andy_woz

Ah yes! Just checked plugins directory and sucuri plugin had added a deny from all in htaccess.

<Files *.php>
deny from all
</Files>

I turned the plugin off but it didn’t remove the deny.

Thanks!

Sent email + deets, thanks!

A

Nope not duplicate results, no results.

Closing

Ok I got this down, mostly thanks to this post:
http://wpsmith.net/2012/wp/an-introduction-to-wp_user_query-class/

The upshot is that you can do this with WP_user_query but it won’t let you order by last name without some modifications.

Set up action in functions.php to allow you substitute the default order by user ID with user last_name:

add_action( 'pre_user_query', 'wps_pre_user_query' );
/*
* Modify the WP_User_Query appropriately
*
* Checks for the proper query to modify and changes the default user_login for $wpdb->usermeta.meta_value
*
* @param WP_User_Query Object $query User Query object before query is executed
*/
function wps_pre_user_query( $query ) {
global $wpdb;
if ( isset( $query->query_vars['query_id'] ) && 'wps_last_name' == $query->query_vars['query_id'] )
$query->query_orderby = str_replace( 'user_login', "$wpdb->usermeta.meta_value", $query->query_orderby );
}

Then construct you wp_user_query object like so (outputting as a select menu labeled last_name/first_name):

<select name="author" id="select-author">
	<option value="0">Select Author</option>
<?php
	// prepare arguments
	$args = array(
	'meta_key' => 'last_name',
	'query_id' => 'wps_last_name',
	'role' => 'author'
	);

	// Create the WP_User_Query object
	$author_query = new WP_User_Query( $args );

	$authors = $author_query->get_results(); 

	foreach($authors as $author):
	$select .='<option value="'. $author -> user_nicename .'">' . $author -> last_name . ' ' . $author -> first_name . '</option>';
	endforeach;
	print $select;

?>
	</select>

Hope this helps someone, sometime. Let me know if it does.

Hi Sunny, if no last name is entered then I think ordering by either first name or by nicename would be a reasonable fallback not that there would be much different if nicename hasn’t been edited to something other than the WP default. Does that make sense?

Ok so I guess I was having a bit of a mind cluster because fixing the linking was as simple as updating the home path to http://www.domainname.com

I can’t update site_url though as that breaks all the css and images. I am assuming that this is normal with a sub directory set up using aliases at the hosting level or is there a way to fix those paths too?

Thanks

A

Yes sorry just mapping domains.
The domain mapping seems to be working at the top most level but the permalinks need updating.