Let’s dive into the highlights of this release:

1. Hybrid Theme Features for WordPress Block Editor: To ensure seamless compatibility with the WordPress Block Editor, Memberlite 5.0 introduces hybrid theme features. This means you can harness the power of the Block Editor while maintaining the familiar functionality of Memberlite.
2. Improved Default Color Scheme: We’ve revamped the default color scheme to enhance the visual appeal of your site. If you prefer the previous color palette, fear not! Existing sites can choose the Legacy Default scheme.
3. Customizable Masthead and Footer Colors: Now you have full control over the appearance of your site’s masthead and footer. Memberlite 5.0 introduces the ability to customize background colors and text colors for these crucial sections using the Customizer.
4. Clear Indication of Navigation Menu Children: Enhancing the user experience, we’ve added a caret icon to the primary navigation menu, making it easier for users to identify when a menu item has children or submenus.
5. General Style Updates: Memberlite 5.0 brings a fresh look and feel to the theme with general updates to styles throughout. We’ve refined the aesthetics to ensure a modern and visually pleasing experience for your site visitors.
6. Expanded Font Options: We understand the importance of typography, which is why we’ve added additional Google Fonts to Memberlite 5.0. You now have access to DM Sans, Figtree, Poppins, and Inter, providing even more flexibility in choosing the perfect font for your site.
7. Customizing the Editor Color Palette: For developers and designers, we’ve introduced the memberlite_editor_color_palette filter. With this feature, you can easily adjust the color palette of the editor to match your site’s branding and style.
8. Font Awesome Version 6.4: We’ve upgraded the Font Awesome integration in Memberlite to version 6.4. This update brings new icons and improved performance, ensuring your site stays up-to-date with the latest icon library.
9. Performance Optimization: To enhance performance, we’ve made optimizations under the hood. By reducing calls made to get_option() from pmpro_getOption(), we’ve streamlined the code and improved efficiency.
10. Enhanced Layout and Grid: Memberlite 5.0 embraces modern standards by enlarging the overall maximum site width and grid spacing. The content width has also been updated to accommodate the new larger grid, providing a more spacious and contemporary design.
11. Bug Fixes and Accessibility Improvements: We’ve diligently addressed various bugs and made several accessibility improvements in this release. Highlights include fixes to the “Log Out” link in the PMPro Login Widget, improved heading structure for loop items versus single posts, and better screen reader text for page navigation.
12. Compatibility and Compatibility: To ensure compatibility with popular plugins, we’ve made adjustments for Jetpack and resolved issues related to PHP 8 deprecated notices. We’ve also fixed a bug affecting the columns layout on search results when the blog grid display is enabled.

We believe that Memberlite 5.0 will elevate your WordPress membership site to new heights. The enhanced compatibility with the WordPress Block Editor, improved customization options, and numerous bug fixes make this release a must-have for any membership site owner.

To upgrade to Memberlite 5.0, simply visit the WordPress dashboard and navigate to Dashboard > Updates.

The full list of changes in v5.0 are detailed below:

• FEATURE: Added hybrid theme features for tighter compatibility with the WordPress Block Editor.
• ENHANCEMENT: Improved default color scheme. Existing sites can choose Legacy Default scheme for previous palette.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added ability to customize masthead and footer background colors and text colors via Customizer.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added caret icon to show when primary navigation menu has children.
• ENHANCEMENT: General updates to styles across the theme.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added addition Google Fonts: DM Sans, Figtree, Poppins, and Inter
• ENHANCEMENT: Added the memberlite_editor_color_palette filter to adjust the editor color palette.
• ENHANCEMENT: Updated to Font Awesome version 6.4.
• ENHANCEMENT: Reducing calls made to get_option() from pmpro_getOption().
• ENHANCEMENT: Enlarged overall max site width and grid spacing to modern standards.
• ENHANCEMENT: Updated Content Width for new larger grid.
• ENHANCEMENT/BUG FIX: Improved the format of the “Log Out” link in PMPro Login Widget
• ENHANCEMENT/BUG FIX: Fixed heading level to h2 for loop items vs. single posts (h1).
• ENHANCEMENT/BUG FIX: Updating screen reader text shown with page navigation to not use the H1 tag for SEO and page structure.
• ENHANCEMENT/BUG FIX: Accessibility improvements for the Mobile Menu toggle.
• ENHANCEMENT/BUG FIX: Checkout heading updates for accessibility improvements in PMPro v2.11.
• ENHANCEMENT/BUG FIX: Improved appearance of third level dropdown items in primary and meta menu locations.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Improved dark background handling for various frontend elements.
• BUG FIX: Allow noscript tag in the escaped output of author avatar image for Jetpack compatibility.
• BUG FIX: Fixing issue with columns layout on search results when blog grid display is enabled.
• BUG FIX: Fixed PHP 8 deprecated notices.

