Home of WP-Members, The Original WordPress Membership Plugin
I had initially expected that 2.8.8 would wrap up 2.8.x and the next release would be begin 2.9. But it looks like we need one more update to get through the period before 2.9 will be ready.
2.8.9 contains a couple of fixes, some updates to deal with the new Twenty Fourteen theme, and some updates that will help users transition to 2.9 (which will be rebuilding the form building functions). Continue Reading →
If you using a plugin to implement a CAPTCHA on the WordPress login form (the backend login, wp-login.php), you will find that this is not always compatible with the WP-Members front end login.
WP-Members includes WP’s native hooks such as login_form for broad compatibility with plugins that may add additional authentication to the login. But these are not always compatible with WP-Members or with front-end logins in general.
If the third party plugin does not load its scripts on the front end, it will not be compatible. If you are getting failed logins with strange error messages (such as “human verification incorrect” or something like that), then the issue is likely that a third party CAPTCHA is being used, but cannot authenticate on the front end of the site.
What happens is that in order to implement the CAPTCHA, the plugin must remove the function wp_authenticate_username_password from the authenticate process with remove_filter. This allows the plugin to implement its own authentication that includes not only username and password, but also will validate the CAPTCHA.
This creates a problem since WP-Members also uses WP’s authentication to log a user in. Because the WP-Members form will only be passing two parameters, username and password, and the authentication is now requiring the addition of a third parameter (the CAPTCHA) that is not included in that form, the login will fail.
There are ways to work around this.
Continue Reading →Every once in awhile, I get a question about restricting content (either page or post) to a specific user. There is a limited way to do that with the wpmem_securify filter, similar to the method for blocking content by category and user level.
This process is actually easier than blocking by levels or categories because you only need to determine three things:
This example will make use of a couple of new action hooks that will allow us to add a dropdown selector of users to the WP-Members post meta box. Continue Reading →
This post documents the new wpmem_login_form function updates for the upcoming 2.9 release. This content is currently only available to premium members. If you are not currently a member, find out more here. Continue Reading →
If you manage a site that has a lot of registrations, sometimes it is helpful to show the date the user registered as a custom column in the WordPress admin page Users > All Users. I have shown in another post how you can add that data as well as other data to this table.
But what if you want to make it sortable so you can sort the table by the date the user registered to see what users have registered most recently? Here is a way that you can do that. Continue Reading →