WordPress 5 Cookbook

How to do it...

Take the following steps to build a user search and list using a shortcode:

1. Open the wpcookbookchapter5.php file of the WPCookbook Chapter 5 plugin in the code editor.
2. Add the following code block to define a shortcode:

add_shortcode('wpccp_user_search', 'wpccp_chapter5_user_search');function wpccp_chapter5_user_search($atts,$content){  // Step 3 code should be placed in next line}

3. Add the following code block inside the wpccp_chapter5_user_search function to display the search form with a search field and a button:

// Step 4 code$display = "<form method='POST' > <span>".__('Search ','wpccp')." <input type='text' value='".$search_val."' name='wpccp_user_search' /> <input type='submit' value='".__('Search Users','wpccp')."' ...