Matt Varone - Creative Designer

— Quick post today. I recently had been working in a site with a CMS powered by WordPress and was asked to list nicely all the full names and emails of all the active users. As I didn’t found a function/solution out of the box thought of sharing it with you.

One thing to keep in mind is that WordPress keeps users data in two separates tables, users and usermeta. The first one stores what I would say its the most relevant information of the user for the system, the username, the email, password, etc. And the second one stores all remaining data, first name, last name, etc. Depending of which plugins you have installed you could have more/different fields. To mix the information of these two tables into one object WordPress provides the get_userdata(); function, which returns an object that we can use to easily display the information we want. To call this function we need to provide a user ID number, so to list all users with their details we have to first know the IDs of them.
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— Following the same idea of last month´s post Taking Advantage of Functions.php in WordPress Themes I´m releasing a couple more functions I gather trough previous months that might become useful to you to quickly develop your themes. I like to have my own library to easily get my themes code done faster thus getting more time to spend working on the design. Remember that to use these functions you have to drop functions.php file in your theme folder.

The Functions

Note: For the examples i’m using function_exists() as a good practice, as if the function don’t exist the code wont break your theme.

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— I have released an updated version of the ScrnshotsRSS plugin with widget system support to easily display the screenshots in your sidebar without editing your themes files.

Also the plugin features some minor text corrections and a little fix in the image cache system. Grab the plugin here or upgrade it directly from your admin plugins page.