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Simple Membership

Estimated reading: 2 minutes Updated August 1, 2026

Simple Membership adds membership levels, content protection, and front-end member registration to WordPress. Advanced Form Integration captures new member registrations and routes the data to any of 200+ destinations.

What you’ll need

  • The Simple Membership plugin installed and activated.
  • At least one membership level configured under WP Membership → Membership Levels.
  • A registration page published with the registration shortcode.
  • The Advanced Form Integration plugin installed and activated.

When the trigger fires

AFI registers a single New Member Registered trigger for Simple Membership. It fires when a visitor completes front-end registration and the member record, the linked WordPress user, and the welcome email have all succeeded.

Data captured

Field Field key Format
Username user_name Text
Email email Email address
First Name first_name Text
Last Name last_name Text
Membership Level Name membership_level Text, the level name rather than its numeric id
Account State account_state Text, for example active or pending
Member Since member_since YYYY-MM-DD

Create the integration

  1. Go to WP Admin → AFI → Add New.
  2. Enter an Integration Title, e.g. Simple Membership: New Member Registered → Mailchimp.
  3. In Trigger → Form/Data Provider, select Simple Membership.
  4. In Form/Task Name, choose New Member Registered.
  5. In Action → Platform, pick the destination and complete the field mapping.
  6. Optional: configure Conditional Logic so only matching events are sent.
  7. Click Save Integration.

Screenshot: AFI Add New screen with Simple Membership selected as the Form/Data Provider

How AFI listens for registrations

AFI hooks swpm_front_end_registration_complete_user_data from classes/class.swpm-front-registration.php. It fires only after create_swpm_user(), prepare_and_create_wp_user_front_end(), and send_reg_email() have all completed, so a validation failure never dispatches. Registration is guarded by defined( 'SIMPLE_WP_MEMBERSHIP_VER' ).

Membership level arrives as a name, not an ID

The hook passes the numeric level ID. AFI resolves it to the human-readable level name through SwpmPermission::get_instance( $level )->get( 'alias' ), the same accessor the plugin’s own registration code uses, so your destination receives something like Gold rather than 3.

Troubleshooting

Members added from the admin do not fire

This trigger is scoped to front-end registration. Members created manually under WP Membership → Members take a different code path.

Account State is always pending

That reflects your registration settings. If you require email activation or manual approval, the member starts in a pending state and the value dispatched reflects that moment in time.

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