You're reading from WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook Explore the complete set of tools to craft powerful plugins that extend the world's most popular CMS

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810777

Length 420 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Yannick Lefebvre

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Preparing a Local Development Environment

2. Chapter 2: Plugin Framework Basics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: User Settings and Administration Pages

4. Chapter 4: The Power of Custom Post Types

5. Chapter 5: Customizing Post and Page Editors

6. Chapter 6: Extending the Block Editor

7. Chapter 7: Accepting User Content Submissions

8. Chapter 8: Customizing User Data

9. Chapter 9: Leveraging JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX Scripts

10. Chapter 10: Adding New Widgets to the WordPress Library

11. Chapter 11: Fetching, Caching, and Regularly Updating External Site Data

12. Chapter 12: Enabling Plugin Internationalization

13. Chapter 13: Distributing Your Plugin on WordPress.org

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Displaying new user data on the user list page

As new fields are added to user profiles, it can be very useful for site administrators to see this data in the site user list and be able to filter users to only see the ones that were assigned certain values. This recipe shows how to add extra columns to the user listing of the WordPress administration area and add a filter function to reduce the number of records shown.

Getting ready

You should have already followed the Processing and storing custom user data recipe to have a starting point for this recipe. The resulting plugin should still be active on your development site. Alternatively, you can get the resulting code directory (ch8/ch2-private-item-text/*) from the book's GitHub page and rename ch2-private-item-text-v4.php to ch2-private-item-text.php. All other .php files can be deleted to avoid confusion when activating the plugin.