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The more customization that you do when building a WordPress site, the more you will find that you have a lot of functions hooked to actions and filters. Sometimes these functions might be quite simple, returning just a single line of text or replacing a single word. Is there an easy way to make this more compact?
Yes, there is! Here’s how: Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
Recently, a question came up about adding an additional field to the change password form for the user to confirm their current password as a requirement of changing the password.
Adding the extra field is very easy with a filter. The trickier part is to handle validating the new form input and providing an error message. But this example will show you a reasonable approach to doing that. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
NOTE: if you are using version 2.9+, there is a new set of code snippets using some new filter hooks that make this process easier.
One of the requests I get most often is how can I change the plugin to have the password reset only require the user to give their email address. This especially comes up when people customize the process to use the person’s email address as their username, since a password reset form with “username” and “email” doesn’t make much sense in that situation.
Well, since version 2.8.5, there has been a filter hook in the password reset process that allows you to filter the arguments that are passed in order to reset the user’s password – wpmem_pwdreset_args. There are two stages to this demonstration, and thus two parts of the code snippet. First, we only need a form requesting the user’s email, so we will remove the “username” field from the form. Second is filtering the arguments of the password reset process so that the user’s password can be reset with only the email provided. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
When running the PayPal subscription extension, you might have some users you want to give a free account to. Or you might want to offer a discount to users with a specific code. Here is are some code snippets that will allow you to validate a promotion code in the registration form and if it is valid, either bypass the PayPal process (for a free subscription) or apply a discount. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
We’ve had some different tutorials on displaying menus based on login status – showing a different menu for logged in users vs. non-users. I also put together a code snippet and a plugin extension to automate this process. There’s even a tutorial on how to remove menu items based on login status.
This tutorial is an extension of those concepts to display different menus based not only on logged in status, but also a user’s role. Continue Reading →
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