What auto upgrade does is that it upgrades the member of any membership level to another membership level automatically in the background based on what you have scheduled (you as the admin can schedule and setup these upgrade paths).
Auto upgrade works based on the time duration that the user stays a member of a particular membership level. This time duration is specified by the admin in the “Auto Upgrade” tab under the “Members” menu.
So for example, let’s say you have three membership levels:

Basic Membership
Premium Membership
Ultimate Membership

Now let’s say you have …

If you have a membership site with multiple premium memberships then you probably want to offer your members an option to upgrade their account. Upgrading an account is very easy.
Creating Upgrade/Renewal Payment Buttons
i) Option A – Plain PayPal Button for Membership Renewal/Upgrade
Simply create a payment button the same way you created it for your membership joining page.
When a member wishes to upgrade his/her account, all this member has to do is click on this button and make the payment. After the payment, the plugin will use the payment email address …

When a member makes a purchase through eStore while logged in, it will be recorded. The member can then view his/her purchase history.
You can use the following shortcode on a post or page to display a member’s purchase history:

[wp_eStore_members_purchase_history]

It will display the purchase history of the member who is logged in and viewing that post or page. Please note that the purchase history only works for purchases done via the eStore plugin so you will need to have both eMember and eStore installed on your server (the above shortocode is …

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 …

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.
Buy Now Type Button or Subscription Type Button?

Difference between “Buy Now” and “Subscription” type buttons for membership payment

Video Tutorial

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 …

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 WP eMember shortcodes list file.

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 …

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

[emember_protected]
Whatever content goes here is only viewable by logged in members who have access to this post
[/emember_protected]

Section Protection for Specific Membership Level Example

[emember_protected for=1-3-5]
Whatever content goes here is only viewable by members who belong to the specific membership level specified above.
[/emember_protected]

Where 1,3,5 are the membership level IDs that you want to allow access to this section of content.
Section Protection …

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 to get the email list of all your members or for members from a particular membership level.

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 …