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We have also tightened up security, updated the Font Awesome library to 6.2, improved page speed with locally hosted Google Fonts, and did more general improvements to theme design and customization options.

Theme updates can be made directly in your WordPress site’s admin under Dashboard > Updates > Update Themes.

The full list of changes in v4.5.4 are detailed below:

• FEATURE: Added grid layout for blog.
• FEATURE: Added block image option for showing post thumbnails in the loop and single post.
• FEATURE: Added author block customizer setting for posts.
• ENHANCEMENT: Now loading all webfonts locally.
• ENHANCEMENT: Moved all colors to root variables to improve
• ENHANCEMENT: Added all unique colors in theme to editor color palette.
• ENHANCEMENT: Updated to Font Awesome version 6.2.
• ENHANCEMENT: Improved compatibility with WordPress Block Editor styling options and core blocks.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added filter memberlite_show_author_avatar to optionally disable author avatar on posts.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added filter memberlite_logout_redirect_to to allow filtering the logout URL redirect.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added filter memberlite_nav_menu_submenu_pagemenuid to set the top level page to generate the submenu on pages.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added filter memberlite_excerpt_larger to turn off the enlarged/enhanced excerpt text for a single post.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Improved dark background handling for various frontend elements.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Removed h1 tag from logo on all pages except home_url.

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The Code Recipe

Adding the Recipe to Your Website

You can add this recipe to your site by creating a custom plugin or using the Code Snippets plugin available for free in the WordPress repository. Read this companion article for step-by-step directions on either method.

You can see all the filterable values in the /memberlite/inc/defaults.php file on GitHub. This will show you what default values can be customized for your Memberlite site.

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Download Memberlite Words View Demo

About the Theme

Memberlite Words is a lightweight child theme. Designed to be minimalistic and unobtrusive. Letting your content be the hero of this story. Perfect for writers, bloggers, and content creators. Memberlite Words makes it easy to tell the world your story.

Use Memberlite Words as a platform to share your thoughts and ideas. We have also integrated Memberlite Words to work with Paid Memberships Pro, the popular WordPress Membership plugin. This integration opens up a lot of possibilities for you, the creator. Build a “Go Fund Me” style website, restrict content your content behind a paywall, or build a community around your personal brand.

Created for the creator, Memberlite Words gives you the power to publish content beautifully.

Who is Memberlite Words for?

Time and time again, we came across members who wanted to build a simple membership site around their own personal brand, talent, or artistry. Memberlite Words was designed as a single author blogging theme. For the person who wants to stand out from the crowd. The artist, the creator, and the individual.

Much like other crowdfunding solutions (like Patreon), Memberlite Words allows you to create content and restrict some and all of it and showcase it to your fans.

Since this is a WordPress theme, you have full control over how your solo membership site looks and feels. Plus, you own everything on your site which is a nice change from these more restrictive software as a service platforms.

Build your Community

Memberlite Words can seamlessly integrate with Paid Memberships Pro. This opens up a world of possibilities for you to create a community, get paid for your content, and build a Go Fund me styled website.

Create a membership around your content. You are able to accept free membership signups or request a payment for access to some or all of your content.

Build an audience around your content. Use Paid Memberships Pro to require members to signup for content. This will allow you to build a list of members and enable you to further communicate with your audience.

Have you ever wanted to build a “Go Fund Me” or “Sponsor Me” styled website? With Memberlite Words and Paid Memberships Pro – you can!

