WordPress powers many large websites with thousands of users like blogs, applications, social networks and much more. You will deal with many cases in which you need to work with users and fortunately wordpress has many functions to handle users.
Tag: users api
Working With Roles and Capabilities of WordPress Users
WordPress ships with a powerful roles and capabilities system which control users permissions. Roles enable plugin developers to group users, each group has its own permissions. Understanding roles and capabilities is important aspect of plugin development.
Working With WordPress Users Metadata
WordPress users metadata used to store additional data related to users. We will discuss how to set, retrieve, update and delete metadata.