Are you looking to set up online exams on your WordPress site? While traditional exams are great for testing your users' knowledge, online exams enable you to do this in a more cost-effective way. For example, you won't have to book a venue or hire exam proctors. By default, WordPress doesn’t offer this functionality. That […]
Continue ReadingCustom post types for Wordpress support comments, however the API doesn't allow for retrieving those comments. So in order to get the latest comments from your custom post type you need to do an sql query that does a LEFT OUTER JOIN between the comments table and the posts table: /* Get recent comments */ […]
Continue ReadingPhoto by divemasterking2000 I want a redesign. I need it to be forward thinking with easy access to most sections of the site. Although this sounds like I'm trying to sell something to a client, please bare with me. Creating an effective landing page (in my case the front page) is a must. This is […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re already a Profile Builder user, you might have noticed some changes around here in the past few weeks. And that’s especially if you’ve purchased the Hobbyist version of Profile Builder. And you’d be right! Some changes did take place within the plugin, and thus, that’s what we’ll talk about in this blog post, […]
Continue ReadingStrong Customer Authentication (SCA) takes effect on September 14, 2019. Let’s look at what it is and how it affects your membership site powered by Paid Member Subscriptions, especially if you're using the Stripe add-on to collect member payments. What is Secure Customer Authentication or SCA? Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is part of PSD2 (Payment […]
Continue ReadingDue to an overconfidence on our part regarding WordPress updates and compatibility issues with our plugins, we failed to test WordPress Creation Kit 2.0.5 with WordPress 3.9 before the official launch of WordPress 3.9. We are sorry. We should have known better and we will make a habit out of testing our plugins with future […]
Continue ReadingAre you wondering how an online community benefits a membership business? If so, you're in the right place. Life is all about connections - right? After all, we are social beings and love connecting with folks of like mind. You're probably part of an online community (or several) yourself. That said, it is absurd to […]
Continue ReadingUPDATE: All the functionalities available through the Customization Toolbox add-on are now included in the main Profile Builder plugin by default. You can access them by navigating to Profile Builder → Settings → Advanced Settings tab. Through the years of doing support for our WordPress plugins we received numerous requests for little features or customizations […]
Continue ReadingAfter writing the article "Overview of the WordPress Community in 2016" and getting feedback for the article on various platforms, I decided to continue writing them, but I changed its name into "Roundup of WordPress ecosystem". This is the first article from a monthly series that will showcase what happened around the whole ecosystem in […]
Continue ReadingIf you’ve been keeping up with the latest WordPress updates, then you surely know that WordPress 4.7 was released this week and is now available for download. This latest version, named “Vaughan” in honor of jazz legend, Sarah "Sassy" Vaughan is the third major version released by WordPress earlier this year, following WordPress 4.6 "Pepper" […]
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