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New WP-Members version and other updates

I am currently wrapping up an upgrade to the WP-Members project. This will culminate in a full 2.1 release candidate before the end of the year. Coupled with that there will also be a completely new plugin released as well. This new plugin will mask/cloak affiliate links for ClickBank users to prevent link hijacking. I am hoping it is well received.

As for Verse-O-Matic, I am already working on some new things there as well. Early (i.e. January) 2008 should see the release of a “verse-pak” which will be a good sized list of verses that can be preloaded into your Verse-O-Matic. This is the single largest request of VOM users – they wish it came with more verses installed so they didn’t have to load their own. Well, I want to keep the flexibility for the end user, so for that specific group, I am going to have an easy to use list that can be loaded hassle-free. After that, the next step will be to have it hook in to the most common existing Verse-of-the-Day feeds (i.e. via RSS). This was the second most common request, so both of those are in development.

WP-Members 2.1 coming soon!

By Chad Butler 1 Comment

This is the next step in the move toward the 2.1 release of WP-Members. The previous alpha release started the core of the admin functions. In addition, I am adding a few couple new features.

The members page now includes a password reset option. The user is required to enter the correct username/email combination, then a new random password is set and emailed to the user.
The ability to block pages has been added. As always, posts are blocked by default, and can be unblocked by setting a custom field of ‘unblock.’ Pages are set up exactly opposite – unblocked by default, but if you set a custom field of ‘block’ the page will require the user to be registered/logged in.

If you are currently using the plugin and have something for the “wish list,” be sure to stop by the forum and include it. By the way, if you are looking at using WP-Members and including a forum on your site, I will be testing the plugin with some of the WordPress forum plugin. The forum on this site is WP-Forum and is tied to WP-Members.

The final production version of 2.1 is probably a week or two away, but until then you can download the current production release here .

WP-Members 2.1.a Alpha Release

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I’ve been working on WP-Members in a furious fashion this week/weekend. As I’ve already posted, I did release 2.0.1 that fixed the known bugs in the 2.0 release. Since then, I’ve been working on adding the needed user management in the admin area. This was present in 1.x versions, but since 2.0 changed to using native the WP user table, I needed to completely change the admin features in WP-Members.

This alpha release should be stable. It currently only adds two new functions into the script. These add the extra fields that are used in WP-Members to the WP Edit User page. Now you can view and edit the users that are registered as well as the extra field information.

As a new feature, if the user is logged in, they will be add information for the additional fields that WP has for the user (website, aim, yahoo im, jabber, bio). I’ve commented these in the code so they can be removed if you do not need them. (really, any fields that you do not need can be removed as well if you don’t mind working with php.)

This is not an official release version, so of course use it at your own risk, but I felt it was ready to be made available for public testing. (If you want the stable release, download it here.)

Download WP-Members 2.1.a