WordPress Membership Plugin
A subscription is an agreement with a customer to make payments at set intervals. A subscription is usually associated with a membership, though they are not the same thing.
Subscriptions manage payments, whereas memberships manage the member’s access to restricted content.
The Edit Member screen provides a comprehensive overview of a single member. The CRM-like dashboard is your one-stop view of all associated member profile information, memberships, subscriptions, order history, custom profile fields, and more.
Use this screen to update member information, including their memberships, subscriptions, and profile data. Below, we’ll break down the key panels and actions available on this screen.
To only offer check or offline payment, navigate to Membership > Settings > Payment Settings. Select (Check) Pay by Check as your Payment Gateway.
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Paid Memberships Pro v3.0, a monumental update that is over three years in development. Designed to transform how you manage and engage with your members, this release zeroes in on what truly matters to you as a membership site owner: a seamless, member-focused experience.
This post details the major new features and what to expect before you update, since 3.0 has database upgrade scripts that forever change the way your sites membership data is stored.
Read on to learn about these enhancements and how to safely prepare for the update.
Legacy features from the previous Multiple Memberships Per User Add On, now built into core PMPro, to support sites that need multiple level purchases in a single checkout (Stripe onsite checkout and Braintree only).
Unlock the Secrets to a Thriving Membership Community Transform your site with the Membership Accelerator Programan immersive, self-paced learning experience. If you want to connect to your customers and stand out from the rest of the pack, follow Palominos proven formula. Crafted by our esteemed mentor and marketing specialist, Jose Palomino, this program is your...
For creators and companies selling anything online, theres nothing more important than making it easy for your audience to actually buy what youre offering.
Whether youre selling courses, memberships, or even one-time downloadables, the right set of e-commerce tools can make all the difference.
A quick and clean experience will generate goodwill and repeat customers, while a painful or error-riddled checkout experience will send customers packing.
Looking for the right solution that fits your needs? In this post, well compare Paid Memberships Pro vs. Easy Digital Downloads and how you can even use the two together.
Digital nomads typically travel the world while working remotely. They find ways to make a living, often creatively, using technology and the internet. For some, this goes beyond simply earning a living while traveling. Kyle Hi, for example, found a higher calling for his life’s purpose, which sparked a mission to share this knowledge in a unique way.
Kyle, originally from Scotland, is a self-described digital nomad. During his travels he discovered the teachings of Human Design, a self-knowledge system that soundly resonated with him. Inspired to share its methodology with others using his technical knowhow, he built HumanDesign.ai, a membership-based business that merges the Human Design self-knowledge system with artificial intelligence. Central to running Kyle’s website with the membership tools and functionality he needs is Paid Memberships Pro.
Your membership sites login page gets a ton of trafficnot only for people trying to log in to their existing account but also for non-members who happen upon this page while browsing premium content.
Depending on how you protect access in your membership site, people may be redirected to this page in their normal browsing patterns, too.
With all this traffic, we wanted to give you a tutorial on how to make this page work a little harder for you and your business goals. Heres a creative way to make this basic login page do more than just its sole purpose of allowing your members to sign in.
This code recipe gives you the drop-in content for the WordPress Block Editor to make your login page have a dual purpose: add a small ad block on your login page that includes a link to registration and some benefits of becoming a member.
Give your members their own 10-digit membership number, different from the “User ID” they automatically get when signing up on your site. This approach is particularly beneficial for associations, clubs, fitness websites, and more.
Having a unique membership number is great for keeping things private and secure, since it separates a member’s public identity from the behind-the-scenes database stuff. Plus, it makes managing memberships a breeze when you need to link up with other systems for things like in-person membership validation, event sign-ups, and special member perks.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up these unique numbers when members register. Then, we’ll cover various ways you can display the member’s number in different parts of your site’s frontend and admin area.
In todays digital world, creating unique and interactive experiences for your membership site is crucial if you want to stand out. One effective way to deliver a high-touch, high-impact experience is by hosting a members-only Zoom live stream.
This post guides you through the benefits of adding private Zoom meetings to your membership content offering. Well cover the step-by-step instructions for two ways to stream via Zoom using WordPress and your chosen membership plugin.
Wherever you look in online community management, one word repeatedly comes up: engagement. Its what every social media or community manager is looking for, and its often the key to leveling up your business as an online company or content creator.
More engagement leads to greater time spent on a website, which is exactly what youre looking for when building a brand or launching a membership program.
Membership programs are a great way to increase engagement. They help you turn strangers into community members, a key path to building sustainable audience growth on your site.
There are tons of online tools available to help you build a community that increases time spent on site and deepens member engagement. In this post, well compare two, Paid Memberships Pro and BuddyBoss, and examine how to use the plugins together.
The member login process is perhaps the most fundamental element of a membership site. But did you know that you can use it to enhance the member experienceand even boost your sales?
Redirecting members to specific pages on login can have a huge impact on your sites UX and sales conversions.
In this post, we talk about why you should redirect members on login, as well as some different ways to do it using WordPress and Paid Memberships Pro.
