WP eMember Plugin Features

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30 April 2010

Below is a list of the main features of the WP eMember Plugin:

Content Protection

Ability to selectively protect the posts, pages, categories and comments
Selectively protect full or section of a post or page
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.

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
Flexible membership options- eMember gives you the flexibility to create different types of membership levels. e.g. free, trial, and paid memberships
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.

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
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

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 to automatically sign up the members to your AWeber 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.

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# 30 April 2010 at 7:18 am

onlinemarketingdummy said:

Do this plugins provide drip content function? So that the new member will not get all the contents if he join few months later.. If no, do you plan to have this in future? I am interested to get this wp emember to work with wp affiliate and wp estore that I already bought.

# 18 May 2010 at 1:19 am

admin said:

WP eMember does the drip content using the “Auto Upgrade” feature. Auto upgrade allows you to shcedule an auto upgrade of a member’s membership level after a configured amount of time thus making more content available to the member. Please see the “Auto Upgrade” section in this post to learn more.

# 18 May 2010 at 2:24 am

Bill said:

I looked at the Auto Upgrade section but I’m wondering if I can do the following – Let’s say I have a Gold Member who has access to 5 posts and I want to add 5 more posts so that they drip out to him at certain intervals – day 2o ,day 25, etc. Can I do this type of sequential drip without changing the member from one membership level to the next? Thank you.

# 27 May 2010 at 10:17 am

admin said:

Nope, it doesn’t have the drip content in the same sense the Autoresponder service providers use whereby you specify an email to be sent out on day 20.

The Auto Upgrade is more suitable for an online course/class whereby the member gets promoted through the membership levels (giving access to more content in the process) based on the membership lengh.

A typical use case would be…

You have 3 membership levels:
1) Beginner
2) Intermediate
3) Advanced

You have configured it so a member gets promoted to “Intermediate” level after being a “Beginner” member for 30 days. A member gets promoted to the “Advanced” level after being a member of the “Intermediate” level for 14 days.

Now, when a visitor signs up as a beginner member he/she will automatically be promoted to “Intermediate” level after being a member for a month which will allow the member to see all the “Intermediate” course content and so on.

# 27 May 2010 at 6:57 pm

Jim Kibler said:

Does this membership plugin allow people to have a 7 or 14 day trial membership and then automatically begins to charge them on a monthly basis?

# 9 June 2010 at 4:25 am

admin said:

@Jim, yeah.. all you have to do is create a subscription button using PayPal or use the WP eStore plugin to process the payment.

# 9 June 2010 at 5:51 am

MD said:

Hi,

I was wondering how I could incorporate WP estore with WP emember. What I want to do is this:

- I want all the posts/articles to be accessible to the public, but only members can download the product that’s within the article. Is that possible?

Thanks!

# 9 June 2010 at 2:20 pm

admin said:

Yeah, pretty simple… you just protect the download button using the section protection method of eMember:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/how-to-protect-a-section-of-a-post-or-page-88

Now, anyone can view the post or page content but only members will be able to see the “Download” button within the article that you have protected using the section protection.

# 9 June 2010 at 5:15 pm

MD said:

Thanks for answering my question so fast. I will be purchasing WP emember now! I could kick myself for not buying it together with WP estore ( a few months ago I was thinking of purchasing both but only purchased WP estore). Oh well off to PayPal!

# 9 June 2010 at 6:21 pm

WVW said:

I just purchased the emember and estore and I keep getting this when I try to add a membership level and product.

(Membership Level “free” couldn’t be created due to error.)

And when I add product it says its added but it does not show up..

I am trying to get emember to work with estore….

Thanks

Let me know how I can fix this?

# 11 June 2010 at 7:39 pm

admin said:

@WVW, it looks like the database tables didn’t get created activation time which kind of indicates that there was an error that happened when you activated the plugin. Did you notice any error while activating the plugin? Can you please try reactivating them?

# 12 June 2010 at 6:07 am

Noche said:

My website will process payments in a different way. so far we have 3 levels, free, silver, gold. Since the flow will change, meaning they pay me directly according to the level, I will have to manually create a user/pwd for them. My question, is there a way to send them a link for them to sign up themselves, maybe 3 diff links according to the levels they paid for?

