About this plugin
Shibhu Matrimony turns any WordPress site into a fully featured matrimonial platform. Members can submit detailed biodata profiles from the front end, browse and filter listings, and manage their own profiles — all without leaving your website.
Administrators get a dedicated dashboard with real-time statistics and a timestamped activity log so they always know what is happening on the platform.
Key Features
Profile Management
- Custom post type ( mmatr_profile ) purpose-built for matrimonial biodata.
- Multi-step front-end submission form covering basic info, personal details, education & career, family details, lifestyle, and partner preferences.
- Profile photo upload with type and size validation (JPG, PNG, WebP).
- Front-end profile editing — members can update their own profiles at any time.
- Optional admin approval workflow: new profiles are held as pending until an administrator publishes them.
- Auto-generated profile reference numbers with configurable prefix and digit count (e.g. DMA000001).
Search & Browse
- Filterable profile grid with support for gender, age range, city, marital status, and more.
- AJAX-powered live filtering — no page reload required.
- Pagination for large profile sets.
- Optional login-gate: restrict profile browsing to registered members only.
- Profile photos hidden for guests when the login requirement is enabled.
Shortcodes
- [shibhu_matrimony_profiles] — Display the profiles listing grid.
Parameters: gender, per_page, orderby, order.
Example: [shibhu_matrimony_profiles gender="female" per_page="12"]
- [shibhu_matrimony_submit_form] — Render the front-end profile submission form.
- [shibhu_matrimony_search_form] — Render the advanced search and filter form.
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- At-a-glance statistics cards: total profiles, male / female breakdown, profiles added in the last 30 days, and profiles awaiting approval.
- Timestamped activity log timeline tracking profile creation, edits, approvals, and pending submissions.
- One-click log clearing via secure AJAX endpoint.
Settings
- Enable or disable front-end profile registration.
- Enable or disable the advanced search form.
- Set the default number of profiles displayed per page.
- Require admin approval before profiles go live.
- Require login to view profiles.
- Customise the profile reference number prefix and digit count.
Developer Friendly
- Theme template overrides — copy any plugin template into your-theme/shibhu-matrimony/ to customise the output.
- Dozens of action and filter hooks throughout the codebase for extensibility.
- Singleton main class following WordPress coding standards.
- All output escaped, all input sanitized, all forms protected with WordPress nonces.
- Fully translation-ready with a shibhu-matrimony text domain.
Security
Shibhu Matrimony is built with security as a first priority:
- Every form submission is verified with wp_verify_nonce().
- All user-supplied data is sanitized with appropriate WordPress sanitization functions ( sanitize_text_field(), absint(), wp_unslash(), etc.).
- All output is escaped with esc_html(), esc_attr(), esc_url(), and wp_kses() before being sent to the browser.
- Capability checks ( current_user_can() ) guard every admin action and AJAX endpoint.
Translation Ready
All user-facing strings are wrapped in standard WordPress i18n functions. pot file so translators can get started immediately.