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9 Things To Look For When Searching For the RIGHT Membership Plugin

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: April 25th, 2024

A membership plugin is primarily meant to allow users to sign up for subscription plans. It can also be an effective tool for marketing, monetization, content protection, all of this while building an online community. The challenge, however, is choosing the right membership plugin for your site. Due to the wide range of membership plugins […]

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How to Load a Login, Edit Profile or Registration Form in a Popup

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: June 15th, 2016

Ever landed up on a webpage that asked you to register or login, only to forget the original article / page where you wanted to be after registering or login in? Doing those steps is ok, after all you probably wanted to take those actions anyway. But why not try and make the entire experience a little bit better and more user friendly?

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How to Set Up Effective Membership Email Reminders

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: March 21st, 2024

You should be sending more emails. That's something every marketer will preach about. And guess what, setting up membership email reminders is no different. It should be a top priority, because it can positively impact your revenue. That's because most of the times your site members have no idea about upcoming deadlines related to their […]

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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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How to Build a WordPress Client Portal Plugin

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: March 8th, 2023

When building a company website, chances are you’ll be looking for a WordPress client portal plugin where an administrator can upload files and information related to a particular client. And most of the time it doesn’t have to be something complicated. There are several solutions like simply creating a password protected page or using an […]

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WordPress 4.5 Explained (Features and Screenshots)

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: April 14th, 2016

WordPress 4.5 “Coleman” was released with a lot of improvements and new features. This release was led by Mike Schroder, backed up by Adam Silverstein as Release Deputy, Mel Choyce as Release Design Lead, and the help of 298 contributors with props in this release. While there is no big ticket item on the list, […]

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Stripe for Paid Member Subscriptions

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: March 31st, 2016

The Stripe plugin extends Paid Member Subscriptions allowing you to take payments directly on your store via Stripe’s API. Stripe is available in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands and more at What countries does Stripe support? So you can now accept credit card payments, both one-time and […]

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How It’s Made – A look at the theme and plugins that power cozmoslabs.com

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: March 24th, 2016

After several years, our website design was no longer in sync with what we wanted from our brand. It was also built at a time when responsive websites were just becoming mainstream and we never took the time to make sure it looks good on smaller devices. While we wanted to do a redesign for […]

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WordPress Begin User Registration at a Specific Date and Time

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: March 24th, 2016

Sometimes you want to begin user registrations in your WordPress site at a particular date and time in the future. Luckily it's simple enough and it requires just a small plugin. There's no UI and you'll have to modify the $open_registration_time variable with your time and hour, but it's as simple as it gets: create […]

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bbPress Close All Topics

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: March 22nd, 2016

With our bbPress forums retired, I wanted to close all topics without having to go in each one of them. While I couldn't find something that did exactly that, I did found this really nice plugin https://github.com/thebrandonallen/bbp-auto-close-topics that automatically close bbPress topics after an admin-specified time period.

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