Pay Per Post Whilst not logged in
WARNING – This guide was written for Your Members v1.9.x.x or lower, In Your Members 1.10.0 some menu items have changed, we will be updating this documentation as soon as we can.
Normally a user has to be logged in to make a purchase, however Your Members v1.7 and above supports the ability to purchase pages whilst not being logged in, but there are a few additional caveats to be aware of. Please note that Normal Pay Per Post (only functional whilst logged in) offers a far more flexible way of selling access to content.
- This only works with PayPal purchases
- No user account is created. If one with a matching email address is found in the WordPress user database, then the purchase is recorded against them, if not the content is emailed to them.
- It the user has a PayPal account that ISN’T an email address (very uncommon but possible), the content ISN’T emailed to them.
- You can not sell access to the page from within a page itself purchasable.
To enable the feature follow these simple steps.
- In your Your Members Admin Section, go to Settings under Other Settings and set “Allow a logged out user to purchase posts?” to YES
- Next head to Messages under Other Settings and modify the three sections under “Templates” that refer to [ym_all_ppp] to suit your needs. Note that by default, unless to edit these setting, you get two “Buy” buttons which may confuse some users.
- On the post or page you which to protect, encapsulate the content you wish to protect within [private] tags as per normal
- On the same page or post, Set “Is this post available to buy?” to YES and set a price and any other PPP options.
- Now on any other page or post (which isn’t itself purchasable) you can add [ym_all_ppp] to add details of all purchasable pages and links to buy them.
