Removing the dashboard: /* Remove the “Dashboard” from the admin menu for non-admin users */ function wpse54085_remove_dashboard () { global $current_user, $menu, $submenu; get_currentuserinfo(); if( ! in_array( ‘administrator’, $current_user->roles ) ) { reset( $menu ); $page = key( $menu ); while( ( __( ‘Dashboard’ ) != $menu[$page][0] ) && next( $menu ) ) { $page … Read more
So here is the small snippet to show total number of users and all roles with user count. This code should go in the themes functions.php file. The code uses count_user function to fetch the array and show it up on Right Now dashboard screen. function wpse_60487_custom_right_now() { $users = count_users(); echo ‘<table><tbody>’; echo ‘<tr><td … Read more
$wpdb is a global variable for the database class. In it $wpdb->users points to the name of the users table. As long as it’s the same database, you can use this to change the name of the table but it might create errors if the schema doesn’t match. Another way is to extend the wpdb … Read more
// retrieve latest 5(or all) posts of this user $query = new WP_Query(array( ‘author’ => $author, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5 )); // skip the user if the number of posts is 0 if($query->post_count < 1) continue; // loop through available posts & display the title while($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); the_title(); endwhile; wp_reset_query(); This code should go inside … 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
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
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
As an alternative to “current_user_can” WordPress provides “user_can” which will take a User object or ID as a parameter. Combining your top code and the bottom code with the new function it would look like this: $author_user = $wp_query->get_queried_object(); // the queried object in ‘author.php’ should be an author user if (user_can($author_user, ‘buyer’)) { get_template_part( … Read more