Paid Memberships Pro allows you to customize messages displayed to users when they encounter protected content. This guide covers how to set up custom messages for different user states and how to use dynamic attributes for a personalized user experience. Accessing Message Settings To customize messages: You will find options to customize messages for: Customizing...
The Nav Menus Add On for Paid Memberships Pro offers a sophisticated solution for membership sites aiming to deliver a tailored navigation experience to users based on their membership level. Out of the box, the logic assumes that each member has a single membership level. A user with several levels will still only be shown a single navigation menu.
This code recipe demonstrates how to use the pmpronm_prioritize_levels filter hook to set the priority of which menu to display when the user has more than one membership level.
In our code recipe blog posts and through our support team, we often show you how to modify your Paid Memberships Pro sites default behavior with custom code. But how do you actually apply these code snippets once you’ve got them in hand?
This tutorial explains how to safely add custom code to adjust your membership site functionality via two methods:
Version 2.12.9 of Paid Memberships Pro is out with one enhancement and one security update. Thanks to Scott Kingsley Clark for the responsible disclosure of the security issue. Version 2.12.10 was released soon after with a fix for an issue introduced in 2.12.9.
Some people are born to teach, and some teachers go on to be teacherpreneurseducators who transition to teaching outside of the traditional classroom. Teacherpreneurs may develop their own digital courses, or use other teaching resources to enrich their curricula. Others may be education consultants, or even teaching influencers, sharing ideas, advice, and resources for independent teachers to use.
For those teachers who want to expand beyond the brick and mortar classroom to online teaching, the award-winning Abridge Academy is a goldmine of a resource bank for teacherpreneurs. Educator Katie Prescott created the academy in 2018 with a focus on in-person teaching in Asia. The platform went digital in 2020, with new ESL (English as a Second Language) training and tutoring programs.
However, after struggling to find high quality teaching materials for the academys ESL tutors, Katie decided to create her own professional curricula. Her platform is designed for online education, with an emphasis on younger students. It’s available to independent teachers and small businesses. She especially wanted to make the lessons fun.
The result is a wealth of interactive, engaging, step-by-step teaching materials that are optimized for online teaching. Abridge Academy currently offers some 400 lessons that empower ESL teacherpreneurs. The platform saves them time and, more importantly, facilitates and enriches the online experience with their students.
In today’s noisy digital world, providing unique and engaging experiences is key to attracting and retaining members. There are thousands of content creators publishing online, how do you stand out? The answer: private live events with StreamYard On-Air.
Live streaming delivers a personalized, interactive event that not only enhances the value of memberships, but also builds a personal relationship between you and your audience.
In this guide we unpack how to set up StreamYard On-Air for your PMPro-powered membership site. Learn how this flexible, easy to use platform extends the value of your existing membership site, or how you could use members-only streams as the next step in your growing content business.
What is a membership site, and why might it be the ideal choice for your business venture?
At its heart, a membership site offers a gated area where exclusive content and community interaction shine. Whether you’re an expert, artist, educator, or entrepreneur, this guide is designed to teach you the core principles of a membership site.
Youll learn about 8 common membership site use cases to help you understand all the ways you can monetize and grow your audience online. And finally, well cover factors to consider when choosing a technology partner for your new online business.
Are you looking to launch an online course or coaching program? If so, youll want to compare Paid Memberships Pro vs. AccessAlly.
These plugins let you launch membership programs on your existing WordPress website. However, they offer different features and price points.
PMPro empowers anyone with a WordPress site to set up a one-stop platform for launching a successful membership program for free.
AccessAllys premium tools are geared specifically toward coaches, trainers, and creators. The platform is designed to sell and manage signups for courses, certifications, and coaching programs.
In this post, well cover both Paid Memberships Pro and AccessAllys offerings and pricing to help you decide which best fits your needs.
In your WordPress site, there are 3 distinct places that are trying to control the current time and time zone. For best results, all three of these areas should have the same time zone set:
This documentation explains how Paid Memberships Pro handles time zones and converting time. You can also use this guide to resolve an off by one day’ type error.
For course creators, insights into student progress can be an invaluable set of data. For sites using the Courses for Membership Add On default module, though, instructors dont currently have a way to access this data. Until now.
This code recipe introduces a new column in the Courses admin page to display lesson progress and course completion across your members.
Filter the list of sensitive request variables that should not be saved in the database.
Version 2.12.7 of Paid Memberships Pro is out with a single important security fix. Thanks to an anonymous source for the responsible disclosure of this issue.
On sites with certain setups or custom code, PMPro would sometimes make a request to the REST API that would accidentally result in the password and password2 (confirm password) fields entered at checkout showing up in plaintext in the web server’s access logs. To keep the accounts of users secure, both on your site and any other site they might have used the same password on, it is important that passwords never be stored in plaintext.
While only a subset of sites would have been affected by this, we recommend all sites update PMPro the latest version as soon as possible and read the rest of this post to determine if your site was affected. Affected sites should also delete or scrub their access logs and access log backups.
Please update Paid Memberships Pro from the plugins page of your WordPress dashboard. You can also get the latest version of PMPro here. We recommend that everyone upgrade as soon as possible.
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