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Create a sidebar login status and logout link

Chad Butler · Oct 18, 2012 ·

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In some layouts, you may wish to not use the WP-Members sidebar widget for logging users in, but you may still want to display a user’s login status (when logged in) and provide a logout link. Here is how you can do that with a plain text widget. Continue Reading →

Workaround for registration form layout issues

Chad Butler · Oct 16, 2012 ·

In some cases, you may find some strange wrapping with the default WP-Members registration form. While the best solution is to customize the CSS with a custom stylesheet for your site, there is also a quick workaround that can be applied. Continue Reading →

Create a custom shortcode to display content to registered members based on checkbox value

Chad Butler · Oct 12, 2012 ·

Suppose that you have a checkbox in your registration form and you want to have a shortcode to display content to users who have a certain value of that checkbox. This tutorial will show you how to create such a shortcode. This concept could also be extended to be any specific value from registration – it is only limited by your imagination. Continue Reading →

Redirecting WordPress urls for login, logout, and registration

Chad Butler · Oct 9, 2012 ·

Depending on a number of factors, there may be places in your WordPress site where login and logout URLs are directing to the WordPress “backend” wp-login.php. These can be in the comments.php template or other places in your theme. Also, various plugins such as forums will utilize these urls.

This article will explain a simple way of redirecting these URLs to the login and registration pages set in WP-Members.

NOTE: The WP-Members Advanced Options extension has simple checkbox options to replace the native WP URLs for these actions with the WP-Members URLs.

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How to add multiple user levels by category

Chad Butler · Oct 8, 2012 ·

This post will demonstrate how to restrict content to users based on user levels. Content could be restricted by category, by tag, or by some other meta (such as a custom field).

This example will demonstrate “level” restriction by category, such as Silver, Gold, and Platinum categories. In this example, we will set up those levels so that the Gold level users have access to Gold & Silver, and Platinum level users have access to all of the content.

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