Wordpress wp_update_user only updates after refresh

Question

I have a custom page in my Wordpress installation which, among other things, allows a user to display and change their email address from the front-end.

When they do, though, the email gets correctly changed in the DB, but is not updated on the page until another refresh (with or without a $_POST). This behaviour is really weird and I can't find the cause.

Here is the problematic part of code:

if ( !empty( $_POST['user_email'] ) )
    wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $queried_user->id, 'user_email' => esc_attr( $_POST['user_email'] ) ) ) ;

If I execute var_dump($_POST) and var_dump($queried_user), I get that user_email is correctly displayed in the $_POST variable, but, accordingly, remains the old one in the $queried_user variable. Looking at the DB through PHPMyAdmin, though, I can see that the data has already been updated. After another refresh of the browser page, everything displays correctly.

Any pointers?

Answer 1

Not sure how you are populating $queried_user, but try this:

if ( !empty( $_POST['user_email'] ) )
{
   $queried_user->user_email=$_POST['user_email'];
   wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $queried_user->id, 'user_email' => esc_attr( $queried_user->user_email ) ) ) ;
}