{"id":40,"date":"2009-10-01T21:23:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T04:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/?p=40"},"modified":"2025-04-23T20:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:58:35","slug":"how-to-test-the-wp-emember-plugin-to-make-sure-everything-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/how-to-test-the-wp-emember-plugin-to-make-sure-everything-is-working-40","title":{"rendered":"How to Test the WP eMember Plugin to Make Sure Everything is Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"setup-preparation\">Setup Preparation<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>You will most likely have your WordPress admin dashboard open while you configure and test various things. So it is a good idea to use two different browsers for the testing. Use one browser (example: Google Chrome) to open your WordPress admin dashboard and use the other one (example &#8211; Firefox, Microsoft Edge) to simulate a visitor. The reason is that the temporary login information is stored in the browser&#8217;s session, so having two different browsers to do two different things is ideal and will avoid any login conflicts due to shared session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#faf5e6\">Also, check&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/forum\/topic\/plugin-testing-checklist-setup-preparation-for-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plugin testing checklist to avoid any common mistakes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"simple-registration-test\">Simple Registration Test<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The simplest way to test the WP eMember plugin after you set everything up is to allow free membership and then visiting the registration URL to sign up for a free membership account. Here are some guidelines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create a post or page calling it &#8220;Free Member Content&#8221; and put some random content in it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a Membership Level called &#8220;Free Membership&#8221; giving it access to the site&#8217;s content (posts, pages etc)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now go to the &#8220;Manage Content Protection&#8221; menu and select the &#8220;Free Membership&#8221; level from the drop down.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give this membership level access to the post &#8220;Free Member Content&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to the settings menu and make sure the &#8220;Allow Free Membership&#8221; field is checked and the &#8220;Free Membership Level ID&#8221; field has the correct ID of the &#8220;Free Membership&#8221; level.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now if you open a new browser window and try to access this &#8220;Free Member Content&#8221; post without being logged in as a member you should see something similar to the following screenshot:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"389\" height=\"26\" src=\"http:\/\/tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/not-logged-in-warning.png\" alt=\"Content is not displayed when logged in\" class=\"wp-image-41\" title=\"not-logged-in-warning\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/not-logged-in-warning.png 389w, https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/not-logged-in-warning-300x20.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Example Content Protection Message<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Follow the &#8220;Join Today&#8221; link and go to the registration page to register for a free membership account.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once you sign up use the &#8220;user name&#8221; and &#8220;password&#8221; for your free membership to log in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the login operation is successful you should see the content of the &#8220;Free Member Content&#8221; post\/page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This indicates that the content protection, member registration and login functionalities are setup correctly and it&#8217;s working fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you can take the testing one step further and try a test transaction by purchasing one of the paid membership (if you offer paid membership) to see how the paid membership registration part works.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"paid-membership-test\">Paid Membership Test<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e6f3fb\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> Enable the debug logging feature in the plugin settings before running a payment test. The debug log file will help identify any issues if the test does not proceed as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An easy way to test the paid membership flow is to do a live transaction with something like a $1 (you can change the price of the membership after the testing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create a membership payment button in the plugin for a small amount (example: $1). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/wordpress-membership\/creating-paypal-buy-now-button-membership-payment-1612\">This documentation<\/a> explain how to create a membership button for PayPal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If are testing a new user paying for a membership scenario then make sure the email address you are going to use for the transaction isn&#8217;t already in the system. Go to the member&#8217;s menu and search for it to see if a user account already exists with that email address. 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