ARMember General Option

After installation and activation of the plugin, check about the basic configuration of the ARMember plugin.

Go to the General Settings menu from the admin interface. Here you will get a number of tabs such as General, Payment Gateways, Page Setup, etc..

Let’s check each option in detail:

General Options

Hide Admin Bar

This option is providing you with a choice of whether you want to show an admin bar for non-admin users or not. If you have enabled this option, then the admin bar will be hidden from all users except those who have either an ‘Administrator’ role OR selected roles in the ‘Exclude role..” select box.

Rename wp-admin Folder

Here you have the facility to rename the wp-admin folder to prevent hacking and security issues. You need to be careful while changing this option.

When you enable this option, a popup with important notices will open as shown in the below image. Please read all the notices before proceeding. You will see one URL in this popup. Do not forget to save that URL. It will help you to roll back this change to default in critical situations. When you will run this URL, the new wp-admin path will revert to the default path /wp-admin.

After enabling the switch, you will have another option for New wp-admin Path where you are able to write new path or name for wp-admin ( e.g. panel, cp ).

Before you enable this option, you should check your wp-config.php file and .htaccess file write permission. If both files will have written permission, then you don’t need to do an extra effort, just enable this option, change the wp-admin name if you want and save the settings. You will be logged out automatically. Now your website admin panel can be accessed by only new name or https://yoursiteurl.com/wp-login.php

But, if any of the two files will not have write permission then in such case when you rename wp-admin and try to save settings, then a popup will open containing file change instructions as shown in below.

You must need to follow each instruction strictly and only then after clicking the ‘OK, I did it’ button. After this, you will be logged out. If you press this button without doing changes in files, then you will not be able to log in again. If you will press the ‘Abort Renaming’ button, then the ‘Rename wp-admin’ settings will not be saved, but all other settings will be saved.

If you have renamed wp-admin from other plugins, this setting will remain disabled. Also, it will not work with Multisite.

Hide wp-login.php Page

Another option is provided if you wish to hide the default WordPress wp-login.php page for all users. If you have enabled this option, WordPress default login page will be hidden from all users and all users will be redirected to the front end page which is mapped with the login page under ARMember->General Settings->Page Setup

Hide Register Link

This option will Hide/Remove registration link from wp-login.php page.

Disable ARMember styling on wp-login page

When this option is enabled, the default WordPress wp-login.php page design will come instead of the ARMember wp-login.php design.

Auto Lock Shared Account

When you turn ON this switch, it will clear all sessions except the current session of logged in user from the front end. Please note that this functionality will not applied on previously logged in user from now.

Enable Gravatars

Here you have a switch to enable or disable feature of Gravatars. If this feature is enabled, the plugin will handle profile pictures for all members.

If this is enabled then you will be able to see profile pictures of members on the manage members page as well as the individual member details page. Even also at the front-end at members directory & profile pages, profile pictures of all members will be shown to users.

We also provide buddyPress and Buddyboss support.

Allow image cropping

When you turn ON this switch, in the front end when a user uploads his avatar or profile cover photo, he will get the facility to crop the picture. The skip option is available on the crop box. So if you have enabled crop from here and any user wants to skip crop, then he can click on skip.

Enable Spam Protection

ARMember does provide a strong mechanism to set spam deactection, its prevent your site from uncessary spam entries. You can enable this option if you want to stop the spam entries. If this option is not enabled then anybody can register at your site. For more informatin on Spam Protection you can click here.

New User Approval

You are able to manage the approval of new registered users here. There are three ways provided to approve new users which are as follows,

1. Automatic approve

   You will find, by default this option is selected, which follows the default WordPress registration process where no need to approve users manually, they will be approved by default.

2. Email verified approve

   If this option is selected, then all new users who will register in the website will have Pending status by default and will get an email with activation link and they must have to go through instructions mentioned in an email to complete registration. After clicking on the activation link, the user will be active.

3. Manual approve by admin

   By this method, When a new user registers for the site, the user will get created with Pending status.

