Once you enable it, you can start to send HTTP request to the following URL to create member account remotely or from another software:

http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-eMember/api/create.php

You need a minimum of 5 pieces of information to create a member account using a HTTP request. These are:

• Secret Word/API Key (you specified it in the settings menu of the plugin)
• First Name
• Last Name
• Email Address
• Membership Level ID

1. Creating Member Account Using  HTTP GET request

2. Creating Member Account Using  HTTP POST request

To create a member account via HTTP POST use the following format:

<form method="post" action="http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-eMmeber/api/create.php
">
<input type="hidden" name="secret_key" value="XX">
<input type="hidden" name="first_name" value="XX">
<input type="hidden" name="last_name" value="XX">
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="XX">
<input type="hidden" name="membership_level_id" value="XX">
<input type=submit value="Submit Post">
</form>

Replace the “example.com” and “XX” with the appropriate value.

Occasionally, you may need to create a registration form for a particular membership level for a special reason. For example,  give backdoor entrance to your paid membership site to some special people (this way they won’t have to pay)

Use the following shortcode on a page which will place a registration form for a particular membership level:

[wp_eMember_registration_form_for level=1]

1 is the membership level so change it to the actual membership level that you want to create a registration form for.

Now, when a user registers using this form he will be signing up for that particular level.

You can also hide this special registration page from the standard WordPress navigation menu using a plugin similar to the “Page Exclude” plugin.

Yes, all of our plugins work with the latest version of WordPress.

• Are there any ongoing fees for WP eMember plugin?

No, the WP eMember plugin is a one time purchase software.

• Why buy a premium WordPress plugin?

See the why buy a premium WordPress plugin page.

• Does this product integrate with WordPress’s user system?

Yes, the WP eMember can create a WordPress user login with the same details as the membership when the customer registers.

• How does the member get the registration link after a purchase is made?

The member is email out a link to complete the registration process after they have completed their payment.

• Can a customer sign up for a recurring membership if they do not have a PayPal account?

PayPal requires a PayPal account for all recurring payments. If your customer does not have a PayPal account they can sign up for one when they go to make the purchase at PayPal.

• What type of license does the WP eMember have, can I use this plugin on more than one site?

Read the WP eMemeber Licensing Details.

• Can I translate the WP eMember plugins in to my own language?

Yes, You can translate the front end of the plugin (the information that the customer sees). You can read more about this here.

• If I buy the WP eStore, WP eMember and WP Affiliate plugins and activate and setup all 3, will I be able to run a membership site that charged a monthly RECURRING price with the affiliate program, giving the affiliate commission each month the member is signed up?

Yes

• Is there a limit to the membership levels or members I can have?

No, there is not a limit on membership levels or the number of members you can have.

• What forum plugin can I use with the eMember?

There are a few forum plugins you can use with the eMember. You can see all of the options here.

• What payment gateways can I use for my membership site?

The WP eMember can be integrated with PayPal and ClickBank in a standalone setup. You can also integrate eMember with WP eStore which allows you to use any of the Payment Gateways offered by the eStore plugin. Read more on this on our Documentation site.

•  What AutoResponders can the WP eMember integrate with?

The WP eMember can integrate with AWeber, MailChimp, GetResponse autoresponders.

• Can I protect only a section of a post and have some teaser content that everyone can see?

Yes you can protect just a section of a post or page. There are a few options on how you can do this, for more information on these options go here.

• Can I drip content to my members?

Read this document for more information about this feature

• If I change membership plugins do my members have to recreate their recurring payments again?

Yes, PayPal does not allow you to modify a recurring payment once it is established.

• Can I have it so members have to be approved by the admin after they sign up for a membership before they can view the content? 

Yes

• Can I have both free and paid memberships at the same time?

Yes, you can have both free and paid memberships for your membership site.

• Can I have a trial period with the WP eMember?

Yes, you simply create a subscription payment option with trial period.

Find out if a member is logged in or not

You can use the following function call to determine if a member is logged in or not. The following function call will return true if a member is logged in (otherwise it will return false)

wp_emember_is_member_logged_in()


You can utilize the above function in the following way to ad code in your theme’s template file to add conditional block (for example: show a special message to your logged in users):

<?php if(wp_emember_is_member_logged_in()) { ?>
//Place your special message for members here
<?php } ?>

The following example can be useful if you want to show ad to non-members of the site:

<?php if(!wp_emember_is_member_logged_in()) { ?>
//Place your ad code here
<?php } ?>


The following example can be useful if you want to show a message to a member who belongs to membership level 1:

<?php if(wp_emember_is_member_logged_in('1')) { ?>
//Place your special message for members from membership level with ID 1
<?php } ?>


The following PHP code example shows how you can programmatically retrieve the member ID of a member and add condition:

<?php
global $emember_auth;
$user_id = $emember_auth->getUserInfo('member_id');
if (!empty($user_id))
{
//pleace code that only members can see
}
?>

Hiding Post Title From Non Members

We will use the “wp_emember_is_member_logged_in” function (explained above) to modify the “Twenty Eleven” theme and make the post title only visible to users who are logged in.
This is an example for when a post is displayed on a single page – ie, I edited the content-single.php file:

The original line of code was as follows:

<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?>

To hide the post heading/title , I modified it as follows:

<h1 class="entry-title"><?php if(wp_emember_is_member_logged_in()) the_title(); ?>

The above is a simple example which will suppress the post heading if someone is not logged in.

