Chad Butler

Customizing form CSS: Setting maximum form width

Chad Butler · Jan 12, 2015 ·

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If you use a theme that has a fairly wide main content area and couple that with one of the plugin’s default stylesheets that uses a percentage width for the form, you may find it useful to add a property definition of max-width to set maximum width for the forms. Continue Reading →

Customizing form CSS: Adjusting floated form elements

Chad Butler · Jan 12, 2015 ·

Some of the generic stylesheets included with the plugin use the CSS property definition “float” to align the form label and input tags next to each other in a pure CSS fashion.

Sometimes, CSS from the theme and the plugin can collide in a way that causes these elements to not be in alignment. The result can make the form look rather strange because some elements will be squeezed out of place. Continue Reading →

Restrict a post or a page to a specific user role – multiple select version

Chad Butler · Jan 7, 2015 ·

Similar to how we took the post/page restriction for specific users to a multiple select version, this post takes the restrict content by role idea and expands it to a multiple select version.

This is an extension of the ideas presented in the tutorial Restrict Content by Role with the twist that this version makes some minor changes to incorporate an HTML multi-select for selecting multiple roles for access to content.

The differences between these two code snippets is minimal, so I won’t actually repeat the concept in this post. But you should read the original version to get an understanding of what is being done and how it works. This post will just highlight what’s different. Continue Reading →

Log in with Email or Username

Chad Butler · Jan 6, 2015 ·

Here is a simple method for allowing users to log in with either their username or their email address.

This process allows the user to log in using either their username or their email address. It’s not difficult to implement and leaves you with a clean process where you don’t have to worry about what to do when users change their email address.

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Add current password confirmation to change password form

Chad Butler · Dec 30, 2014 ·

Recently, a question came up about adding an additional field to the change password form for the user to confirm their current password as a requirement of changing the password.

Adding the extra field is very easy with a filter. The trickier part is to handle validating the new form input and providing an error message. But this example will show you a reasonable approach to doing that. Continue Reading →