The Wordpress Warrior

Jul 18th, 2010

Customizing the WP-Login form without playing with the WP Core

When creating a membership site with WordPress, it is often desirable to have a Login form that reflects the themeing of your site – not the standard WP-Login form. There are some excellent plugins around that give a lot of flexibility around the login form (my fave is Theme My Login) however, with the updates [...]

Jul 10th, 2010

Wishlist Member: Version 2.3 Snapshot

Wishlist Products have released Version 2.3 of Wishlist Member. This release addresses a number of bugs and makes Wishlist Member work correctly with WordPress 3.0. I haven’t had a lot of time to play with the new version of Wishlist Member 2.3 and I’ve seen some issues being listed on the Insiders Forum, so I [...]

Jun 30th, 2010

Creating the Author’s Profile Block

Recently, I added author profile blocks to the bottom of my blog posts. This was inspired by advise from the team at Wishlist Products and after I saw their author info boxes. There are many benefits to incorporating an Authors info box on your site – the least of which is having guest authors that [...]

Jun 24th, 2010

RSS Feeds and Wishlist Member

RSS is a powerful way to deliver content to your community. However, there is a lot of concern about the security of members only content when using RSS Feeds. One of the features of Wishlist Member is a Secure RSS Feed – but I really didn’t understand what that meant or how it protected my [...]

Jun 20th, 2010

Custom Login Box for your website

Following on from yesterdays post, I decided that a custom login box would be appropriate to include on a website. Thanks to Insite Website Design, I found something that would work nicely and I’ve extended this to include a way to easily add this to your sidebar without messing too much with the code. The [...]

Jun 19th, 2010

Redirecting The Registration Page

When using the Wishlist Member sidebar widget, the Register link goes to the standard Registration page for your wordpress website. This really isn’t a great thing mainly because when someone clicks on that register link – they’re interested in becoming a member… and this is an opportunity for us to encourage our visitor to join [...]

Jun 10th, 2010

Comments: Managing Your Comment Length

Comments on a blog are a good thing however, lengthy comments can be a little overwhelming to other readers and experts argue that long comments may be detrimental to the Search Engine Optimization of your site. One of the posts on the Wishlist Member Insider forum mentioned two plugins, one of which I really liked [...]

Jun 7th, 2010

WordPress Membership Sites: Adding and Removing Profile Options Can Be Simple

When creating sites for my clients, particularly Membership Sites in WordPress, I find that we are often asked to add or remove specific profile fields. The main fields we are asked to remove are the contact methods of aim, yahoo and Google talk. Not many members use this methods and they clutter the information screen… [...]

May 25th, 2010

Adding A Custom Top Menu To Your WordPress Website

We are often asked how to create a menu at the top of a wordpress website with specfic pages in it. The menu doesn’t have to be dynamic – in fact, the requirement is to only display a select number of options. Often, the requirement is to display a mix of links to Pages, Categories [...]

Apr 10th, 2010

Wishlist Member, iDevAffiliate, Paypal…

edit: This article was edited on June 7, 2010 to include the iDevAffiliate Subscribe notify link in the examples. In February, I released Enhanced Paypal ShortCodes for WordPress that enables website owners to easily add Paypal buttons on their pages. Personally, I think it’s a great little plugin that saves me a heap of time [...]