Tonight I will be releasing WP-Members™ version 2.6.5. This is primarily a fix release with some functionality improvements.
reCAPTCHA
I made some changes to the reCAPTCHA code used to display the CAPTCHA. This should fix the intermittent problems the IE users were having. I am moving away from the AJAX code that was being used and moved more in favor of how the WP reCAPTCHA plugin operates.
User Profile
Two improvements were put in for the User Profile page. First, there was a hook for edit_user_profile but not show_user_profile, so as an admin, you could always see and edit the WP-Members™ additional fields for users, but you couldn’t see/edit these for yourself. In case there are users that want these additional fields for the admin user as well, now you can edit these for the admin when logged in as the admin.
Second, I added a modified version of the extra fields to show on the User Profile page when the user is logged in. Some plugin users have requested this feature, and it makes sense, especially from a compatibility standpoint with other plugins that might use the User Profile page. The additional fields that are editable by the user can now be seen on the User Profile page. (Admin only fields will not display.)
wpautop / wptexturize
In 2.6.4 I had added a fix for the wpautop function to prevent a line break in the login form. With that working, I have expanded this to wrap the entire login form and the registration form.
If you’re not sure what this means, it’s a technical, behind the scenes process that WP does to put in html p tags and line breaks, and based on when the shortcodes are executed, it was creating some layout problems for the WP-Members™ forms. WP-Members™ now carries its own self-contained override to exempt it from having p-tags and line breaks put in by WordPress.
I just started tinkering with your plugin for a client site. It is great. I am however trying to add a profile pic. Is this functionality in the plugin? If not is it slated to be added soon?
Thanks.
It’s not something that is on the project list, although it could be down the road. However, WordPress does support gravatars.
Thanks for your plugin.
For new registrations, it requests to choose a username, but now a password.
How do I add the choose a password field?
Thanks for your support.
SC
From the Users Guide:
I’m stumped. The docs say that the extra fields used for registration are stored in the _usermeta table, but I’m just not seeing the extra fields, like address, city, state, zip, etc. *anywhere* in my wp database. I’m trying to pull some of the profile info out to geocode the participant locations, but I cannot find the data anywhere.
Any hint?? I’ve looked through every single table in the entire install, to no avail.
dg
If the users show up in your admin panel, they are in there. The user meta fields follow the WP standards. These are stored in the usermeta table with the meta_key storing the field name and the meta_value being the value. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description#Table:_wp_usermeta for the table structure.
Chad thanks for the plugin
Can I create different levels for membership site users with this plugin?
Can aweber be integrated to the sign up page?
FA
Thanks for the questions, but unfortunately, not at this time… I may look into integrating both of those in the future, though.
I have purchased this plugin, but unfortunately I cannot find any through documentation on it.
Can you tell me how to check what membership level the current logged in user belongs to?
Can you direct me to any web page where I can find api/documentation about this plugin?
I don’t think we are talking about the same plugin. There is a premium support site where I offered paying members direct support, plus premium add-ons. But the plugin itself is freely available. I don’t see your name/email registered at my support site, so I can only conclude that you are referencing a different plugin. There is pretty through documentation on WP-Members available at rocketgeek.com.
The original WP-Members plugin is available here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-members/
Premium support and add-ons are available here: http://rocketgeek.com
Information regarding commercial vendors ripping off the name WP-Members (either intentionally or otherwise):
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-members/other_notes/
http://butlerblog.com/2010/10/02/statement-regarding-the-use-of-the-name-wp-members-by-others/
http://butlerblog.com/2010/10/20/statement-regarding-the-use-of-the-name-wp-member-by-smartmediapro/
Thanks for the quick response. My correct email that I used to purchase the plugin is attached to this comment.
I purchased the plugin from here: http://wp-member.com/
My questions are these:
1) How can I check what membership level the current logged in user belongs to? (programmatically via the code)
2) Is there a set of functions/api that I can take a look at? (plugin code is obfuscated)
3) Is it possible to let the user choose their password right on the registration page instead of sending it to their email address?
IF you were using WP-Members (which you are not), the answer to all of those questions would be yes. But what you purchased is wp-Member from SmartMediaPro. If you need support for that, you need to be contacting them. (See this post that I referenced above: http://butlerblog.com/2010/10/20/statement-regarding-the-use-of-the-name-wp-member-by-smartmediapro/)
Thanks for clarifying that. I guess this name similarity is hugely misleading and I was under the impression that both these plugins are the same.