Hook for user when changing their email

  • Resolved limearts

    (@limearts)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    im new to development with wordpress API and stuck. In one Installation are some plugins where used, that store data not in a user-specific id, but in an emailadress set when saving the settings for the first time.

    When users changing their email-address, some of these plugins can’t get their saved data because they’re simply can’t find the “new” email.

    No big deal i thought. Just update the plugins data with an sql update, at the time the user is changing the saved address. But i can’t find the right hook to update the data with $old_email and $new_email. I think it must be hooked at the moment, a user is loading the url from send_confirmation_on_profile_email? But what is the hook for this savestate?

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic
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  • You can try this filter hook email_change_email. It will help you sure.

    function filter_email_change_email( $email_change_email, $user, $userdata ) { 
    // make filter magic happen here... 
    return $email_change_email; 
}; 
         
// add the filter 
add_filter( 'email_change_email', 'filter_email_change_email', 10, 3 );

    —————— OR —————— 

    function wpdocs_check_user_email_updated( $user_id, $old_user_data ) {
    $old_user_email = $old_user_data->data->user_email;
 
    $user = get_userdata( $user_id );
    $new_user_email = $user->user_email;
 
    if ( $new_user_email !== $old_user_email ) {
        // Do something if old and new email aren't the same
    }
}
add_action( 'profile_update', 'wpdocs_check_user_email_updated', 10, 2 );
    • This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by mdshak.
    Thread Starter limearts

    (@limearts)

    Thanks a lot mdshak!

    Yes the second snippet did the job. It was one of the first codes i used days before, but a simple error mislead me to a longer, more complex journey than necessary.

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