Documentation

Before requesting for refund please withdraw the license of User Meta Pro from your website.

License Withdraw Instruction:

Go to User Meta >> Settings, click “Update Credentials” button, then click “Withdraw License” button.

To create custom user registration form with user meta, there are three steps:

Steps 1. Fields Editor:

Go to User Meta >> Fields Editor and choose the necessary fields. Configure field’s properties as needed.

Step 2. Forms Editor:

Go to User Meta >> Forms Editor and drag & drop necessary fields to your form. (From name is mandatory.*)

Step:03.  Write Shortcode to page or post:

Write user-meta shortcode to page or post. To create page go to page >> add new.

• type=”registration” for showing registration page.
• type=”both” for showing profile page if user loged in, or showing registration page, if not user loged in.

User Registration Widget:

User registration form can be shown as widget. Go to Appearance >> Widgets for available widgets. There will be new widget named User Meta Registration/Profile Form.  This widget can be use for showing user registration form as widget. In widget configuration set your action type and form name.

User Registration Template Tag:

Custom user profile can be use as template tag anywhere in your site.

<?php

$actionType = “registration”;

$formName = “my_form2”;

echo userMetaProfileRegister( $actionType, $formName );

?>

To create custom user profile with user meta, there are three steps:

Steps 1. Fields Editor:

Go to User Meta >> Fields Editor and choose the necessary fields. Configure field’s properties as needed.

Step 2. Forms Editor:

Go to User Meta >> Forms Editor and drag & drop necessary fields to your form. (From name is mandatory.*)

Step:03.  Write Shortcode to page or post:

Write user-meta shortcode to page or post. To create page go to page >> add new.

• type=”profile” for showing profile page.
• type=”none” for hiding update button.
• type=”both” for showing profile page if user loged in, or showing registration page, if not user loged in.

User Profile Widget:

User profile can be shown as widget. Go to Appearance >> Widgets for available widgets. There will be new widget named User Meta Registration/Profile Form.  This widget can be use for showing user profile as widget. In widget configuration set your action type and form name.

Profile Template Tag:

Custom user profile can be use as template tag anywhere in your site.

<?php

$actionType = “profile”;

$formName = “my_form”;

echo userMetaProfileRegister( $actionType, $formName );

?>

3 Steps to get started

Step 1. Create Field from User Meta >> Fields Editor.

Step 2. Go to User Meta >> Forms Editor. Choose a Form Name, drag and drop fields from right to left and save the form.

Step 3. write shortcode to your page or post. Shortcode (e.g.):

Shortcode

• type=”profile” for showing profile page.
• type=”registration” for showing registration page.
• type=”profile-registration” for showing profile page if user loged in, or showing registration page, if not user loged in.
• type=”public” for showing public profile if user_id parameter provided as GET request.
• type=”login” for showing login page.

Admin user can see all others frontend profile from User Administration screen. To enable this feature, go to User Meta >> Settings, select profile page from Profile Page Selection and enable right sided checkbox.

In Case of extra field, you need to define unique meta_key. That meta_key will be use to save extra data in usermeta table. Without defining meta_key, extra data won’t save.

General

1. Remove the existing version if already exists.
2. Then, download the latest version.
3. Install and activate the latest version.
4. Go to User Meta >> Settings, and put your email and password for http://user-meta.com/. Also, hit the “Validate” button to validate your license.

Upgrade to Pro

1. If you have the free version installed then remove it,  otherwise go to step 2. To remove the free version go to your web server (via FTP, SSH, SFTP, etc) and delete the entire user-meta folder. Any saved field, form, or data will not be deleted.
2. Download the latest version of User Meta Pro from Download Page. To download User Meta Pro, you need to Register and complete your Subscription first.
3. extract user-meta-pro.x.y.z.zip, upload user-meta folder to wp-content. Activate  User Meta Pro Plugin from the WordPress Plugins Page.
4. User Meta Pro is activated. There will be a new menu block in your admin panel named User Meta.
5. Now you need to validate your license, to validate your license go to User Meta >> Settings. Then, put your email and password for http://user-meta.com, and hit Validate button.

Update from the old version to the new version

1. You need to remove your old version first. To remove the old version go to your web server (via FTP, SSH, SFTP, etc) and delete the entire user-meta folder. Any saved field, form, or data will not be deleted.
2. Download the latest version of User Meta Pro from Download Page. To download User Meta Pro, you need to Register and complete your Subscription first.
3. extract user-meta-pro.x.y.z.zip. Then, upload the user-meta folder to wp-content. Activate  User Meta Pro Plugin from the WordPress Plugins Page.
4. That’s it. User Meta Pro is updated.

General

1. Login with your username and password.
2. Go to http://user-meta.com/downloads/ and download latest version of the plugin.
3. If you already have free version installed, disable and delete free version from WP admin. (Deleting the plugin won’t effect on your saved fields/forms or settings).
4. Install and activate downloaded plugin in your website using Plugins >> Add New menu.
5. Go to User Meta >> Settings, put your email and password for http://user-meta.com/ and hit “Validate” button to validate your license.

More Details

1. Download latest version of User Meta Pro from Download Page. To download User Meta Pro, you need to be Register and complete your subscription first. If already subscribe then just login.
2. If you have free version installed then disable and remove it.  For removing existing version, go to Plugins >>Installed plugins from your admin panel. Find User Meta, there will be a link named Active or Deactive  under User Meta. If plugin is Activated then Deactive it by clicking Deactive. After Deactivation, There will be a Delete link available. Click Delete link. Delete link will redirect you to confirmation page. Confirm you deletion by clicking Yes, Delete these files. (Deleting the plugin won’t effect on your saved fields/forms or settings)
3. Go to Plugins >> Add New from admin panel. Click upload from upper menu. Locate user-meta-pro.x.y.z.zip file and click Install Now.  Plugin will start uploading, after complete uploading, Click Active Plugin.
4. User Meta Pro is activated. There will be a new menu block in your admin panel named User Meta.
5. Now you need to validate your license, to validate license go to User Meta >> Settings, put your email and password for http://user-meta.com and hit Validate button.

Update from old version to new version

When there is new stable version announce, you will be notified by your plugin listing page with update link. Just click update link to update your plugin version

If for any case update link is not working for you or you need to install RC or DEV version, then follow those steps:

1. Login and download latest version of User Meta Pro from Download Page.
2. You need to remove old version then.  For removing old version, go to Plugins >>Installed plugins from your admin panel. Find User Meta Pro, there will be a link named Active or Deactive  under User Meta Pro. If plugin is Activated then Deactive it by clicking Deactive. After Deactivation, There will be a Delete link available. Click Delete link. Delete link will redirect you to confirmation page. Confirm you deletion by clicking Yes, Delete these files. (Deleting the plugin won’t effect on your saved fields/forms or settings)
3. Go to Plugins >> Add New from admin panel. Click upload from upper menu. Locate user-meta-pro.x.y.z.zip file and click Install Now.  Plugin will start uploading, after complete uploading, Click Active Plugin.
4. That’s it. User Meta Pro is updated.