User data shortcode

[justintadlock]

Need a shortcode for listing user data. Ref: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-to-display-user-data

[justintadlock]

I'm punting this one to a later release. We need to rethink this in terms of the various types of data.

For example, we might have something like this that outputs the email:

[members_user_data field="email"]

But, this outputs some custom Twitter URL meta:

[members_user_data field="twitter_url"]

Handling the escaping aspect of this is going to be tough, unless we limit it to a set of known fields.

[renatonascalves]

I wonder why Members is doing this at all. Nice enhancement but not Members job to provide members user data.

[justintadlock]

Members is a user, role, and capability plugin. "User" being the first part of that. Giving the average plugin user the ability to output specific user data without having to know PHP code can be nice.

One of the use cases that I have in mind is a front-end user account page where a user might want to see info about their account.

It's not particularly important for now, but it's been requested a few times.

[paulfourniercarey]

Hi, I think it is very useful when you want to build a welcome page and reassure the user they are logged in, I am using another plugin called user shortcodes plus, which helps me with this.
It would make sense to have this as part of your plugin though.
Especially if you build a site for your client who then need to create pages for their clients...

[justintadlock]

This is definitely on the agenda for the next major or minor release. I'm still thinking about the best way to escape unknown fields to make sure they're safe. I've got a few ideas though.