How to create a member subscription page?

WP Full Members is a membership add-on for WP Full Pay that enables you to create a membership site and protect content, allowing access only to subscribed members.

In this article, we'll walk though the steps of createing a membership site with WP Full Members.

Jump to:

1. Create subscription plans
2. Create a subscription form
3. Embed the subscription form to a page
4. Assign subscription plans to membership levels
5. Customize the email template sent with login credentials
6. Set up the ‘Customer portal’ page
7. Fine-tune your settings

Step 1: Create subscription plans

Create your subscription plans (recurring prices) on the ‘Products → All products’ page of the Stripe dashboard.

For the sake of demonstration, we’ve created three plans (Bronze, Silver, Gold):

Step 2: Create a subscription form

Create an inline or checkout subscription form on the WP Full Pay → Forms → Add form page in WP admin.

Make sure to add the subscription plans from Stripe the form will offer to customers:

Step 3: Embed the subscription form into a page

Get the shortcode of the form, and insert it into a page:

Step 4: Assign subscription plans to membership levels

If subscribing to a plan should create a member then you have to assign the plan to a membership level.

You can assign subscription plans to membership levels on the WP Full Pay → Settings → Add-ons → Full Stripe Members → Roles page in WP admin:

Important notes:

• Only plans assigned to a membership level will trigger creating members upon subscription.

• Only one plan can be assigned to a membership level. 

  (We plan to relax this limitation in a coming release)

• The membership levels are fixed, you cannot add new ones in the UI. 

  (Contact us if you’d like to add new membership levels by modifying the code)

• There is no need to configure all membership levels, just leave the unused ones as ‘Not used’.

Step 5: Customize the email template sent with login credentials

WP Full Members sends a registration email with login credentials to new members.

You can customize the email template on the WP Full Pay → Settings → Email Notifications → Templates page in WP admin:

Important notes:

• You can use the following members-specific placeholders in the email template: 

  %USERNAME%  - The username of the member (it’s the email address specified on the subscription form) 

  %PASSWORD%  - The generated password

• For more placeholder tokens, please refer to the Using placeholder tokens knowledge base article.

Step 6: Set up the ‘Customer portal’ page

Insert the [fullstripe_customer_portal authentication="Wordpress"] shortcode into a page or post you’d like to turn into the Customer portal page:

Step 7: Fine-tune your settings

It’s recommended to review the default settings of the plugin on the WP Full Pay → Settings → Add-ons → WP Full Members → Settings page in WP admin:

Let’s see what these options do: