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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 change the default registration email ? (plugin and/or non-plugin)
After a new user registration, WP sends out an email with the login / password, and a link to the login page.
Is there a way to change this defaut email template? I'd also like to change the subject ...
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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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Is there a is_user_logged_in() for multisite?
Is there a is_user_logged_in() function for Wordpress MU / Multisite (3.0+) where I can add in the network site ID like is_user_logged_in(2) where 2 would be the site_id?
Update:
After a little ...
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Setting admin edit panels & metaboxes positions and visibility for ALL users and admins
My WP 3.3 setup involves several post types and customized edit panels with Advanced Custom Fields plugin (which creates many metaboxes) and other plugins such as SEO metabox panel, Scribu's ...
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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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Multiple developers / editors working on a site in progress
Background
I'm nearing the final stages of constructing my first fairly large WordPress site, and I'm now encountering some friction. For the most part, the site was developed on my local machine and ...
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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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How can 2 blogs share the same users
I have a running normal WP blog (blog 1). I want to create a Q&A section for my users, so I setup another blog with WP-Answer theme (blog 2).
The problem is I don't want my users at blog 1 have ...
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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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Make display name unique
Right now you can make your Display Name whatever you want, you can even impersonate an admin. Is it possible to make the Display Name unique?
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alphabetically order role drop-down selection in dashboard
The site I'm working on will have a very large number of unique user roles via a members plugin. Because of that, I'd like to have the Role drop-down selection on the Add New User page to display ...
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Confirmation required on email change
I'm just wondering why wordpress doesn't send confirmation mail every time user change his/her email address.
How do we know that email address is not fake or mistyped?
So can anyone give me some ...
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Is it safe to store a user setting you don't want the user to ever modify as a user option?
I have added some custom user options to the profile page on my site, and most are all OK for the user to modify themselves. These options live in their own section. The users have read access and ...
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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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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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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 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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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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Is it possible to sign in with user_email in Wordpress?
is it possible to sign in with user_email instead of user_login, please ?
Thanks.
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Get the name of user who updated post
Does anyone know how to get the name of the user who last updated a post/page please? (Not the post author). I can see that it is visible in the post/page revisions but don't know how to access it.
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Disallowing Users of a Custom Role from Deleting or Adding Administrators?
(Moderator's note: The original title was "Custom User Role Restrictions")
A project I am working on requires me to create two new user roles - one for the owner of the website and the other for ...
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User-Specific Timezones? Hack? Plugin?
Is there any way, whether it be a hack, a plugin, etc., to give users their own timezone? I am using a purchased SMS plugin. Users (my clients) login and are able to send out text messages when they ...
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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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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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Is there a way (plugin?) to restrict a user to being able to edit just one page?
We use wordpress like a CMS and would very much like to allow users to have a "homepage". Ideally they'd be prevented from mucking up the whole site.
Is there a simple way to limit users editing ...
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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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How to check if a user is in a specific role?
I have a pretty specific requirement to show different text in a field label on the user profile page based on the current user's role. I can't seem to figure out how to check whether the current use ...
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Front end registration/login & publish/update 1 custom post
I want to be able to allow a user to register/login via a front end form and be able to create 1 custom post which only they will be able to edit and update via a front end form.
This will be part 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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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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Set up collaborative site
I 'm setting up a site to allow multiple associations to use it. I ask your help to decide whether it's worth to consider switching to the current 'single site with many plugins' approach, whick feels ...
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How to display the status of users (online - offline) in archive.php
I am using the code the user status How to check if a user (not current user) is logged in?. On page profile of the author it works well (thank you guys). But if I put on the archive page, at the ...
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how to use joomla password format in wordpress?
I need to import more than 1000 users from joomla to wordpress. I can do that with csv. My main concern are passwords. I did some googling and found out that it is possible to change wordpress ...
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Wordpress: How to get the current logged in author page URL?
Is there a way to display, via a PHP function, the author posts link (myblog.com/author/jason) of the current logged in user ?
In fact, I would like to display, for every logged in user, a "My ...
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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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Allowing an email as the username?
Is it possible to allow people to utilize their email as their username?
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Show content only if member left a comment
Functions Php :
add_shortcode( 'membervip', 'memberviparea' );
function memberviparea( $atts, $content = null ) {
if( is_user_logged_in() ) return '<p>' . $content . '</p>';
...
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List users by last name in WP_User_Query
How can I list users by last name ASC when using WP_User_Query?
There is an orderby parameter but looking in core it doesn't accept ordering my user meta. Anyone know how to extend WP to allow this ...
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How to check user role without using current_user_can()
I am filtering the map_meta_cap() function, which is called from $user->has_cap (which is called from current_user_can()). I only want my filter to execute if the current user is an administrator, so ...
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Any reason to be concerned by a wave of “zombie” blog signups?
I maintain a blog for a friend of mine. It's basically an aggregater of videos from other embeddable video sites, and provides a way for users to comment on those videos. Not really high-value ...
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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 ...
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Find out if logged in user is not subscriber
Is there any conditional tag which will allow me to display the certain content only if the user is NOT a subscriber?
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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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Setting WP Admin passwords to expire
I'm aware it's not a feature of Wordpress, but I was wondering if there was a way or a plug-in (haven't found one from searching) that allows me to force a user to change their password after a ...
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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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How to use same email for multiple users
I have a very big multisite. And I got a request to enable option that multiple users can use the same email. I found a plugin "Allow Multiple Accounts" which doesn't work properly. I should figure ...
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Diplay a registered user profile page
I have a website where users can register, login and their edit profile, they can comment but not post.
What I am looking for is a way to display a user profile page (where I display the gravatar and ...
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Post list based on the user that is logged in
I've been all over this site and google, and the WP codex looking for an answer to this one. I know it's out there, and I know it's easy. Maybe has something to do with user_nicename, but I just can't ...
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How many users can WordPress handle?
I want to design a member login site in WP but I have a doubt that is WordPress can handle more than 40000 users on same database?
I am not sure about this so I am stooping my work here. So please ...
