WordPress 5 Cookbook

How it works...

The user table contains default columns, as well as columns created by other plugins. We can use it for displaying one or two additional columns with custom data. However, in scenarios where we need to display a large amount of data for a single user, it's not ideal to add columns for each value.

As a solution, we added one column in the user list and linked it to another window. Let's take a look at the following steps to understand the process.

• First, we registered a new column in step 2 with the use of the manage_users_columns filter. In step 3, we used a manage_users_custom_column action to display a link in the column instead of a fixed value.

We already looked at how the new column works in the Adding new user account ...