{"id":291,"date":"2010-11-29T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/?p=291"},"modified":"2024-08-24T17:13:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T00:13:52","slug":"how-to-use-multiple-membership-levels-per-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/how-to-use-multiple-membership-levels-per-user-291","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Multiple Membership Levels Per User"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The default settings in WP eMember is to use one membership level per user at any given time. So every member of your site is assigned to&nbsp;one of the membership levels that you have created and the members can access content based on their membership level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When members make a payment for a different membership level, their current level is upgraded to the one they just paid for (Example: upgrade from &#8220;Silver Level&#8221; to &#8220;Gold Level&#8221;). This is the setup that is used\u00a0on most membership sites.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"simpletoc-title\">Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"simpletoc-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#multiple-membership-levels-per-user-feature\">Multiple Membership Levels Per User Feature<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#showing-a-list-of-users-membership-levels\">Showing a List of User&#8217;s Membership Levels<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#customizing-the-textlabels\">Customizing the Text\/Labels<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#multiple-membership-levels-feature-video-tutorial\">Multiple Membership Levels Feature Video Tutorial<\/a>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"multiple-membership-levels-per-user-feature\">Multiple Membership Levels Per User Feature<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Depending on your situation, you may need to assign multiple membership levels to one user. So a member can have one&nbsp;or multiple membership levels in his profile. In this setup, the membership levels will stack. So for example,&nbsp;if someone belongs to &#8220;Membership Level A&#8221; and then he makes a payment for &#8220;Membership Level B&#8221; then he will&nbsp;end up with two membership levels in his profile (Level A and Level B). The member will be able to access content from both level A and B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do the following to use the multiple membership levels per user feature:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1)<\/strong> Go to the general settings menu of eMember plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2)<\/strong> Check the &#8220;<strong>Enable Secondary Membership<\/strong>&#8221; field and save the settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3)<\/strong>&nbsp;You can can assign additional membership levels to each of your members when you edit their profile:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"412\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/multiple_membership_levels_per_user_sc.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-292\" title=\"multiple_membership_levels_per_user_sc\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/multiple_membership_levels_per_user_sc.gif 412w, https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/multiple_membership_levels_per_user_sc-300x91.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have integrated the payment buttons with WP eMember already then when a logged-in member makes a purchase using that button, the membership level will be automatically&nbsp;added to their profile. The newly paid membership level will be set as the new main membership and the old one will be moved to the additional levels field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>&nbsp;Even though a member can have multiple membership levels assigned to his profile, there will still need to be a primary membership level for the member. When you use auto upgrade it will work based on the primary membership level of&nbsp;the member.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"showing-a-list-of-users-membership-levels\">Showing a List of User&#8217;s Membership Levels<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>If you enable the multiple membership level per user feature then you may want to show the users all the membership levels they have in their profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Create a new page and enter the following shortcode on this newly created page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[wp_eMember_my_membership_levels]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also show the welcome page of each of the levels in the list by using the &#8220;show_welcome_page&#8221; parameter in the shortcode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[wp_eMember_my_membership_levels show_welcome_page=1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will show all the membership levels of the logged-in user. Each level will also have a link to the &#8220;Welcome Page&#8221; of that membership level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"337\" height=\"176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/show-a-list-of-user-membership-levels-screenshot.png\" alt=\"show-a-list-of-user-membership-levels-screenshot\" class=\"wp-image-972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/show-a-list-of-user-membership-levels-screenshot.png 337w, https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/show-a-list-of-user-membership-levels-screenshot-300x156.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This will allow your members to easily go to the welcome page of all the membership levels they purchased.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"customizing-the-textlabels\">Customizing the Text\/Labels<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>You can use the following parameters in the &#8220;show membership levels&#8221; shortcode to customize the text labels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">level_name_label='Level Name'\nlevel_type_label='Level Type'\nprimary_label='Primary'\nsecondary_label='Secondary'\nwelcome_page_anchor='Welcome Page'\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is an example showing you how it is used:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">[wp_eMember_my_membership_levels level_name_label='Membership' level_type_label='Membership Type']\n<\/pre>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"multiple-membership-levels-feature-video-tutorial\">Multiple Membership Levels Feature Video Tutorial<\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Multiple Membership Levels Per User Feature in WP eMember\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PWqYOf8b1KY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default settings in WP eMember is to use one membership level per user at any given time. 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