wpmem_register_form_args

Display form rows in columns

Chad Butler · Oct 19, 2018 ·

This tutorial will address the common question, “How do I layout the form in columns?”

Let me say that this tutorial is one of those that is a “guideline,” not an exact science. That is due to the number of different variables that cannot be controlled. So for best chance of success, I recommend that you start with the basic process exactly as in the example. Try to reproduce that first so that you understand what it is doing before moving on to something complicated.

The following is a discussion of the the exact code snippets that I used in this demo (which also uses the code snippets for assigning placeholders to the fields and removing labels).

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Remove form headings

Chad Butler · Mar 19, 2014 ·

Depending on how the plugin gets used, sometimes the <legend> tag for the form is not needed. For example, if you have created a login page with the page title “Login”, you do not really need the form to also carry the same text. Here are some generic utility snippets you can use to remove these various headings. Continue Reading →

Remove an unparsed wpmem_txt shortcode

Chad Butler · Apr 11, 2013 ·

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The wpmem_txt shortcode is something that WP-Members puts in on the fly and its purpose is to prevent WordPress from putting line breaks (<p> and <br /> via the wpautop and wptexturize functions) into the form, thus throwing off the layout. This is one of those magic things that runs in the background that no one really knows about unless something breaks it.

Here is the problem: WordPress runs the shortcode parser on the content only once. By itself, that’s not a problem. However, if a plugin or theme developer includes a shortcode in their code and they do not use the function do_shortcode() on the $content variable before returning it, any shortcodes that are executed after theirs will be unparsed. For WP-Members, a bad practice like that will result in leaving wpmem_txt unparsed in your form.

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