Choose when to display the Renew link to members who sign up for a membership level with an expiration date.

by Travis Lima | Recipes

Use the following code recipe to display a “Renew” link on the Membership Account page at your desired period before a member’s expiration date.

"Renew" link on the PMPro Membership Account Page

About the Code Recipe

By default, when a member signs up for a membership level that has an expiration date, they will see a “Renew” link a certain number of days prior to their membership expiration date. When a member “Renews” their membership, the new period is automatically tacked on to the end of their existing membership level. The core plugin has built-in logic to determine when the “Renew” link appears based on the active member’s billing and expiration date settings.

If the member logs in to their membership account before this timeframe is triggered, they will instead see a “Change” link, allowing them to view current membership level offerings and change their membership level. This code recipe allows you to control exactly when the “Renew” link will appear for the member.

The Code Recipe

This code recipe requires a Plus Account or higher.

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More about Renewals and PMPro

If you are new to PMPro, check out some of these other articles related to member renewals:

Add a Membership Duration dropdown to Checkout and Offer a Discount for Extending Membership

by Travis Lima | Recipes

Give your customers the option to select a membership duration and offer a discount for a longer term. This is a great way to collect a larger up-front payment from members and offer an incentive to pay for membership in advance.

Screenshot of the Membership Checkout page with code recipe

About the Recipe

This code will add a “Membership Duration” dropdown field to your checkout page. Once selected, the member’s expiration date and initial payment amount will be updated accordingly.

In the code recipe, there is a 20% discount when selecting a 2-year membership duration and a 25% discount for selecting a 3-year membership duration. The code recipe serves as an example for what is possible, you can alter the recipe to remove the discount or adjust the discount to suit your business.

You will need to input the Level ID that you want this code recipe to apply to. Only select membership levels that are billed on a yearly basis otherwise this will conflict with other level billing periods. Add your Membership Level ID to 'levels' => array( 8 )

This code recipe requires the Register Helper Add On to be installed and activated. If you need help altering this code to suit your needs, feel free to get in touch with one of our Support Engineers on our Member Support Forum.

The Code Recipe

This code recipe requires a Plus Account or higher.

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Add a customized notification banner to alert your members of upcoming expiration.

by Travis Lima | Recipes

This code recipe adds a notification banner to remind members that their account will expire within 7 days—or any custom timeframe you would like. You can use the recipes with any WordPress theme, or specifically with a membership site using Memberlite.

About the Code Recipe

By default, Paid Memberships Pro will send members an expiration email notice 7 days prior to their expiration date (by the way, if you want to add more email expiration warnings, see our Extra Expiration Warning Emails Add On).

This recipe adds an expiration warning directly on your site, reminding the logged in member that they must renew to maintain access. The banner will only be shown to a member that has an active membership level with an expiration date within the next 7 days. You won’t need to rely on email delivery, receipt, or that your member will actually read the message.

If a member decides to renew their membership by clicking the “Click here to renew membership” link, they will be redirected to the membership levels page. From here they can select their desired membership level and proceed to checkout. They will no longer see the message

This code recipe requires a Plus Account or higher.

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Change the wording ‘Membership’ to ‘Subscription’ for Paid Memberships Pro

by Travis Lima | Recipes

This is a simple code recipe that will allow you to change the wording “Membership” to “Subscription” for Paid Memberships Pro.

About the Recipe

Depending on where your target membership audience lives or the type and location of your business, the word “Subscription” might be more familiar than “Membership”. The code recipe below uses the WordPress gettext filter to translate the word “Membership” to “Subscription” throughout the Paid Memberships Pro Plugin.

If you would like to change the word “Membership” to something else, you can do so by editing the code of this recipe by replacing “Subscription” with your desired label. If you are a Paid Membership Pro Plus Member and need some help with this, please reach out to us on our Member Support Forums.

The Code Recipe

This code recipe requires a Plus Account or higher.

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Add text before the submit and Checkout button on the PMPro checkout page

by Travis Lima | Recipes

Do you have something you want members to know about before they click the ‘Submit and Checkout’ button on your checkout page? Use this code recipe to insert some text, HTML or both before the button.

About the Recipe

This code recipe will enable you to add text/HTML immediately before the Submit and Checkout button located on the Paid Memberships Pro Checkout page. This is a great way to add a little bit of important information that you want your soon to be members to know about.

