We have created a user panel for our users in our site. Now we want to make a new part in the toolbar of the user panel to send private messages to every user we need.
For that, we created a post type as private_message and created a meta box for choosing the username (some body should read the message) and then we created a part in toolbar of user panel to show the private_message to user.
for display the private_message to user, we use the following query:
<?php
$user_id = get_current_user_id();
$the_query = new WP_Query (array(
'post_status'=> 'publish',
'post_type' => 'private_message',
'meta_key' => 'Private_for',
'meta_value' => $user_id,
));
?>
<div class="private_message_list">
<ul>
<?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
<li class="private_message"><?php the_title(); ?></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<p><?php esc_html_e( 'Sorry, there is no message to you.' ); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
</div>
but the issue is:
we want to display a label on that part (in toolbar) when user has received the new private_message and then by clicking, never see the label again unless that user receives another private_message. Wow can we do that?
we mean some thing like this:
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please help us