Author Archives: Chad

About Chad

Chad Butler is both a freelance writer and web developer. He has developed several popular WordPress plugins and his writing has appeared on forbes.com, sfomag.com, and investopedia.com.

WP-Members™ to include reCAPTCHA

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Chad

There has been a recurring feature request for some type of CAPTCHA support in the WP-Members™ membership plugin.  I have held off for awhile as I needed to make some decisions on which direction to go on this project.  I … Continue reading →

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New WP-Members™ updates in development

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Chad

I am currently working on a list of updates for WP-Members™ 2.3.2 release.  If you have any requests, feel free to post here. Note: I am always open to feature requests, but keep in mind, this will be a minor … Continue reading →

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New Motivation

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Chad

Let me begin by saying that I do love blogging.  I love what goes on behind the scenes of running a blog.  I love WordPress and tinkering with it.  Many of you are already aware that I have been working … Continue reading →

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Statement regarding the use of the name WP-Members™ by others

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Chad

Over the past year, I have become aware of a number of plugins using the name WP-Members™ (or a derivative thereof). This has come to my attention in the form of support issues posted in the wordpress.org forum and tagged … Continue reading →

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Adding Custom Fields in WP-Members™

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Chad

Note: With the introduction of WP-Members™ 2.6, users can now create new fields and delete exiting ones using the plugin’s admin panel.  That feature renders this methodology unnecessary for most users, unless you have a reason to set up custom fields at … Continue reading →

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WP-Members™ 2.3.1 bug fix

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Chad

A bug was discovered in the WP-Members™ 2.3.1 code improvement release. In the admin panel, scrolling down to the very bottom, you will see the following error message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpmem_admin_users_table() in /home/license/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-members/wp-members-admin.php on line 364 … Continue reading →

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WP-Members™ 2.3.1 Code Improvement Release

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Chad

Tonight I am releasing WP-Members™ 2.3.1 which is predominately a code improvement release, but it also has a couple of new features. Code Improvements The code improvements in WP-Members™ 2.3.1 include the following: Update of calls to deprecated WordPress functions: … Continue reading →

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WP-Members™ 2.3 coming soon

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Chad

I had finished (or thought I had finished) developing all of the project list for WP-Members™ 2.3, with the exception of time-based expiration of user accounts. This included items originally on the 2.2 release list that I pushed back. That … Continue reading →

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WP-Members™ 2.2.2 code improvement release

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Chad

With the launch of WP-Members™ 2.2, there were some significant changes from the 2.0/2.1 releases.  Most notably was the return of the admin panel.  This is due to adding some customization settings that weren’t there before.  But when you add things like an … Continue reading →

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WP-Members™ Milestones

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Chad

With the release of 2.2 this week, WP-Members™ achieved a couple of milestones.  First, we had our biggest (and also third biggest) number of daily downloads this week. 246 downloads in a single day is the biggest we’ve had since … Continue reading →

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