Get member id and his/her membership level

<?php
global $emember_auth;
$user_id = $emember_auth->getUserInfo('member_id');
if (!empty($user_id))
{
//User is logged in so add your conditional code here
$membership_level = $emember_auth->getUserInfo('membership_level');
if($membership_level == 1)
{
//Add stuff for this level
}
}
?>

Show Logged in Member’s Username or other details

<?php
global $emember_auth;
$username = $emember_auth->getUserInfo('user_name');
echo "Username of the logged in member: ".$username;
?>

Show Logged in Member’s Details Using Shortcode

You can use a shrotcode to show any details of the logged in member on a WordPress post or page. Refer to the eMember shortcode documentation for more details.

Placing a Registration Form For a Particular Membership Level to Give Backdoor Entrance

• How to create a Registration Form for a Particular Membership Level

Free Members Must Confirm Their Email Address

• How to make the free members to confirm their email address

Before you use this method please note that if you want to import your WordPress users into eMember then there is an easier option for you. Simply browse to the “Import WP Users” tab from the “Members” menu and you will be able to import all your WordPress users into eMember.

Setup/Preparation

• Install the WP CSV to DB plugin.
• Download the members.csv template file and open it using Microsoft Excel.
• Fill up the member details; One member per row (There are two example entries in that file so replace them with actual details).
• Once you are done entering all your member details then save the file as a CSV file.

Specify the General Options

• Enter 2 in the “Starting Row” field. This is the row number in the CSV file where you want the plugin to start reading from (the first row is the column titles so you want to read from the 2nd row)
• Enter “wp_wp_eMember_members_tbl” in the “Database Table Name” field (this is the database table name for the WP eMember’s member table given you haven’t change the default database prefix of wordpress)
• Enter the content of this text file in the “Column Names” field:

Specify the Input CSV file

Use the upload option to upload the CSV file created in the setup/preparation step.

Import into the Database

Hit the “Import to DB” button which will dump the member details from the CSV file into the database.

Now if you browse to the “Member” menu of WP eMember, you should see all the new members that you just added.

Content Protection

• Ability to selectively protect the posts, pages, categories and comments
• Selectively protect full or section of a post or page.
• Ability to set protection settings for posts and pages in bulk from eMember’s dashboard or set the protection of a particular WordPress post or page while editing/creating it in the editor
• Teaser content – Ability to use “more” tag protection to create teaser content
• Secure RSS feeds - Secure RSS feeds allow your members to view their membership material in their RSS reader
• Login restriction by IP Address - If the number of login attempts from different IP addresses exceed the specified limit then the member’s account will be locked
• Domain Level Lockdown – ability to restrict anonymous visitor access to your site at a domain level (the site won’t even load unless the visitor logs in as a member). The only page the visitor will be able to access on the site when not logged in is the “Join Us” page.
• Google First Click Free (GFCF) – eMember lets you use Google First Click Free feature so your protected content can be indexed by Google search if you want (view full details).

Membership Options

• Unlimited membership levels – Your membership site can have as many “levels” as you need
• Unlimited members. You can have an unlimited number of members with the eMember plugin
• Multi-level access option - Give your members access to multiple levels within your membership site.
• Flexible membership options- eMember gives you the flexibility to create different types of membership levels. e.g. free, trial, and paid memberships
• A member can buy multiple membership levels. In this scenerio the member will be able to access content from all the different membership levels that he/she purchased.
• Subscription length control. You can control the length of each member’s access to your membership site.  A membership will automatically expire when the set time has been reached (e.g. 7 days, 1 month, 1 year etc)
• One time payment membership option - if you do not want to offer a subscription based membership then you can use the one time payment option (e.g. a once off payment of $49.95 for a full year membership)
• Auto Upgrade – You can setup scheduled upgrade of member’s membership level (e.g a member of silver membership will be automatically upgraded to gold membership after 1 month). This model can be used to drip content or deliver course materials to students in a timely fashion
• Ability to manually approve members after they register. Members will not be able to log in until you manually approve their account
• Ability to schedule automatic renewal email notice to the members before their membership account gets expired.

