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User List URL Rewrite for Nicer Profile URLs

Chad Butler · Dec 7, 2018 ·

Currently, the User List delivers a link to a user’s detailed profile as https://yoursite.com/your-profile-page/?uid=123. I have been wanting to make that cleaner with a URL like: https://yoursite.com/your-profile-page/username/ or something of that type for some time.

This is planned as a feature for the plugin’s 2.0.0 release. However, until that is read for release

It has been something that I’ve been working on and since it is taking some time to complete, I decided that I would publish some custom options you can do with some filters and actions. I have made these essentially “cut-and-paste” options so that you don’t really need to do anything to the code snippet other than add it to your functions.php file (or wherever you put custom code snippets). Continue Reading →

Create a Custom 404 Page

Chad Butler · Dec 5, 2018 ·

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WP-Members offers the ability to “hide” content from non-registered users. When content is hidden, it is as if the content does not exist if the user is not logged in. That results in a 404 – which basically is a “not found” message.

But a generic 404 message like “Oops! That page can’t be found” may not be exactly what you want. In that case, you will want to create a custom 404 template. Continue Reading →

Login with Username or Email

Chad Butler · Dec 1, 2018 ·

Part of the WP-Members 3.2 project involved allowing users to log in using either their username or their email address. This makes the WP-Members Email as Username extension obsolete (which, if you’re wondering, is why it is no longer supported).

However, because all of the translation files still reflect “Username” in the login form field text, I decided to give the translators time to catch up on the language packs. So while you can log in using either a username or an email address, the label on the form only says “Username.” Continue Reading →

Using Anonymous Functions for Filters and Actions

Chad Butler · Nov 12, 2018 · Leave a Comment

The more customization that you do when building a WordPress site, the more you will find that you have a lot of functions hooked to actions and filters. Sometimes these functions might be quite simple, returning just a single line of text or replacing a single word. Is there an easy way to make this more compact?

Yes, there is! Here’s how: Continue Reading →

Display form rows in columns

Chad Butler · Oct 19, 2018 ·

This tutorial will address the common question, “How do I layout the form in columns?”

Let me say that this tutorial is one of those that is a “guideline,” not an exact science. That is due to the number of different variables that cannot be controlled. So for best chance of success, I recommend that you start with the basic process exactly as in the example. Try to reproduce that first so that you understand what it is doing before moving on to something complicated.

The following is a discussion of the the exact code snippets that I used in this demo (which also uses the code snippets for assigning placeholders to the fields and removing labels).

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