pmpro-network: how to manually add a user as a member and assign a site

Upon further testing, I am finding that for a site created by the user that was manually added to the list of pmpro members by assigning them a membership via the WordPress native Users control panel, the automatic deactivation of the site is not working. I tried manually ending the membership by setting the membership level to “None” and also by logging in as the user and cancelling the account – in both cases the site the user created remained active. Can you please confirm that this is expected and the automatic deactivation only works for sites created through the pmpro signup process? Can anything be done to enable the deactivation to happen for users added to pmpro from the list of existing WP users?

Thanks again!

The PMPro Network plugin should deactivate users’ sites if they lose their membership. It does however exclude super/network admins, which might be what you are running into.

Here is the code where that happens if you want to dive into it deeper:
https://github.com/strangerstudios/pmpro-network/blob/master/pmpro-network.php#L433

If I have a network site with a business directory theme and membership built-in. Can I use PMPro and merge the two members databases? In fact I want any payment made through the theme to be reflected in PMPro.

woury13, you should have opened a new thread.

This is very likely possible with a smart WP dev. You would just need to hook into the checkout/membership component of the theme and make calls to pmpro_changeMembershipLevel(). The specifics of that depend on the theme itself.

Thanks for your reply, strangerstudios. I re-tested site deactivation by setting the user’s membership to None, but still can’t get it to work — the user loses his/her ability to log in, but the site is still up. However, I am starting to think that maybe the code you referenced only runs when user expiration is handled by a cron job, so today I’ll try the following:

Create a new user outside of pmpro (which is the use case for which that I started this thread), assign him a site, then add the user into pmpro as described here, then set the expiration date to today. Hopefully, by tomorrow the both the user and the site will be deactivated.

If you could keep this thread open for a few more days I’ll report back to let you know the results.

Thanks for your help and for the great plugin!

Strangerstudios,

Unfortunately my experiment failed. I just got an email at my test user address saying “Your membership at <site> has ended”. I also checked the settings of the user, and his membership level has been correctly flipped to “None”. However, I am still able to log in as the expired user and the site is still up. So there definitely seems to be something up with the plugin managing expirations of pre-existing users (those that were registered outside of pmpro) and deactivation of their site.

If you have any idea on how it can all be hooked up, I would really appreciate any advice.

Thank you!

Hi yasvintus,

Sorry that we missed this before, since you are manually adding a user, you’ll have to add a couple of user meta values to their account.

You’ll need to add pmpron_blog_id which will contain the current site/blog id and ‘pmpron_blog_ids’ which should be an associative array of all of their site/blog ids.

Here’s the source to the PMPro Network addon in case you’re interested: https://github.com/strangerstudios/pmpro-network/blob/master/pmpro-network.php#L447 (linked to specific function that gets user sites/blogs).

Hope this helps!

Thanks

Hi! I have a complicated question.

I am using PMPro with Braintree Integration, but here’s what I want to do:

I would like to have an “Introductory offer” in the next two months. Everyone who signs up gets a membership for only $25. However, I would like each of those memberships that signed up during the Introductory Offer to have a renewing subscription at the full price ($80 per year) that begins on July 1, 2015. I would of course, be up front about that when they sign up.

Any idea how to do this?

Thanks!

Mike, open new threads for new questions.

You should just be able to set the initial price to $25 and the recurring price to $80 to do what you want.