Tips and Tricks

Adding WP-Members Columns to the User Admin Panel

Chad Butler · Nov 27, 2013 ·

With both the general plugin and the various extensions, there are several columns that you may wish to add to the User Admin Panel. In my user panel, I like to see the date a user registered, their last login, and when their subscription expires. These custom columns involve data that is native to WordPress (user registered), from the User Tracking Extension (last login), and the PayPal Subscription Extension (expires).

This tutorial will show you some examples that you can use, but it can be easily adapted to other custom columns you might want to add as well.
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Add a privacy policy or a terms of service in a textarea field

Chad Butler · Nov 26, 2013 ·

The plugin has a built-in process for adding a Terms of Service popup and that can be used in a number of different ways, or could be changed completely using some different filters. But what about adding a separate Privacy Policy in a textarea field? Or including your Terms of Service in the same way? Here is a quick tutorial with some example code snippets to get you started. Continue Reading →

Automatically clone theme menu location to display different menus based on login status

Chad Butler · Nov 21, 2013 ·

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One of the most common questions that I receive is how to display menu items based on login status. Because there truly are several answers with multiple options, it an become a little confusing, even to more advanced users. It really boils down to how to you want to construct your site and how do you want things to work?

I have provided different methods of doing this in the past, but that was often difficult for some users because you really needed to understand how to set up a child theme and do theme customizations appropriately. That is not easily within reach of all users.

So I have put together a plugin extension to make this process more automatic. Now you can handle everything through the WP Menus admin panel. It will automatically clone any menu areas of your theme, thus providing you with the ability to serve different menus for those menu areas based on whether a user is logged in or not.

Add a custom tab to the WP-Members admin panel to send test emails to the administrator

Chad Butler · Nov 11, 2013 ·

I had a user request some time ago to allow the plugin to send test emails to the administrator so that so a site owner could test both email functionality and view the content of each email without going through the hassle of doing a test registration each time. I thought that sounded like a great idea.

This was originally offered to users as a code snippet, but has since grown into an extension package for the plugin. The extension will add a tab to the WP-Members admin panel where you can ask the plugin to send test emails to you for review. Continue Reading →

Generic Header Login as a Widget

Chad Butler · Oct 12, 2013 ·

Using the generic header login HTML as a starting point, I created a header login widget. This can be used in themes that have a header widget area where the sidebar widget might not fit well.

Consider this a framework to start from. The code for the form as well as the CSS for styling for form can be customized to fit your theme’s needs. I’ve added lots of comments in the code snippets so you can follow how it is being done. Continue Reading →