WP-Members 3.4.6 is currently available as a beta release. Should all go well with beta testing, I expect it to be released into production early next week (targeting Tuesday, November 29).
If you don’t know how to install a beta release for testing, read this FAQ.
Bug Fixes
- Fixes a bug in the user profile update object that prevented non-admin users from updating any of the WP-Members custom fields in the dashboard profile view.
- Fixes a bug in the registration/profile update logic that checks if the user object is a valid user. It is very rare that it wouldn’t be, and I have never received a bug report that anyone experienced this, but it is being fixed none-the-less.
Improvements
- Adds author ID support for the [wpmem_field] shortcode. Previously, this shortcode would only display data for the current user ID or a user ID passed in the URL query string. This update allows you to specify [[wpmem field name_of_field id=”author”]] to use it to display custom field data for the current post author. (This was a feature request from a user, and I thought is was a great update to the plugin)
- Updated the
wpmem_{$form}_defaultsfilter hook to include the tag of the form being filtered (login|changepassword|resetpassword|forgotusername). - Added two new dialog strings for user account pending approval (acct_not_approved) and user account not valided (acct_not_validated).
- Updates the
rktgk_build_html_tag()utility function to include an “echo” parameter to automatically print the result to the screen.
New API functions
wpmem_get_user_by_meta()– retrieves a $user object by user meta value (WP’sget_user_by()only does this by username, email, and ID, so this new utility allows you to query a user by a custom meta value.wpmem_add_membership_to_post()-programmatically adds a membership to a post. Can be used for bulk and on-the-fly post restriction.wpmem_create_membership()– programmatically creates a membership. This can be used to create new memberships based on other actions (such as a value in a registration form).wpmem_create_username_from_email()– can be used to create a username value from the user’s email address. Usernames are a required field in WP – even if you don’t use it in the form – it’s a mandatory value for the schema. I have seen too many users simply fill this with the email address which is not a good idea because usernames cannot be changed, thus leading to obvious problems. WooCommerce includes a function that does this, and if WC is installed, this function will default to that result. But if WC is not installed, this function will generate a value from the email user, and check it for uniqueness, adding a number if necessary until it finds a unique value.wpmem_login_link(),wpmem_get_login_link(),wpmem_reg_link(),wpmem_get_reg_link()for getting and displaying links to these identified pages (based on the plugin’s settings).rktgk_wp_parse_args()– similar to WP’s nativewp_parse_args(), but fully recursive (which WP’s function is not) so it can handle multi-dimensional arrays.rktgk_get_row()– functions like WP’swpdb::get_row(), but incorporateswpdb::prepare()by default, saving a necessary (and critically important) sanitization step (that people tend to forget).