Member Directory Community Add-On Description
The WordPress Member Directory Community AddOn allows users to add a new profile to the WordPress member directory, claim an existing member profile which was listed and manage their listings.
This AddOn is a supplement for the Member Directory Plugin and empowers it by letting the users submit and manage their own profiles within the member directory.
Online Demo – Check ListWP.com Expert and Member Directory
What Happens when a Member Submits a New Profile
In cases when the member forgets his password, near each member profile page which is assigned to a member, a forgot password link will appear, allowing member to receive a new password to the registered email.
Creating Community DirectoryExpert Community gives you full control on how your visitors can submit their experts profiles for approval.Learn how to create a directory where users suggest experts. |
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Administrator Tools to Manage Members Profiles
Modifying the New Member Submission Form
User Dashboard for the Member Profile
The plugin supports a user dashboard for logged-in users which let them see their existing profile and manage it. Since members are not necessarily defined as WordPress users this dashboard will be usable just in cases where new member profile submission is made by logged in users.
Claiming an Existing Member Profile
Use Case Example
- Experts Database – Build a directory of people who are regarded as experts in their field of work. It can also be used as a website for personal profile promotion.
Using the Member Directory Community Add-On
- Submit new Listings – Allow users to submit a new member profile
- Update Existing Listing – Allow users to edit and update an existing profile
- Claim Member Pages – Allow users to claim an existing member profile already in the directory
Member Directory Community Prerequisite Plugin
You need to have the Member Directory plugin installed before using the community addon
Member and Expert Directory Payments Related Plugins
Member Directory Community AddOn Features
- Shortcode support a form with Captcha for submitting and managing a member profile
- Admin can define what fields are mandatory in the add new member form
- Admin can turn On/off member profile claim feature
- Admin can turn On/off forgot password feature
- Support external users username and password for managing their member profile
- Support member notifications
- Support changing all the labels related to the member form
- Support moderation of new member postings
Member Directory Community Add-on Features in Details
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin.
Add a member profile form – Using a shortcode admin can place a form where user can post a new member profile and edit existing. The form mandatory fields are controlled from the admin settings. | |
Claim your Member Profile – Each member profile page which is not already assigned to an owner can show claim your member profile form. | |
Password Recovery – Once member profile is claimed, owner can ask to recover password. An email notification will be sent to the owner registered email address. | |
AddOn Settings – AddOn settings includes Moderation settings of who can moderate new member profiles added and notifications settings. | |
Owner Email – Once claimed, member profile owner email appear in the profile edit page from the admin dashboard. Admin can update email and also send password recovery notification. | |
AddOn Labels – All labels related to the member profile details and form are editable. Admin can also define which field is mandatory. | |
Claims Dashboard – Review all claims from a single, efficient dashboard | |
GDPR Compliant – Provides tools that let users have full control over their data, assisting the admin with data regulations compliance. Learn more |
Member Directory Community Image Gallery
Member Directory Online Demo
![]() ![]() ![]() | This demo shows a form for submitting a new member profile. Once profile is submitted admin is notified. Admin can moderate the new profile before it appears in the directory. Suggest a new member profile Example |
Member Directory Community Frequently Asked Questions
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin.
What is the benefit of this add-on?
The Community add-on for the Member Directory plugin allows visitors to your site to Add new experts to your directory or to Claim existing experts.
This can allow you to outsource some of the work of creating and managing content on your site to your users. It also means that experts can have the creative control over their listings and who knows an expert better than they themselves?
To learn more about the Member Directory Community add-on see this Overview article.
How many expert listings can be created?
There is no limit to the number to the experts listed which can appear in the directory. You can have 10,000 or more experts listed. When having a very large number of experts (50,000+) you might need to scale up your WordPress server.
To learn more about the member directory add-on see this Help article.
Do you have to be logged in to manage experts?
No. Each user submitting an expert receives a username and password which will let them edit their expert listing. This does not make them a registered user but only grants them the ability to edit the expert page.
