Black Friday and Cyber Monday (BFCM) are coming this weekend. This post summarizes some of my thoughts on massive sales, as well as a few tips for running a successful BFCM campaign.
PMPro Update 1.9.5.6
Version 1.9.5.6 of Paid Memberships Pro is out with a handful of bug fixes. There are a few fixes for the Braintree gateway, a new filter to support customization of the checkout page (e.g. when using the Sitewide Sale Add On), and some other minor enhancements. Please update Paid Memberships Pro from the plugins page (more…)
Webinar on How to Set Up a Holiday Sale: Thursday, 15 Nov at 1pm Eastern (UTC -5)
The holiday buying season is upon us—Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday are less than 2 weeks away.
Join Jason Coleman for a webinar this Thursday, 15 November, as he sets up the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale we’ll be running for our own site later this month.
Change the default country of your Membership website.
Does your membership site primarily serve one region or country of members?
This recipe demonstrates how to set the default country for your membership site, which can speed help speed up the checkout process and eliminate the need for members to find their country before proceeding.
New Support Ticketing System
Today we converted our paid member forums into a support ticketing system. The underlying technology is still a heavily customized version of the bbPress forums plugin. However, users can no longer view posts by other users, reply to other users’ posts, or search the forums. Instead, the support profile page has been updated to show a list of your own tickets.
All of your existing support tickets are still in this new system. If we were working on a support topic with you before, we are still working with you on that ticket now.
Despite the fact that we are essentially removing functionality from the site, we believe this change is a positive one that will result in better support for our customers.
Insert a “Renew Membership” button via custom shortcode to display a renewal link/button for members.
The code recipe below to creates a renewal button shortcode [pmpro_renew_button] that can be used to insert a “Renew Membership” button on your WordPress site….
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Announcing a new Add On to help you run a successful holiday sale on memberships and subscriptions.
It’s a very happy Monday here at Paid Memberships Pro! We’re excited to announce the release of a new Sitewide Sales Add On. The Add On simplifies the creation, management and reporting for sites looking to run a sidewide or flash sale on memberships and subscriptions.
View the Add OnHow to enhance the appearance of your Membership Checkout page by level using CSS.
If you’re looking to customize the general appearance of your Membership Checkout, one of the easiest methods to use is styling the page via CSS. We have some tutorials on enqueueing a customizations stylesheet for general PMPro Customizations, but what if you want to modify the appearance for a specific level ID at checkout?
Continue reading to learn how to customize the appearance of a specific level’s Checkout process.
Exclude billing fields from some membership levels at checkout.
Our Capture Name and Address for Free Levels or for Offsite Gateway Add On allows you to collect billing fields for a free level or for paid levels when using with an offsite payment gateway like PayPal Express. This code recipe demonstrates how hide those additional billing fields for a specific Membership Level ID….
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Announcing Memberlite v4.2: Now Available in the WordPress Theme Directory
Memberlite has just been approved for inclusion in the WordPress Theme Directory. If you aren’t using Memberlite already, it can now be installed directly via your WordPress Dashboard. To install, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New and search for “Memberlite”.