MemberPress has a built-in Groups feature — a tool that affects both front-end presentation and back-end functionality. But this Groups feature has some important limitations and disadvantages which, under some some circumstances, militate against using the feature at all and/or for displaying front-end pricing pages. In this article I’ll explain those limitations and disadvantages using a real-world scenario, and I’ll give you step-by-step instructions for creating your own membership pricing page that circumvents them.
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MemberPress Rules Using Custom Taxonomies and Custom Roles
When building access rules in MemberPress, one of the easiest ways to avoid chaos as your site grows is to rely on custom taxonomies and custom user roles. In this article, I’ll explain the benefits of each approach; how to implement them; and how, when used together, they can make your life immensely easier.
MemberPress Notification System Extended
MemberPress has a pretty robust notification system. But it can’t address every conceivable requirement. Here’s an overview of how I solved a client’s unique problem by extending the MemberPress notification system using Advanced Custom Fields (Pro) and a custom script that runs when a specific MemberPress action hook fires.
How To Use MemberPress to Protect Posts that Contain Custom Fields
If you’re trying to use MemberPress to protect posts that contain custom fields, relying on MemberPress rules alone will not work. Why? Because MemberPress rules only protect content that is outputted through the WordPress the_content() function. There are two primary approaches to solving this problem, and this article elaborates on one of them: using the WordPress “current_user_can()” function.
Custom Front-End Member Listing for MemberPress Website
MemberPress is a great tool for creating membership websites, but it doesn’t offer much in the way of reporting functionality. This deficit is an opportunity for developers. Availing myself of that opportunity, I’ve created custom front-end member listings for some of my clients’ MemberPress sites. In this article I dive a bit into the member listing I created for the website of the Southeastern Bluegrass Association (“SEBA”).
Create a Membership Card for a MemberPress Site
A few days ago, someone in the “MemberPress Unofficial User Group” on Facebook asked how he could offer his website members a membership card that can be accessed on a phone to prove membership. It so happens I created such a membership card for one of my client websites, using the MemberPress Account Nav Tabs addon, a few standard MemberPress shortcodes, a bit of CSS, and one custom shortcode. This article documents that solution.
How To Structure MemberPress Memberships
When it comes to designing and building a membership site, the most important step is strategizing how to organize your content and how to structure your memberships accordingly. This article provides an outline of how memberships are structured using MemberPress.
(Pictured here is Groucho Marx, who famously said, I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
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MemberPress Quiz Question Types: What You Should Know
In April of this year, MemberPress announced what they called a significant enhancement of the MemberPress Courses quiz feature, including the introduction of 4 new question types. In this article I’ll describe and give examples of all 9 quiz question types and share my ideas about when to use which question types in your MemberPress courses.
How to Create a Custom Member Directory for a WordPress/MemberPress Membership Site: Details
One of the questions that comes up a lot in WordPress discussion forums is how to set up a member directory. Often the question is posed as “What’s the best plugin for creating a member directory?”
Last October I published a blog post that summarized how I created a custom member directory for a WordPress membership site. When I shared links to that article in WordPress-related Facebook groups, a common response was, “How about some details, man?”
Hence this blog post.
So you want to offer online courses…
People ask me if I can help them convert content they’ve developed or plan to develop — in some cases it’s a video, in other cases it’s a book, and so on — into an online course. My short answer is “yes”. But here’s a caveat:
The experience and insights I’ve gained from studying education at the graduate level, teaching elementary and high school students, and developing and delivering adult training programs compels me to stress that there’s a lot that goes into making a “course” that is a truly effective learning experience.