To learn more about adding experts see this Help article.
How do users update existing expert listings?
Users can claim existing expert listings which are not assigned to anyone. Once claimed and assigned to them they can use the username and password granted to edit the expert description.
To learn more about updating expert listings see this Help article.
Can I create expert listings and reach out to the experts to see if they would like to manage them?
Yes, there is an Expert Claim feature built into the add-on. You can also hide the Add new Expert form from users, leaving them with only the option to Claim experts that you have added.
To learn more about claiming expert listings see this Help article.
Is there any way to charge my site users for adding or claiming expert listings on my directory?
Yes, you can charge for both adding new expert listings to the directory and claiming existing ones. For this you will require the Member Directory Payments add-on.
To learn more about Member Directory Payments see these Help articles.
Is there any way to prevent Spam or Malicious content from being added to my directory?
There are two safety features built into the add-on. Re-captcha and Moderation.
Re-captcha can help to prevent attacks by bots harming your site content quality and performance and Moderation allows you to manually filter out nuisance visitors submissions and to check content quality before it goes live
To learn more about moderation see this Help article.
Is there any sort of User dashboard for managing directory listings that have been submitted or claimed?
Yes. Once a user logs into your WordPress site they can go to the Dashboard page which you can create on any page or post on the site with the insertion of the included dashboard shortcode.
From here they can View their previously added or claimed listings, edit them or delete them if they choose (still pending admin moderation if you have this feature enabled.
They can also suggest new expert listings from here.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Do listing owners have to have access to or be registered users on my WordPress site to be able to own and managing directory listings?
No, not at all. When an expert creates a new listing or claims an existing one and passes moderation (if the moderation features is enabled) they will receive log in credentials and a link in their email.
Using this link they can then go to your site and manage their listing without having to be logged in on the site. They don’t have to have a user account at all!
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Member Directory Community Changelog
Version 2.0.6 from the 3rd April 2022
- Improved recover password error messages
Version 2.0.5 from the 16th March 2022
- Bugfix related to double claim notification for admin
Version 2.0.4 from the 28th Feb 2022
- Added validation in community form on select
Version 2.0.3 from the 4th Feb 2022
- Added support to disable redirection after update profile
- Added view profile button in community form
- Bugfix related to taxonomy 6 save issue
Version 2.0.2 from the 24th Jan 2022
- Bugfix related to email field
- Improvement in community form
- Bugfix related custom taxonomy fields duplicate values
Version 2.0.1 from the 16th Jan 2022
- Bugfix related to notification class
Version 2.0.0 from the 29th December 2021
- Fixed validation in community form
Version 1.9.9 from the 18th December 2021
- Added support to pass default featured image from community form
Version 1.9.8 from the 8th December 2021
- Update javascript of community form
Version 1.9.7 from the 25th November 2021
- Fixed JavaScript issue in community form
Version 1.9.6 from the 14th November 2021
- Added support to manage products with community form
Version 1.9.5 from the 12th November 2021
- Added recover login & password email subject and content
Version 1.9.4 from the 28th Aug 2021
- Added taxonomy 6 to suggest expert form
- Fixed tie user to expert
- Fixed login functionality from expert page
Version 1.9.2 from the 21st July 2021
- Fixed labels for taxonomies in Suggest expert page
- Fixed empty expert id for suggest expert page
