Have you worked on a WordPress site that is not yet live, and need to move that site to a new permanent domain name? Or need to migrate your site’s domain name? It should be straightfoward to just change the Site Address in your WordPress settings, but take a closer look and you will notice . . . read more
I often hear people say that they HATE networking. Some people hate it because they feel they are having the same boring conversation over and over. Others are shy and don’t like to start conversations with strangers. The great thing about being the event planner and host is that you have the opportunity to create . . . read more
Redirect List is a simple and lightweight plugin that performs HTTP redirection and supports matching of GET query parameters without regular expressions. 301 or 302 HTTP redirect. Specify from and destination urls in a list manually. Does not require creating a custom page. Match url regardless of GET parameters. Match url only if no GET . . . read more
A friend recently complained to me about a renewal letter she received from a nonprofit organization. She had been an active member and promoter of the organization but was recently starting to feel they were not valuing their members. After receiving an automated renewal notice where the only personalization was her name at the top . . . read more
I recently installed Clicky analytics on this website. Now, there is a great Clicky WordPress plugin available, but it was just as easy to take the Clicky code snippet and paste it into a Text Widget that I place in the bottom sidebar (widgeted area). This works for Google Analytics as well. Why not install the . . . read more
Documenting shortcodes is a common task for WordPress plugin developers. You can either use the html entities “[” for “[“and ] for “]”, or use double brackets “[[” and “]]” to escape the shortcode: [shortcode] [[shortcode]] Using the html entities would require going into the Text (HTML) mode of the editor, so using the double . . . read more
When we first decided we wanted to provide websites, membership and event solutions for organizations, we had to decide whether to build our own platform, or design components that can be plugged into an already existing platform. The first thing we did is look back on my experience as an Executive Director, and talk to . . . read more
Truly embracing all technology has been a struggle for me. I still prefer a notepad and pen to a tablet or computer in a meeting. There’s just something about writing things on paper that gives me perspective. And, believe it or not, I don’t answer my cell phone during meal times and I even turn . . . read more
Here at MembershipWorks, we automatically deploy a WordPress server whenever a user signs up for our service. The server is launched from an AMI image using Amazon EC2. We want the WordPress install to automatically activate our plugins. Instead of getting into MySQL, I figured the easiest way to deal with this is to add . . . read more
The information on this page may be out-of-date, please refer to our Getting Started page or our Help section for current information. If we are hosting your WordPress site, please skip this post. If you are using the MemberFindMe plugin only, start by downloading the latest MemberFindMe plugin from the WordPress Plugin directory. Once the . . . read more
