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Category: WordPress Support Sessions
1-Click Memberships with Groups for WordPress
The Groups plugin allows users to become a member of a group by simply clicking a button. It provides a convenient shortcode for that purpose. At the end of this article, we will also look at alternatives to shortcodes that you can use in a template. Let’s understand a simple use case where such memberships…
Free Lunch Optimizations
Looking at a recent support request which involves issues with an “optimization” plugin, it reminds me of why we assertively recommend to avoid using any generic optimization plugins … like the plague! From lots of years of experience in providing support for our tools, there are countless cases of issues caused by “optimization plugins”. Experience…
Using Custom Fields with WooCommerce Products
In this little tutorial, we will look at how you can use Custom Fields to add data to certain products and display the added information using a Child Theme we create for that purpose. In this particular example, we will show an external link as a button, after the Add to Cart button. This example…
Feedback we love and good Ideas
While attending several requests related to our plugins on WordPress, I was delighted to see new awesome feedback and rating on our Groups plugin and the support we provide for it: Excellent support – I have to say, these things provide a huge motivation to me and everyone involved in making the Groups ecosystem better…
Track Visits and Grant Commissions with Affiliates
Affiliates plugin can track visits to your site and grant commissions when an action is completed. This whole process of tracking visits and granting commissions depends mainly on the affiliate cookie which: Notifies the system that a new visitor has been referred Identifies the referring affiliate for that visit This cookie is stored automatically in…
WordPress Support Session
There are several different setups and even more different use cases out there. This in turn makes it quite normal to read customers’ requests for new features on our plugins. One of them that I stumbled upon today, has to do with some extra content that needs to be rendered by the groups_user_groups shortcode of…
Decent Comments revamped
After a couple of years in development hibernation, I’ve tackled the task of reviewing the Decent Comments plugin and prepare a new release. It actually took two releases in a row, 1.11.0 yesterday and then 1.12.0 today, the latter of which fixes fatal errors caused by changes introduced in the former. Thanks to a user…
WordPress Core Functions
WordPress has an extended API which is documented in Developer Resources. This comes extremely handy when you are developing your new custom addon. Even though it is absolutely correct to use pure PHP for your implementation, there are several core functions you can use and save time. For example if you wish to load your…
WordPress Support Session
During my session, I responded to a user’s request in which he mentioned observing wrong redirects as soon as his users logged out of groups to which they belonged. More precisely, he mentioned observing permanent redirects (301) and temporal redirects (302). Although this behavior isn’t common in Groups, considering Groups typically only yields 404s and…
WordPress Support Session
It’s nice to see that people are working with Groups also over the weekend! We’ve had a few requests related to Groups which I’ve attended today and I wanted to summarize here: Groups PayPal – Publish GPLv3 Open Source on GitHub Incompatibility with BuddyBoss Post Read restriction and Cron job The first one is related…
WordPress Basics
On our support forums we mainly focus on advanced topics related to specific functionalities of WordPress and our plugins. These can be either special use cases or even questions looking for business consultation and how we can cover them with our tools. However, there are many users that have just started using WordPress and issues…
WordPress Support Session
I began today’s support session by directing a user to the Referrals section of Affiliates where he could easily view referrals made by affiliates. This was geared towards helping him identify all the referrals made by specific affiliates. I then moved on to an interesting case in which the client wanted to use Groups to…
Users managing WordPress Groups
A recent request we have received is related to managing things with the Groups plugin for WordPress. It touches on an interesting and important set of functions that would be great to have: Users creating groups? Pre-install question:Is it possible to allow all users to create groups and manage who goes into those groups with…
WordPress Support Session
Today I’ve attended to a few things as part of our regular WordPress support sessions, this time it was really nice to see two new 5* ratings users of the Groups plugin provided: What I needed to enhance security Elegant way of grouping your customers/members It’s really awesome to read about the use cases, not…
