How to Randomly Display Registered Users in WordPress

07
Jul

function wpb_random_users() {

global $wpdb;

$randomusers = ‘<ul class=”random-users”>’;

// Query database for users

$usernames = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT user_nicename, user_url, user_email FROM $wpdb->users ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5”);

// Display users in a list

foreach ($usernames as $username) {

if (!$username->user_url) :

$randomusers .= ‘<li>’ .get_avatar($username->user_email, 45) .$username->user_nicename.”</li>”;

else :

$randomusers .= ‘<li>’ .get_avatar($username->user_email, 45).'<a href=”‘.$username->user_url.'”>’.$username->user_nicename.”</a></li>”;

endif;

}

$randomusers .= ‘</ul>’;

return $randomusers;

}

add_shortcode(‘randomusers’,’wpb_random_users’);