Category: Tutorials

List posts by Category Shortcode for WordPress

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: May 15th, 2019

Usually the archive pages in WordPress leave a lot to be desired and sometimes you want to list posts by category so users have a much nicer way of interacting with your content so it can be useful to have access to a list posts by category shortcode. What we're aiming for is a post […]

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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 use AffiliateWP & Paid Member Subscriptions together

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: October 27th, 2022

We're excited to announce a new integration between AffiliateWP & Paid Member Subscriptions. Paid Member Subscriptions is our WordPress Membership plugin that enables you to create and manage member subscriptions, grant and revokes access to posts, pages, categories as well as custom post types based on the subscriptions your users have purchased. AffiliateWP is an affiliate […]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Custom Post Types

Author: Lindsay Liedke
Last Updated: July 1st, 2020

WordPress Custom Post Types are the best way to create intuitive content types. This is done by having a clear differentiation between the different types of content, adding just the required parameters and fields to them, and therefore removing clusters from the sometimes overloaded WordPress admin menu. Out of the box, the WordPress content management […]

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How to sort users by user role with WordPress WP User Query

Author: Madalin Ungureanu
Last Updated: June 15th, 2016

Recently we started rewriting the code for our UserListing module in Profile Builder Pro to use the WP_User_Query() class for all our user queries and a problem we came across was how to sort the the users by their user role. We started looking for a solution and we realized that the user roles are […]

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How to Remove Unused CSS JS Files in WordPress

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: October 23rd, 2023

When trying to optimize site speed, you really want to remove unused CSS JS files in WordPress. It can also help you improve your site rankings in Google PageSpeed. WordPress sites typically use a lot of plugins. These include contact form plugins, page builders like Elementor, e-commerce plugins like WooCommerce, and others. So, when you […]

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How to Build a Successful Paid Membership Community with WordPress Plugins

Author: Joe Fylan
Last Updated: February 15th, 2023

Building a successful paid membership community is very different from managing a blog or small business website, but in this article, that's exactly what we are going to show you how to do. One of the most important hurdles to overcome when building a successful paid membership community with WordPress is that this software was […]

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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 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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