WordPress as a Membership Directory

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1. Chris Cagle (3 comments.) says:

   3/1/2008 at 1:46 am

   Mark – Glad you liked it!

   As for spammers – default registration for the site is subscriber, so they won’t get anywhere near the directory until they have been approved by the administrator (currently just me). Sort of in the way that if you submit your website to cssremix, you don’t get shown until John approves it.
2. adam (39 comments.) says:

   3/1/2008 at 2:13 am

   very awesome, I was about to embark on building something similar
3. kosir (8 comments.) says:

   3/1/2008 at 3:06 am

   I was thinking about making a local directory of WP powered blogs on WP platform and this might come in really handy. I’ll defenently try this.
4. Runa (1 comments.) says:

   3/1/2008 at 3:15 am

   No need to give the spammers ideas
5. Mistijen says:

   3/1/2008 at 7:16 am

   I’m loving this idea and arrangement, I was also thinking of a directory for particular artists myself… thank you so much!
6. Edward (4 comments.) says:

   3/1/2008 at 8:20 am

   Hope people will make good use of it, I do not want to spammers abuse the system…
7. Chess Teaching (15 comments.) says:

   3/1/2008 at 8:35 pm

   Mark’s comment about dealing with the spammers (comment #1) gives a nice completion to the original post. Maybe Mark can add it to the post.
8. Michael says:

   3/1/2008 at 10:52 pm

   Bradley Charbonneau’s Extended Profile tutorial and the forum tag, likoma, are also good references on member/user features.
9. Bobby (1 comments.) says:

   3/1/2008 at 11:21 pm

   Love this idea. I am a member of the Pittsburgh Designers site and signing up was a cinch. I think I was one of the first dozen to sign up and the site has evolved a littel (for the better) since then. Good work Chris.

   I was wondering if anyone has found a way (or a plugin) to handle event registration. I am working with a non profit that runs usually 10 events a year and I want to use WP for this but cannot seem to find a plugin that does this. Guess I could tweak the above..??
10. Chris Cagle (3 comments.) says:

    3/1/2008 at 11:37 pm

    @Michael – I originally used Brad’s techniques before the 2.3 WP came out. It was a very big pain to get anything done with it because i really had to hack up WP to get it to do what I wanted.

    The new version of WP along with the 2 plugins I note allow me to do it all without any hacks.
11. Chris Cagle (3 comments.) says:

    3/2/2008 at 2:56 am

    @Bobby – thanks for the kind words!

    I bookmarked this a while back just in case anyone would ask – it looks like it may work… http://gigpress.com/
12. kosir (1 comments.) says:

    3/3/2008 at 3:58 am

    As I said before I was thinking about something like this for some time and now with help from this post and the one Chris wrote it’s here. Not yet finished but I’m working on it. A WP powered directory for WP powered blogs/sites in Slovene language. I’m using Kubrick’s there since it’s the most recognizable WP theme out there. Now it’s time to think how to improve it.
13. Martin says:

    7/14/2008 at 8:52 am

    Thanks for this post. We’ve been trying to set up a members directory with Joomla and gave up because it took forever to customize. Hearing the same can be done in WordPress is music to my ears.

    Best wishes,

    Martin
    • HPatel (1 comments.) says:

      8/6/2008 at 11:46 am

      Heh.. i have also tried setting up a small directory with Joomla and it was a nightmare.. Thanks Chris.
14. Digitek Lawyers says:

    8/18/2008 at 10:08 am

    WordPress always has something new to offer with wider range of functionalities. These functionalities with simplicity differentiates it from its competitors. I think by the time I’ve posted my comment it will have something new to offer
15. Matt Serwin (1 comments.) says:

    9/10/2008 at 2:56 pm

    WordPress is my favorite for everything.
16. New York SEO (1 comments.) says:

    11/27/2008 at 11:37 am

    I was in the middle of testing a program we just created that does the same thing. Directories are so important, this is like a DMOZ for WordPress. I guess we should focus on something else since this one’s done, and works.
17. Kristin says:

    4/29/2009 at 12:26 pm

    Hey, thanks for this! Question from a newbie: Is there any way to be alerted when a member changes his or her profile/homepage and, best yet, to be able to approve those changes so people don’t sign up and then later put questionable content on their member homepage?
    Thanks!
    Kristin
18. Chris Vendilli (1 comments.) says:

    6/3/2012 at 1:05 pm

    I know this is an older post but I still love having my listing on PGHDesigners – such a simple yet helpful website and I’m happy that Chris shares the behind the scenes inner workings of how the site was developed to make it easy to submit yet sensitive to garbage spam but incorporating the manual approval process.

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