If you are thinking of using this to display your Terms and Conditions to members, please see our default Terms of Service feature found under the Advanced Settings of the plugin.

The Code Recipe

This code recipe requires a Plus Account or higher.

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Offer members a discounted rate for upgrading to a higher level

by Travis Lima | Recipes

Encourage existing members to upgrade to a higher priced level by offering a discount that is unique to them – no discount code required.

About the Recipe

This code recipe was recently developed for one of our Plus Members.  The member was in the process of launching a new membership level and wanted to encourage their current members to make the upgrade to the new membership level by offering a unique discount that can only be seen or used by the current members of their site. The current members would not need to use a discount code to apply for the deal. All they would need to do is select the new membership level and confirm their subscription by checking out of the site.

For those who are looking to simply offer upgrading members the chance to pay the difference between their current and new level, have a look at our Proration Add-On.

Note: This code recipe will not change the amount that is seen on the Membership Level Page of your site and the discounted price will only be seen once on the checkout page. Make sure to communicate this effectively to your members to avoid confusion.

Code Recipe

This code recipe requires a Plus Account or higher.

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Remove homepage redirect for admins only (PMPro Member Homepages Add On)

by Travis Lima | Recipes

Prevent members with the Administrator role from being redirected to a new homepage when using the Member Homepages Add On

About the Recipe

Using the Member Homepages Add On for Paid Memberships Pro allows you to completely redirect logged in members to a home page of your choice based on their membership level.

This code recipe will prevent Administrators with a membership level from being redirected to the new homepage. This can be useful at times when a website admin needs to get access to the ‘public/non-member’ homepage.

This recipe will only work if our Member Homepages Add On is installed and activated on your website.

The Code Recipe

This code recipe requires a Plus Account or higher.

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Require Membership to Purchase Specific Categories of Products in WooCommerce

by Travis Lima | Recipes

Offer special “members-only” products that require the user to have an active membership in order to purchase. The selected products will still appear in your Shop page, but cannot be purchased by non-members.

About the Recipe

This customization recipe allows you to restrict the purchase of products in designated WooCommerce product categories for active members only. You now have full control over which categories require a membership in order to be purchased and which product categories (if any) are available to the public, regardless of their membership status.

This recipe can be used on its own or in conjunction with our WooCommerce Integration Add On, which offers additional features for integrating Paid Memberships Pro with WooCommerce.

Woocommerce product example

Some suggested use cases include:

  1. A shop that offers an array of products, some of which will only relate to members. This can include products like Membership-branded clothing or accessories, access to digital add-on products, specialized meal or diet plans and more. Basically, anything that you only want your members to be able to own and purchase.
  2. A shop that offers unique or special products that can entice users to sign up for a membership in order to purchase. This can be an added incentive to users thinking about signing up for your membership.
PRO TIP: Try to make your membership level/products as easy to sign up for and purchase as possible. A user may feel reluctant to join a membership only to be able to purchase a particular product. This can leave them feeling “forced” into something that they do not want to be a part of.Look at offering a lot of value for your membership packages and rather use this as an “added benefit” instead of a means to purchase a product.

The Code Recipe

This code recipe requires a Plus Account or higher.

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Display Comments on a Members-Only Post to Non-Members

by Travis Lima | Recipes

Give users a little insight into your blog posts by displaying comments to non-members. This can be a great way to provide social proof for your content without exposing it publicly.

Display comments of a Member-Only blog post to Non-Members.

We recently had one of our members ask us to help them with an upsell strategy. This member, in particular, wanted to display the member comments associated with their restricted, members-only blog posts. By default, Paid Memberships Pro will hide the comments and comment form for all posts that require membership.

The idea is when a non-member views a restricted blog post, they are able to see all members-only comments but not the post’s content. Having other members commenting saying things like “Thanks for the article, this really helps!” or “Awesome! This step by step guide was quite useful.”, can really help ignite a non-member’s curiosity and motivate them to subscribe to your product.

This approach can also help display your community’s activity and engagement: another strong selling point to any non-member considering a signup.

Recipe: Default Comments Hidden from Non-Members
Default: Comments are hidden.
Using Recipe, Comments Displayed to Non-Members
After: Comments are displayed.

The Code Recipe

This code recipe requires a Plus Account or higher.

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