- Fix: don’t show expert in suggested page if expert is not tied with current user and not created by this user
- Fixed creation expert and tie to owner
- Improved recover password feature
Version 1.9.1 from the 6th June 2021
- Improved only one expert per user functions
Version 1.9.0 from the 23rd May 2021
- Updated license package to version 1.9.1
Version 1.8.9 26th April 2021
- Improved CSS of GDPR disclaimer feature
Version 1.8.8 8th April 2021
- Bugfix related to email notifications
Version 1.8.7 31st March 2021
- Added company field in community form
- Added support to add redirect URL after submit the community form
Version 1.8.6 5th March 2021
- Bugfix related to preview expert
Version 1.8.5 22nd Feb 2021
- Added support to override community form template in theme
- Added support to checkbox with taxonomies
- Bugfix related to tags not saved
Version 1.8.4 15th Jan 2021
- Bugfix related to user access email after publish
Version 1.8.3 8th Jan 2021
- Bugfix related to claim feature
Version 1.8.2 15th Nov 2020
- Improvement in claim feature
Version 1.8.1 13th Oct 2020
- Bugfix related to claim accept email from admin section
Version 1.8.0 10th Oct 2020
- Added fax phone number field
Version 1.7.9 8th Oct 2020
- Added support to show/hide username and password fields from community form
Version 1.7.8 15th Sep 2020
- Added support to add mask on phone field
Version 1.7.7 8th Sep 2020
- Bugfix related to slashes in settings section
Version 1.7.6 10th August 2020
- Added hardcoded text into labels section
Version 1.7.5 10th July 2020
- Bugfix related to admin notification feature
Version 1.7.4 4th July 2020
- Improvement in only one expert per user feature
- Improvement in login box error messages
- Bugfix in terms of service checkbox validation
Version 1.7.3 11th june 2020
- Added terms of service field support with community form
- Resolved PHP warnings
- Updated package 1.9.0
Version 1.7.2 13th May 2020
- Bugfix in send login and password feature from admin
Version 1.7.1 30th Apr 2020
- Bugfix in community login form
- Improvement with cm expert directory levels addon
Version 1.7.0 27th Apr 2020
- Added change username and password feature with community form
- Added taxonomy 4 and taxonomy 5 field in community form
- Added Instagram field in community form
- Added support with cm expert directory levels addon
- Bugfix in GDPR disclaimer feature
Version 1.6.9 9th Mar 2020
- Added claim request listing
- Added new email notification for user claim on submit
- Bugfix related to community form submit button label
Version 1.6.8 17th Mar 2020
- Added support to manage expert gender field from frontend form
- Updated package 1.8.10
Version 1.6.7 9th Feb 2020
- Ability to connect each Expert profile closely with the user account
- Ability to only update empty values/fields when importing from CSV
- Ability to identify the expert by custom field (except for ID)
- Ability to “activate” the newly created expert profile
- Added support to add instructions with video gallery field for form
Version 1.6.6 27th Nov 2019
- Added support to add documents with each expert
Version 1.6.5 14th Nov 2019
- Integration with GeoDirectory Plugin
- Added new parameters show_header, geo_directory and edit_on_backend in cmedc_dashboard shortcode
- Bugfix related to recaptcha v2 invisible
Version 1.6.4 12th Oct 2019
- Replaced deprecated function
- Improvement in html
Version 1.6.3 25th Sep 2019
- Login box hide if user already logged in
- Added support to community form contact email set as owner email
- Added visible option for virtual address, country and google map
Version 1.6.2 9th Sep 2019
- Added main image as featured image
- Bugfix related to owner email field in form
Version 1.6.1 19th Aug 2019
- Added some text in labels section
- Improvement in statusObserver method
- Bugfix related to send notification
Version 1.6.0 21st July 2019
- Bugfix related to post data with double quotes
Version 1.5.9 15th July 2019
- Bugfix related to community form submit
- Removed some warnings
Version 1.5.8 6th July 2019
- Compatible with php 7.2
Version 1.5.7 8th June 2019
- Resolved output buffer issue in loadView function
- Added loader on form submit
