I’d like to display a grid of authors on my site showing the name of the author and their avatar. The tricky part is, I’d like to be able to control this from the Menus page in the dashboard so I have control over who is displayed and in what order they are displayed. Is … Read more
I’m trying to create an events plugin and so far, I’m through with the following: A short-code that displays a form on the front-end to the user. The event display page that renders the output. ‘Events’ as custom post type and several custom-fields for additional event information. Problems: I want to restrict the users from … Read more
I would like to include the author search in the default WordPress search. Is there any way of doing this? right know it retrieves all the posts with the permalinks and author names. same way i need the authors search. is it possible? 1 1 This plugin called “WP Extended Search” looks like it would … Read more
I am trying to change the comment author name (or more specifically, the review author in WooCommerce) to be First name Last Initial (e.g., “John D.” for “John Doe”). I got most of the way there with the following code in functions.php, but for some reason (perhaps because of how the comment/review was submitted) it … Read more
PHP newbie here, recently decided to have a stab at cobbling together a kooky little ‘Random Author Spotlight’ feature into my current WordPress theme. I’m almost done, but I’ve hit something of a snag: I need to somehow make it so that my ‘spotlight’ will only select users with 1 post or more. Everyone whom … Read more
I’m using a custom post type to let contributors have a personal page on the site. Any time a user registers on my site a script creates a custom type post that has the registering user as the author. To moderate users’ entries this post is published by an editor. I would like users (contributors) … Read more
I run a multi author blog and i am looking for a non plugin solution. The default author user role in WordPress can publish posts without any approvel – look at Role Capabilities WordPress Codex. Using the contributor role to achieve my goal is not possible, because the contributor role can not upload images… Is … Read more
I am setting up a site where there will be multiple users as Author, the owner doesn’t want the authors to be able to view each others posts, since there are some meta fields with information he’d rather not have shared between the authors. Is there a way to remove the ability to view other … Read more
I’ve changed the default registering option by allowing people to sign up with their e-mail addresses. They also have an option to add their firstname, lastname but it’s not required. // Allow email instead of nickname for login add_filter(‘authenticate’, function($user, $email, $password){ //Check for empty fields if(empty($email) || empty ($password)){ //create new error object and … Read more
I have created a page template for the front page of a site I am building using WordPress. I am displaying the 3 latest posts on this page and all works fine except for the display of the author of the post. I am using the following code <?php $recentposts=get_posts(‘showposts=3’); if ($recentposts) { foreach($recentposts as … Read more
