Home of WP-Members, The Original WordPress Membership Plugin
Chad Butler · ·
This will be the first in what I hope to be a series of posts on adding WP-Members elements directly to your theme templates (or custom templates). Being able to customize you theme at the template level will give you an additional layer of customization that will allow you to do almost anything with the plugin in terms of registration and post/page restriction.
This first example is just a basic look at the single post template. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
This tip is a request from a user. I like user requests – that makes it easier to deliver the kind of tutorials users are looking for instead of things I just come up with on my own.
This particular tip will address how you can automatically send an email to all users when a post is published or updated. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
WP-Members has its own built-in form field validation for things like usernames, email, and required fields. But what if you need to validate other elements, such as testing to see if an entered value is a number? Yes, the plugin framework allows for you to extend the form field validation to whatever you need.
Chad Butler · ·
When moderating registration and sending admin notification emails, WP-Members has a shortcode in the email that allows you to click through to that particular user’s profile to activate them. But what if you want the link itself to activate the user? This tutorial will show you how to set up a process to make that a single click process. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
Note: As of WP-Members 3.0, you can add custom post types to the plugin’s main blocking options. See the options documentation section on Custom Post Types.
With explosion of custom post types in WordPress 3.0, the WordPress world has changed somewhat from what it was when WP-Members was first developed. If you have a theme or site that uses custom post types, you may find that you need to make some adjustments to accommodate what content you would like to be blocked.
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