   At the same time Administrator will get an email for new user registration. Then, the Administrator will have the rights whether to approve users for the site or not.

Only Active users will be allowed to log in to the site. Users with Pending, Inactive, or Terminated status will not be able to login to the site.

Each user that exists before the plugin has been activated will be treated as an approved ( Active ) user .

Default Currency

Here you can select payment currency out of 25 available currencies for payment processes.

ARMember provides you the facility to add your custom currency by clicking on Add Custom Currency. When one click on the "Custom Currency" the a popup will appear as shown in the below provided image, and there you can add the symbol of the custom currency you want to add. Further you have to add the shortname for the currency for ex. INR, USD according to this and then you can set a preferrence as to do you want to add the currency symnbol at the Prefix or at the Suffix.

Number of decimals

From here, you will be able to select the numbers of decimals that you want to display after the separator with the main amount.

Sales Tax

To set the sales to be applied to the plan, simply navigate to ARMember ⇾ General Settings ⇾ General Options ⇾ Sales Tax Settings

If this switch is enabled, then you can set percentage sales tax that will be applied on final payable amount on Configure Plan + Signup Page. If coupon is applied on plan amount, then tax will be applied on (final payable amount = plan amount-coupon amount). If the membership plan is of recurring type, then tax will be applied on every recurrence.

By default Common Tax option is selected which means common sales tax will be applied for all countries.

You can also select country wise tax.

By selecting Countrywise Tax Option, you can set different percentages of tax for different countries.

Here Select Country Field have list of Dropdown or Radio type fields only from signup form. So if you are trying to set the Country Wise tax without creating a field for the Country at the Signup form then it will not be possible to set as, the ARMember will verify the Country selected by the member and then accordingly apply the tax as set in the settings for that particular country.

Field Default Tax indicates the percentage of tax of other countries apart from the country which is listed above.

Include / Exclude Tax

ARMember does provides two options to set the tax

1. Included Tax
2. Excluded Tax

1. Included Tax
   

   By selecting the Included Tax option, you will be able to set the tax which will be included in the final amount payable by the user.

   For example, if you are having a subscription plan of $700 and the tax is set to 10%, then the final payable amount will be $700 (including 10% tax i.e, $63.64).

   Including Tax amount will be calculated as per the given formula:

   tax_amount = price - ( price / ( ( tax_rate / 100 ) + 1 ) )
2. Excluded Tax
   

   By selecting the Excluded Tax option, tax will be calculated excluding the final amount.

   For example, If the final amount is $700 and the if tax to add is 10%, then after adding the tax, the new Total Payable Amount will be $770 (with 10% tax).

   Excluding Tax amount will be calculated as per the given formula:

   tax_amount = price * ( tax_rate / 100 )

Any change in sales tax rate will not affect already started subscriptions.

If you want to add tax percentage and total amount applied on the final payable amount in the payment summary, then you can add [TAX_AMOUNT] and [TAX_PERCENTAGE] shortcode in the payment summary from the ‘Configure plan+Sign up page’ settings.

You can add tax in email notifications and in invoices too. Template shortcodes are available for both.

Google Recaptcha(V3) Configuration

ARMembers provides Google ReCaptcha(V3) to protect your site from spam and abuse with the ARMembers form.

You can add Google reCaptcha V3 Site Key, Private Key, recaptcha theme, and recaptcha language save.

How Google reCaptcha Works?

In the Google reCaptcha configuration section you can enter the site key and private key to make your reCaptcha field work in the form. you can create free reCaptcha API key.

Now your users can use Google reCaptcha.

Profile Permalink Base

Profile Permalink Base section will only available if you activate Social Features from Add-ons.

You can select what slug appears in the url while checking user’s profiles. You can select either username or user id.

Load JS & CSS In All Pages

To include ARMember related JS and CSS in your whole site, is totally depend on you. We are including js/css only in those pages/posts which are having related functionality of ARMember. But, if you want js and css universally activated in your site, then you may go for this option.

