Category: Profile Builder

How we increased Profile Builder’s usability by acting on user feedback

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: October 5th, 2018

Improving your product's user experience is an ongoing task. Or at least, it should be. Adding feature after feature in the hope of attracting more customers can easily become the norm and usability starts suffering. Without focusing on the big picture and constantly asking why, it's easy to get off track. We're guilty of it […]

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Setup a WordPress Private Site (Entire Website, Blog or Pages)

Author: Madalin Ungureanu
Last Updated: December 6th, 2022

Setting up a WordPress Private Site is now easier than ever, with the help of the Profile Builder plugin. The private website feature is available in all versions of the Profile Builder. If you’re looking to make your website visible to members only, then this feature is for you. Keep in mind that this lets […]

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Add WooCommerce Conditional Logic Fields to Checkout Page

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: September 6th, 2021

In this tutorial, we'll focus on how to add WooCommerce conditional logic fields to the checkout page. Profile Builder - WooCommerce Sync add-on makes it super easy to add custom user fields to the WooCommerce checkout page and sell WooCommerce product add-ons, as well as manage the Customer Shipping and Billing Address fields. It allows […]

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How to Approve New WordPress Users (From Dashboard or Via Email)

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: July 9th, 2024

If you allow public registration on your site, it can be a good idea to manually approve new WordPress users before you start letting them interact with your content or online store. This should help you cut out spammers or weed out users who shouldn't be there. The good news is that even complete beginners […]

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Tutorial: WordPress Restrict Page Access to Logged In Users

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: October 21st, 2024

If you run a community site that allows user registration, you probably need a simple way to control which users can access certain private pages of your WordPress site. For this, you'll need a plugin that lets you manage user-specific content in WordPress. This is where Profile Builder comes in. This tool offers a WordPress […]

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The Road to 1 Million Downloads

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: September 11th, 2024

During this week, we slowed down a little bit and took some time to celebrate the moment when Profile Builder, our WordPress profile plugin, reached 1 million free downloads. It's time to celebrate together! - A million thank you! To say the least, we are pretty excited to reach this milestone. And it's all thanks […]

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How to create custom WordPress user roles with Profile Builder

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: April 4th, 2022

Creating custom WordPress user roles within a WordPress site offers you various possibilities for segmenting your users, based on the type of audience that you want to target. Below, I'll walk you through how to create your own custom user roles with Profile Builder by using the free Roles Editor module. Why and when to […]

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From blog to WordPress Membership Site with SlideHunter

SlideHunter: From blog to WordPress membership site with 150.000+ users [Case Study]

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: January 18th, 2024

Let's take a short rocket ride to see how SlideHunter, the online resource for PowerPoint templates, went from a simple blog to WordPress membership site, with a subscription base of over 150.000 users. Who is SlideHunter and what they do? SlideHunter is a free online resource that offers PowerPoint templates. Their website was born after the founder […]

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How to Build Online Communities Using Profile Builder & BuddyPress

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: August 15th, 2023

Building a WordPress community website can be a great idea not only because you can control the experience of the user, manage SEO and inbound traffic, but also because I think a community is more about nurturing a constant, active presence and happy experience. If we speak about the integration between our Profile Builder & […]

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How To Extend bbPress User Profiles with Profile Builder

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: July 9th, 2024

Letting users customize their profiles is a great way to encourage them to spend more time on your forum website and interact with each other. However, this is not a feature either WordPress or bbPress offers by default. WordPress supports user registration, but provides very little functionality in terms of profile customization. Fortunately, there are […]

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