Posts
Renders your WordPress posts natively. Works on any site — no Ultimate Member, no BuddyPress, nothing beyond the Memberside plugin.
Before you start
Section titled “Before you start”| Plugin | None. WordPress core |
| Endpoint group | Content |
| Plan | Every plan |
Place Single Post on the Background tab as well. Without it, tapping a post does nothing.
Add it to your app
Section titled “Add it to your app”- Drag Posts onto a navigation bar.
- Choose the post types to include.
- Pick a layout and template.
Settings
Section titled “Settings”| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Post types | Which public post types to list | post |
| Template | How each item is drawn | Card |
| Layout | Grid or list | Grid |
| Sort | Ordering | Newest first |
| Search | A search field on the screen | On |
| Terms | Limit to chosen categories or tags | All |
| Authors | Limit to chosen authors | All |
| Meta key | Sort or filter by a custom field | None |
| Member filters: Categories, Tags, Authors | Which sections the members’ filter sheet offers | All off |
| Title, Description | Shown at the top | Empty |
Any public post type is available, so a site with event or recipe types
can list those without a plugin integration.
Member filters
Section titled “Member filters”Turn on Categories, Tags or Authors under Member filters and a filter button appears beside the search box. It opens a sheet with one section of chips per filter you turned on. Members pick as many chips as they like, tap Apply, and the list narrows to match. Clear empties the sheet. The button shows how many chips are picked.
Categories and Tags mean the listed post type’s own taxonomies: its
first hierarchical one for Categories (WordPress’s Categories for plain
posts) and its first flat one for Tags (Tags for plain posts). A recipe
type with a Cuisine taxonomy offers cuisines under Categories. A type with
no taxonomy of that shape has nothing to offer, so its toggle is switched off
and says why. Only terms that hold at least one post are offered.
Authors offers the people who have published posts of the listed type.
Your own Terms and Authors settings above still set the boundary. When you have limited the screen to some categories, the sheet offers only those, and a member’s pick narrows within them. Picking nothing leaves your limit as it is. Within one section, posts that match any picked chip are listed; across sections, a post has to match each section that has a pick.
Category Posts, and a category opened from a Categories block, already show one category, so their sheet has no Categories section.
Post card
Section titled “Post card”Under Appearance, Post card decides what each card shows. The same group is on Category Posts.
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Featured image | The post’s image. With it off, Overlay draws as Card | On |
| Category label | The post’s first category, above the title | On |
| Summary | The excerpt under the title, in the list layout | On |
| Author | Who wrote the post | Off |
| Date | When it was published | On |
| Minute read | Estimated reading time | On |
| Comment count | How many comments the post has | Off |
A Posts screen set up before this group existed keeps its comment count setting.
What your members see
Section titled “What your members see”A searchable, scrolling list or grid. Tapping an item opens it in Single Post, where they can read it and, if you allow it, comment.
Published posts only
Section titled “Published posts only”Only published posts are ever returned. Drafts, pending and scheduled posts are excluded server-side, regardless of who is signed in — including administrators.
An administrator who can see a draft on the website will not see it in the app. That is deliberate rather than a permissions gap.
Members-only posts stay members-only
Section titled “Members-only posts stay members-only”A post Paid Memberships Pro restricts to certain levels opens in the app as it does on your website for someone without the level: your site’s own membership required message, with the link to join, in place of the text. Its excerpt is shown only if Paid Memberships Pro is set to show excerpts. A member who holds the level reads the whole post.
Your settings are enforced by your site
Section titled “Your settings are enforced by your site”The post types, authors and terms you choose here are sent to your site when you save. A request asking for a post type you did not choose comes back narrowed to one you did, whatever the request says.
This matters because the settings also travel inside the app, where anyone who inspects its traffic can read and change them. Before your site enforced them, a tab set to one post type would still return another to a caller who edited the request. Now the app is what your members see and your site is what decides.
Two limits worth knowing.
If you have more than one app on the same site, the settings are held to the most permissive of them. Your apps identify themselves, but nothing stops a request claiming to be a different one, so the honest guarantee is that nobody gets more than your loosest app already offers. One app on a site gets exactly that app’s settings.
The author and term filters are applied to requests that carry them, but a request that leaves them out is not narrowed. Those filters differ from screen to screen, and supplying one to a screen that meant to leave it open would silently show the wrong posts. Post type has no such exception because every screen always sends it.
Your site needs the Memberside plugin version 2.18.0 or later. On an older one the app works exactly as before, and updating the plugin is all that is needed — the settings are sent on your next save either way.
When it does not work
Section titled “When it does not work”| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| The screen is empty | The Content group is off | Enable it |
| Tapping a post does nothing | Single Post is not placed | Add it on the Background tab |
| A draft is missing | Published posts only | Publish it |
| A post type is not offered | It is not registered as public | Register it with public => true |
| Fewer posts than on the website | A term, author or type filter is set | Check the tab’s settings |
| Comment counts are missing | The setting is off | Turn on Comment count |
| No filter button | No member filter is turned on | Turn on Categories, Tags or Authors under Member filters |
| The Categories or Tags toggle is greyed out | The listed post type has no taxonomy of that kind | Expected. List a type that has one, or use the other filter |
| A category is missing from the sheet | It holds no posts, or it is outside the categories you limited the screen to | Expected |
| No Categories section on Category Posts | The screen already shows one category | Expected |
| A post shows membership required | Paid Memberships Pro restricts it to a level the member does not hold | Expected. See Membership Levels |