Dynamically populate custom fields

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Tagged: Setting up custom fields, Types plugin

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Last updated by Luo Yang 5 years, 4 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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August 16, 2019 at 1:37 am #1317525

Adrian

Hi, I am trying to populate a custom dropdown field with the users from my website.

How can I do this?

Thank you

August 16, 2019 at 2:42 am #1317535

Luo Yang

Hello,

There isn't such a built-in feature or existed documentation for it, but you can try with Types filter hook wpt_field_options, for example:
1) Create a custom select field, the field title is "user id"
2) Add below PHP codes in your theme/functions.php:

add_filter( 'wpt_field_options', 'add_some_options', 10, 3);
function add_some_options( $options, $title, $type )
{
    switch( $title )
    {
    case 'user id':
        $args = array(
            'orderby' => 'display_name',
            'fields' => array( 'ID', 'display_name')
        );
        foreach( get_users($args) as $user ) {
            $options[] = array(
                '#value' => $user->ID,
                '#title' => $user->display_name,
            );
        }
        break;
    }
    return $options;
}

If you need to get some specific users, please check wordpress document:
get_users()
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_users