WordPress

Installing the WordPress plugin

Check the requirements, then install and activate memberarea Connector on your WordPress site.

Connecting WordPress to memberarea

Create an API key, connect the site, and switch on member sign-in.

How member sign-in works on your site

What members see when they sign in on WordPress, how long a session lasts, and why no WordPress account is created.

Adding your first block

The nine memberarea blocks, what each one really does, and how to use them without the block editor.

Selling your courses from WordPress

Pick the right block for a sales page, a catalogue or a shop, and follow one purchase from the button to the member's access.

Locking a page to members or a course

Protect a whole page, or single blocks inside it, and choose what visitors without access see.

Using memberarea with page builders and the classic editor

Shortcodes for Elementor, Divi and the classic editor, and what to know about locking a page you did not build with blocks.

Troubleshooting the WordPress connection

Read the status panel, understand the named problems, and clear the cache when something looks stale.

What the plugin stores about your members

The data the plugin keeps on your WordPress server, and the GDPR tools it adds to WordPress.