Category: WordPress

How to Enforce WordPress Password Requirements for User Accounts

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

Chances are, if you run a WordPress membership site that allows user registration, one of your primary security concerns is to enforce WordPress password requirements. This way, users don't sign up with weak passwords and put your website at risk. However, the content management system (CMS) doesn't come with this functionality by default. The good […]

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WordPress Creation Kit 2.0.6 and WordPress 3.9

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: April 18th, 2014

Due 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 […]

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Show Custom Fields in WordPress

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: April 5th, 2023

Adding custom fields to your WordPress site helps you display additional information about your content and can improve SEO for Google and other search engines. But how to show custom fields can be a pretty challenging thing to achieve by non-technical users By default, WordPress gives you the possibility to add custom fields (sometimes called […]

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Post to Post Relationships with WCK 2.0.4

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: February 27th, 2014

A new version of WordPress Creation Kit is now available: 2.0.4 with Post to Post Relationships WordPress Post to Post Relationships In WordPress post types are often in a relationship of some sort. For example, you might want to relate a soccer player to a team. You could do it with taxonomies, but it can […]

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WordPress 3.8 – The Best Redesign Since Ever?

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 11th, 2013

WordPress 3.8 is just around the corner and I can honestly say it's THE most exciting release since ever! With the WordPress 3.8 RC2 available for download, we're only days away from the excellently polished WordPress 3.8 UI. Much more than just a new skin You can see by the title of this post that […]

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WordPress Creation Kit Video

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: February 27th, 2014

WordPress Creation Kit helps you develop intuitive WordPress sites, easily manageable by your clients, in half the time and without writing a single line of PHP code. However, this is somewhat hard to visualize, so to that end we created a WordPress Creation Kit video explaining: what is WCK what you can do with it, […]

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Swift Templates – a straight forward alternative to WordPress templates hell

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: April 28th, 2016

I'm not a programmer... I do know some basic html and css, but I was nervous about messing with any of the templates in fear of making a bigger mess than where I started. That's a quote from one of our customers. We hear this quite a lot, not everybody is a developer. Most WordPress […]

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WordPress API for Custom Fields with WCK

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: April 26th, 2023

Custom fields have revolutionized developing sites with WordPress and creating custom fields is now part of the WordPress core. There are several plugins that simplify this task and make it easy for you to define custom fields and metaboxes with just a couple of clicks. However, the pain starts when you try to display all […]

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Best User Registration Plugins for WordPress

8 Best WordPress User Registration Plugins

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: July 9th, 2024

Not sure what WordPress user registration plugin to use for your project? Going through all the WordPress user registration plugins can be disorienting. You may have spent hours and hours searching for plugins and tutorials to help you with your project, and you’re still as confused as you were when you started. Imagine finding the […]

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How to Eliminate WordPress Spam Registrations (Step-by-Step Guide)

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: December 11th, 2019

Looking for a way to cut down on WordPress spam registrations? If your WordPress site is set to allow user registration (like a membership site or WooCommerce store), then it's probably vulnerable to user registration spam from spam-bots. Finding a way to eliminate, or at least reduce, WordPress spam registrations is important so that you can focus your efforts and resources on your real users. No matter what type of site you're running, there are some tried-and-true tactics that you can apply to stop spam registrations in their tracks, and they're all available in one single plugin.

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