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Extending The Functionality of MemberPress

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There are a number of well established commercial WordPress plugins that provide an almost perfect solution out of the box for our customers. These plugins are big part of what makes WordPress a great and affordable solution for so many websites. Often however, a business needs something “just a little custom”. Where a full custom solution might be tens of thousands of dollars in development, a $100 plugin and a few hours of custom development can deliver a similar highly tailored solution. This recently completed project extending MemberPress is a great example.

Unique Client Needs

A client using MemberPress came to us wanting to offer their members the ability to purchase a gift membership for someone else as well as a way to set up and manage a very customized 40 day email drip program.

Taking Something Good And Making It Better

We love working with the MemberPress plugin. It’s robust and can meet the needs of many membership sites. However, each business is unique in the services it delivers to it’s customers and sometimes delivering those services requires extending the functionality provided by a plugin.

Implementing the gift memberships was more challenging than it sounds. The existing coupon functionality in MemberPress assumes that a site administrator would simply create a coupon code for use by many users. We started with this and extended it such that users could purchase a 100% coupon and that coupon could be sent to someone as a gift. The final tweak was to make it so these coupon codes were one-time use only.

The 40 day drip program took people through a series of daily questions about each day’s lesson. MemberPress tracks progress through the drip program but doesn’t allow users to go back and repeat the program. We created a plugin that allowed users to reset the program to day 1 and wiped out all of their previous answers so they could start the process anew.

Both add-ons work independently of one another giving the site owner flexibility in which add-on functionality is active at any given time.

Customized Solutions

There are countless amazing plugins out there that do a massive range of things for a specific need. When you need something a little different the most affordable solution may be to extend one of those existing plugins to fit your particular need. Contact us. We’ll create the perfect plugin add-on for you!

Updating WP Chargify: Revisiting a Custom Plugin Built Long Ago

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5 years ago, Jason Glaspey came to us wanting to use Chargify to manage recurring subscriptions for his paid members. At the time there was no plugin available for WordPress to connect with Chargify. Jason hired us to build a custom plugin for his specific needs. He also generously allowed us to make it available for free to all on the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Over the years Chargify has made lot of changes to their service. While Jason had sponsored the original plugin he moved on and the plugin sat idle for quite a while. Chargify recognized the importance of the plugin being updated and reached out to us to do a complete overhaul.

We were excited to take on the project. It was great to be given the opportunity to revisit code we wrote so long ago. We were able to update the plugin with all the latest Chargify features as well at the latest best coding practices.

Chargify was delighted with the results and wrote a nifty post on it where you can read about all the new functionality here.

Thanks to 9seeds great work on our plugin, using WordPress and Chargify together has never been easier!” ~Britton Gwaltney, Chargify – Director of Sales

Building custom plugins for hire like this is one our favorite services. If you need a custom plugin developed or just need to streamline a function please contact us! We’ll be happy to help you, too.