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Customized sidebar widget

Chad Butler · Nov 11, 2014 ·

I often get questions about the filters that I use on this site for the sidebar widget. This post has the exact custom filters that I use, copy/pasted from my own functions.php file.

For those with questions about how the sidebar widget is styled, that is all CSS and a lot of it is from the Genesis Theme Framework. This post does not address that. What it does address is how I add the gravatar image and change the log out link to include “edit profile”. Continue Reading →

Make WP-Members fields in the users screen sortable

Chad Butler · Nov 6, 2014 ·

Here is a code snippet that you can use to make all of the WP-Members custom fields sortable in the Users > All Users screen.

To use this code, add the entire code snippet to your functions.php file. Any field in the WP-Members Fields tab that you have selected to display on the Users Screen will be sortable.

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Set user expiration to a fixed date

Chad Butler · Nov 3, 2014 ·

The PayPal Subscription Extension operates by setting a user’s expiration date to today + the subscription period. For example, if the subscription period is 1 year, the expiration date will be one year from now.

But what if you want all users to expire/renew on the same day of the year? Or if you would like to just set a hard date far out in the future?  Yes, there is a way you can do such things.

There is an action hook that comes just after the user’s expiration date is automatically set – wpmem_exp_after_set_exp.  Using this action, you can create a custom function to change the expiration date that is automatically set by the extension to whatever you want.  Here are three simple examples. Continue Reading →

Set user forum access when using bbPress with the PayPal subscription extension

Chad Butler · Nov 2, 2014 ·

When using WP-Members with bbPress and the WP-Members PayPal subscription extension, there are some additional considerations for your setup to integrate these plugins smoothly and restrict forum access for paid users who have a valid expiration date.  

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Add front end field sorting to the User List

Chad Butler · Nov 1, 2014 ·

This set of code snippets will add a list of sorting links to the top of the User List, a link for each of the fields displayed in the main list. 

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