Comments on: The New & Improved Way to Turn Wordpress 2.7 into a Membership Community

By: Brian Clifton

Brian Clifton — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:57:19 +0000

NIce tutorial Chris

Have you ever looked at http://www.sumaplugin.com? Its an out of the box Membership system plug-in for WP. Does wondered if you had an opinion on its suitability…

Best regards, Brian

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:07:51 +0000

I’m very interested in a detailed explanation of how you integrated the directory info with Google Maps on the Pittsburg Designers site. (I looked at Foogle and the content there was not very enlightening)

By: james

james — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:23:35 +0000

Hi Chris,

I have come across the same problem as Brent and a few others. I am creating a membership directory but would like to have a category feature i.e. for a designers directory it would include, flash designers, php designers etc.

Any tutorials you can point me towards?

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By: Brent

Brent — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:38:41 +0000

Chris – I understand. Thanks for your time and reply.

By: Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:52:57 +0000

@Brent – I haven’d done that either. I could have sworn that I saw a way to do it out in the internet somewhere though.

You could create a new function instead of using the wp_list_authors() template tag though. It would definitely be possible, but way too time consuming and difficult for me to explain here.

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:48:35 +0000

I’m in the process of rebuilding my creative directory site using WP as a CMS, so your tutorials have been extremely helpful — thanks!

However, I’m getting hung up on one feature that is a critical part of my directory — the ability to list businesses in industry-specific categories (e.g., Advertising, Graphic Deign, Photography, etc.).

I have successfully collected custom meta information for an author’s business industry within the user profile. Now I want to have pages that will display only the authors with a similar industry meta field.

Does that make sense and is it possible? (I believe this is what Tracy asked, but I want to see if you would share more info.)

Thanks again!

By: Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:39:14 +0000

That sounds a plugin that pulls from the wp-usersmeta table specific to the user that logged in.

By: Kevin Lampard

Kevin Lampard — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:13:12 +0000

I am desperately looking for a solution for details below

1) user logs in (with user name and password)
2) they’re taken to a page (with text, images, links) that can only be viewed from their login

By: zplits | what's the latest?

zplits | what's the latest? — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:01:11 +0000

Hi there Chris,

This article is excellent. Glad i found it…Thanks for your valuable info. I find it very helpful.

Someone hired me to make a directory site also. A hotel and restaurant one. May i know how much is the cost of your BUYAPITTSBURGHHOME.com. directory site?

I don’t have any idea how much will i ask of them. Maybe you could help me out?

Thanks in advance. God bless and may more projects to come. cheers!