WordPress 5 Cookbook

Adding custom features to the user list

The backend user list is a powerful WordPress feature with searching, filtering, and built-in actions on users. This feature is also flexible for adding custom features through custom actions in the Bulk Actions section. There are scenarios where we need to execute certain operations on a set of users. The following are some examples of such scenarios:

• Adding a specific database value to the set of users
• Sending a custom email to multiple users at once
• Adding a set of users to a group
• Sending data relating to a set of users to a third-party service such as Mailchimp

In such cases, we have to build a custom screen that lets the administrator select the users from the database and submit a custom form ...