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WP-Members is arguably the first membership plugin that was available for WordPress. It started as a simple project so I could publish my own membership sites on the WordPress platform. 15 years later, it has grown into a much larger plugin than originally conceived and provides a framework for building membership sites and generating revenue.
Here are 5 reasons that I use it for building membership sites. [Read more…]
Word-based passwords are not a new thing, but they have not readily been available for WordPress. Over the course of time supporting my WP-Members membership plugin, I have gotten a lot of requests for simplifying the password process, so I’ve worked to develop a new plugin to create word-based passwords for WordPress called WordPass. [Read more…]
One of the greatest things about WordPress that has made it so popular is the incredible API the application has providing an easy way to customize and extend the application. Unfortunately, this can also be one of it’s greatest drawbacks as well. If you want to be successful as a WordPress plugin developer, you need to familiarize yourself with the WordPress API. [Read more…]