Tips and Tricks

Creating menus based on login status

Chad Butler · Jul 8, 2012 ·

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In this example, I will show you how to display a different menu for users based on their login status for the WordPress TwentyTen theme. This process can be adapted to any theme (and using the same principles, could be adapted to use anywhere on your WP site).

Note: There is an alternate (and easier) method of doing this posted here. That post displays the method currently used on this site.

There is now a Logged In Menus Extension that makes the entire process as easy as installing a plugin.

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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 →

Add a country list dropdown to the registration form

Chad Butler · Jul 8, 2012 ·

Here is a list of countries that you can use for creating a country dropdown list for your registration form.Continue Reading →

Add links to login and register in the post restricted message

Chad Butler · Jul 8, 2012 ·

There are html anchor tags in the default login and registration forms that you can use to hyperlink to. This post describes how you can add links to login and register in the post restricted message. Continue Reading →

How to use action and filter hooks

Chad Butler · Jul 7, 2012 ·

The WP-Members plugin offers a great deal of extensibility and customization through the use of filter and action hooks, much like WordPress. These operate the same way you would use any other WordPress hook.

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