I have been incredibly busy this summer with a number of projects so unfortunately, WP-Members has suffered. When I came back from vacation, there were quite a few unaddressed issues in the comments. I will be looking into those issues and will be releasing at minimum a version with bug fixes and, if I can find the time, some additional features that are on my list.

If you are using WP-Members 1.x and wish to migrate your users to a 2.0 installation, I have created a migration script for that purpose.

[ download the zip ]

To use the migration script:

• Download and unzip the file wpmem-migration.zip
• Backup your database!!
• Save this file to your wordpress directory.
• Browse to http://yourdomain.com/your-wp-directory/wpmem-migration.php
• When you are finished, delete this file.

I have been done with the 2.0 release for some time now, but haven’t had the time to finish final testing (mostly of the installation process), put together the readme file, and get it uploaded.  I know there are a lot of people that have been waiting for this release so I sincerely hope it meets (and exceeds) expectations.

2.0 is a quantum leap forward for the plugin and involved a ground up rebuild.  There were a lot of quick fixes and work arounds in the 1.x releases and I never got it to be what I really wanted in the beginning.  Also, usage got to be too tricky for basic, non-techie WP users.  I wanted an easy to install product that would meet the needs of the most basic WP user.

We are getting much closer to that goal with this release.  Not all the features I want to eventually include are in this version, but it is close.  One thing that is lacking (and will be completed in the 2.1 update) is admin functions.  However, this is not too critical for user managment since we have moved to using the WP users tables rather than building our own.

That brings up another important point.  If you are upgrading, you are going to have to move existing users from the WP-Members tables to WP users tables.  I am finishing up a migration script at this point, so if you are upgrading rather than doing a clean install, you might want to wait for that.

Here is the download:  wp-members-2-0.zip

I am pretty close to the release of WP-Members 2.0. The new version will integrate better with the WordPress users table and therefore will integrate with other plugins that use that same table (say a forum for example). This particular post is simply to provide an example post. Click the link below for the example of how this plugin protects content (For the demo, use username: user password: pass).

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Well, there was an issue with the previous releases that I didn’t catch until now because my sites run buffered output in php. � So, for sites not buffering output, all headers (including cookies) must be done before the get_header() function in the theme. � I made an adjustment to the plugin to accomodate this and it is included in release 1.6.

Get it here.