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wp_generate_password sets password but can’t login using created password

Got it. Cant use wp_update_user for new addition i guess. need to use: wp_create_user( $userdata[‘user_login’], $userdata[‘user_pass’], $userdata[‘user_email’] );

Shortcode not displaying HTML within the function

the_author_meta() is display function, it echoes the result to screen right where it’s called. To concatenate with string you need to use function that returns result – get_the_author_meta().

WP Create User – Preventing repeated information

The function wp_create_user calls ‪wp_insert_user‬ which check to see if $username and $email already exists and if so it returns a new WP_Error so you wont have duplicate users in your database and it wont send the new user email more then once, but i’m not sure if that is the best way to do … Read more

Changing user of post by changing ‘post_author’ field in ‘wp_posts’ table not taking effect. Where is the real post author info kept?

the real author id is stored in… post_author in the posts table. not sure what’s going on in your case. I’ve just created a new user now and changed some post_author ids to this new user directly in the database and it’s showing immediately when I refresh the admin interface. maybe some sort of cache … Read more

Allow users to upload flash videos?

To do this you’ll need a plugin that adds the flash format to the “let me in” list that WordPress has. This may help: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-flash-embed/

Whenever I got to my new pages (http://www.cwmags.com/news) it requests login?

Eventually tracked it down to a WordPress add-in. There was an error in the Google Analytic code that had an extra script attached which should not have been there. Thanks for help and advice.

How to parse a huge list of users using a CRON function?

See wp_schedule_single_event() function. The general idea would be each time after you are done with a batch of users schedule next run few minutes ahead and pass info (such as offset from which user to continue) in arguments. On larger scale I’d consider looking into alternate more specialized solutions or simplifying your process. Mass emailing … Read more

referencing the current user in a page i created in wordpress

You can use following.. global $current_user; get_currentuserinfo(); Than you can access everything as $current_user->user_login,$current_user->user_email… Here is explanation… http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

Author page like wordpress answers

Take a look at Members List Plugin The Members Plugin allows you to create a post on your wordpress blog that lists all your wordpress members. When viewing the list of members you can also search through your members according to first name, last name, email address, URL or any other number of user meta … Read more

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