Changing your Profile Image

When you this theme, you are the hero of this story. It is all about you, your content, and your thoughts. Because of this, we decided to add a nice rounded avatar place holder right at the top of the home page.

This image will be added to the site using your Gravatar profile image which is linked to your account. If you would like to manually change this, you can too! Simply login to your site and change the “logo” found under the Site Identity section of your WordPress customizer.

Download the Theme

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Theme updates can be made directly in your WordPress site’s admin under Dashboard > Updates > Update Themes.

Improving the Membership Account Experience

In this update, we took at look at how sites are using Memberlite alongside Paid Memberships Pro. We added additional support for certain field types, adjusted the handling of the frontend Member Profile Editing experience, and also made a change for the Membership Account area.

The Memberlite theme will no longer automatically show all child pages of the “Membership Account” page in the sidebar on the main Membership Account page or any of its child pages. You should build your own custom “Membership Account” sidebar menu in place this generated menu. You can add this menu to a widget area for all the pages of the account area using the Custom Sidebars features in the Memberlite Elements plugin.

Preparing for Child Themes

In a the coming weeks we will be releasing the first child theme: Words. Memberlite Words is a lightweight child theme, designed to be minimalistic and unobtrusive. The theme lets your content be the hero of the story. We see it as a perfect fit for writers, bloggers, and content creators.

The full list of changes is detailed below:

• SECURITY: Escaped get_template_directory_uri in inc/admin.php that was missing.
• BUG FIX: Fixed bug where sidebar would show below content if “No Sidebar” layout was chosen in theme options.
• BUG FIX: Fixed undefined variable show_header_right.
• BUG FIX: Removed old CSS not used anymore by block editor for gallery block.
• BUG FIX: Now allowing span and time as allowed HTML for the sanitization of post meta before and after values from Customizer.
• BUG FIX: Updated Customizer CSS to fix potential override of header background image with specified background-color.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Adjusted support for Nav Menus Add On to better detect member-specific menus.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Added styles to avoid word wrap in specific form input fields for Columns block compatibility.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Adjusted alignwide and alignfull as block editor styles to fix bugs with column layouts.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Now hiding the sidebar child pages menu if this is a membership account page or a child of it.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Updated all color schemes and customizer controls to include header background color for preview and save.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Updated search results to check post type before adding entry-header-grid to post_class.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added styles to highlight the current page item in the subpages sidebar display.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added styles to select type form inputs to match other form fields display.
• ENHANCEMENT: Updated to Font Awesome version 5.14.0.
• ENHANCEMENT: Checking to see if menu theme_location exists before calling wp_nav_menu for certain menus.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added in backwards compatibility for wp_body_open (required to call at the top of the body tag).
• ENHANCEMENT: Adjusted stylesheet to include tested up to and PHP versions.
• ENHANCEMENT: Updated Memberlite Guide to support child themes via the memberlite_guide_additional action hook.
• ENHANCEMENT: Updated Memberlite Guide to allow child themes to filter recommended and integrated plugins via memberlite_plugins_recommended filter hook.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added memberlite_defaults filter for child themes or plugin to adjust theme default options.
• ENHANCEMENT: Wrapped replacement variables for the post meta before and after in a unique span for styling via CSS.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added memberlite_show_header_right filter to hide header right area in logo space.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added memberlite_login_redirect_to function and filter to get the redirect_to URL attribute used for “Log In” links.
• ENHANCEMENT: Adjusted appearance of headings and form elements on the new Member Profile Edit page in PMPro.
• REFACTOR: Added new function memberlite_get_font to return the header or body font from theme options.

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This release is also loaded with the newest Font Awesome version 5.14.0 which has recently been updated with 48 new icons. You can view the full list of included icons here.

How to Update

Please update Memberlite Elements from the Dashboard > Updates page of your WordPress admin. You can also get the latest version of Memberlite Elements here.

The full list of updates is below:

• BUG FIX: Fixed case for a custom sidebar on bbPress “topics” that was loading the “forum” sidebar.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Fixed issue with localization to allow for proper translation.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Now hiding and disabling setting for the automatic pages menu on the Membership Account page and its children.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added filter memberlite_elements_supported_elements so themes can remove unsupported elements.
• ENHANCEMENT: Updated to Font Awesome version 5.14.0
• ENHANCEMENT: Now tested up to WordPress 5.5.

