For someone experienced with the database, I would guess that should be easy to do in just a few minutes. If you cannot find someone here…
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
…maybe do a search for innovative WordPress solutions:
https://www.google.com/search?q=innovative+WordPress+solutions
@leejosepho not sure how that’s helping???
If someone changes the IDs in the database, they will look like 1002, not 01002. It would be better to leave the IDs as they are in the database, and change they way they are displayed.
Where, exactly, are they displayed? Can you post a link to your website so that we can see a user ID?
01002 was just an example and I do not want to change any existing user ID’s in the database, I only have one user – the Admin user (me) and the ID is off course ‘1’
I would like to add a prefix to user ID’s for new users, preferably to display user ‘2’ as ‘1002’. I could add another field in the database to call the original user ID, add the prefix and then display the newly created field, but since I’m helping a friend with this task I’d like to keep it simple for her.
Rod, do you have any pointers on changing the way they display. I am currently displaying the user ID on the user profile page (front end). Unfortunately I cannot post a link to this and you will need to be a registered user to view this page.
Where, exactly, are they displayed? Can you post a link to your website so that we can see a user ID?
I do not know whether security is a concern here, but the display of user ID can be a security issue:
http://llocally.com/blog/2013/08/19/what-is-your-login-username-to-your-wordpress-website/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=stop+user+enumeration
http://imperativeideas.com/wordpress-brute-force-protection-that-works/
I only have one user – the Admin user (me) and the ID is off course ‘1’
If your desire here is at all related to security as I had assumed, I believe better WP security is at least one plugin that can change that user number so hackers so not know the otherwise-obvious…and the search I had suggested was related to searching for someone with innovative solutions since we cannot make specific referrals here.
