Category: Tutorials

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 Social Login

How to Add WordPress Social Login for Higher User Engagement

Author: Cristophor Hurduban
Last Updated: March 25th, 2020

If you're like most website owners, you might not know that enabling WordPress social login can help you increase your website's user engagement. And it all has to do with users forgetting their account passwords. For those unfamiliar, there's a thing called "password fatigue" and your website's visitors or customers might be suffering from it. […]

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WordPress Redirect User After Login and Registration: Easy Tutorial

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: December 20th, 2023

If you own a WordPress site that allows front-end user registration you're probably looking for an easy way to set up a WordPress redirect after login or registration. Not only does this let you keep users out of the WordPress dashboard, but it also lets you send them straight to a specific page that you've optimized for them.

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WordPress Admin Approval based on User Role with Profile Builder

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: September 23rd, 2019

Admin Approval for new users is one of those must have features for every website that allows user registration. Sometimes, deciding who gets to be a user on your website is a good way to keep your user base clean and fight user registration spam. Taking it further, there are times when you need to […]

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Create WordPress Demo Site with Multisite

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: January 22nd, 2024

Creating a WordPress demo site with Multisite is a quick way to let your potential customers try out your WordPress theme, widget, or plugin in a true-to-life environment, all while benefiting your SEO. Setting up a demo site for WordPress plugins and widgets or WordPress themes can be as simple as installing WordPress and giving […]

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How to Edit WooCommerce My Account Page (Add Fields + More)

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: March 4th, 2024

Looking for a simple way to customize the WooCommerce account page to add extra user fields and let customers manage their data from the front-end? How about adding custom user fields to the WooCommerce checkout page? In this post, you'll learn how to easily customize the WooCommerce account page using the Profile Builder plugin and its WooCommerce Sync add-on.

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WordPress Shortcode – Compare Values

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: April 26th, 2023

With both Profile Builder and WordPress Creation Kit plugins using Mustache as their template system for things like User Listing and Swift Templates, we need at times the possibility to compares different values. This however, is not possible in Mustache. So a shortcode to compare values comes to the rescue. Compare Shortcode Download Compare Shortcode […]

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Maximum Character Length Add-On for Profile Builder

Author: Mihai Iova
Last Updated: May 4th, 2021

How can I limit the maximum number of characters a user can type in a field? You may find yourself in the situation where you want your users to provide a postal code that is at most 4 characters long, or a description of themselves in less than 140 characters. In these cases the Maximum Character Length […]

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