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The WP eMember membership plugin can be easily integrated with AWeber (Email marketing and Autoresponder service).
Step 1: Create an Email Parser
AWeber use email parsers in situations where you want subscribers to add to your list via an email from a third party, typically a payment processor, rather than the subscriber sending an email directly from their email program.
To add a new custom email parser select “Email Parser” from the “My Lists” menu and choose “Add New” from the “Custom Parsers” section.
My List -> Email Parser
Custom Parsers -> Add New
The new …
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Most people use the WP eStore plugin to create payment buttons for membership as it has a range of benefits but you can use a plain PayPal payment button (”Buy Now”, “Subscribe” etc) to accept payment for your premium members too.
Setup Preparation
To use a plain PayPal button with WP eMember you need two pieces of information:
The URL of the IPN handling script
The ID of the membership level that you are creating this payment button for
The WP eMember comes with a IPN handling script. It’s stored in the “ipn” directory inside …
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This PDF file that you can download from this page has a list of all the available Shortcodes and PHP functions that you can use to display the login form, registration form etc.
Download the Shortcodes list file.
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The WP eMember plugin has a bookmarking feature that you can optionally enable from the settings menu of this plugin. When this feature is enabled your members will be able to bookmark their favorite articles on your site for easy access later.
When enabled members will see the following icon at the top right hand corner of every post and page which can be used to bookmark that article:
When they click on it the article will be bookmarked and icon will change to the following:
Members who are not logged in won’t be able …
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If you want to protect a section or sections of a post or page then simply wrap the section with the “emember_protected” tag. Take note of the the following examples:
Simple Section Protection Example
Whatever content goes here is only viewable by logged in members who have access to this post
Section Protection for Specific Membership Level Example
Whatever content goes here is only viewable by members who belong to the specific membership level specified above
Where 1,3,5 are the membership level ids that you want to allow.
Warning: Just remember that when you want to use …
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From time to time you will need a list of email addresses of your members for bulk emailing purpose (eg. send them offers and stuff). The eMember plugin lets you grab a comma (,) separated email list that you can copy and then paste in your email campaign management software.
1. Click on the “Members” menu from the “WP eMember” dashboard.
2. Click on the “Member Emails” tab
3. From this menu, you have the option do get the email list of all your members or for members from a particular membership level.
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This post explains how you can give your members access to the Product Downloads when using the WP eMember plugin.
A “Members’s Only” download page is simply another page that contains a whole bunch of download links that the members can use to download the products. So all you have to do is create a page (eg. “Member’s only download”) and put links to all the downloadable files on this page and then protect this page from the “Manage Content Protection” menu of the WP eMember plugin. Since the page is …
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The eStore and eMember plugins are pre-integrated so you don’t need to do any manual work the integration. The only thing you need to do is specify the “Membership Level ID” in the eStore product when you create/configure an “Add to Cart”, “Buy Now” or “Subscribe” button.
Here is an example scenerio, You have a membership level called “Gold Pass”. The id of this membership level is 3 (The ID for each membership level is listed on the Manage Levels screen). Say for example, you want to charge $25 for this …
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You can manage the protection of specific posts, pages, categories, comments from the “Manage Content Protection” menu.
It is important to understand how the protection mechanism works. There are two steps to protecting and giving access to specific content:
First you need to protect the content by selecting “General Protection” from the drop down menu and checking the checkboxes next to the posts, pages, categories,comments that you want to protect (don’t forget to hit the ‘Set Protection’ button).
Now that you have all the important content locked down, you can start to selectively …
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To add a Membership Level you need to browse to the “Membership Level” menu



