Home of WP-Members, The Original WordPress Membership Plugin
Chad Butler · ·
Some of the generic stylesheets included with the plugin use the CSS property definition “float” to align the form label and input tags next to each other in a pure CSS fashion.
Sometimes, CSS from the theme and the plugin can collide in a way that causes these elements to not be in alignment. The result can make the form look rather strange because some elements will be squeezed out of place. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
We’ve discussed building a honey pot for the registration form to prevent spam signups by bots. But what about the login form? With WordPress being so much more ubiquitous across the Internet today, there are many more attempts to hack and exploit it. Many of these attempts are automated by bots.
Whether the login attempt comes from a bot or a human, the most common attempt for an exploit is to use the username “admin”. WordPress used to install the default admin account with the username “admin”. Fortunately, it no longer does this so you don’t have to delete the account to create a more secure admin account. But unfortunately, a great many people still create admin accounts with “admin” as the username.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so your best initial defense is to not have obvious usernames for administrative users. But a good second line of defense is to create a honey pot for the login form.
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Here is a code snippet that you can use to make all of the WP-Members custom fields sortable in the Users > All Users screen.
To use this code, add the entire code snippet to your functions.php file. Any field in the WP-Members Fields tab that you have selected to display on the Users Screen will be sortable.
Chad Butler · ·
Here is an example of how to implement a jQuery datepicker script for the registration form.
Note that as of WP-Members 3.1.8, a date field type is available. However, this is an HTML5 field type and is not fully integrated into all browsers (most notably, it is a “development” option in FireFox). This example is jQuery instead, which is more cross-browser compatible.Continue Reading →
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Using the wpmem_register_form_rows filter allows you a simple way to add custom fields and text to the WP-Members registration form using the wpmem_array_insert() API function. Continue Reading →
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