Tips and Tricks

Adding shortcodes to other locations

Chad Butler · Aug 27, 2012 ·

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By default, WordPress only parses shortcodes in the main content area. 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 theme’s functions.php file to allow the use of shortcodes in the sidebar, comments, and excerpts:

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Remove the name# anchor from the ‘more’ link

Chad Butler · Aug 22, 2012 ·

This particular code snippet isn’t necessarily part of the plugin itself. But since the plugin relies on post excerpts, it can help fix a what can be a minor annoyance on some sites. WordPress automatically puts in an anchor link to where the ‘more’ tag is. So when you click “read more” the browser will not only load the full post, it will jump to the location where the ‘more’ tag is.Depending on the length of your excerpt and the header of your site, this can make browsing awkward; especially if your average reader is like me – wanting to read the entire post from the beginning.

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Disable RSS feeds

Chad Butler · Aug 20, 2012 ·

The WP-Members recommended WP Setting is to set RSS to summary. But if your site doesn’t need to have an RSS feed (such as a static site using only pages, or if you simply do not promote via RSS), it might be advantageous to turn of RSS. Then that is one less thing you have to worry about protecting. Here is how you can turn off RSS feeds for your site altogether. Continue Reading →

Bootstrap sidebar login example for non-Bootstrap themes

Chad Butler · Aug 18, 2012 ·

There is a lot of interest in the sidebar login shown on this site, even by users who may not be using a Twitter Bootstrap theme. The tutorial in the “How I Did It” category is specific to Twitter Bootstrap, which this particular site uses. But this tutorial is an example of how you can create this type of login wiget styling without using a theme based on Twitter Bootstrap. Actually, you will be using Bootstrap or some of it, but loading it with your existing theme and/or custom WP-Members custom css. For this example, we will create this with a simple theme – WordPress TwentyTen. Continue Reading →

Blocking content in a custom template

Chad Butler · Aug 11, 2012 ·

Lately, this question has come up a lot. How do you block content that is outside the loop and still display the login/registration forms on the page.

This type of issue may come up if you are using a custom query to put some specific content on a specific page, or it might be that you are displaying specific data that you want to protect. As long as it is something in the WordPress template framework, you can still use WP-Members to block the content. Continue Reading →