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Setup a WordPress Private Site (Entire Website, Blog or Pages)

Author: Madalin Ungureanu
Last Updated: December 6th, 2022

Setting up a WordPress Private Site is now easier than ever, with the help of the Profile Builder plugin. The private website feature is available in all versions of the Profile Builder. If you’re looking to make your website visible to members only, then this feature is for you. Keep in mind that this lets […]

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Pay What You Want Membership

Setup Pay What You Want Subscriptions in WordPress

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: April 19th, 2018

Accepting donations or enabling a variable pricing for your subscription plans is really straight forward using the Pay What You Want add-on for Paid Member Subscriptions. You're probably familiar with the concept of allowing users the ability to set their own price for things like downloads, access to premium content, or to make a donation […]

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How to create Fixed End Date Subscriptions

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: April 18th, 2018

Unlike regular membership plans, which grant access for an amount of time depending on the purchase date, Fixed End Date Subscriptions grant access to members ending at a specific date, no matter when they were purchased. Some of the most common requests for this feature include having a subscription plan that ends at the end […]

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Add WooCommerce Conditional Logic Fields to Checkout Page

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: September 6th, 2021

In this tutorial, we'll focus on how to add WooCommerce conditional logic fields to the checkout page. Profile Builder - WooCommerce Sync add-on makes it super easy to add custom user fields to the WooCommerce checkout page and sell WooCommerce product add-ons, as well as manage the Customer Shipping and Billing Address fields. It allows […]

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Approve New WordPress Users

How to Approve New WordPress Users (From Dashboard or Via Email)

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: July 9th, 2024

If you allow public registration on your site, it can be a good idea to manually approve new WordPress users before you start letting them interact with your content or online store. This should help you cut out spammers or weed out users who shouldn't be there. The good news is that even complete beginners […]

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Generate PDF Invoices for Membership Payments

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: April 27th, 2021

One of the most requested features by our Paid Member Subscriptions users was the ability to automatically generate PDF invoices for every completed membership payment. This is now possible using the Invoicing add-on. It offers an easy way to dynamically generate invoices for subscription payments, which can be downloaded by both clients and the admin. […]

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Tutorial: WordPress Restrict Page Access to Logged In Users

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: October 21st, 2024

If you run a community site that allows user registration, you probably need a simple way to control which users can access certain private pages of your WordPress site. For this, you'll need a plugin that lets you manage user-specific content in WordPress. This is where Profile Builder comes in. This tool offers a WordPress […]

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How To Create a bbPress Private Forum and Restrict it Based on Membership Subscription

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: September 13th, 2021

In order to build a successful paid membership community with a discussion area, you may want to create a bbPress private forum and restrict access to some content areas, based on subscription plan. If you use both Paid Member Subscriptions and Profile Builder Pro, you have to know that bbPress is fully integrated with both […]

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WordPress Multilingual Site

The Non-Technical Guide to a WordPress Multilingual Site

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: August 3rd, 2021

With a WordPress Multilingual Site, reaching an international audience that speaks multiple languages is easy. This can have a positive impact on your website traffic and revenue. The first step required is to add multilingual functionality. “I Increased My Search Traffic by 47% from Translating My Blog into 82 Languages” - Neil Patel  It's also […]

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Paid Member Subscriptions 1.5.0 released! New features: free trials and sign-up fees.

Author: Mihai Iova
Last Updated: July 15th, 2022

Version 1.5.0 of Paid Member Subscriptions is the biggest release the membership plugin has seen since its initial launch. I am really proud and excited about it, because it is the result of the collaboration between you, the users who have reached out to our support team for help, the support team, which has been […]

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