Category: Tutorials

Setup a WooCommerce Members-Only store with Paid Member Subscriptions

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: January 25th, 2024

If you run a WordPress membership site and are also looking to sell products to your private audience, then setting up a WooCommerce members-only store is the way to go. This enables you to sell products exclusively to your members as well as have multiple membership plans, each with access to different products. Whether we’re […]

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How to create custom WordPress user roles with Profile Builder

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: April 4th, 2022

Creating custom WordPress user roles within a WordPress site offers you various possibilities for segmenting your users, based on the type of audience that you want to target. Below, I'll walk you through how to create your own custom user roles with Profile Builder by using the free Roles Editor module. Why and when to […]

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List posts by Category Shortcode for WordPress

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: September 11th, 2024

Usually the archive pages in WordPress leave a lot to be desired and sometimes you want to list posts by category so users have a much nicer way of interacting with your content so it can be useful to have access to a list posts by category shortcode. What we're aiming for is a post […]

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How to Build Online Communities Using Profile Builder & BuddyPress

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: August 15th, 2023

Building a WordPress community website can be a great idea not only because you can control the experience of the user, manage SEO and inbound traffic, but also because I think a community is more about nurturing a constant, active presence and happy experience. If we speak about the integration between our Profile Builder & […]

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How to use AffiliateWP & Paid Member Subscriptions together

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: October 27th, 2022

We're excited to announce a new integration between AffiliateWP & Paid Member Subscriptions. Paid Member Subscriptions is our WordPress Membership plugin that enables you to create and manage member subscriptions, grant and revokes access to posts, pages, categories as well as custom post types based on the subscriptions your users have purchased. AffiliateWP is an affiliate […]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Custom Post Types

Author: Lindsay Liedke
Last Updated: July 1st, 2020

WordPress Custom Post Types are the best way to create intuitive content types. This is done by having a clear differentiation between the different types of content, adding just the required parameters and fields to them, and therefore removing clusters from the sometimes overloaded WordPress admin menu. Out of the box, the WordPress content management […]

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How to sort users by user role with WordPress WP User Query

Author: Madalin Ungureanu
Last Updated: June 15th, 2016

Recently we started rewriting the code for our UserListing module in Profile Builder Pro to use the WP_User_Query() class for all our user queries and a problem we came across was how to sort the the users by their user role. We started looking for a solution and we realized that the user roles are […]

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How to Remove Unused CSS JS Files in WordPress

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: July 9th, 2024

WordPress sites typically use a lot of plugins. These can include contact form tools, page builders, ecommerce solutions like WooCommerce, and more. So, when you try to optimize page loading times, all this added software can cause you to hit a roadblock. You might have already tried the more straightforward optimization strategies like switching to […]

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How to Build a Successful Paid Membership Community with WordPress Plugins

Author: Joe Fylan
Last Updated: February 15th, 2023

Building a successful paid membership community is very different from managing a blog or small business website, but in this article, that's exactly what we are going to show you how to do. One of the most important hurdles to overcome when building a successful paid membership community with WordPress is that this software was […]

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Enable WordPress User Registration on a Subsite Only

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: April 19th, 2016

When you have WordPress Multisite active, all users are shared between all blogs because the wp_users table is the same for all blogs. By default, it's simply not possible to enable WordPress user registration on a subsite only. To go around this, first thing we need to do is enable registration in our network admin: […]

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