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Redirecting WordPress urls for login, logout, and registration

Chad Butler · Oct 9, 2012 ·

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Depending on a number of factors, there may be places in your WordPress site where login and logout URLs are directing to the WordPress “backend” wp-login.php. These can be in the comments.php template or other places in your theme. Also, various plugins such as forums will utilize these urls.

This article will explain a simple way of redirecting these URLs to the login and registration pages set in WP-Members.

NOTE: The WP-Members Advanced Options extension has simple checkbox options to replace the native WP URLs for these actions with the WP-Members URLs.

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Adding user display name to the registration form

Chad Butler · Oct 8, 2012 ·

WordPress does not allow for users to change their username, so neither does WP-Members. However, it does allow for the use of “display name” which is the name that is displayed on the site when showing users’ names. The default install of WP-Members does not make use of display name. In fact, by default, it adds the user’s username to this field so that it is not empty in the database, just in case you are using that information somewhere else on the site (such as in a forum).

But what if you want to make use of the display name field? How can you add that to the front-end user profile in WP-Members. This post will show you how to add it to the registration form (which by default includes the user update form), and then how to show it only in the user update form. Continue Reading →

Use an image in the post restricted message

Chad Butler · Sep 6, 2012 ·

This post will show you how to get a little more advanced with your post restricted message (the message that displays above the login form when a user accesses a page or a post that is blocked.

In this example, we will be using an image in the dialog and will also put some links to the anchors. This technique can also be extended to other plugin dialogs, and is a nice touch for your site. Also, it doesn’t require any php, so for those of you that are hesitant to wade into the world of filter and action hooks, this is still something that you can do without much under-the-hood knowledge.Continue Reading →

Add section headings to the registration form

Chad Butler · Sep 4, 2012 ·

In cases where you have a long registration form, you may want to add section headings to the form for an easier user experience. This post will give you a simple example to add headings to your form. For this example, we will be using the default values that install with the plugin and be adding an html <h2> heading to some of the form.Continue Reading →

Disable the WordPress toolbar

Chad Butler · Sep 4, 2012 ·

The “admin bar” is actually more correctly referred to as the Toolbar. But most people refer to it as the admin bar, so I’ve referring to it as such in this post so as not to confuse anyone.

Removal can be managed with 3 lines of code to your functions.php file (or 1 if you really want to be efficient).

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