Multisite Membership

How it Works

This Add On allows you to sell memberships at the main site that provide access to members-only content on a site or sites throughout the entire multisite network.

This Add On requires WordPress Multisite and Paid Memberships Pro

An Example: Network of Sites about Pet Care

Let’s say you have a network site about all types of pet care. You have a main site (www.petcare.com), and a site on the network for various type of pets (birds.petcare.com, cats.petcare.com, and dogs.petcare.com). Using this Add On, you could offer a membership to one specific pet’s subsite (Bird Level OR Cat Level OR Dog Level). Then, you could also offer a Premium Level that includes access to all of your pet care subsites.

All of the membership levels and users are managed on the main network site. The subsites look to the main network site’s database to mirror the membership levels available and to check a user’s access.

Installation and Setup

1. Install Paid Memberships Pro via Network Admin > Plugins > Add New. Do not “Network Activate” the plugin.
2. On your main network site, activate and configure Paid Memberships Pro by following the Initial Plugin Setup guide.
3. Upload the ‘pmpro-network-subsite’ directory to the ‘wp-content/plugins/’ directory of your WordPress Multisite environment.
4. For each site in your network that has member content, navigate to the site’s Dashboard > Plugins. Activate Paid Memberships Pro AND the Multisite Membership Add On.
5. DO NOT activate the ‘pmpro-network-subsite’ plugin on the “Main” site (i.e. where people checkout) of your network.
6. The Membership menu item in the subsite admin dashboard will now show a settings page to choose the “main site” to mirror for that subsite.
7. Make sure any PMPro-related registration, checkout, or sign up links are linked to the levels page of the main site.

You will now be able to create members-only content on subsites in the network. On the edit post page, the “Require Membership” section of the right sidebar will list the membership levels from your main site.

Note that each subsite will have its own list of post categories. Unless the same exact categories are present on all sites with the same exact category IDs, restricting content by category ID will not work for subsites mirroring a main site.