Category: WordPress

How to Load a Login, Edit Profile or Registration Form in a Popup

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: June 15th, 2016

Ever landed up on a webpage that asked you to register or login, only to forget the original article / page where you wanted to be after registering or login in? Doing those steps is ok, after all you probably wanted to take those actions anyway. But why not try and make the entire experience a little bit better and more user friendly?

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How to Set Up Effective Membership Email Reminders

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: March 21st, 2024

You should be sending more emails. That's something every marketer will preach about. And guess what, setting up membership email reminders is no different. It should be a top priority, because it can positively impact your revenue. That's because most of the times your site members have no idea about upcoming deadlines related to their […]

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enable wordpress user registration on a subsite only

Enable WordPress User Registration on a Subsite Only

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: April 19th, 2016

When you have WordPress Multisite active, all users are shared between all blogs because the wp_users table is the same for all blogs. By default, it's simply not possible to enable WordPress user registration on a subsite only. To go around this, first thing we need to do is enable registration in our network admin: […]

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How to Build a WordPress Client Portal Plugin

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: March 8th, 2023

When building a company website, chances are you’ll be looking for a WordPress client portal plugin where an administrator can upload files and information related to a particular client. And most of the time it doesn’t have to be something complicated. There are several solutions like simply creating a password protected page or using an […]

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WordPress 4.5 Explained (Features and Screenshots)

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: April 14th, 2016

WordPress 4.5 “Coleman” was released with a lot of improvements and new features. This release was led by Mike Schroder, backed up by Adam Silverstein as Release Deputy, Mel Choyce as Release Design Lead, and the help of 298 contributors with props in this release. While there is no big ticket item on the list, […]

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WordPress Begin User Registration at a Specific Date and Time

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: March 24th, 2016

Sometimes you want to begin user registrations in your WordPress site at a particular date and time in the future. Luckily it's simple enough and it requires just a small plugin. There's no UI and you'll have to modify the $open_registration_time variable with your time and hour, but it's as simple as it gets: create […]

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bbPress Close All Topics

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: March 22nd, 2016

With our bbPress forums retired, I wanted to close all topics without having to go in each one of them. While I couldn't find something that did exactly that, I did found this really nice plugin https://github.com/thebrandonallen/bbp-auto-close-topics that automatically close bbPress topics after an admin-specified time period.

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WordPress SSL & HTTPS explained

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: September 13th, 2017

This tutorial explains why adding WordPress SSL & HTTPS is the best way to secure your site and why all of us should do it eventually. Also, we'll go into an option for adding a free SSL certificate on your WordPress site. Let's break it down. What is SSL & HTTPS? An SSL (Secure Sockets […]

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WordPress AMP Plugins

WordPress AMP Plugins: Accelerated Mobile Pages

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: March 22nd, 2023

There's been a lot of discussion regarding WordPress AMP, particularly in the Advanced WordPress Facebook group. With Accelerated Mobile Pages, Google promises instant load times for readers since AMP pages are stripped down of most of the markup and have limited or no javascript scripts loaded. Some of the questions involved errors with existing WP […]

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5 Free And Easy to Use WordPress Membership Plugins

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: May 22nd, 2019

Free and easy to use WordPress membership plugins are not a myth. Finding and getting started with them is simpler then you might think. Often website owners require visitors to sign up and become members of their platform before allowing access to the content. The solutions for WordPress users are a variety of membership plugins […]

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