Chad Butler

How to use action and filter hooks

Chad Butler · Jul 7, 2012 ·

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The WP-Members plugin offers a great deal of extensibility and customization through the use of filter and action hooks, much like WordPress. These operate the same way you would use any other WordPress hook.

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Generic Header Login

Chad Butler · Jun 19, 2012 ·

I receive a lot of requests for how to put a login form into the theme header. This is not really a difficult process, but to make the “not-to-difficult” even easier, I have put together some generic code that can be used for this. (Now also available as a widget.) Continue Reading →

Bootstrap sidebar login

Chad Butler · May 25, 2012 ·

The sidebar login form on this site is customized with the Bootstrap sprites using the method described here. Continue Reading →

Using wpmem_block to block a category

Chad Butler · May 24, 2012 ·

Suppose you want to block any post that is in a certain category. This example shows you how to do that using the wpmem_block filter hook. Continue Reading →

Redirect a user on first login

Chad Butler · May 15, 2012 ·

Suppose you have some information you want to direct first time users to, such as a rules page, or a list of certain posts, etc. You would like to do that the first time they login as a new user. You can do that with the magic of the wpmem_login_filter.

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