse_user_can_edit( $user_id, … Read more
I was sure that wp_update_user() should do this. It even gets user_login as param, but it looks like it ignores it, when you set this param. So this code looks OK, but it doesn’t work as you wish it did 🙁 : wp_update_user( [‘ID’ => $user_id, ‘user_login’ => $new_login] ); You have to call custom … Read more
user_nicename is url sanitized version of user_login. In general, if you don’t use any special characters in your login, then your nicename will always be the same as login. But if you enter email address in the login field during registration, then you will see the difference. For instance, if your login is [email protected] then … Read more
Firstly, you need to add the following capabilities to the Doctor and Receptionist role: list_users edit_users create_users delete_users Now we can get to work with controlling which users they can create/edite/delete. Let’s start with a “helper” function that will return which roles a user is allowed to edit: /** * Helper function get getting roles … Read more
/** * Redirect admin pages. * * Redirect specific admin page to another specific admin page. * * @return void * @author Michael Ecklund * */ function disallowed_admin_pages() { global $pagenow; # Check current admin page. if ( $pagenow == ‘edit.php’ && isset( $_GET[‘post_type’] ) && $_GET[‘post_type’] == ‘page’ ) { wp_redirect( admin_url( ‘/post-new.php?post_type=page’ ) … Read more
This seems to do what you need. <?php global $current_user; wp_get_current_user(); ?> <?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { echo ‘Username: ‘ . $current_user->user_login . “\n”; echo ‘User display name: ‘ . $current_user->display_name . “\n”; } else { wp_loginout(); } ?>