Topic Tag: Membership sites

Problem:
How can I update a user Profile with a Custom User Profile Image?

Solution:
The WordPress native User Profile Image is based on Gravatar, as you will know.

So you can not update that with any Image you store in WordPress as that's an external service.

You can use a Custom Image User Field instead.

1. Create a user Field (Image)

2. Create a Post Field (image)

3. Create a CRED Form to create (or update) a Post

4. Insert this code (adapt it) to your functions.php:

add_action('cred_save_data', 'my_save_data_action',10,2);
function my_save_data_action($post_id, $form_data)
{
    // if a specific form
    if ($form_data['id']==44)
    {
        $image_value = get_post_meta($post_id, 'wpcf-image', true);
        $user = wp_get_current_user();
        $user_id = $user->ID;
        update_user_meta($user_id, 'wpcf-image-user', $image_value);
    }
}

It also grabs the current User ID (which you need to address the User)

If you need another user, I suggest to study the WordPress API

get_userdata()

or

get_user_by()

I used

wp_get_current_user()

which returns the currently logged in user.