Badge icon size

The dimensions for badge image/icon will be set here and this will be applied to member badges in profile template or member directory template.

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Email Settings

From / Reply to Name

Here you can set From / Reply to Name to be displayed in email notifications. By default, you will find your site name here.

From / Reply to Email

Here you can set From / Reply to Email address from which email notifications will be sent. By default, you will find the administrator’s email id here.

Admin email

This field will have the value of the site admin email address set in default Wordpress General settings. You can add multiple email addresses with comma separated email ids. So, all those email holders will get admin related email notifications.

Email Notification

You have four options here to select how your system supports sending emails to notify admin/users.

Select WordPress Server to send email using the default WordPress functionality, the other two options are SMTP Server and PHP Mailer.

1. Wordpress Server

   By default WordPress Server is selected here. This option uses wordpress default functionality to send email. It wil send emails using WP mail wordpress function.

2. SMTP Server

   Select to send emails using secure mail transfer protocol. If you choose SMTP servers as a mailer, you would be prompted to add the SMTP server’s configuration settings. Here we see how to configure SMTP mail service for Gmail, but you can set it up for any other outgoing service that supports SMTP for a mail client.

   1. Authentication – Check to Enable SMTP authentication
   2. Mail Server – smtp.exampleserver.com
   3. Port – Usually 465 for SSL and 587 for TLS. So, you need to add port as per your SMTP configuration
   4. Login Name- Email address of your SMTP Server
   5. Password – Password of your SMTP Server
   6. Encryption – SSL, TLS or None

   Test SMTP After configuring SMTP Setting, send test mail by providing To (email address), Message (content) of email. and then click on Send test mail button.

3. PHP Mailer

   This Settings will allow you to send the email notification with the PHP Mailer Library.

4. Google/Gmail

   This settings will allow you to send email using Gmail SMTP configuration. To Configure Google/Gmail server please refer Gmail SMTP configuration documentation Click here

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Manage Preset Form Fields

Once you add a new field in the signup form and save the form, then those new fields having new ‘meta_keys’ will be added to the list of ‘Preset Fields’. So you can use these fields directly in other forms too.

But once the field is added to the Preset Field list, any change in that field will not affect that preset field. These preset fields are displayed on Add/Edit Member page.

1. Edit Preset Form Fields Button

   Suppose you have added a dropdown labeled “Gender” in the signup form and the “Gender” field has two values ‘Male and ‘Female’. Now you have saved the form. So “Gender” field will be added to the Preset field list. Now suppose you want to add a third option in this dropdown. let’s say ‘Transgender’. So you will edit the form and add a new option for this dropdown and save the form. But this option is not added in the Preset field “Gender”. So on Add Member page, you will see only two options ‘Male’ and ‘Female’.

   So if you want to update preset fields, then you need to click on Edit Preset Form Fields button. A popup will open containing all Preset Fields where you can change label and values of all preset fields.

2. Clear Preset Form Fields

   To remove specific form fields with its value, click on Clear Preset Form Fields button, a popup opens, select fields which you want to remove from everywhere.

   All the fields you will add in any of sign up forms will be automatically added in the list of “Preset Fields” section of form builder. Sometimes it happens that some fields becomes unnecessary so you will remove that fields from sign up form, but those fields will still remain as it is in “Preset Fields” section even if they were deleted, so you can add them in the form from Preset Field, if again needed in future.

   But sometimes you have added fields for testing purpose and then deleted those fields from forms. If those fields will not be deleted from Preset Fields, then Preset Field list will be longer and longer. Also those deleted fields will be displayed in “Edit Member” page of administrator area. So you must need some way to clear these unused fields from everywhere.

   For these, ARMember Provides Clear From Field setting in General Settings.

   

   Suppose you have added a text box of “Address” in sign up form. So it will be also added in Preset Fields section. Now if you have deleted address field for any reason. But it still appears in “Preset Fields” section.

