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Send new user an activation link in the new registration email

Chad Butler · Jan 23, 2015 ·

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In the past, I have put together a method for making the link in the admin notification email a single click process for activating users. But what if you want users to be sent an activation link to confirm their account and activate themselves?

This tutorial will walk you through changing the initial email to the user to include an activation link that, when clicked will activate the user account. This can be used as an email verification process. The tutorial includes all necessary code snippets as well as detailed instructions for setting it up. Continue Reading →

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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Restrict content by user level

Chad Butler · May 16, 2014 ·

I have written code snippets before on how to restrict content by user level, but that particular code snippet is based on using categories as the user levels, with higher level users still being able to access lower level content. For example, Silver, Gold, and Platinum level users having access or not to categories of the same name.

But what if you have content that you need to block by level that is not necessarily in a category? Or what if you are using pages that need the same level of restriction.

Here is a code snippet that will allow you to assign a “level” to any content – post or page, and then assign a user level for the users. This example provides a working code snippet for applying a series of progressive levels (higher level users have access to lower level content). The example begins with three generically named levels, these can be renamed and expanded or contracted as needed.Continue Reading →

Confirm password at registration and have password meet specific criteria

Chad Butler · Apr 25, 2014 ·

I’ve shown other code snippets for similar things – password validation at registration and having a password meet specific criteria. However, the password requirements example was geared toward a setup that was requiring this when a user changes their password (they were not allowing it to be set at registration).

So here is an example that combines the two of these elements at registration. Continue Reading →