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The account page is the page your members see most after they join, and most of the time it is just a billing and profile... The Motherline started as youth classes in a single Oregon valley. Fifteen years later, those lessons in living closer to... A community history archive with 27,000 media files and 140 GB of photos just moved to PMPro Max, and nobody lost a... Two types of email. Two different rules. Marketing: newsletters, announcements, promos. Unsubscribe option required... I hear "own your platform" a lot. Usually, it is followed by advice to get a custom domain or move off social media. That... | Tune in for Coding with Sam at 9 AM ET. Join Sam, the Marketing Manager at Paid Memberships Pro, for a live stream... Hot take: your membership site already is a CRM. PMPro tracks your members, their levels, their activity, their purchase... Do you actually need a CRM? (Swipe to find out.) Your membership site already tracks members, levels, purchases, and...

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Our plugin's code is not obfuscated, runs on as many sites as you want and can be customized to fit your project's needs. We just ask that you follow the GPLv2 guidelines by applying the GPLv2 license to any altered or unaltered version of PMPro that you distribute. License Details »

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