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How To Add Custom Form Fields To The User Profile Page?
The user profile page has the following fields:
Username
First Name
Last Name
Nickname
Display name
Contact Info
E-mail
Website
AIM
Yahoo IM
Jabber / Google Talk
How can more fields be added to ...
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Commenting in user profile page?
I am trying to build custom user profile with the guidance of this tutorial: How to make a WordPress profile page
I have successfully implemented it to my theme, everything is working well.
Now what ...
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Change the Author Slug from Username to Nickname
Hi to the community,
is it possible to change the default username slug to nickname if is available?
By default the url is something like: http://domain.tld/author/(admin) ,
is it possible to ...
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User Profile / Add Custom Fields
Hello: I am trying to add 7 custom fields to the standard Wordpress wp-admin/profile.php page. There are a few site which suggest a simple bit of code to do this, for example:
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determining if the user is logged in
I am new to wordpress, and trying to get my head around the idea of sessions and all. I read in a lot of places that session concept is not used in wordpress. Anyway, I downloaded the my-login-theme ...
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Editor can create any new user except administrator
I have set up a WordPress site for a client. The client has the Editor role, however I have installed the Members plugin and given the client the capability to add new users to the WP admin. This is ...
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How to search all user meta from users.php in the admin
The search form at the top of the users listing in the Admin area (wp-admin/users.php) is limited and does not search all of the user meta fields, such as bio, instant messenger handles, etc. I've not ...
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Remove Ability for Other Users to View Administrator in User List?
(Moderator's note: Original title was "Remove Admin from User Menu")
I have created a client administrator role which is essentially an Editor with ability to add/remove users. The article "Editor ...
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How to restrict access to uploaded files?
I have a restricted area on a website that can only be accessed by logged in users. Fot that I created a page template with a 'current_user_can()' condition.
My problem is that the documents attached ...
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Update post counts (published, draft, unattached) in admin interface
I am working on a multi-user WordPress setup and have made it so a particular type of user can only see and interact with posts, images, pages etc that they have authored. The code to make this happen ...
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add 'file upload' field to user details
In the backend when a user goes to their detail page they can edit a few text fields. I want to add a custom field that allows the user to upload a file. I found something similar but its only to add ...
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How to check if a user (not current user) is logged in?
I need to display the online status (online/offline) for each author page (custom author page template).
is_user_logged_in() only applies to the current user and I can't find a relevant approach ...
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Get user input from a form
I am trying to create a form that will allow users to update their information on the front end. I am just starting to learn PHP (I know C# very well). If I use this code to create a form on a ...
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Add extra field when admin create user
I have created extra field that user can edit on their 'Your Profile' page. The extra field also available on WordPress register page. What I want to ask is, how to add the field to User > Add new ...
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Help - Why my roles are not showing? Multi-site/Network
My network is showing roles in some sites and not in others.
For some reason that I can't explain, when I add a new user, I have no role to choose from on the drop down box of a sub-site in my ...
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How to display page title+link of page created by user
I want to check if user is logged in and if have created a page. If so, option 1 is shown. This all works fine.
But how to display page title+link of page created by that user between {page title ...
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Drop down list in user profile page
I am having problems finding an answer to this. I need to have a custom user meta field.
I can create them which is fine but I need to create a drop down one.
For example I want the user meta to ...
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Allowing logged in users to comment without moderation across a multisite installation
I currently do web admin for an internet community based on BuddyPress and Multi Site, and use the Comment author must have a previously approved comment setting to make it easier for users to comment ...
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Plugin that would allow WordPress Authors to “follow” other Authors and query “Activity Info” from that
I have a WordPress blog that is all user based Authors that submit content and such. Currently in the site, you can view other authors profiles but basically just view their content from the ...
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How to use tinyMCE for user “biographical info” without messing with any core file?
I noticed when you typein the user's “biographical info” on the profile, it shows up in one page! Looks really terrible. So:
Is there a way to use tinyMCE or other solution for user “biographical ...
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Showing User's Post Counts by Custom Post Type in the Admin's User List?
I'm trying to figure out how to hook into the /wp-admin/users.php manage page to
create custom columns for showing the number of posts users have for the custom post types on WPHonors.com.
I created ...
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Getting a List of Currently Available Roles on a WordPress Site?
When writing WordPress plugins there is often a need to set up options for which roles on the site have access to certain functionality or content. To do this a plugin dev needs to fetch the list of ...
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Performance tips for a large user base [closed]
I’m preparing a site with many users (100.000+). Since the output depends on the current user’s relation to some custom post types and taxonomies a static cache won’t help much.
Besides using a ...
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Multi-steps WordPress registration : in 4 steps how to?
I saw in several WordPress sites up on registration that the registration process is in 3 or 4 steps.
how can i implement such process to my theme? ie:
choose your role + fill in register ...
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How to hide media uploads by other users in the Media menu?
Simply put - how might I completely hide media files uploaded by any other users other then themselves? Id like to disable access to these links & files since they are a way for non-admin users to ...
