Display Name and others within get / update user meta functions

[sc0ttkclark]

Something I'd like to see implemented in a future version is the ability to use this type of code to update single values for a user

$display_name = get_user_meta($userid,'display_name',true);
$email = get_user_meta($userid,'user_email',true);
$newemail = 'my@email.com';
update_user_meta($userid,'user_email',$newemail);

I'd like to see this be possible for the following fields:

user_login
user_pass
user_nicename
user_email
user_url
user_registered
display_name

Patch to come this week..

[scribu]

The *_user_meta() functions should remain simple wrappers for their *_metadata() counterparts.

Accessing fields regardless if they're in wp_users of wp_usermeta should be done with a new set of functions. This was already suggested by filosofo, but I can't seem to find the ticket now.

[scribu]

Found it: #14302

Going to close this as duplicate, since it seems like a special case of the more general proposal there.