# 17 June 2010 at 11:58 am

admin said:

You don’t need to send them a link for signing up. If you are manually setting the account up from the dashboard then after you create the account they will recieve a “Registration Complete” email that will contain their account details. You will need to check this “Send Email to Member When Added via Admin Dashboard” option from the email settings menu.

# 17 June 2010 at 4:44 pm

Noche said:

What I meant was, we have already over a thousand members already, we are using the pwd protected post method and we are trying to get them into different membership levels. I was thinking, sending group A a link for membership A, group B a different link for membership B, and so forth, this way each member will sign up themselves and we won’t have to manually enter 1000+ names. Is this possible?

# 18 June 2010 at 7:28 am

admin said:

Hi Noche, I think I understand what you need.

The following shortcode allows you to place a registration form for a particular membership level which will come in handy for your case. For example, the following shortcode will add a registration form for membership level 6:

[wp_eMember_registration_form_for level=6]

Anyone who signs up using this form will be placed in the membership level 6. Now you can place as many registration forms as you want for all of your different memberships. Then send the link to the correct registration form to the appropriate group.

Make sure to use it carefully as you do not want to have one of these lying around for a paid membership level

# 18 June 2010 at 4:39 pm

Kelly the Kitchen Kop said:

With this plugin, is there a way to NOT show everything that is normally on a blog page or post, like all the stuff in the sidebar, the ad at the top of the page, etc.? I want my class content to be free of all the distractions that are on my normal blog post or pages. Also, I’d like different tabs in my navbar at the top for my class content pages, not the same as on my blog.

To do all this, will I have to do a whole separate WP installation??

Thanks!
Kelly

# 16 July 2010 at 8:05 pm

admin said:

Hi Kelly, how the page or post looks is controlled by your WordPress theme. Some themes let you have a post or page without the sidebar. even if your theme do not have this feature you can easily incorporate it using WordPress’s custom page template. This post will explain it more for you:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-create-and-use-custom-page-template-in-wordpress-to-create-a-sales-page-2095

# 16 July 2010 at 9:34 pm

Drew said:

Can this plugin work with the directorypress theme?

# 17 July 2010 at 8:10 pm

admin said:

Hi Drew, it can work with any theme that has been coded properly. The directorypress theme looks like a decent theme so there should be no issue.

# 17 July 2010 at 8:29 pm

Drew said:

Thanks for your quick response.

# 17 July 2010 at 9:55 pm

Casey said:

Can I use the plug-in on multiple websites or do I have to purchase another copy for each site?

# 25 July 2010 at 1:33 pm

Ivy (author) said:

Hi, The eMember is a single site license so you would need a copy for each site you wanted to use this on. Please contact us about a multi site license.

Please use the contact form here:
http://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/

# 25 July 2010 at 8:02 pm

Noche said:

I have a question after all. Lets say a member wants to leave a comment, he/she is already logged in. The comment box will still ask for his/her name and email. Is there a way that members can become Users in WordPress? this would be the only way for them to leave a comment as someone who is already logged in.

I know I can do the opposite, I can convert the WP users into members, but, how about the other way?

Thx

# 27 July 2010 at 8:44 am

Ivy (author) said:

@Noche, There is an option called “WordPress Integration Options” in the settings menu of the plugin. This will make it so every eMember also becomes a WordPress user. Please let me know if this is not what you are looking for.

# 27 July 2010 at 8:13 pm

Jamie said:

Two questions, can this work with mailchimp email platform and can it work with PayPal integration?

Thanks!

# 30 July 2010 at 1:36 pm

Ivy (author) said:

Hi Jamie,

1. Yes there is “PayPal Plain Button Integration” You can read more about this here:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/how-to-use-a-simple-paypal-payment-button-to-accept-membership-payment-146

2. The MailChimp integration has not be added yet but we do plan to add this shortly. The time frame is unknown at this time as our to do list is always changing.

# 30 July 2010 at 7:07 pm

luke said:

Will this work on the furniture store wordpress theme? This theme already has a customer login feature but I have deactivated it because it does not suit my needs

Thanks

# 18 August 2010 at 3:28 pm

Ivy (author) said:

Hi Luke, This should work as you specify where you want the login widget. I have not personally had any experience with this theme but it should be fine.

# 19 August 2010 at 3:04 am