Chad Butler

How to hide posts completely

Chad Butler · Feb 10, 2015 ·

There are times when a site operator may wish to completely hide certain posts – either all posts that are blocked, posts of a certain category, or other possibilities. While the main process that the plugin operates on is to show titles and excerpts on summary pages to drive users to conversion (registration), that is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

WP-Members 3.0 will begin to introduce certain administrative options to manage this process. But until then, here is a discussion of how to unload posts from display depending on criteria that you establish. Continue Reading →

Creating a login link with redirect back to the original page

Chad Butler · Feb 9, 2015 ·

Often times, the WP-Members plugin may be used in a theme or other situation where there is already a log in link. A lot of these types of default log in links direct to the main WP login. But they often have the nice feature of redirecting back to the referring page. This example will show how to set up a WP-Members login page, create a link to this page, and include a redirect back to the referring page.

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Configure the PayPal extension for multi-unit pricing

Chad Butler · Feb 5, 2015 ·

Similar to configuring the PayPal extension for multi-tiered pricing, this tutorial will cover how to configure the extension for multi-unit (time period) pricing. For example, if you offer 1 month for $10, but want to offer discounts for 6 months and 1 year at $55 and $100 respectively.

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Redirect Blocked Content to a Log In Page

Chad Butler · Feb 3, 2015 ·

By default, the plugin automatically places a login form in place of blocked content if the user is not logged in. But sometimes plugin users prefer to redirect a user to a log in page when they attempt to access a page or post with blocked content.

This can usually be accomplished with a custom function to check for the user’s login state, whether the content is to be blocked, and a redirect process. Continue Reading →

Replace the default login and registration forms with buttons

Chad Butler · Feb 2, 2015 ·

login_reg_buttons A frequent question that I receive is how to replace the plugin’s default process of placing the login and registration forms with a process that takes the user to a login page (and/or registration page).

I’ve put together a code snippet that you can use as-is, or customize as needed in order to create a process that displays buttons that direct to a login page and registration page. If you look at the screen shot to the left, you’ll see what this process will produce. The example shows a post with an excerpt using the Twenty Fourteen theme.

The example provides the code snippet (which you can customize) as well as some initial CSS (which you can also customize) and will explain the process used to implement this change. Continue Reading →