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Customize Admin Users Screen based on Role
I've added a role of "Customer" and I am working on customizing the Users Screen for that role. What I'd like to do is customize columns based on that particular role.
Note:
For example, take a ...
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Authors Page : A page of authors
I'm looking for a way to create a parent authors page and then use the author.php for the individual author pages.
I've been out of the loop (no pun) for a couple months and am wondering the best way ...
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Groups of capabilities: users with multiple roles?
I'm pretty sure I understand the roles and capabilities setup in WordPress: granular capabilities, grouped together in roles that can be assigned to users. Code should check the granular capabilities, ...
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How to restrict dashboard access to Admins only?
How would we restrict access to the WP admin area to all users except admins?
The users on our site have their own profile pages which do all the functions they need.
So admin should be off limits to ...
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Replacing the Wordpress password validation
I have a custom application with thousands of users who already have a password stored. I would like to set up a self hosted wordpress site to accompany that application and to use the usernames and ...
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wordpress multisite, how to keep user on subdomain throughout registration process?
I am running wp subdomain multisite in combination with domain mapping. This means I can create a new subdomain site xyz.site.com and map the domain name 'xyz.com' to that site.
The problem I have is ...
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How to assign capabilities to user NOT to User Role
Is there any way to assign custom capabilities to user, I'm NOT talking about User Role.
I'm running a multi author blog where I assigned user role of "Author" to all of my authors. But I need a ...
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Wordpress usermeta scaling for thousands of users
I have developed a CRM plugin for a client integrated with Wordpress user management and I stored additional information for each user under the wp_usermeta table.
However, the client's customer ...
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Migrating Wordpress users into Disqus
I'm thinking of migrating my comment system from Wordpress to Disqus. I'm pretty satisfied with options it offers, but I have one problem:
I have few hundred registrated users on my Wordpress ...
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Upload gravatar in WP profile?
I'm interested in the theory of a user being able to register/upload a gravatar directly in their user account within a hosted WP system.
Is this feasible?
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How do I properly format the user_role array?
I used a role editor recently and needed to delete a role. After deleting it I noticed that it began to appear as blank in the edit user role drop-down. After a bit of investigating and deleting ...
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How to use hyperdb to separate and share a user dataset between wordpress installs?
I'm looking for a way to separate my users and usermeta table to be in a different database than my main WP install. The end goal is sharing these table over a number of WP installs.
From what I ...
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Post comment as different user than logged in
When I reply to a comment in the WP backend in the "Comments" section (edit-comments.php) I can only post the reply as the logged in user.
Is it possible to select a certain user like in the "Add new ...
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Menu page with list of users
I need a way to create a menu page with a list of all users for administrative purposes. The list will be used by users that don't have permission or acceses to the "Users" menu page. The page need to ...
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How-to delay the capability to publish posts?
Spam has gotten a bit crazy so it would be nice if new users have to wait a week to post something.
I use buddypress and all new members have the role of author. The site is more like a forum with ...
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How to list users that have written custom post types and hide the ones that have not?
I'm trying to build an author list that would show all authors that have written a Custom Post Type post, and hide authors that have no posts. With wp_list_authors it would be easy to show users that ...
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Redirecting user after updating profile?
I have been working around with adding stuff in user profile edit area. i am done with that but there is one thin i am unable to sort out.
What i am planning to do is to redirect a user to a custom ...
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Reapproval for edits and deletion after post is published
I regularly have guest authors who post one or more articles on a non specific schedule. So I provide them with permanent contributor accounts to avoid the hassle of making them accounts and deleting ...
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How to change user`s avatar?
Is there a way o changing user's avatar without plugins? Why there's no "Avatar Upload" section in Users > Your Profile?
I can't use a plugin. Am I blind or being forced to use Gravatar? ;/
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Change labels on 'Nickname' and 'Biographical Info' in user-edit.php
For a project I'm working on, I want to change the labels of the 'Nickname' and 'Biographical Info' fields on edit profile (user-edit.php) page in the dashboard. I still want to use those fields as ...
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Adding Properties to User Profile and Displaying in List
I have a site that I am migrating to WordPress, and I have a need to add properties that each of the users can edit (e.g., Address, City, State, Business Name, etc), along with some properties that ...
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Allow a userclass to edit a published page and save as a draft - but not publish w/o admin approval
I want to make a user class that can edit pages already published pages, and save them as a draft without being able to publish it. An admin would have to go in and publish the draft once they approve ...
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Show User Their Password
I've got a few automated scripts that run to notify users of certain updates to the application, etc... and for one in particular, I need to be able to display the users user_login and their password.
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How to count current user's pages?
There are a lot of answers on how to count users posts by using:
<?php
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
global $wpdb;
$user = wp_get_current_user();
$where = ...
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Show Biographical Info while creating new user
Is it possible to show the Biographical Info textfield while creating a new user?
I know it's possible to add user bio by editing a user AFTER it has been created. But I would like to do this while ...
