In layman terms there is no major difference! update_user_option() uses update_user_meta() internally. The only difference is update_user_option() prefix the option name with database table prefix + blog ID if you are in multisite and just table prefix if you are in single site installation. Take a look at the code of update_user_option() /** * Update … Read more
Use this function: function user_id_exists($user){ global $wpdb; $count = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare(“SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->users WHERE ID = %d”, $user)); if($count == 1){ return true; }else{ return false; } } Usage: if(user_id_exists(1)){ //it does exists } else { //it doesn’t }
Hi @user2041: Clearly as you know you need to modify the search that’s performed which you can do by modifying the values in the instance of the WP_User_Search class used for the search (you can find the source code at /wp-admin/includes/user.php if you’d like to study it.) The WP_User_Search Object Here’s what a print_r() of … Read more
user_new_form is the hook that can do the magic here. function custom_user_profile_fields($user){ ?> <h3>Extra profile information</h3> <table class=”form-table”> <tr> <th><label for=”company”>Company Name</label></th> <td> <input type=”text” class=”regular-text” name=”company” value=”<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( ‘company’, $user->ID ) ); ?>” id=”company” /><br /> <span class=”description”>Where are you?</span> </td> </tr> </table> <?php } add_action( ‘show_user_profile’, ‘custom_user_profile_fields’ ); add_action( ‘edit_user_profile’, ‘custom_user_profile_fields’ … Read more
You can use wpmu_validate_user_signup filter to remove the error and then define WP_IMPORTING just to skip the email_exist() check in wp_insert_user() function: add_filter(‘wpmu_validate_user_signup’, ‘skip_email_exist’); function skip_email_exist($result){ if(isset($result[‘errors’]->errors[‘user_email’]) && ($key = array_search(__(‘Sorry, that email address is already used!’), $result[‘errors’]->errors[‘user_email’])) !== false) { unset($result[‘errors’]->errors[‘user_email’][$key]); if (empty($result[‘errors’]->errors[‘user_email’])) unset($result[‘errors’]->errors[‘user_email’]); } define( ‘WP_IMPORTING’, ‘SKIP_EMAIL_EXIST’ ); return $result; } UPDATE: for … Read more
Hi @Carlos: Try adding the following to your theme’s functions.php file, or in a .php file within a plugin that you might be writing (which works for WordPress 3.1.x): add_action(‘pre_user_query’,’yoursite_pre_user_query’); function yoursite_pre_user_query($user_search) { $user = wp_get_current_user(); if ($user->ID!=1) { // Is not administrator, remove administrator global $wpdb; $user_search->query_where = str_replace(‘WHERE 1=1’, “WHERE 1=1 AND {$wpdb->users}.ID<>1”,$user_search->query_where); … Read more
Searching the main table Simply use WP_User_Query with a search argument. So if you want to search for example for a user with a keyword in his user_email or similar columns from the {$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