Struggling to start and run your own membership site? Made several attempts but for some how you’re not able to start and grow your it all because you’re not able to make the technology work for you? If that is the case, you are not alone and you will love this post! Creating a membership site is possible on many platforms but it never seams to be simple and work as intended – until now. We have looked at the Wishlist Member Plugin for Wordpress and we are very impressed. The plugin is clearly a professional software package giving easy access to the membership features most membership sites will need. Further it is powered WordPress which is simply the most popular and user friendly publishing platform ever. This combination is worth investigating further if you’re planning to start a membership site.
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Wishlist Member Plugin will work smoothly on both newly created or existing blogs/websites running on WordPress. It integrates very well with WordPress to create a full featured membership site and then it also integrates with payment and auto responder vendors. This means that you, with minimal configuration, can build your list using popular services like aweber.com and charge for subscription to your membership site at sites like paypal.
The number of features included in Wishlist Member is surprising for a product at this price level. The support videos at their site really makes it obvious that this tool is easy to use and very powerful. Working with it didn’t disappoint us – it is that simple to use. Check out the videos here. Look for the videos to the right numbered 2-30. The features in this product include but are not limited to:
Member Dashboard
The plugin offers configuration pages that are very well organized and easy to use. You will ba able to get an overview fast and navigate to all the important settings fast.
Membership Level Options
Your membership site can have as many “levels” as you want. So if you want “Silver”, “Gold” and “Platinum”, you can! Now you can charge more for a higher level of access – all within the same blog.
Flexible Membership Options
WishList Member gives you the ability to create Free, Trial or Paid membership levels (and any combination of all three).
Total Content Protection
WishList Member gives you the ability to determine exactly what your members can access. You can even drill down and grant access to specific posts, pages, categories and comments for each membership level. The possibilities are endless!
Multi-Level Access
WishList Member can go beyond just a membership site as you can easily give your members access to multiple levels within your membership (this works well if you’d like to create a central download location).
Sequential Content Delivery
Depending on your setup, you may want to graduate your members from one level to the next. For example, members start at “Module 1? and after 30 days they are automatically upgraded to “Module 2?. That’s what the Sequential Content Delivery system is for.
Secure RSS feeds
Secure RSS feeds allow your members to view their membership material in their favorite RSS reader. But, it also gives you complete control – non-members can’t access the feed and if a person stops paying, their feed automatically stops working.
Subscription Length Control
With this feature you can control the length of time each member has access to your membership site. Now you can automatically expire a membership after 3 days, 7 days or whatever time period you want.
Shopping Cart Integration
WishList Member seamlessly integrates with the most popular shopping cart systems including PayPal, ClickBank, and many more. Plus, WishList Member now has total integration with Cydec and Infusion. The integration will make sure that payment starts on subscription and that access is closed down if payment stops. It is very simple to set up and the videos on their site will take you through every step.
Auto Responder Integration
Wishlist Member integrated with popular Auto Responders like Aweber.com and allows you to maintain a email list in parallel with your WordPress member site. This is important as a huge email list is know to be one of the most important elements of making money online. The plugin simply use a kind of email integration that makes it possible for fx. Aweber to receive the emails and send double pot in confirmation emails.
“Sneak Peak” Content Display
Protecting your content is extremely easy because everything after the “more” tag is automatically protected for members only. So an eye-grabbing post title, combined with a compelling opening paragraph is more than enough to wet the appetite of non-members!
Partial Content Display
Let’s say you want the majority of a post to be displayed for non-members except for one sentence. With the Partial Content Display feature you can hide that “secret sentence” so that it only displays the “secret sentence” for your members.
Custom Error Pages
When a person tries to access content they don’t have permission to view, they will be taken to an error page. Now you can determine what that page will be. This gives you the chance to encourage them to register or upgrade to a different membership level. You can choose from a dropdown the pages available in WordPress or specify an external url.
Login Redirection
If you would like to control the first page your members see when they login, now you can. The best part is, you can have a different redirection page for each membership level. It’s perfect for adding welcome messages, updates, news and so much more.
IP Login Protection
Really useful to avoid that one account to your member site is shared and used by many people. If you set it to 3 any user will only be able to log in from 3 different IPs.
With Wishlist Member, creating a membership site has never been easier or more affordable. See the videos and review the FAQ on the site to get started. The popularity of membership sites is steadily increasing. There’s really is no better time to get started with your own membership site.
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