   

   Now to remove “Address” field from “Preset Field” section, use “Clear Form Field” button. Click on it, then popup will open as shown below.

   

   From popup, you can select all the fields that you want to delete from everywhere. You will see some checkboxes remain disabled as they are default fields and cannot be deleted from sign up form. Checkboxes for other fields will be enabled only if that fields were deleted from sign up form first.

   If data entry exists for any of those fields, then you will see “(Entry Exist)” in red letter beside that field checkbox. Now Select all the fields, that you want to delete from everywhere and click OK button. That’s it. All selected unused fields will be removed from everywhere.

Clear Form Fields

To remove specific form fields with its value, click on this button, popup opens, select fields which you want to remove from everywhere.

All the fields you will add in any of sign up forms will be automatically added in the list of “Preset Fields” section of form builder. Sometimes it happens that some fields becomes unnecessary so you will remove that fields from sign up form, but those fields will still remain as it is in “Preset Fields” section even if they were deleted, so you can add them in the form from Preset Field, if again needed in future.

But sometimes you have added fields for testing purpose and then deleted those fields from forms. If those fields will not be deleted from Preset Fields, then Preset Field list will be longer and longer. Also those deleted fields will be displayed in “Edit Member” page of administrator area. So you must need some way to clear these unused fields from everywhere.

For these, ARMember Provides Clear From Field setting in General Settings.

Suppose you have added a text box of “Address” in sign up form. So it will be also added in Preset Fields section. Now if you have deleted address field for any reason. But it still appears in “Preset Fields” section.

Now to remove the “Address” field from the “Preset Field” section, use the “Clear Form Field” button. Click on it, then the popup will open as shown below.

From the popup, you can select all the fields that you want to delete from everywhere. You will see some checkboxes remain disabled as they are default fields and cannot be deleted from the signup form. Checkboxes for other fields will be enabled only if that fields were deleted from the signup form first.

If data entry exists for any of those fields, then you will see “(Entry Exist)” in red letter beside that field checkbox. Now Select all the fields, that you want to delete from everywhere and click OK button. That’s it. All selected unused fields will be removed from everywhere.

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Email notification scheduler settings

You can add the hours as per your site requirements for example if you have selected 1 Hour then on every hour the cron will run and check that whether the member’s membership plan is in renewable or if the member’s plan is expired then the system will suspend the member accodingly.

Also ARMember does provide a facility to check the cron logs, you can enable the logs recieved at ARMember -> Debug Log Settings -> Cron Debug Log Settings. For more information on the debud log click here.

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Front End Font Settings

Now give a better look at the front side with different colors and fonts according to your wish. You will have the following options.

Options	Description
Level 1	Font settings of Level 1 will be applied to the main heading of frontend shortcodes. Like Transaction listing heading and likewise.
Level 2	Font settings of Level 2 will be applied to the subheading ( Main Labels ) of frontend shortcodes. For example, table heading of transaction listing.
Level 3	Font settings of Level 3 will be applied to sub labels of frontend shortcodes. For example table content of transaction listing.
Level 4	This font style will be applied to all front end pages sub description.
Links	Font settings of Links will be applied to links of frontend shortcodes. For example edit profile, logout link, and profile links, etc.
Button	Font settings of Buttons will be applied to buttons of frontend shortcodes output. For example, Renew button, Cancel Button, Make Payment Button, etc.

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Global CSS

Here you will be able to add a global CSS class according to your requirements which will be applied to all your templates globally.

You can find a full list of class information by clicking on CSS Class Information link.

Pro-Rata Configuration

Here you can setup the configuration for the pro-ration method and also you can enable the reset billing period option. Also note that this option will be available only when you have the activated the addon Pro-rata Addon. For more informaion on this you can click here.

Supported Date Format

ARMember does support date format change as set on the WordPress admin panel settings page.

Below given date format supported by date picker. If the format is not supported then the m/d/Y format will be considered by default.

• m/d/Y (Default Date Format)
• Y-m-d
• Y m d
• F j, Y