How to Create a WordPress Membership Site
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I’ve been developing websites for many years, and I use WordPress as the backend for most of them. I’ve often thought about creating membership based websites for various informational and download products, but when looking for a solution that offered the straightforward functionality I was looking for, all of the plugins I had looked at fell short of my expectations.
Today, that may have all changed. During my daily journey on the web I came across a plugin called Your Members from Cambridge New Media Services. Here’s the description from the plugin’s page:
Allows you to set up a blog which accepts money in return for access to individual posts or general membership. Your Members is the Wordpress Membership Plugin designed and built to allow you to build membership sites quickly and easily.
It includes:
- Flexible Membership and subscription management
- Pay per Post (not to be confused with the other one)
- Authenticated Downloads
and loads of other features…
If you have visited the links above, you’ve already learned that this is a paid plugin. If you’re just learning that as you read this, well, now you know…it’s a paid plugin. Does that make it any less useful? Absolutely not! In fact, I think that’s a tell tale sign that it works, and that it can be flexible enough to help you earn a serious income from running a membership based WordPress installation.
Of course, you have to have some legitimate and worthy products or reasons for people to want to join, but that’s up to you. The technical challenge of how to offer those products can be achieved by using the Your Members WordPress plugin.
Hello Sir
I am looking for a plugin that can enable the download of files only when users are registered and logged in, do you know of something like that?
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I’m sorry I don’t. I’ll keep that in mind during my WordPress travels…
This one has a feature called “member only” downloads…
http://blue-anvil.com/archives/wordpress-download-monitor-plugin-2-wordpress-25-ready
Wow!
Thanks, i will check asap that Blue-Anvil plugin
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That’s exactly what I’m looking for. Great plug-in, thx for discovery
I tried using a few free plugins, but I kept having problems. Its not that I am not technically savvy, I know a lot about networking and software, I just do not know anything about php. And this was my problem. Whenever the plugin I was using developed a problem I had to rely on the person or people who released it to help. As it was a free plugin that left me with users ready to signup, no working membership site and waiting for free support for a free plugin.
I looked everywhere for a wordpress membership plugin that would take subscriptions via paypal and would allow me to charge on a subscription basis for each access level I wanted to set up. Eventually I have up and bought one. It was only €19.99 for a whole year and that included support. It is called wp-member and I have found it really easy and straight forward to use. I contacted their support when I had a quick question and found that they have online support! I can not shout about this membership / payment plugin enough.
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…looks like we’ve all learned about another great WP Membership plugin, and from my initial browsing, it seems the price and support level is pretty good:)
I didnt even pay full price! I found a coupon for it on a discount forum and got 25% off the total (including support).
Heres the details from the discount forum. I tried using the code again today and it still seems to be working. I dont know if it expires.
Discount coupon code: promo25
http://www.wp-Member.com
I think that WP lost its path as a blogging platform, nothing more then that. It’s a simple platform to run a blog.
ill give it a try, looks like a great plugin for 50$.