J ShortCodes

Making shortcodes for JQuery accordion and tabs

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:30:15 +0000

New J Shortcodes (version 1.302 and higher) just added support for JQuery accordion and tabs. While jtabs are already documented here I am still a bit lagging on documenting the rest.
So, here’s how you can use accordion shortcodes:
Full spec:


[ jaccordion size="xxxsmall|xxsmall|xsmall|small|*normal" theme="blitzer|cupertino|overcast|*smoothness|vader" active="*"]

      Title 1::

      This is first pane content

   [jacc/]

       Title 2::

        This is second pane content

     [jacc/]

       Title 3::

        This is third pane content

  [/jaccordion]

active=”0″ – all panes initially closed (default).
active=”1″ – first pane initially opened, etc…
Please note: before using any theme beside ‘smoothness’ you need to enable it first via WordPress Admin -> JShortcodes -> General settings.

Example:

[ jaccordion size="xsmall" theme="cupertino" active="2"]

      Title 1::

       This is first pane content

    [jacc/]

        Title 2::

         This is second pane content

   [/jaccordion]

Shortcodes for wordpress membership websites

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:36:36 +0000

Quite a few wordpress bloggers are monetizing their skills and talents by converting their wordpress blogs into functional membership websites.
Wordpress is a perfect platform to build membership websites and converting your blog to paid members site could be as simple as uploading and activating membership plugin, such as MemberWing-X.
Disclaimer: I am chief architect of MemberWing-X plugin.

What makes MemberWing-X so great to build membership websites?

It has one of the strongest set of SEO features compare to any other wordpress membership plugin.
It offer real link sharing protection for premium digital downloads.
It offers integrated Digital Online Store Builder allowing any blog owner to run his/her custom own online store selling ebooks and any other kind of digital downloads.
It integrates well with commercial autoresponders, such as Aweber and Mailchimp as well as popular payment processors, such as paypal.
It offers support for unlimited membership levels and very flexible way to manage access to premium content.
It allows to convert existing blogs with thousands of posts and pages into fully featured membership website in minutes.
It allows you to download and try free, fully featured version of MemberWing-X on any new blog (with no more than 10 members).

There is so much more to say about memberwing, and without making this post too long I’d strongly suggest to consider joining Online WordPress Membership University if you want to learn more about business of building successful membership sites with WordPress and MemberWing-X plugin.

In this post I want to tell you about new j-shortcode that supports membership sites: [j-memberwing]
[j-memberwing] shortcode allows you to show certain chunks of content only to certain members and hide it from anyone else.
Say, for example:

if you want to show embedded premium videos only for members, while non-members can only read text – [j-memberwing] shortcode is for you.
if you want to show certain discounted price offer only to Gold members, while others will see only fully-priced offer – [j-memberwing] shortcode is for you.
if you want to show progressively more and more valuable content within the same post or page to higher level members, while inviting lower level members to upgrade their subscription to see more – [j-memberwing] shortcode is for you.

First – a brief introduction into MemberWing-X principles – how this membership plugin works:
MemberWing-X manages access to premium content depending on member’s product ownership.
For example if member owns “Gold Membership” product, and right after the free teaser of certain premium article this marker is inserted: {{{gold}}} – then such “Gold member” will be allowed to see complete article, while non-member or “Silver member” will not. In other words this MemberWing-X’s premium marker: {{{gold}}} will allow access to any content below this marker to any member who owns a product with keyword “gold” in it’s name.
For more detailed explanations of MemberWing’s premium markers see these tutorials.

What MemberWing-X {{{…}}} markers allows to accomplish – is to split article in 2 chunks: free teaser + premium content, visible only to proper members. What is missing in this model – is an ability to selectively include or exclude parts of content “in the middle”. OR ability to show parts of content in the middle differently to members of different levels.
[j-memberwing] shortcode takes care of this limitation.
Here’s how you would use j-memberwing shortcode to make certain piece of content visible only to “Gold member”:


 [j-memberwing  conditions="gold"]                                                   

     ...only logged on member who owns "Gold membership" product will see this...     

     [j-else/]                                                                        

     ...anyone else will see this...                                                  

 [/j-memberwing]

‘keyword‘ in parameter conditions="keyword"

 carries the same meaning as keyword (or keywords) that you'd place inside of {{{ ... }}} set of MemberWing-X marker brackets: {{{keyword}}}


For more explanations of MemberWing-X premium markers, see MemberWing-X manual and online tutorials.



Here's how you would use j-memberwing shortcode to allow higher level of members to see progressively more and more content:
							   

...This part is visible to everyone...					   

[j-memberwing  conditions="silver|gold"]            
                                
    ...This part is visible to Gold and Silver members...  

[/j-memberwing]									   

[j-memberwing  conditions="gold"]                   
                                
    ...This part is visible only to Gold members...		   

[/j-memberwing]									   

													   


You may also nest j-memberwing shortcodes inside of each other using the same nesting rules as described in this article.


Note: to have membership functionality fully enabled on your website - you need to have memberwing-x plugin + of course J-Shortcodes plugin installed and activated as well.



How to use nested shortcodes
admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:04:31 +0000
Quite often the need arises to insert another set of shortcodes inside existing shortcodes of the same nature.


Such as inserting new [jbox] inside of another set of [jbox] shortcodes. Or creating new column layout inside of existing columns.



Wordpress does not handle shortcode filtering logic perfectly and nesting shortcodes of the same type inside of each other would break the content.


Starting from version 1.220 J-Shortcodes added support for unlimited nested levels of shortcodes. This is achived by adding character: ‘=’ right after the opening shortcode bracket.



So for example if you want to nest [jcolumns] shortcodes inside of each other, you’d do it the following way:



    [jcolumns]					

        ...						

        [jcol/]					

            [=jcolumns]			

                ...					

                [=jcol/]			

                    [==jcolumns]		

                        ...			

                        [==jcol/]		

                        ...			

                    [==/jcolumns]	

                [=jcol/]			

                ...					

            [=/jcolumns]			

        [jcol/]					

        ...						

    [/jcolumns]					




So, essentially you add one ‘=’ character for every new nesting level.


Please note that you do not have to use this technique for shortcodes of different type. For example inserting [jbutton] shortcode inside of [jbox] shortcode does not require any additional effort. 




Same technique could be applied to any J Shortcodes, including newly added [j-memberwing] shortcodes that offers enhanced support for wordpress membership plugin MemberWing-X.


J-Shortcodes are in worldwide WordPress.org repository
admin — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:04:37 +0000
I wrote J-Shortcodes plugin for my own needs first to add custom elements to my other website: wordpress membership plugin MemberWing-X.




I found that certain themes comes with their own set of limited shortcodes. The problem is that when you use theme-specific shortcodes and then later decide to change theme – this becomes major hassle – as you’d have to re-code all pages where you used these shortcodes.
Much more logical approach would be to have shortcodes plugin that would include most functions you need. Then you may change theme any time and all your pages will still be in tact.




While adding more and more pieces to J shortcodes – I figured that many people would probably find this functionality useful as well. So I submitted it to WordPress repository and now everyone can have it and enjoy it!




Let me know if you want to add certain functions to it or find any glitches.