As get_users does not support the order_by random, you could shuffle the array after calling the function. If you want to distribute it even, you could make another meta_value, where you store the number of appearances per user, and call the get_users with this new meta_key in ascending sort_order – this way the user with … Read more
I’m not sure if you are using BuddyPress or not, but there is a functionality there using this plugin FollowMe. This would assume you are running a site with some membership capabilities.
Got it working! Here’s what solved my problem: <?php $publisher_photo = get_the_author_meta(‘user_photo’); $image_src = wp_get_attachment_image_src($publisher_photo); echo ‘<img class=”publisher-picture” src=”‘. $image_src[0] .'” />’; ?>
The header problem is actually this problem: Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /home/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 885 Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in /home/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 885 You are getting those errors because somewhere you are sending an object when you shouldn’t be. When that … Read more
You can show admin notices via the admin_notices action. You can display it for a specific user by checking the contents of the global $current_user: function wpa80367_admin_notice() { global $current_user; if ( ‘someusername’ == $current_user->user_login ): echo ‘<div class=”updated”><p>’; echo ‘This is an admin notice just for you, someusername.’; echo ‘</p></div>’; endif; } add_action( ‘admin_notices’, … Read more
I think the plugin include the possibility with one check for rights, for a capability. You see in the source of the plugin, that he include the menu items, if the user have the capability edit_theme_options. That makes not so easy for you to change this in different roles. You can create custom roles, like … Read more
I think modifying the default tables in your WordPress install is a bad idea. Generally you should never modify the database or the core code, but instead use API functions to get the desired functionality. In this case that you be using the user meta fields to store a sort order for each user. The … Read more
Thank you so much for the responses. Using both of the ideas received I started to play a little with the code, although I was not sure what to do with them. I came up with a solution that works very well for me, I created a new template in my theme called ‘redirect.php’. At … Read more
I have been using the RoleScoper plugin to allow certain people to edit a page or a post. You can also set it to let people (or roles) edit a page or post if it is under a certain category. It’s pretty good, and pretty easy to operate. You would just select the page/post/category and … Read more
You’re probably better off to use get_users which returns an array of <?php // get all users, regardless of roll. If you do need to restrict by // role you can use the `role` argument: get_users(array(‘role’ => ‘author’)); $uses = get_users(array(‘orderby’ => ‘nicename’)); foreach ($users as $user) { // do stuff with $user, will have … Read more