Version 1.5.6 16th May 2019
- Bugfix related to video gallery
Version 1.5.5 15th May 2019
- Added video gallery update support in community form
Version 1.5.4 08th May 2019
- Added parameter show_footer in cmedc_dashboard shortcode
Version 1.5.3 05th May 2019
- Bugfix related to custom css
Version 1.5.2 23rd Apr 2019
- Added gallery update support in community form
- Updated package 1.8.9
Version 1.5.1 24th Feb 2019
- Added reCAPTCHA instructions in settings
- Removed gray overlay after submit community form
Version 1.5.0 30th Jan 2019
- Added stripslashes for GDPR disclaimer text
Version 1.4.9 28th Jan 2019
- Added stripslashes for labels
Version 1.4.8 23rd Jan 2019
- Bugfix in access notification email
- Updated license package 1.8.6
Version 1.4.7 16th Jan 2019
- Added community form section heading text change settings
Version 1.4.6 9th Jan 2019
- Bugfix in community dashboard structure
- Improvement in CSS
Version 1.4.5 5th Jan 2019
- Bugfix in community dashboard shortcode
Version 1.4.4 26th Dec 2018
- Added custom css support on community form
Version 1.4.3 10th Dec 2018
- Improved galley features
Version 1.4.2 23rd Nov 2018
- Bugfix in gallery and videos feature
Version 1.4.1 20th Nov 2018
- Added expert images gallery and videos feature
Version 1.4.0 30th Sep 2018
- Added some css classes on form
Version 1.3.9 13th Sep 2018
- Added export form section heading text change settings
- Updated license package
Version 1.3.8 11th Aug 2018
- Fixed bug with edit expert link from dashboard
Version 1.3.7 31st July 2018
- Fixed bug with maximum number of categories limit issue if set empty
Version 1.3.6 27th July 2018
- Added admin panel notification visible only for admin and editor
- Fixed expert form data save issue
Version 1.3.5 24th July 2018
- Fixed the fatal error in gdpr class
- Added paragraph spacing support in emails
- Updated license package
Version 1.3.4 19th July 2018
- Fixed bug with password recovery email
Version 1.3.3 19th June 2018
- Added the display of the login/password of the expert profile owners to admins
- Fixed bug with reCAPTCHA
Version 1.3.2 15th June 2018
- Fixed bug with community form fields label
- Added community form fields show/hide option
Version 1.3.0 10th June 2018
- Added GDPR Feature
Version 1.2.9 11th Apr 2018
- Added the display of the login/password of the expert profile owners to admins
Version 1.2.8 23rd Jan 2018
- Added an option to display categories field as checkboxes on the Community form
- Added an option to display tags field on the Community form
- Added an option to disable the Social Information section on the Community form
Version 1.2.7 22nd Dec 2017
- Updated the licensing package
Version 1.2.6 18th Nov 2017
- Added the missing label definition
- Updated the licensing package
Version 1.2.5 29th July 2017
- Fixed the rare bug
- Fixed the bugs with editing
- Fixed the User Dashboard edition option
- Changed the User Dashboard links to open in new tab
- Improved the Image Upload library
Version 1.2.4 6th July 2017
- Fixed the bug with e-mails not being sent for users on registration
Version 1.2.3 14th June 2017
- Fixed the fatal error when logging in
Version 1.2.2 12th June 2017
- Fixed the bugs with the claims
- Updated the Licensing Package
Version 1.2.1 22nd April 2017
- Fixed the bug with the Cookie
Version 1.2.0 23rd March 2017
- Adding image on community form fixed
- Password Recovery feature improved
- Changed the old Captcha v1 to brand new invisibleCaptcha
- Added the filter allowing to display custom fields in the form
- Fixed the bug with the [business] shortcode missing in the admin e-mail notification
- Fixed some bugs
Version 1.1.8 12th January 2017
- Fix a security issue.
Version 1.1.7 5th Dec 2016
- Add the function stripslashes() for text that appear with unwanted slashes
- Fix a bug that cause a black dot to appear in the ‘Add product’ page for roles who cannot see the form
Version 1.1.4 16th Aug 2016
- Updated licensing dashboard
Version 1.1.3 from 11th June 2016
- Fixed the bug with ReCaptcha not working properly on https based sites (mixed content)
Version 1.1.1, 14th June 2016
- Fixed bug with plugin deactivation
Version 1.1.0, 11th June 2016
- Security Fixes