You need a plan to develop and test a membership site.
Use one Browser with one email to access your wordpress site as admin.
Each user account you create should be associate with one and only one email and to test things like persistent login, you need to use these accounts in a separate browser.
Example Develop and Test Setup
WordPress Site "TheMemberShip"
Machine 1
Browser Chrome
user TheAdmin
email TheAdmin@unigue.com
Browser Firefox
user Member1
email Member1@@unigue1.com
Browser Edge
user Member2
email Member2@unigue2.com
Browser Brave
user Member3
email Member3@unigue2.com
Machine 2
Chrome
Other Admin Type roles (Editor)
Firefox
Other Admin Type roles (Author)
Edge
test bad emails etc
The
- s2Member
- Delete Me
- Persistent Login
- WordPress Users & WooCommerce Customers Import Export(BASIC)
- Email Users
and the native WordPress user capabilities are the core Membership system
- Register
- Login
- Logout
- Lost Password retrieval
- Update profile
- Email Users
- Generate Lists of users for other systems
s2Member Framework: a WordPress plugin, allows users to sign up - will receive emails etc when admins send them, free version
The s2Member system is built on top of the WordPress User system.
When someone joins this site, they are classified as a WordPress Site Subscriber, which does not allow them any access to the WordPress development system, but does keep them in a list and makes it easy for the management to send them emails.
We have built a self select feature in the S2 Framework that allows folks who sign up to self identify as either a
- Member
- Student
- Follower Non member
All of these categories have the WordPress privilege of subscriber, which on this site is free. It is possible to limit access to the site to Subscribers, however, it is not currently set up that way. In some cases you may want to send emails to one of the self selected categories above, or all of them.
The WordPress System allows administrators to grant the ability to write and edit their own posts to "Authors", to edit Posts, to 'Editors' and to change anything to 'Administrators'.
In order to do this, and administrator has to grant that access.
Most the of the user administration can be done with the Users tab from the WordPress Dashboard. The free S2member plugin is very powerful and allows for paid subscriptions and different levels of access to the sites content, if desired. These advanced functions are not implemented in this test system.
s2Member has features that will allow you to notify members when new content is added.
Other Plugins
Email Users: create nice emails for users of the site
WordPress Users & WooCommerce Customers Import Export(BASIC) ( shows as Import Export Users for the free version when installing plugins)
Delete Me - allows users to unsubscribe
Persistent Login - keep users logged in for one year