Shortcodes

List of replacement shortcodes

Chad Butler · Jul 13, 2016 ·

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There have been some questions and confusion regarding the the [wp-members] shortcode tag. Any shortcodes using this tag are obsolete. If any of the old tags are used on your site, you may notice entries in your error log indicating that the tag has been deprecated and replaced. While the tag will continue to work for now, any of these shortcodes should be replaced with more recent tags.

This process began in version 3.0.0 with the introduction of the [wpmem_form] shortcode and was completed in the 3.1.2 release. The following is a list of obsolete tags and their equivalent replacement: Continue Reading →

Create a sidebar login status and logout link

Chad Butler · Oct 18, 2012 ·

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 →

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 →

Adding shortcodes to other locations

Chad Butler · Aug 27, 2012 ·

Suppose you want to use shortcodes (WP-Members or otherwise) in locations other than the body text? Here are some snippets you can add to your functions.php file to allow the use of shortcodes in the sidebar, comments, and excerpts: Continue Reading →

Creating sidebar content with the logged in/out shortcodes

Chad Butler · Jul 8, 2012 ·

A powerful use of the WP-Members logged in/out shortcodes is using them to display “login specific” content in the sidebar. This post will discuss how to set that up. Continue Reading →