How to Build a Divi Membership Site with ARMember (A Complete Guide)

Interested in creating a membership site with the popular Divi solution? We are here to explain to you the steps and specifics of the process. You will need just two major tools:

1. ARMember is a fully dedicated membership website management plugin for WordPress sites. It lets you restrict paid content, making it available to paid and/or logged-in users.
2. Divi Builder & theme integrates beautifully with membership plugins like ARMember and gives you complete control over your design.

ARMember comes packaged with handy pre-made member profiles, member directory layouts, payment gateway integration, and many features offered as extensions to use when needed.

ARMember+Divi WordPress is a helpful solution to build:

• Beautiful member-only pages with private access.
• Sell subscriptions via membership tiers and packages.
• Create paywalls to individual pages or URLs.

Why Use Divi for a Membership Site?

Divi by Elegant Themes is one of the best-selling plugins of all time in WordPress. It has evolved from a simple WordPress theme and page builder to an all-in-one business solution, with marketing, automation, and other tools included. A site builder framework, as they title themselves specifically.

Its key advantage is the design capabilities that allow anyone to build outstanding websites with smooth animation and powerful logic features.

You will enjoy working with Divi, because in addition to smart UI and great design options, its features are worth all types of rewards:

• No-code visual editing of the pages.
• Full-site editing.
• Custom social sharing and email opt-in tools.
• AI tools to create the entire website according to your instructions.
• Many premium website templates, including for membership communities.
• Divi Cloud for safe file storage.
• Premium support with Divi VIP (in Divi Pro).

However, as a design and customization WordPress solution, Divi can’t solve all the tasks in the world when you need to integrate custom functionality. Luckily, for paid subscriptions and membership needs, it’s easy to add plugins like ARMember to your Divi and add paywalls to content you build in Divi.

Using a Divi Theme for a Membership Site

Now, let’s go through the key steps involved in building a membership-specific site.

Step 1. Customize Your Divi Theme

Firstly, make Divi work for your actual membership business. In the Divi Library, there are numerous pre-made designs to be used – or even AI tools to create a whole site from scratch (only in Divi Pro). Some of them are more fitting to presenting member profiles and content-based sites.

In this Divi layouts library, you can save and reuse layouts, sections, rows, and modules. If you’ve spent time customizing a module’s Design and Advanced settings, you don’t have to do it all over again but need to simply save it.

Creating content for membership sites takes probably the biggest amount of your time – and then again, you need to organize it smartly with a page builder like Divi. This is why we recommend that to create a Divi membership site, save time with reusable Divi modules:

• To save a module, row, or section, hover over it, click the menu icon, and select “Save to Library.”
• Name your item, select which settings to save, and even make it Global (sync it across your entire site so that changes to one item change everything – e.g. use for footers, CTAs).
• Access all your saved items anytime via Divi > Divi Library in the WordPress dashboard.

When you need to sync Design and Advanced settings but not content, Divi lets you sync specific tab settings when saving a library item.

You can also build new items directly in the Divi Library, for this, follow these steps:

1. Go to Divi > Divi Library.
2. Click “Add New”.
3. Choose the type (Section, Row, Module), build your Divi layout, and save.

All of those are accessible from the “Add From Library” tab inside the Visual Builder.

Other top useful tools in Divi are the Theme Customizer and Module Customizer. They let you control the overall look and feel of your site with visual tools (Divi > Theme Customizer). You can adjust the following things:

• Header and navigation.
• Fonts and colors.
• Menu and logo sizing.
• General site layout.

You can export your saved layouts and modules to reuse them on other websites. Thus, you build custom designs that you can use on other sites.

So, use Divi to build content on WordPress and present it the way you want – and then use ARMember to restrict that content to only logged-in paying users.

Step 2. Set up WordPress Divi Membership Site with ARMember

So, your site with Divi in the process or even ready to go? Then it’s time to install the ARMember user management plugin for WordPress to see how you can restrict the content to paying customers further.

To create plans for paywalls, set up monetization rules, configure notifications, and more, firstly, you need to install and customize ARMember with the pricing plan according to your needs. With the integrated setup wizard, you can do that pretty easily, step by step. The following Divi Builder integration guide for membership sites will help you with the process. 

Let’s overview the key processes, before diving into the full power of what your membership site can do.

Activate your license

License activation is important to get plugin updates, priority support, and a full library of built-in add-ons (go to the Licensing menu).

Tweak the core settings

Go to the General Settings tab for the main settings. Key configurations include:

• Your site’s default currency.
• Decide if you want to approve new users manually or let them in automatically
• Want your site to be members-only? Flip the switch to restrict access to logged-in users only.

Set up your first membership plans

Build premium and free plans based on your goals and membership management needs via Manage Plans. Furthermore, you can move ahead to create a Divi membership site.

• Create free or paid plans.
• Add plan names, and prices, and define validity periods.
• Decide what content each plan unlocks, full site access, or just certain pages or posts.

Select a payment gateway

To start earning with your membership content, you’ll need to set up a way to accept payments. Go to General Settings > Payment options.

The plugin plays nicely with a bunch of options – over 21, in fact!

You may start with one of the following popular ones as:

• PayPal
• Stripe
• Direct Bank Transfer

Customize the signup flow

You control how users join your site. With built-in ARMember tools, you can do the following:

• Design a signup form using forms and templates.
• Let users pick a plan at registration.
• Add payment directly to the signup process.

Protect your content with rules

Now, decide who sees what by applying access rules to posts or pages, categories or menus, custom post types, URLs, etc. Furthermore, check the boxes to assign the right access level to each plan and let the plugin handle the rest. Then go to the Content Access Rules to customize access.

Step 3. Customize Content Restrictions via Divi

Once again, Divi is here for you to create beautiful content for members. But how does Divi integrate with ARMember? Mainly through the restriction rules that you can access via the actual Divi builder.

Important:

• Content restriction with Divi is only available if you activate the Divi Builder Restriction add-on on ARMember dashboard.

• Make sure both the Divi Builder plugin and Divi Theme are installed and activated.

ARMember works with the Section and Row settings to create a Divi membership site. To find these settings, go to the needed page in Divi, then access them in the following way:

1. Firstly, click the settings icon on any Section or Row.

   

2. In the popup that appears, go to the Advanced tab.
3. You’ll now see a new tab labeled ARMember.
4. Click the ARMember tab, then toggle Enable Restriction Access to Yes.

   

5. Once enabled, additional options will appear: Restriction Type and Membership Plan.
6. Set your preferred restriction rules and hit Save.

Finally, that’s it – that specific Section or Row will now follow the access rules you’ve defined for your membership plans.

Concluding on Building a Membership Site with Divi

What’s next? Probably double-check your content, test the signup process, and give it a final polish! After that, just Hit publish – you’ve just launched your Divi membership site with ARMember!

To sum up, ARMember and Divi for WordPress both give you exclusive tools to create and customize member-only pages and then make them accessible only when a membership tier is purchased. Using the specifically developed extension by ARMember, you will easily edit access to specific Divi pages in the visual settings panel, which is quick and easy.

👉 Check out the ARMember Demo

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