Home of WP-Members, The Original WordPress Membership Plugin
Chad Butler · ·
If you are an existing user of this site, you probably noticed a major change in the look and feel of the site this week. I have relaunched the site on the Genesis 2.0 Framework.
The old version of the site had been on Twitter Bootstrap and it was time for a little makeover. This change will allow me to write another round of tutorials for the “How I Did It’s category so that users can replicate some of the customizations being showcased here. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
WP-Members 2.8.5 was released today. This version is a minor update.
For all users, the following updates are part of the 2.8.5 release: Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
I’ve had a few requests for help with combating registration spam using the plugin. To be honest, I’m right there with you all – I was getting a great deal of registration spam here on the site. I’ve been working on how to reduce that with a number of approaches.
One approach is the Security extension which has settings to set up black lists. But blocking IP addresses needs to be done with caution. Many spammers are not spamming from their own machines. Some of it comes from innocent victims with compromised systems.
Another possible solution that can work well is to use what is known as a “honey pot.” This is essentially a trap that the spam bot puts its hand into and is trapped. That is the method I will describe here.
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The Blacklist add-on will allow you to prevent registration based on the user’s IP address, email address, or username. You can also set an error message for each one of these criteria.
Chad Butler · ·
I have a challenge creating a title for this tutorial, so to describe what it covers, I recently had a question regarding how to dynamically put a redirect back to the original content into the link to the login page. In this instance, the user had customized how they were using the plugin and rather than having the login in place of blocked content as is the default, they had a link to the login page. Continue Reading →
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