Notify admin when user updates profile

Just my $0.02… but I’ve learned from my experience by trying to “fix” one plugin by installing another… is just opening the door to a world of headaches down the road.

I’m pretty sure you can get an admin notification when a user updates their profile by writing a function like this:

function my_admin_notification_profile_update($userid) {

    $userdata = get_userdata($userid);
    $message = "A user profile has been updated\n\n";
    $message .= print_r($userdata,true);
    @wp_mail(get_option('admin_email'), 'User Profile Update', $message);

}
add_action('profile_update','my_admin_notification_profile_update');

Now, this won’t tell you specifically what was changed… or even who made the change. But, some further customization could include all of that info.

Hope this helps!

Where were you getting a red squiggly line?

I didn’t get a chance to test that code.

But, if it works.. then idk.. lol.

If I get a little extra time today or tomorrow.. I’ll try to come back here and “update” the code, providing some additional info when a user makes a change 🙂

Lol – thank you 🙂

Okay…

First… we need to introduce you to the world of Child Themes.

You see.. by adding that function to the bottom of your themes functions.php file… the next time you update your theme, that function is going to be deleted. Your theme author can’t keep track of everyone’s custom edits… so when he/she updates the theme… the ‘updated’ functions.php file is going to overwrite yours… erasing all that custom work.

Now, imagine you’ve been doing this for a while.. and have all these custom edits… then you update your theme, and BAM…. all that work is lost.

Hence… Child Themes!!

In your child theme, you will have a functions.php file and a style.css file. In these files, you can make all of your custom modifications, and never worry about them being lost during updates.

It’s YOUR child theme.. and no one can ever take that away from you 😉

So… start working on that child theme!! And I’ll start working on seeing if you can pull what was changed from the user profile page.

Lemme know if you get stuck along the way.

Oh.. and it never hurts to take a backup first!

EDIT: This is assuming you don’t use a “framework” which already has a custom functions.php file.

Okay.. here is the link:
http://pastebin.com/XY4bgiZX

You can copy the entire thing.. and paste it just above the closing ?> php tag in your functions.php file. Remember, it’ll be over-written there… but I’ll be making a plugin of this soon 🙂

Have fun!!

Oh, and do me a favor and let me know if this is also working with your custom fields being added by other plugins, please.

Great!! Thanks for the feedback!

Okay.. let’s see…

That shouldn’t be happening.

Can you copy and paste your ENTIRE child theme functions.php file to “pastebin.com“. Just paste it in.. and select “PHP” from the dropdown language. When you submit, it will take you to a new page showing the code. Copy that url from the address bar, and post the link here.

Lemme make sure your code is right, before moving on 🙂

Oh…. this feature is exactly what I’m looking for… I need recibe a mail with the fields modifying by the user, but for me don’t works the code:

I try this one I found

/**
 *	Updated User Profile Notification
 *
 *	Every time a user updates his/her profile an email is sent
 *	to the site administrator.
 *
 *	@author		Nate Jacobs
 *	@link		https://gist.github.com/1286583
 */

add_action( 'profile_update', 'ngtj_updated_user_profile_notify', 10, 2 );
function ngtj_updated_user_profile_notify( $user_id, $old_user_data )
{
	// get the user data into an object
	$user = get_userdata( $user_id );
	// get the site administrator's email address
	$admin_email = get_option( 'admin_email' );
	// the email body
	$message = sprintf( __( 'This user has updated their profile on your site: %s' ), get_option('blogname') ) . "\r\n\r\n";
	$message .= sprintf( __( 'Display Name: %s' ), $user->display_name ). "\r\n\r\n";
	$message .= sprintf( __( 'Username: %s' ), $user->user_login ). "\r\n\r\n";
	$message .= sprintf( __( 'Old Email: %s' ), $old_user_data->user_email ). "\r\n\r\n";
	$message .= sprintf( __( 'Email: %s' ), $user->user_email );
	// send the email
	wp_mail( $admin_email, sprintf( __( '[%s] User Updated a Profile' ), get_option('blogname') ), $message );
}

But this one only advertise me than anyone change the profile, but no say me what fields are changing.