Comments on: How to Extend Bulk Actions in WordPress

By: Richard Tape

Richard Tape — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:31:40 +0000

Actually, you can ignore my e-mail. I’ve managed to do what I wanted – I utilised some JavaScript to do it – through a bit of AJAX. If you’re interested in finding out what I did, let me know

By: Richard Tape

Richard Tape — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:13:07 +0000

H! thanks for the reply. I’ve sent you an e-mail also, to say thanks. … plus there’s a little request in there, too.

By: Hangman

Hangman — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:24:04 +0000

@Richard: You can have a look at those hooks: manage_users_columns, manage_users_custom_column.

< ?php
add_filter('manage_users_columns', 'my_users_columns');
add_action('manage_users_custom_column', 'my_users_custom_column', 8, 3);
?>

First you add a new user column through manage_users_column:

< ?php
function my_users_columns($defaults) {
$defaults['is_this_a_client'] = __('Client?');
return $defaults;
}
?>

Then you add content to this new column for each user through manage_users_custom_column.

< ?php
function wordbb_users_custom_column($value, $column_name, $id) {
if($column_name!='is_this_a_client')
return;

// TODO: check if this user ($id) is a client in wp_usermeta
$is_client=true;

return '< input type="checkbox" name="my_clients['.$id.']" checked=”checked”< ?php endif ?> value=”< ?php echo ($is_client)?'1':'0' ?>” />’;
}
?>

Note that in the return string we’re creating an array of users (name attribute) which contains the boolean values for each checkbox, which you can now handle in your admin_users_update function.

< ?php
function admin_users_update()
{
$clients=$_GET['my_clients'];
foreach($clients as $uid=>$client)
{
// update wp_usermeta with new values
}
}
?>

There may be errors in this code as I wrote it down right now without trying it.
Cheers!

By: Richard Tape

Richard Tape — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:55:56 +0000

Hi there! This is an excellent little article, however, would you be able to embellish a little further? I’m trying to add a check box to this page (where you have added a drop down).

I’ve already created the user meta and it appears on the user’s profile page as you would expect (and it works fine). However, I’m trying to make it a little easier for the site admin to check the status of one particular piece of user meta – therefore wanting it to be displayed on the users.php page.

For example, my extra piece of usermeta is called “is_this_a_client” and it’s a simple checkbox. Would it be possible for me to add this particular checkbox to the users.php page and allow the admin to simply check it for several users at once instead of having to go into each individual user’s profile? I hope I’m making sense, if I’m not, please do let me know and I’ll explain further.

Thank you for a great little snippet of code and I hope to hear from you soon! Kind regards from a rainy, dreary Manchester, England.