ARMember – WordPress Membership Plugin

What Is ARMember?

ARMember is a PHP-based WordPress Plugin, engineered for agencies and site builders to run gated-content platforms, tiered member levels, and recurring billing without custom development. It resolves the fragmentation problem where plan setup, form building, payment routing, and content restriction normally require four or more separate plugins to interoperate. In production, it operates as the access-control layer of a WordPress install, mediating every request between authenticated users and restricted post, page, or custom post type payloads.

Key Features of the Plugin

At runtime, the codebase intercepts WordPress content resolution, evaluates the current member’s plan against stored access rules, and either renders the payload or substitutes gated markup. Conditional logic executes through a shortcodes library plus native filter hooks, while plans, payment history, and member profiles persist through optimized SQL queries. CSS and JavaScript enqueue only on pages that require them, keeping unused asset weight off the front end.

Architectural Highlights

• Four Plan Topologies: The Membership Setup Wizard provisions Free, Paid (Infinite), Paid (Finite), and Recurring Payment structures, with upgrade/downgrade actions scheduled at period end and pro-rata billing computed from days consumed.
• Content Access Rules and Drip Feed: Restriction predicates bind to individual posts, pages, and custom types; drip scheduling releases content step-by-step per membership plan, including partial-drip teasers to convert restricted previews.
• 17+ Payment Gateway Adapters: Transaction handlers abstract Stripe, PayPal Pro, Mollie, Razorpay, Square, Braintree, Klarna, Paddle, PayFast, Paystack, Skrill, WorldPay, Pagseguro, PayUMoney, Mercado Pago and more, with country-wise tax calculation and invoice generation.
• Built-In Form Builder: Signup, login, forgot-password, and change-password forms render from template libraries through a live editor, deployable inline or as pop-up/modal forms, with GDPR-compliant field configuration.
• Group and Social Layer: Umbrella memberships let one payer provision multiple individual accounts, while member directories, profile templates, and BuddyPress 2.6.x, BuddyBoss, bbPress, and WooCommerce 6.x.x integrations extend community and commerce behavior.

Complementary modules cover Pay Per Post monetization of single articles or courses, social login via Facebook, Twitter (X), Google, LinkedIn, Instagram, VKontakte, and Tumblr, MyCred gamification, coupon and badge systems, brute-force login protection, user/email/IP bans, two-factor authentication, and email template customization. Add-ons extend the core into online courses, affiliate tracking, digital downloads, SMS and WhatsApp notifications, and PDF member cards. Agencies maintaining recurring client engagements can pair deployment with a Monthly Membership to keep staging environments current between build cycles.

Who Should Use This Plugin?

This package fits WordPress engineers and boutique agencies building membership communities, LMS-style course portals, OTT-style video platforms, coaching sites, recipe libraries, and nonprofit directories where access tiers map directly to revenue. Developers get API support, custom CSS, multisite compatibility, and WordPress user role mapping for team management, so the engine can sit inside headless or heavily customized stacks. It is not intended for teams that require raw source-level rewrites of billing logic out of the box; while the codebase is developer-friendly and hook-driven, exotic proration schemes beyond the documented pro-rata model will demand custom code rather than configuration alone.

Compatibility & Runtime Requirements

The plugin targets a broad WordPress core range and integrates with every major page builder in current agency use.

How to Install & Deploy the Plugin

Deployment follows the standard WordPress administrative pipeline; once activated, all core modules, setup wizards, and administrative menus become operational.

1. Environment Pre-check: Confirm the target server runs a supported WordPress version (5.1.x–7.0.x) and that any co-installed stack, such as WooCommerce 6.x.x or BuddyPress, matches the documented compatibility matrix.
2. Package Upload: Transfer the plugin archive through the administration upload interface or place the extracted PHP, JS, CSS, and SQL assets into the plugins directory of the destination site.
3. Direct Activation: Activate the plugin from the plugins screen; the Membership Setup Wizard, form builder, payment adapters, and dashboard widgets initialize immediately.
4. Configuration & Testing: Configure plans, access rules, drip schedules, gateway credentials, and email templates, then verify restriction behavior on a staged post before going live. Multisite operators should validate per-site provisioning across the network.

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