Calum Allison

With Christmas and the New Year fast approaching, we wanted to let you know about support over the holidays. We are going to be closing support ticket submission on Friday 21st December. Support ticket submission will then be closed until Tuesday the 1st of January and all of our support staff will then be back…

This week we will be releasing two new extensions, making the theme (beta release) available for purchase and making some change to pricing. New extensions The first week of October we will be releasing two new extensions: User Groups and User Photos. User Groups The User Groups extension allows users to create and join groups…

After the release of UM2 which was many months in the making, we are now stepping up development of new features for the plugin and new extensions. To make it easier for you to see what we’re working on and what’s coming in the future we have created a public roadmap. The roadmap provides a…

GDPR On the 25th of May, new EU privacy rules come into effect called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These new regulations have a wide-ranging impact on businesses and websites. If you are an EU based business or have website users who are from the EU you will need to ensure that your site…

Product Update is our monthly update that highlights the recent product improvements we’ve made, so you can easily stay up to date on what’s new. Here’s what’s been happening in November. What’s new ? We’ve not been working on any new features for the plugin this month as November has seen a focus on UM2.0 initial…

Product Update is our monthly update that highlights the recent product improvements we’ve made, so you can easily stay up to date on what’s new. Here’s what’s been happening in October. What’s new ? Ultimate Member 2.0 After over a month in beta, UM2.0 is officially here. As this is a significant update to the plugin…

Product Update is our monthly update that highlights the recent product improvements we’ve made, so you can easily stay up to date on what’s new. Here’s what’s been happening in August. What’s new ? UM2.0 beta After several months of development, UM2.0 is now available for beta testing. It can be downloaded directly here using this…

If you are reading this blog post you may have noticed our website looks a bit different to the last time you were on it. That’s because we have been working on a completely new design for the site over the last couple of months and today the new site design went live. We decided to…

Ultimate Member launched in January 2015 and since then the plugin has grown to a stage where it is now installed on over 50,000 websites! The popularity of Ultimate Member from the day we launched, meant that after only a few months, the plugin was already making enough revenue to be a viable full-time business.…

It’s hard to believe but Ultimate Member turned 1 yesterday. The last year has flown by and whilst it has been a very successful first year for us, it has not been without its challenges. Let’s take a look back at everything that happened during 2015. Growth Launching Ultimate Member was scary, especially when the plan was for…

Last week our free WordPress plugin Ultimate Member passed the 20,00 active install mark, so I thought I’d share some of the things we have learnt and the challenges we have faced since we launched the plugin 10 months ago. Plugin Support Prior to launching Ultimate Member we made the decision that we would provide…

Dealing with a hangover from a price increase and experiencing our first month where revenue has not grown. Here is how we got on during July. E-commerce Metrics Our total revenue for the month of June was $22,405 which is a 9% decrease from May where revenue was $24,628. The revenue was generated from 256 orders and we have been…

Our best month yet for sales, a focus on improvements to core version and a boost to sales by announcing a price rise. It has been a quieter month in terms of development of new extensions but here’s how we have got on during the month of June. E-commerce Metrics Our total revenue for the month of June was…

Increases in revenue, changes to support pricing and a run in with Stripe. Here’s what has happened during the past month. E-commerce Metrics Our total revenue for the month of May was $17,882, which is a 40% increase from April where revenue was $12,517. The revenue was generated from 217 orders and we have been able to increase…

New extensions, bundles of joy and a whole lot of support! This past month has flown by so let’s have a look back at the past 30 days. E-commerce Metrics Our total revenue for the month of April was $12,517 and we are happy to have passed the $10,000 mark from our first full month of sales. The revenue…

If you’ve ever worked with BuddyPress and have found it to not match your needs and are looking for an alternative then Ultimate Member may just be the plugin for you. A little background I first stumbled into WordPress whilst attempting to create a professional jobs site for graduates. When it came to building the site the…

If you’re looking for a way to let users see which other users are online then you’ll be happy to know that we have created a free extension that will allow you to do just that. With our online users extension you can add easily display the users who are currently on your site. The extension…

What a month we’ve had for Ultimate Member. March has been a huge and important milestone for us as we have finally started bringing in some revenue for the plugin after many months of developement and hard work. Here are some of the highlights from the month: Extensions Released March saw the release our first…

When it comes to creating sites with user to user interaction it is important to keep users on your site and make sure they are engaged. High levels of user engagement and interaction are vital for the long-term success of a community site so it is important you do everything to encourage engagement and interaction amongst…

If you want to let users signup to your site using their instagram account you can now do this with Ultimate Member. We have added support for Instagram to our social login extension which will allow you to add a retina ready and fully mobile responsive instagram social login button to your site’s login and registration forms. You…

If you’ve ever wondered how to manually approve new user registrations on your WordPress site or have been looking for a plugin that allows you to do this then Ultimate Member may be the plugin for you. With Ultimate Member you can set up your site so that when a user registers they must be manually…

If you’re creating a website where users can signup and become members then you need to make it easy for members to login and logout of your site. The easiest and most noticeable place is to add login and logout links to your site’s navigation menu. However, the default WordPress menu system does not provide an…

When users login to a WordPress site the default action is to redirect them to the WordPress admin dashboard. This is fine if you are the site admin or the user needs access to the admin but what about when you don’t want your site’s users to be able to access the admin dashboard. WordPress core does…