By default, the Paid Memberships Pro membership checkout does not request the user’s first and last name. If you’d like to capture this information for your members, we have a very simple Add On that instantly adds the fields.
How it Works
After installing and activating the Add On, the Membership Checkout page will automatically include a field for “First Name” and “Last Name” below the password fields in the “Account Information” area of checkout.
Where do I place this code within functions.php? can I place it anywhere or does it have to be in a specific place?
Placing it at the bottom is usually a good way to go. Make sure that you when you paste, you don’t add “nested PHP tags”… so you DON’T want something like this:
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Make sure that the PHP code is within one PHP tag or you close any old PHP tag and open a new one. So
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If you’re having trouble with this, your best bet is to use the Add On to add all of the name and address fields to free levels. You only need to download and install that as a separate plugin. No code tweaking needed. The link is at the top of this post now.
Okay I called Hostgator and figured out what happened. The first piece of code is not for the function.php file. <label for="first,… That's what crashed my theme.
Where am I supposed to add that piece of code? It says "add the field to the form" I don't know what that means. Where can I edit the form? thanks
You need to make a customized version of checkout.php either in your theme or a pmpro-customizations plugin as outlined here: https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/documentation/advanced-techniques/templates/. Then you edit your customized account.php to add the fields.
I just saw this update that you created a plugin – awesome!!
– Do I just download it and install?
– What if I don’t want to require Last Name, only first name?
– does the first and last name get stored in user profile and then send to the mailchimp integration account automatically?
thanks
Lei
Great plugin – one small bug
I installed the plugin you built. One small bug is the First and Last Name field do not have an * to indicate they are required.
Can you pls fix. love the plugin. thanks
Lei
Thanks for this, it would be great if it had the same positioning options available as register helper for consistency purposes. As well both could use before and after variations of the positions to allow for additional functionality in look and feel of the checkout experience.
Good suggestions. You could change this action to move the fields somewhere else on the checkout page:
https://github.com/strangerstudios/pmpro-add-name-to-checkout/blob/master/pmpro-add-name-to-checkout.php#L27
You should be safe just editing that plugin (we probably won’t have many updates) or you can remove_action and then add_action using the filter you want.
RE before_ variations of the actions, another good idea. We add them on demand. So let us know where you want one specifically, and I can put it into the next version of the plugin.
On the befores, I for example have a custom field named “Full Name”; but the First and Last name appear in the billing information with a TOS in the middle between the two. (This is so i can tie it to their event result registry which is a single field) I would prefer to be able to put everything in the order they are generally used to in a registration process, so for example Username, email address, password, conf. password, First name, Last name, Registration (Full) name*, Gender*, DOB*, Phone, Emergency Contact*, Address Info Fields in billing, TOS (and I want to denote they checked the box). The *’d fields are custom and are interwoven between the standard wordpress fields and the billing fields. All of which I want to retain in their membership record.
Do you add all four bits of code to the fuctions.php file? If so, where in the file, all at the bottom?
Probably best to just use this plugin vs updating any files:
https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/wp-content/uploads/plugins/pmpro-add-name-to-checkout.zip
Is there a reason you’d rather write the code yourself?
Hi! I am wondering if you can customize different forms for different membership levels.
Let me explain myself. I am building a site for a runners coach, this guy wants to have differents membership and needs to get different data from different membership. For the highest membership he wants data for marathons, and this marathon data is useless in other memberships.
Hope I made this clear.
Thanks in advance
If you use the Register Helper Plugin (https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/plugins-on-github/pmpro-register-helper-add-checkout-and-profile-fields/) then you can specify a “levels” parameter like array(1,2,3) which would mean only levels 1,2, and 3 will have that field at checkout. The add-on page has more documentation.
Can you tell me where this is added in the above code?
You can grab a plugin that does this here:
https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/wp-content/uploads/plugins/pmpro-add-name-to-checkout.zip
If you want to use code like this paste it into your active theme’s functions.php file. So /wp-content/themes/yourthemename/functions.php or something similar. Also, you can create a custom WP plugin to put the code into. Info on that here: https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/2012/08/create-a-plugin-for-pmpro-customizations/
Hi there! Because I am using both Register Helper AND the Import .csv add-on, I’m wondering: How to do I label the column fields for the custom data I’ve added through Register Helper?
The “name” of the field set in the Register Helper line is the “meta key” used by WordPress.
So if your field is like new PMProRH_Field(“company”, …) then you just need to add a column “company” to the spreadsheet you import. Case and spacing matters. Your meta keys must also have no spaces or special characters (except underscores) and start with a letter.
hi,
i used
/*
Plugin Name: PMPro Add Name to Checkout
Plugin URI: https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/wp/pmpro-add-name-to-checkout/
Description: Adds first and last name fields to the user account section at checkout for Paid Memberships Pro.
Version: .2
Author: Stranger Studios
Author URI: http://www.strangerstudios.com
*/
downloaded from: https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/wp-content/uploads/plugins/pmpro-add-name-to-checkout.zip
on testing the same, great it worked and First name and Last name was collected.
But, there after i noticed something (not sure this is bug or a feature) the saved First Name and last name was actually from the Paypal user account and not what i had entered on the the check out form.
Please help…
I see a bug here where the names entered at checkout could get overwritten by the PayPal Standard values. If you want to patch your version, change the !empty() calls here (https://github.com/strangerstudios/paid-memberships-pro/blob/dev/services/ipnhandler.php#L501) and here (https://github.com/strangerstudios/paid-memberships-pro/blob/dev/services/ipnhandler.php#L507) to just empty() — remove the !’s.
Thanks for the heads up on this.
How can you set up address fields and phone number fields?
Does this addon help? https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/code-gists/pmpro-require-nameaddress-for-free-level/
This worked brilliantly. Thank you! We needed to ask for the firstname and lastname so we could say a friendly welcome with their name to our program, so it was great that we could add this in. My only concern if whenever the plugin requires updating it will overwrite my custom checkout page. I have saved a copy just incase. 😉 Maybe I should be saving my custom checkout page elsewhere, but I wasn’t sure.
It will not overwrite your custom checkout page, however every once in a while we need to make an update to the checkout page that might break with your custom version fully… or more often leave out a new feature for you.
At the top of this post, we link to this addon that avoids making a custom checkout page and should work well for you and will not break at all with updates:
https://github.com/strangerstudios/pmpro-add-name-to-checkout
Hi Jason,
thank you for that great plugin and all the effort you put into solving such tiny things, that make it so much easier for many of the users to get the results they are looking for.
I’m not sure if I would call it a but, but when someone leaves required fields empty, first they are prompted that
“The first and last name fields are required.” All other missing fields are not mentioned in the message on top.
Furthermore, those fields (first and last name) are not highlighted, whereas the Password field (which was also empty) is highlighted, but not mentioned in the error message on top of the checkout page.
Is there a way to merge all error messages on top, so that users are told to fill in their first and last name as well as the missing password/e-mail/etc?
And it would also be very helpful if the first and last name fields would follow the same highlighting rules when they are left empty (so that users immediatly see which fields do fill in).
Thanks and best,
Simon
This is a good suggestion, but also a bit tricky to implement between the core plugin and addons. I should be able to at least highlight the first and last name fields. In general, we have the error message show the first field that was found missing vs a laundry list of fields when you leave a bunch blank.
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