Paid Memberships Pro has always been and always will be 100% GPL and available for free to download from WordPress.org. So how are we capturing (and hopefully converting) all of these free users of our plugin and documentation?
Below are a few tactics that have helped Paid Memberships Pro grow into (one of) the most used membership plugins for WordPress.
If you have a large members list or order history and cannot get the full list to export, use the code gist below to increase the memory and execution time.
I recently created a tutorial video on how to set up a landing page in just 5 minutes using PMPro + Register Helper + the Memberlite theme.
The landing page in the demo gives access to a video, but you could offer other freemium content like an eBook, White Paper, audio file, subscription to a newsletter, or file download.
The code gist below outlines how to add search functionality for a specific user profile field/user meta field added by Register Helper or other custom WordPress user meta fields. We plan to move some of this functionality into the core plugin, but welcome feedback from early adopters. To search on a specific meta key, enter…