eMember – Adding emember accounts that have same email on wordpress account

[darkmatter]

I have a ton of existing WordPress users (non emember) that are going to be registering as new Emembers to access restricted content. When I try to register a user with an existing WP account, same email address, it fails and gives me the EMEMBER_EMAIL_TAKEN error.

I don’t have any of the options selected in the WordPress User Integration Settings.

Is there a way to have a WP and Emember account with the same email address?

Thanks.

[Peter]

In the “Members” menu item there is a tab called “Import WP Users”.

You can import existing WP User accounts into eMember from there.

[darkmatter]

I saw that thank you, however that’s not what I’m trying to accomplish. I want to keep the two “databases” of users separate and need for any existing WP users to re-register as an eMember.

[admin]

Can’t do that. In the WordPress system, each user is unique and can have only one email address. The way it works is that each email address corresponds to a unique user. Here are your options:

1) Import the existing user to eMember (the user account will exists in WordPress and eMember)

2) Delete the corresponding WP User account and then the user can register for a fresh new account via eMember. Optionally you can enable these options so a WP user account also gets created if you need it:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/using-emember-with-another-plugin-that-uses-the-wordpress-user-roles-350

[darkmatter]

OK thank you!

[Author]

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