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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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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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importing users where password is provided as md5 + much metadata
I have a spreadsheet that was provided to me of users to import to a new site I have built. I was provided with the password in MD5 hash form. I suspect if I insert this into the password field in ...
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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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How to display multiple custom columns in the wp-admin users.php?
I'm using the manage_users_columns to display a custom field I create in the usermeta database called company. My code is as follows:
function mysite_column_company( $defaults ) {
$defaults['mysite-...
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Summary of Posts by an User
i have a buddypress blog at http://thelazy.info . When I click on a user his buddypress profile opens up. Can there be a summary of his posts in his buddy profile or directly that opening up when user ...
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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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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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show cimy user fields in users.php with manage_users_columns
I'm trying to add code to my themes functions.php to display fields created with the Cimy user extra fields plugin in the dashboard users.php. I know that I need to use manage_users_columns, but ...
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Function Get User Object By Username?
Which function can be used to get the user's object using the username? I've tried get_userdatabylogin() but the function seemed to throw an error:
Parse error, unexpected T_STRING on line xx
The ...
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How do I let contributors edit their posts after being approved once?
As above
Background info
Main problem: users pay to post an ad on the website
Solution: they sign up as contributors and I publish their posts once the payment is received, after that they can make ...
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Upgrade Nightmare - No Posts, Permissions Issues and Can't Create a new post
Symptoms:
Can't view ANY previous Posts, but the correct totals are listed by class - published, draft....
When creating a new post - no save or publish button
Unable to administer ANY plug-ins - ...
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How to change the order in which users are displayed in admin?
I would like to change the order in which users are displayed in the admin. At the moment it seems that they are order by the username.
I think I have found the right place in the wp-admin/users.php, ...
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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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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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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 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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Why wordpress showe "admin is editing..." whoever edits?
Wordpress warns users when two of them are editing the same article, but the warning always says "admin is editing this page". Admin is currently logged off and the message is caused by another author....
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Display WordPress commenter nice name
I'm working on a custom plugin that needs to display specifically the commenter's nice name. The codex shows how to do this for the logged in user but not someone else. Can this easily be done?
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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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Set user loggin status?
I create user with wp_create_user,after succesfully creating a user I need to set his status to be logged in?How to set his status to be logged in ?
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Subscribers become Authors after Upgrade? / Mass Update of Users?
I have a site with ~30K users, and the vast majority have role 'subscriber' on the main blog. After upgrading from WPMU 2.9.2 to WordPress 3.0.1 I noticed that all 30,0000 users are appearing in the ...
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Last time a user logged in
I'm building a site where users log in to view content specific to them. I would like to display the last date and time they logged in. How would I get this information from wordpress? If it doesn'...
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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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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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Personalized Gallery what are my options?
In my game website I would like to implement a Screenshot page where my registered users can upload images to it (it might be more then 1 screenshot page, 1 for the users and 1 for the game in ...
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wp_insert_post let users post to without login...broke
this question has been answered on stackoverflow.
here is a link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4321914/wp-insert-post-with-a-form/4321975#4321975
i'm trying to let users post to my site by ...
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Restricted registrations or removing the ability to edit your password/email
I'm developing a WP site that lists expensive properties (villas, penthouses, etc) for rent. My client has an agreement with certain schools to list some cheap properties exclusively for their ...
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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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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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WordPress Plugin for One-Time Event Registration? [closed]
I am building a website for a charity event and i would like for people to register for this event.
The form should contain name, email and other custom questions. Also I would like a page where to ...
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how or where wordress collect unlogged user session
i see the pattern in some theme where we can collect session of unlogged user. for example, in a comment form: After user commenting, user can see that the their comment is waiting for a moderation.
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Multi-site User Sessions
I have a client that wants to create several WordPress sites and utilize a "site switcher" at the top, sort of like ThemeForest.net. I know in WP 3 you can create multiple blogs on the same ...
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How Do I Prevent Junk Account Creation?
I want to allow readers of my WordPress-driven sites who comment frequently the ability to sign up and have their own account on the site. However the ratio of actual readers versus spam scripts using ...
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How can I import users into WordPress?
I have a spreadsheet (XLS) of names, email addresses, and passwords from another content management system. Is there a way to import these folks as users (I think subscriber level, but some may be ...
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