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Is it possible to tell if a user is logged into WordPress from looking at the cookies which are set?

You could use Javascript <script type=”text/javascript”> function getCookie(c_name) { var i,x,y,ARRcookies=document.cookie.split(“;”); for (i=0;i<ARRcookies.length;i++) { x=ARRcookies[i].substr(0,ARRcookies[i].indexOf(“=”)); y=ARRcookies[i].substr(ARRcookies[i].indexOf(“=”)+1); x=x.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,””); if (x==c_name) { return unescape(y); } } } var logged_in=getCookie(“wordpress_logged_in_[HASH]”); if (logged_in!=null && logged_in!=””) { alert(“You are logged in!”); } else { alert(“You are logged out!”); } </script> NOTE: WordPress logged in cookie info can be found here. … Read more

One folder to be accessible by one user

One solution might be to directly restrict access to the file on the server, but utilize a url rewrite to display the content — only if the id matches in the request. Obviously this doesn’t answer every question in the scenario but it does provide a proof-of-concept to indirectly convert a url into a file. … Read more

Post Format Status [closed]

Post formats is an optional value added to WordPress posts which allows theme developers to define visual representation of a post. Theme developers can create themes with support for post formats. A number of post formats are available, however it is not possible for themes or plugins to introduce custom post formats. It is not … Read more

Private messaging plugins + custom admin

Since the last time, I was able to make my own private messaging system. I do have some other questions which I will post in another “ask question” segment.

How to change the markup created by menu item only on chosen items?

OK this one is solved. I actually created a separate items that can be dragged in as a link, but are actually hard coded pieces of markup with adequate classes.

Need help with restricted page for users

It sounds like you want a membership site that restricts content to certain membership levels. There are several membership plugins available for WordPress and several reviews of the options. One site what has several articles on membership plugins is: chrislema.com

Different customer login form than administrator login form?

Although users have access to go to /wp-admin/, they will not have access to do anything on there. There is no security risk involved to being able to have access /wp-admin/ for WooCommerce users. If you’d like however, you can setup an Apache protected directory with a password to /wp-admin/ that requires an additional user … Read more

Why plugin’s icon for the menu not found?

Sometimes i find wordpress can be quite finiky when it comes to referencing files within the plugin. Specifying a full path seems to fix the problem. Try replacing… market_admin/icon.png With… /wp-content/plugins/your-plugin-name-goes-here/your-file-name-goes-here.png

You do not have permission to access this document on form submit

Your form action point to the url in which the login form is displayed, and this is many times not the desired behavior when you write your own login form. You should let the login end point handle the login. The result should be something like <form …. action=”<?php echo esc_url( site_url( ‘wp-login.php’, ‘login_post’ ) … Read more

deploying a standard build of wordpress in WHM/cPanel

As long as you have SSH access you can write wp-cli based scripts to instull whatever you want. In theory you can also extend WHM/Cpanel to do that, but that is more of what hosting company will do and probably not relevant to “end users”

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