Business is designed for organizations that want WordPress to become a complete member website—not only a sign-in destination.
It includes everything in Standard and adds the two most important member-experience systems: the full portal and searchable directories.
The Complete Member Portal
Business unlocks the guided setup for all ten managed portal pages:
- Dashboard
- Login
- My Profile
- My Events
- Groups
- Member Directory
- Education & Credits
- Organizations
- Registration page placement
- Access Library
Registration write operations still require Developer, but the portal structure can be planned as part of the complete journey.
Each section has a live preview and three template choices: Standard, Spotlight, and Sidebar.
A Configurable Member Dashboard
Administrators can assemble a dashboard from membership, event, education, group, directory, and role-aware resource modules.
This gives members one place to answer common questions:
- Is my membership active?
- What am I registered to attend?
- How many education credits do I have?
- Which resources are included with my role?
- Where can I find other members or organizations?
Searchable Member and Organization Directories
Business provides:
- Live API directory mode
- Synchronized WordPress index
- Grid, list, and compact presentation
- Two- or three-column grids
- Optional search
- Configurable search labels
- Pagination
- Individual profile details
- Field-level privacy controls
- Directory colors and preview
- Background synchronization
Organizations can select only the fields appropriate for public or member-only display.
Account-Specific Discovery
Business discovers groups, member types, statuses, and profile attributes from the connected MC Professional account.
The values are not sample data and are not shared between customers. After discovery, administrators can map real groups and member types to WordPress roles.
Visual WordPress Role Mapping
Role mapping lets an association connect MemberClicks classifications to WordPress access.
Examples:
- Student member → Student role
- Professional member → Professional role
- Board group → Board role
- Chapter leader group → Chapter Leader role
Those roles can control protected pages, LMS courses, downloads, and Access Library links.
Read-Only Member Data Experiences
Business supports member-facing views for:
- My Profile
- My Events
- Education & Credits
- Certificates where supported
- Organizations
These experiences read supported data without allowing the member to write changes back to MC Professional.
That read-only model is appropriate for many organizations because it provides useful self-service while keeping profile changes under existing administrative processes.
Configurable Caching
Business unlocks cache configuration and presets for supported API resources. Administrators can balance freshness and traffic without requesting the same data on every page view.
Developer adds deeper per-resource controls and shortcode-level overrides.
Complete Business Feature List
Business includes every Standard feature listed in the Standard license guide, plus the following.
Complete Member Portal
- Guided portal setup wizard
- Ten managed portal sections
- Dashboard
- Login
- My Profile
- My Events
- Groups
- Member Directory
- Education & Credits
- Organizations
- Registration page planning
- Access Library
- Activation-time draft portal scaffold
- Repair/setup action for missing portal pages
- Sequential page configuration
- Final review and save step
- Standard template for every portal section
- Spotlight template for every portal section
- Sidebar template for every portal section
- Default usable template selection
- Live preview beside each section’s settings
- Link to the rendered frontend page
- Global portal palette
- Section-level color controls
- Configurable headings and introductory copy
Member Dashboard
- Membership detail module
- Registered-events module
- Education and credit summary
- Upcoming-events module
- Groups module
- Directory shortcut
- Role-aware resource module
- Configurable module selection
- Configurable module order where exposed
Member and Organization Directory
- Searchable member directory
- Organization directory
- Live API with caching
- Synchronized WordPress index
- Grid layout
- List layout
- Compact layout
- Two-column grid
- Three-column grid
- Profiles-per-page setting
- Pagination
- Optional directory search
- Configurable search label
- Configurable organization label
- Configurable group label
- Configurable member-type label
- Active-members-only option
- Members-only access option
- Individual profile detail pages
- Virtual directory route
- Assigned WordPress directory page
- Virtual profile-detail URLs
- Name visibility control
- Organization visibility control
- Member-type visibility control
- Email visibility control
- Phone visibility control
- Address visibility control
- Map visibility control
- Accent color
- Card background color
- Text color
- Border color
- Responsive preview
- Empty-search state
- Clear-search action
Directory Synchronization
- Hourly schedule
- Twice-daily schedule
- Daily schedule
- Synchronization-limit setting
- Manual Synchronize Now
- Last-sync time
- Indexed-profile count
- Multi-pass processing for large directories
- Private WordPress profile index
- Faster local searching
Member Data Discovery
- Discover groups from the configured account
- Discover member types
- Discover member statuses
- Discover profile attributes
- Discover supported countries
- Organization-specific discovery
- Discovery source and timestamp
- Discovered-item counts
- Manual metadata refresh
- No bundled sample-client values
Visual Role Mapping
- Map MemberClicks groups to WordPress roles
- Map MemberClicks member types to WordPress roles
- Explicit mappings take priority
- Use existing WordPress roles
- Dynamic role source during member login
- Role-aware content access
- Role-aware Access Library
- Integration guidance for role editor plugins
Read-Only Member Experiences
- Configurable fields shown in My Profile
- Ordered profile-field selection
- Friendly field labels
- My Events filtered to the signed-in Profile ID
- Configurable registration/attendance statuses
- Education and credit records
- Certificates where returned
- Organization information
- Group information
- No profile writes
Role-Based Restrict Content
- Everything in Standard Restrict Content
- Protect pages by mapped WordPress role
- Create role-gated draft pages
- Protect existing pages by role
- Link role mappings directly to access decisions
Access Library
- Add WordPress pages
- Add downloads
- Add courses
- Add external or internal resources
- Limit each item to selected roles
- Show members only the resources allowed by their roles
Configurable Caching
- Caching tab
- Preset cache strategies
- Events cache control
- Groups cache control
- Live-directory cache control
- Profile-detail cache control
- Search-session cache control
- Education cache control
- Organization cache control
- Manual settings appropriate to Business
Business Widgets and Shortcodes
- All Standard widgets and shortcodes
- Member Directory shortcode
- Organization outputs
- My Profile output
- My Events output
- Education & Credits output
- Portal-aware placement
- Tier-aware documentation
Features That Require Developer
- Member profile editing
- Member-editable field picker
- Registration/application submission to MemberClicks
- API write enablement
- Write-readiness diagnostics
- Administrator approval queue
- Write audit records
- Native LearnDash completion bridge
- Native LearnPress completion bridge
- Native LifterLMS completion bridge
- Native Tutor LMS completion bridge
- Continuing-education write-back
- Lifecycle role automation
- Scheduled role reconciliation
- Incremental directory cursor
- Exponential retry queue
- Detailed directory health report
- Portal custom CSS
- JSON portal-configuration export
- Per-resource advanced cache durations
- Shortcode-level cache overrides
Who Should Choose Business?
Choose Business when:
- The website needs a searchable member directory.
- Members need a personal dashboard.
- The organization wants My Profile, My Events, and Education pages.
- Groups and member types must map to WordPress roles.
- Protected content varies by member category.
- A read-only portal is sufficient.
- Profile editing and API write-back are not required.
Recommended Screenshots
- Business feature overview
- Portal wizard with ten pages
- Directory grid and search
- Role mapping table
- Frontend dashboard
Alt text: “PI WP Suite Business member portal and directory features.”
Alt text: “Create ten MemberClicks member portal pages with the WordPress setup wizard.”
Alt text: “Searchable MemberClicks member directory in WordPress.”
Alt text: “Map discovered MemberClicks groups to WordPress roles.”
Use frontend-portal.svg for the initial illustration. Alt text: “Personal WordPress member dashboard connected to MC Professional.”
Business is the best fit for most associations because it combines secure identity with the portal, directory, roles, and member information people expect from a modern member website.
