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Subcomponents: Role/Capability and Login and Registration.

252 open tickets in the Users component

252 open tickets	defect (bug)	enhancement	feature request
	36	30	5
5.6.1	1	0	0
5.7	2	0	0
Awaiting Review	74	55	10
Future Release	15	18	6

252 open tickets. Last 7 days: -1 ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.

54 tickets that have no replies

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#23373 Limiting get_users() results by metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. value with LIKE wildcards
#28163 function email_exists() check without removing umlauts
#31880 Expand wp_dropdown_users $show argument to allow custom user meta field
#31946 /wp-adminadmin (and super admin)/user-edit.php fails when using with IDN domain name
#35627 Delete user posts not reassigned. ui multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site
#36303 edit_user() will give PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher Notices if user_login is unset on add.
#36556 has_cap was called with an argument
#37200 Add wrappers with IDs to user-edit.php ui administration
#37202 the_archive_title() doesn't output the author's display name if that author hasn't posted template
#37284 Add indication for required next to Confirm Password ui
#37338 add filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. in get_data_by
#38897 user_email with & (ampersand) being encoded within the database making notifications fail
#39067 wp_insert_user custom validation
#40060 Define ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH cause unreachable /wp-login.php
#40149 WordPress password strength checking is improved, but the hint now doesn't help
#40632 Fix undefined index notice in wp-includes/user.php
#40835 Password and email change emails should not contain site-specific wording on multisite multisite
#40949 wp_dropdown_users($args) is not returning desired list of users
#41522 wp_set_password() doesn't trigger a changed password notification
#41719 Malformed User Search results
#41837 WP_User_Query can generate negative offset in the LIMIT clause
#43013 Confirmation Email workaround
#43318 New filter suggestion for manage_users-network_custom_column multisite
#43601 Improve error messaging when activating multisite users multisite
#43635 Allow to (only) store users in an external user database/backend
#43748 Create new action edit_user_updated_user similar to edit_user_created_user
#43814 Checkbox label has a period in Add New User page. ui ui-copy
#44027 "Enable full-height editor" setting only saved on page refresh
#44313 /wp-admin/css/forms.css problem when adding a <select> with 'restrict_manage_users' ui
#44358 Unable to search a user if username is an email address administration
#44510 count_user_posts() does not check for empty $userid
#44634 multisite: WP_User compatibility keys inacessible after switch_to_blog
#44921 User nicename discovery is slow to return performance
#45296 Serious side-effects when login in another tab after session expiration in first tab administration
#45714 Allow all valid email formats when editing accounts in the dashboard administration
#45830 wp_update_user does not use the pluggable wp_set_password to change a user password
#46035 Add set_display_name method to WP_Roles class
#46122 Code cleanup on $role_links to follow precedent from 46112 coding-standards
#46451 wp_dropdown_users() does not pass all applicable arguments on to get_users()
#46562 Add rand orderby to the WP_User_Query and get_users to match get_posts
#47408 At the time user_register fires, the user_login field in the database is actually set to user_nicename
#47468 Cookie Expiry & Login Popup causes loss of any work currently busy with
#47674 Users forbidden to confirm email changes
#47960 When user role is updated, last_update user meta should be updated as well. administration
#48119 Logout does not work when using cookie prefixes
#48308 Is it possible to make Phone number as a default field in Contact Info section in users admin details page.
#48508 User cache needs to be cleaned after updating user_activation_key via wpdb
#48705 Admin email confirmation language should be changed administration
#49639 Add a filter on wp_insert_user function regarding $user_pass
#49641 Clarify what happens when meta_value is `''` in get_users like functions. docs coding-standards
#49924 Support for Multiple selected options in wp_dropdown_roles() function administration
#49982 WP_User_Query returns duplicates if a user has multiple meta keys of the same name, unless "relation = OR" is included which adds DISTINCT
#50072 Users with email addresses containing a single quote cannot reset their passwords
#50698 Escaping issue in author template template

2 tickets slated for 5.7

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#28020 get_userdata and wp_get_current_user do not share WP_User instance rest-api
#44591 PHP notice if optional argument isn't passed to map_meta_cap()

252 open tickets

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Open feature requests: 21 View list on Trac

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