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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 →
If you manage a site that has a lot of registrations, sometimes it is helpful to show the date the user registered as a custom column in the WordPress admin page Users > All Users. I have shown in another post how you can add that data as well as other data to this table.
But what if you want to make it sortable so you can sort the table by the date the user registered to see what users have registered most recently? Here is a way that you can do that. Continue Reading →
With both the general plugin and the various extensions, there are several columns that you may wish to add to the User Admin Panel. In my user panel, I like to see the date a user registered, their last login, and when their subscription expires. These custom columns involve data that is native to WordPress (user registered), from the User Tracking Extension (last login), and the PayPal Subscription Extension (expires).
This tutorial will show you some examples that you can use, but it can be easily adapted to other custom columns you might want to add as well.
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Over in this post, I described a method of displaying different menus to users based on their login status by setting up your theme to display the different menus. But isn’t there an easier way that doesn’t involve theme edits?
Yes. And I’m glad you asked that question.
This method is even easier and simply requires you to drop the included code snippet into your theme’s functions.php file. You will need to update the variable names in the snippet to reflect your menu names.
Here is a handy function that I wrote to display the post access level when a user is not logged in OR they have registered and logged in, but have not yet completed payment.
If you use the PayPal addon module, you may find this useful for all kinds of different ideas. The concept is easily adapted from what is displayed here.
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