Setup and Design

• Simple installation with new and existing WordPress blog – Turn your existing or new WordPress blog into a membership site by simply installing the WP eMember and configuring a few basic settings
• Fully automated membership system
• Source code is non-encrypted - If you are a developer and would like to make customizations for your install then you are welcome to do so
• Ability to customize what fields show up on the registration and edit profile forms
• Easy member management. You can easily view your members, their registration status, membership level etc
• Bookmarking feature – your members can bookmark their favourite posts and pages then view their bookmarks later
• Login redirection - Control the first page your members view when they login. You can specify a different redirection page for each membership level. This is very useful for adding welcome messages, information for that membership level, updates, news and events etc
• Membership login can be placed in a post, page, or sidebar
• Compatible with the current version of WordPress
• Lightweight – WP eMember is a lightweight and easy to use membership plugin
• WP eMember is compatible with all properly coded (valid xHTML code) themes

Member Login Related

Integration Option

• Pre-integrated with the WP eStore plugin. This allows you to setup one time or recurring payments for membership payments. You can also display a member’s purchase history when they make purchases using eStore.
• Pre-integrated with the WP Affiliate platfrom plugin. So if you decide to boost your membership signups by introducing an Affiliate Program (award affiliates that redirect visitors who become your member) later then all you have to do is activate the other plugin
• Simple PayPal button integration. You can use the eMember with a simple PayPal button for one time payments and recurring payments
• Can be integrated with AWeber, MailChimp, GetResponse to automatically sign up the members to your Autoresponder list

Miscellaneous

• Free technical support – please see our support options here
• Free updates - please see how updates are handled here

Visit the WP eMember (WordPress Membership) plugin page.

It is a good idea to read this post first and make up you mind on how you want your registration process to flow before you start setting eMember up.

If you are not sure about the difference between a “Join Us” page and a “Registration” page then please read this post first.

The member registration flow is the same for signing up for any type of membership except the free one (if you want to allow free membership). The registration process for the “Free Membership” is slightly different because this one doesn’t have any payment involved.

WP eMember uses one registration page for all types of membership registration (there is no need to create multiple pages for multiple different membership levels). Full details of how eMember does this is explained here.

Member Signup Scenario 1

The basic member registration flow is similar to the following:

1. Visitors land on your site.
2. Want to become a member after seeing some of the awesome content.
3. Follows the ”Join Us” link.
4. The above mentioned link will take them to the “Membership Join Us” Page where you have explained all the different types of membership you offer. It may look similar to the one here.
5. From this page they can decide which membership option they want to choose (eg. Free, Silver, Gold or whatever you are offering)
6. If they choose the “Free Membership” then they just follow the link and sign up for a free membership. Remember, the free membership sign up is only possible if you (the admin) allow free membership on your site.
7. If they choose a “Paid Membership” then they make a payment by clicking on the payment button for the appropriate membership.
8. Once the Payment is confirmed (at this point the plugin knows what type of membership this member wants), the plugin will create the appropriate membership account for this visitor.
9. The member will receive an email that contains a “unique” link to complete the registration.
10. When the member clicks on that link in the email it will let them choose a “username” and “password” and complete the registration. At this point the member can log into the site.

Step 9 and 10 are additional steps that allows the member to choose their own “username” and “password”. Many membership plugin just randomly creates a “username” and “password” for the member and completes the process at step 8. From my experience I know that most people do not like to receive random “username” and “password” assigned to them so in WP eMember I made sure the members can choose the login credentials.

Member Signup Scenario 2

In this registration flow you make the visitor signup for a basic free account before they make any payment for premium membership:

1. Visitors land on your site.
2. Want to become a member after seeing some of the awesome content.
3. Follows the ”Join Us” link.
4. The above mentioned link will take them to the “Membership Join Us” Page where you have a registration form for basic free membership. You instruct them to create an account first before they can make payment for premium content (the payment buttons for the premium content are protected so only logged in members can view the buttons).
5. After they create a free account they can log into the site and pay for premium content.
6. Once the Payment is confirmed (at this point the plugin knows what type of premium membership this member wants), the plugin will simply upgrade the basic free account to the appropriate premium account level.

This registration flow is different than the one explained in “scenario 1″ in the way that everyone who makes a payment already has a basic membership account so there is no need to prompt them to complete the registration by choosing a “username” and “password” as they have already done it when they created the basic membership account.

Member Signup Scenario 3

This registration flow is more suited for sites where you want to sell products only to members of the site. Basically a visitor must have an account on your site to be able to purchase products (similar to amazon, iTunes etc)

1. Visitors land on your site.
2. Want to purchase some of the awesome products you have for sale.
3. All the “Buy” buttons are protected using section protection of the eMember plugin so the member can’t purchase anything unless they create an account and log in.
4. They click on the “Join Us” link that takes them to the “Membership Join Us” Page where you have a registration form for basic free membership.
5. Creating an account is free and it’s quick so they sign up for an account and then log in to the newly created account.
6. Now they can see all the “Buy” buttons and go ahead with the purchase.

Member Signup Scenario 3 Extended with WP eStore

This registration flow is more suited for sites where you want to sell products only to members of the site and using WP eStore to sell the product(s). Basically a visitor must have an account on your site to be able to purchase products (similar to amazon, iTunes etc)

1. Visitors land on your site.
2. Want to purchase some of the awesome products you have for sale.
3. Adds a few product to the shopping cart.
4. When they click on the “checkout” button it redirects them to a page that tell them that they need to have an account to be able to checkout or they can log in if they already have an account.
5. Creating an account is free and it’s quick so they sign up for an account and then log in to the newly created account.
6. Now they can continue to checkout and pay for the items.

To make WP eStore not let anyone continute to checkout unless they are logged in you simply have to check the “Only Logged In Members Can Checkout” field in the “AddOn Settings” tab of the WP eStore plugin.