Yesterday, I shared a snippet to show recently registered users on your multi-user WordPress website. Here’s another snippet which will show random registered users in your WordPress website’s front-end. It’s also a great to get more users to join your site.
This snippet comes from the WPBeginner. Just add following snippet to your current theme’s functions.php file:
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');