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Customizing form CSS: Login widget with inline inputs

Chad Butler · Jan 13, 2015 ·

This post is an example of manipulating the WP-Members login widget to display inline (inputs on a single line).

Since the involves some HTML changes and some specific CSS, please consider this an example. You will get your best results if you first try to reproduce the example as given. While you might get part way there just dropping the example into your own site, if you are running 20 different plugins and a highly customized theme, you probably won’t get the same results out of the gate. This example is not intended to be a one-size-fits-all solution because with the amount of variable pieces, that’s not realistic. It is intended to be an example of specific filter hooks available in the plugin for you to be able to learn how customize the HTML output to fit your specific need.

Here is an image of what we will create with this example:

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Customizing form CSS: Custom login form with side-by-side inputs

Chad Butler · Jan 12, 2015 ·

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I do get requests from time to time about how to put form elements side-by-side. This example will show you how to take the default login form, apply a wrapper for the rows, and some CSS that will handle the layout. Continue Reading →

Customizing form CSS: Setting maximum form width

Chad Butler · Jan 12, 2015 ·

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 →