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Send new user activation link with manual admin approval

Chad Butler · Mar 19, 2018 ·

This post describes a very similar process to what is described in the tutorial titled “Send new user an activation link in the new registration email.” The twist on this version is that this will send the user an email requesting that they confirm their email address, then it will send the admin a notification to manually activate that user.

The original version in the other tutorial was intended for use where users just need to confirm their email address. This version is for confirming their email address and then approving the account. Continue Reading →

Handling form layout when using a builder plugin

Chad Butler · Jan 31, 2018 ·

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Builder plugins (and themes that use them) such as SiteOrigin, Elegant Builder, Divi, and others, have become more popular.

Without beating a topic that has already been beat to death in the WordPress developer community, let me just say that my position on it is conflicted.

First, I generally agree with the assessment provided by Pippin Williamson:

Builders provide a poor user experience and cause significant compatibility problems for other plugins.

The other big issue is that their use violates a primary reason for using a CMS in the first place – separating content from design. Using a builder embeds design elements into the content which is a major design flaw from a CMS site management perspective.

On the other hand, I also agree with Chris Lema – builders exist because there is a market demand for them:

Why do people want WordPress Page Builders?
Simple. They offer customers a solution for personalization that mass-produced themes can’t offer, while at a lower price than working with a professional web developer and web designer.

A bigger problem than simple compatibility however, is that there is simply no industry standardization. In the WP development community, most successful plugin developers work with WP’s core standards. That makes it easier for everyone because if something isn’t initially compatible, a couple of adjustments with filter/action hooks and you’re dovetailing seamlessly.

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Replace the default login and registration forms with buttons

Chad Butler · Feb 2, 2015 ·

login_reg_buttons A frequent question that I receive is how to replace the plugin’s default process of placing the login and registration forms with a process that takes the user to a login page (and/or registration page).

I’ve put together a code snippet that you can use as-is, or customize as needed in order to create a process that displays buttons that direct to a login page and registration page. If you look at the screen shot to the left, you’ll see what this process will produce. The example shows a post with an excerpt using the Twenty Fourteen theme.

The example provides the code snippet (which you can customize) as well as some initial CSS (which you can also customize) and will explain the process used to implement this change. Continue Reading →

Request additional data fields on a specific page

Chad Butler · Apr 20, 2014 ·

This particular example is a generic tutorial for requesting additional data fields in the registration form on a specific page. Since these are fields that do not show up in the regular registration form, we need to also present the data to logged in users to add this data.

While conceptually this is not an overly complicated process, the practical implementation has quite a few steps, so I will try to explain each step in the process while giving that particular code snippet being discussed at that point.Continue Reading →

Dynamic redirect to referrer in login

Chad Butler · Aug 2, 2013 ·

I have a challenge creating a title for this tutorial, so to describe what it covers, I recently had a question regarding how to dynamically put a redirect back to the original content into the link to the login page. In this instance, the user had customized how they were using the plugin and rather than having the login in place of blocked content as is the default, they had a link to the login page. Continue Reading →