I have made a public account in wordpress which I will send to 100 users.
So the login would be:
Username: public
Password: 123example
The only thing I want is to hide the profile page for this specific user account so they can't change password, emailadress, etc.
How to achieve this? Maybe change some php?
The last portion in @aSeptik's answer could be a little more WP friendly.
function force_profile_redirect() {
global $pagenow, $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
if ($pagenow == 'profile.php' && $current_user->user_login == 'public') {
wp_redirect(home_url());
}
}
add_action('admin_init', 'force_profile_redirect');
You'd need to modify your profile page code, to make it not show the editable areas, and not run the "update profile" action, if the user ID is [xyz].
For the page which actually does the updating of the profile, you can just put at the top something like
// Change this line to match however you identify your logged-in user
// And change the id number to the ID of the public user
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
if ($current_user->ID == 1)
{
// Stop them seeing this page
header('Location: index.php');
// And for good measure
die();
}
For the page on which they can change the profile fields before they submit the form, you can do something like this
// Change this line to match however you identify your logged-in user
// And change the id number to the ID of the public user
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
if ($current_user->ID == 1)
{
// Say no
echo '<p>You cannot edit your profile on this account.</p>';
// And for good measure
die();
}
Without seeing your code, it's hard to be more specific, but this should work at a push, even if it's not exactly how you want it to work.
this script cover all the aspects of the question, read the code comments for further explanation.
<?php
/**
* this make sure the public user where redirected
* to home instead of profile page
*/
function redirect_user_to($redirect_to, $request, $user)
{
global $user;
if ($user->user_login == 'public') {
return home_url();
}
else {
return home_url("/wp-admin/");
}
}
add_filter('login_redirect', 'redirect_user_to', 10, 3);
/**
* this remove the profile links from
* the top nav menu
*/
function remove_edit_profile()
{
global $wp_admin_bar, $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
if ($current_user->user_login == 'public') {
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('edit-profile');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('my-account-with-avatar');
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('my-account');
}
}
add_action('wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'remove_edit_profile', 0);
/**
* this remove the "Site Admin" link from
* the WP meta widget, usually placed in
* the side bar.
*/
function my_unregister_widgets()
{
unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Meta');
register_widget('MY_Widget_Meta');
}
add_action('widgets_init', 'my_unregister_widgets');
class MY_Widget_Meta extends WP_Widget
{
function MY_Widget_Meta()
{
$widget_ops = array(
'classname' => 'widget_meta',
'description' => __("Log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress links"),
);
$this->WP_Widget('meta', __('Meta'), $widget_ops);
}
function widget($args, $instance)
{
extract($args);
$title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty($instance['title']) ? __('Meta') : $instance['title']);
echo $before_widget;
if ($title) {
echo $before_title.$title.$after_title;
}
?>
<ul>
<?php
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
if ($current_user->user_login == 'public') {
}
else {
wp_register();
}
?>
<li>
<?php wp_loginout();?>
</li>
<li>
<a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url');?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr(__('Syndicate this site using RSS 2.0'));?>">
<?php _e('Entries <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>');?></a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url');?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr(__('The latest comments to all posts in RSS'));?>">
<?php _e('Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>');?></a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="<?php echo esc_attr(__('Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.'));?>">WordPress.org</a>
</li>
<?php wp_meta();?>
</ul>
<?php
echo $after_widget;
}
}
/**
* this prevent from non authorized user ( public )
* to pointing to the profile page by writing into
* the address bar.
*/
function force_profile_redirect()
{
global $pagenow, $current_user;
if (strtolower($current_user->user_login) == 'public') {
wp_redirect(home_url());
}
}
add_action('admin_init', 'force_profile_redirect');
?>
