WordPress ships no way for a user to upload a profile picture. Here are the three ways to add one, what each actually costs you, and the kinds of site where the right answer is not to.
An upload button next to a child’s name looks harmless and is not. Here is what actually goes wrong, where those pictures end up appearing, and how to give children a real choice without an upload field.
A parent with three campers should not need three accounts. Here is how to let one login register multiple children for camp, each with their own record and their own session.
What a summer camp registration form has to collect, the four ways camps build one in WordPress, and how to give every camper their own record instead of a repeater field.
What the COPPA Rule requires of a WordPress site with users under 13, and how parent-owned accounts with child profiles remove most collection points.
The User Switching plugin lets admins log in as other users. Profile switching lets members switch between their own family profiles. Which do you need?
WordPress requires an email for every user, and children do not have one. Here are the five ways sites handle kid registrations, and what each one costs you later.
WooCommerce Subscriptions attaches a subscription to a customer, and a customer is a WordPress user. That is clean and obvious right up until your customer is a parent paying for three children. Then you are asked for something the stack does not offer natively: several subscriptions, one per child, all managed and paid by one (more…)
Restrict Content Pro ties a membership to a WordPress user, and WordPress ties each user to one login and one email address. On a site selling to individuals that is exactly what you want. On a site selling to families it produces a familiar mess: either the whole household shares one login, or the parent (more…)
Give every child their own LearnPress progress, quizzes and certificates while the family keeps one login.