Users

If you want to add a new user to WordPress database using MySQL using phpMyAdmin or a similar tool, you can use the following snippet: INSERT INTO `wp_users` (`user_login`, `user_pass`, `user_nicename`, `user_email`, `user_url`, `user_registered`, `user_activation_key`, `user_status`, `display_name`) VALUES (‘admin’, ‘$P$Bg/Ol6U.M07OGU7sKEZvIyl.mxuQQw.’, ‘admin’, ‘[email protected]’, ”, ‘2018-12-21 16:34:15’, […]

In a recent development project, I had to add a user to WordPress programmatically because I had no WP user data but only access to FTP. If this is your case, here is the code I used to add myself to the WordPress users: <?php […]

For some webdesign projects, you may need to prevent admin access for logged in users. To do so, simply paste following snippet to your functions.php file: function prevent_admin_access() { if ( false !== strpos( strtolower( $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] ), ‘/wp-admin’ ) && !current_user_can( ‘administrator’ ) ) wp_redirect( […]