Most active user plugin shows two different users when username is changed

Question

If a user changed his username then the Most Active Users plugin shows two different users. I know the activities of other users will eventually leave that unused username behind. But there should be a fix for this?

Answer 1

Yes, and it shouldn't be complex to improve. From this line and below instead of using the username/handle, which is the value that changes and generates the fake idea of having 2 different users, the userid should be used. Then, once data is added up, turn all those userids into handles (based on the current handle assigned to each userid) for printing.

Comments

could you just write it in php?
it's not as easy as you 've written