Showing registered users on WordPress using PHP

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Displaying the total number of registered users on WordPress

1. Log in to your WordPress site with an administrator account.
2. On the Dashboard in the left sidebar, click Appearance, and then click Theme Editor:\
3. On the Theme Editor, select the Theme you want to edit from the dropdown:\
4. The files for this selected theme are listed on the right column under Theme Files. Click on the file named “functions.php”:\
5. Insert the following code to the end of functions.php file and click Update File Button to save the changes:

// Function to return user count

function wpb_user_count() {

$usercount = count_users();

$result = $usercount['total_users'];

return $result;

}

// Creating a shortcode to display user count

add_shortcode('user_count', 'wpb_user_count');

6. To display the total number of registered users on WordPress site shortcode to [user_count] the post or page.

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