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How to Update

Please update Memberlite Shortcodes from the Dashboard > Updates page of your WordPress admin. You can also get the latest version of Memberlite Shortcodes here.

The full list of changes is detailed below:

• BUG FIX: Removed code that was behaving inconsistently to set a cookie based on the last active tab visited.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Fixed issue with localization to allow for proper translation. You can support translation efforts at WordPress.org here.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Improved the tabs shortcode to allow for hyperlink to a targeted tab and set as active.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Improved the accordion shortcode to allow for hyperlink to a targeted accordion item and set as active.
• ENHANCEMENT: Now using version 5.14.0 of Font Awesome.
• ENHANCEMENT: Now tested up to WordPress 5.5.

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This release includes new attributes for the [memberlite_subpagelist] shortcode, accessibility and SEO improvements related to image “alt” attributes, and font display issues for certain input types.

How to Update

Please update Memberlite Shortcodes from the Dashboard > Updates page of your WordPress admin. You can also get the latest version of Memberlite Shortcodes here.

The full list of changes is detailed below:

• BUG FIX: Fixed display bug for a recent post in shortcode output with no avatar or featured image.
• BUG FIX:  Fixed issue with $memberlite_active_tabs not countable.
• BUG FIX: Now inheriting font-family for .btn, button, input[type=submit] from thebody property.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Adjusted memberlite_subpagelist shortcode logic to accept post_parent="-1" to allow a meta_key query across pages, regardless of the parent.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Added alt tag to recent posts shortcode output for featured image or avatar.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Adjusted button font-family to inherit from body rather than set explicitly.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added support for cat or tag_id as attributes of the memberlite_subpagelist shortcode.
• ENHANCEMENT: Now using version 5.13.0 of Font Awesome. [view all icons]
• ENHANCEMENT: Now tested up to WordPress 5.4.

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How to Update

Please update Memberlite Elements from the Dashboard > Updates page of your WordPress admin. You can also get the latest version of Memberlite Elements here.

The full list of updates is below:

• ENHANCEMENT: Updated to Font Awesome version 5.13.0

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A feature and enhancement-rich release for Memberlite is here. In this release, we’ve added a few new features and improved the overall theme for design and customization.

Theme updates can be made directly in your WordPress site’s admin under Dashboard > Updates > Update Themes.

“No Sidebar” Layouts

In this release, we’ve added a default layout setting for your pages or posts to have no sidebar. You can see an example of this layout at the Stranger Studios blog here.

Improved Image Accessibility and SEO

In this release, we took a look at all the images that were placed in the theme by default, such as featured images, author avatars, and more. Featured Images now include the image’s alternate text and any author or user avatar shown on the site will set the “alt” attribute to the user’s display name.

New “Sticky Navbar” Feature

You can now anchor your primary navigation menu to the top of the page when users scroll past the masthead of your site.

PMPro v2.3+ Support

Paid Memberships Pro v2.3+ now features built-in frontend login, a new log in widget and block, member profile edit, and password recovery. Memberlite v4.4+ supports these new frontend member pages.

Update to Font Awesome v5.13.0

v4.4+ now includes the most current release of Font Awesome. You can browse the full list of icons included in the library here or just see what new free license icons were added in the latest release here.

The full list of changes is detailed below:

• FEATURE: Added layout for “No Sidebar” Layout for Blog, Archive, Posts.
• FEATURE: Added header background color customizer setting.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added support for new frontend login, log in widget, and profiles in PMPro v2.3+.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Improved CSS for sidebar menus and other widgets to only target menu-style lists, not all lists and for the Theme My Login widget.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Improved Customizer CSS output so that all input types to respect custom font settings.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Added post_class entry-header-grid to posts formats so styling only applies in main loop.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Adjusted secondary (sidebar) text link to not apply to buttons.
• ENHANCEMENT: Added memberlite_avatar_size filter for adjusting avatar display size.
• ENHANCEMENT: Improved Accessibility and SEO by adding alt tags to post thumbnails and avatar.
• ENHANCEMENT: Updated to Font Awesome version 5.13.0.

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