Tips and Tricks

Restrict a post or a page to a specific user role

Chad Butler · Jun 20, 2023 ·

While the core plugin restricts posts to logged in users, and can also create memberships for other types of restriction, sometimes you may wish to restrict content to a user role.

This custom code snippet can be copy-pasted to wherever you store custom code and will add a list of roles to the WP-Members restriction meta box in the post editor, and then will restrict the content based on those roles.

Note that this functionality is included in the WP-Members Advanced Options extension.

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How to customize the profile links

Chad Butler · Mar 9, 2022 ·

This is a tutorial article on how to customize the profile links for the logged in state of the [wpmem_profile] shortcode. We will focus on different ways to approach it, all of which use the wpmem_member_links_args filter hook.

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Add or remove fields based on page

Chad Butler · Mar 5, 2022 ·

Sometimes, you may find that you want to add or remove fields from the registration form based on the page you are on. This may be the case if you set up different registration pages, or you might want to have a specific registration page with certain fields and the automatic forms that show on blocked content have different fields. There are many ways to approach it, but ultimately, it is very simple to add or remove fields from the form with the wpmem_fields filter.

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Redirect blocked content to a login page

Chad Butler · Oct 7, 2020 ·

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While the WP-Members plugin is built to automatically replace blocked content with a login and registration form, sometimes it is necessary to redirect blocked content to a specific login page. This is generally the case with builder plugins (unless you refilter the content), or plugins that use post meta for displaying extra content, such as WooCommerce, Calendar/Event plugins, etc.

This post covers some a basic way to provide the same user experience as the default setup, but by redirecting the blocked content to a login page. Continue Reading →

Remove WP-Members database entries

Chad Butler · Jan 14, 2019 ·

Sometimes it may be necessary to remove all WP-Members entries in the database. While the plugin can generally clean up after itself using the “delete” option in the WP Plugins panel, this essentially removes settings information. There are some additional entries that may be left behind depending on your configuration. This includes some user meta data, and if membership products are used, some post meta data. Continue Reading →