Title: Users meta
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Users meta

 *  Resolved [kroma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kroma/)
 * (@kroma)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-meta/)
 * Hello, what can be a reason that for some users I don’t see meta pw_user_status,
   but for others I see it? I want to show only users which are approved. I query
   them all with
    `$user_query = new WP_User_Query( $args );` then
 *     ```
       $user_meta = get_user_meta( $user->ID );
       $user_meta['pw_user_status'][0];
       ```
   
 * But thing is, some users dont even have
    [pw_user_status]
 * Any help on this issue?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/new-user-approve/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/new-user-approve/)

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 *  [Josh Harrison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/picklewagon/)
 * (@picklewagon)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-meta/#post-6323146)
 * If a user does not have a status, it is probably because that user registered
   when the NUA plugin was not activated. They are approved if no status is in the
   meta table.
 * Here is a code snippet from the plugin that you might find helpful:
 *     ```
       if ( $status != 'approved' ) {
            // Query the users table
            $query = array( 'meta_key' => 'pw_user_status', 'meta_value' => $status, );
            $wp_user_search = new WP_User_Query( $query );
       } else {
            // get all approved users and any user without a status
            $query = array( 'meta_query' => array( 'relation' => 'OR', array( 'key' => 'pw_user_status', 'value' => 'approved', 'compare' => '=' ), array( 'key' => 'pw_user_status', 'value' => '', 'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS' ), ), );
            $wp_user_search = new WP_User_Query( $query );
       }
       ```
   

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/new-user-approve/assets/icon-128x128.gif?rev=2544141)
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 * Last reply from: [Josh Harrison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/picklewagon/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-meta/#post-6323146)
 * Status: resolved