The Chamber Dashboard plugins make it very easy to create member listings and display the businesses on the site. The shortcode used to display businesses has a few parameters that can be specified like pagination options, business details that need to be displayed like email, phone number, business category, membership level etc. The business_category option […]
Adding a login/logout link to any WP menu is very easy using the wp_nav_menu_items hook. In the Chamber Dashboard Member Manager plugin, we wanted to give our users an option to add the login/logout link to the selected menu of their choice. There was an option to enable the login/logout link which would add the […]
The Chamber Dashboard Member Manager plugin was recently updated to show a member account page which displays the membership details for the logged in users. We have had the member login feature for a while in the Chamber Dashboard plugins, but adding a member account page gave users an easy way to look at their […]
Scrap-booking has been my hobby since 2005. It is relaxing and I get to re-live all the fun while putting the pictures together. I tried a few digital scrapbooks and I loved the ease with which we can put together a page. Adding those digital layouts as part of our blog is easy, but if […]
As we enter a new year, I am unable to decide if it was a good year. Work wise, it was not a good year. I didn’t hit most of the targets I had set for myself, but in terms of family and personal issues, it was one of the better years. I have been […]
WordPress is a powerful platform to build and maintain membership sites. As with anything related to WordPress, there are many different plugins available to build a membership site. There are free and paid options. I am going to compare some of the free plugins to help you decide which one works best for your site. […]
The block editor also called as Gutenberg was merged into WP core in Dec 2018. It was made the default editor as part of WP 5.0. I have been testing the editor even before it was released and I love it. In the past few months, there have been a few improvements and updates to […]
Advanced Custom Fields is an amazing plugin that I have been using for a while. It makes it so easy to build extra fields for WordPress sites. So, when the custom blocks feature came out, I just had to try. Here is the first block I built to display a post from a custom post […]
Updated: 4/26/2019 wp_dropdown_categories displays the WordPress categories in a nice drop down. You can choose to display the parent and child categories in a hierarchy. Using Ajax, it is simple to display the child categories based on the selected parent category. I wrote the WP Category Dropdown plugin to make it easy to add this […]