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Restrict registration to specific email domains, IPs, or other data

Chad Butler · Jun 7, 2017 ·

WP-Members allows for customizing the registration form validation. This feature can be used to restrict registration based on the user’s information such as email address, IP address, or some other data point. This article covers how to do that and includes some basic examples.

It should be noted that this only applies to WP-Members registration. It has become more common to integrate WP-Members with other plugins that also have registration, such as WooCommerce, BuddyPress, bbPress, etc. If you are using one of these plugins for registration, that’s fine – but you need to then look into their process for custom validation. Continue Reading →

User List layout in columns

Chad Butler · Aug 6, 2014 ·

Here’s a tutorial on setting up a unique layout display for the User List extension. This tutorial will show you how to arrange the users in rows/columns similar to this screenshot.

I’ll be honest and tell you that this requires some php skills as you’ll need to be able to do some string manipulation via one of the filter hooks. You’ll also need to have some working knowledge of CSS. This tutorial will give you the basics to create a version of the display shown, which was done in the Twenty Fourteen theme – depending on your theme, your mileage may vary and you’ll need to know CSS to work with adjusting the layout. Continue Reading →

Multiple Selection Checkboxes

Chad Butler · Oct 15, 2013 ·

As of WP-Members 3.1.0, multiple selection checkbox support is an included feature in the plugin. That makes custom implementation such as described here unnecessary for most applications. I am leaving this post here however as there may continue to be users who (1) need a high level of customization that may utilize some or all of this kind of approach, and (2) for users who may not update to 3.1+ who need this support.

Note that there is now a more flexible example of multiple selection checkboxes here. This example is easier to set up and allows for multiple checkbox groups.

Something that will probably become a full feature in the main plugin is multiple selection checkboxes. However, until that becomes a full feature, here is a code snippet that you can use to set this up in your existing installation.

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