It has been a couple of years since we originally wrote our plugin recipe for a secure client area in WordPress, which proved pretty popular, but we’d now recommend a different method to achieve a client area in your WordPress powered website. A recent WordPress project called for a secure area for each of the…
What are WordPress plugins?
WordPress plugins are used to add to or expand on the functionality of your WordPress powered website. Commonly installed WordPress plugins cover such topics as contact forms, comment spam, and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). What else can WordPress plugins do? Mostly if you have an idea for something you’d like your WordPress website to do then the…
Why should I keep WordPress updated?
WordPress is an open source system, which means that the source code that powers it is freely available for anyone to download and use. This also means that anyone looking to hack into a WordPress website also has the opportunity to dissect the code and exploit any vulnerability they find. WordPress is used to power…
How to Create a Client Area in WordPress
Adding a secure area for clients to log in to your wordpress website and access specific pages and/or categories. [alert color=”yellow”] This post contains information over 2 years old and the plugins may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. Please follow this link for our latest recommendations. [/alert] Increasingly companies…