wp-Member Plugin in New Membership Blogging Book
Late in 2008 we were interviewed by Aldian Prakoso who was writing a book about monetizing a membership site easily using wordpress.
We talked about the uses of membership systems, how wp-member works, why we use membership systems as a business model, how we manage content on large numbers of blogs and how we target and drive traffic to our sites.
Here’s a quick teaser for you:
Why do you choose membership site as your business model?The need arose from having content that needed to be distributed to separate levels of members as well as the need for a management system that would integrate user subscriptions and content management. To create a membership site, you really need good unique content so that users will signup. We designed wp-Member so that it would be almost a bare bones system giving the user the flexibility to streamline and suit almost every user management as well as content distribution needs.
Almost every large site develops a need to manage their users and have multiple membership levels, both paid and free. Another advantage to our membership system is that you can distribute seperate posts and pages to each membership level. This allows sites to have their advert banners within free members posts and pages, while paying members get to see the advert free posts and pages.
The book “MantraUANG Dari WordPress Blog” is written in indonesian and is sceduled to be released on Feb 25th 2009 in Indonesia. The author, Aldian Prakoso is currently holding seminars during the leadup to the release of his book. You can find full details here.
Hi,
Just want to know whether this can be done using Wp Member plugin:
Is there a way where we can allow only members to see the post, but still allow anyone to posts comments on that post?
Hello, this is not possible. If a user can not see a post but can leave comments, how will they know what they are commenting on?
Love what i see so far …
Question- do i have the option to create a free trial for a certain length of time – then force them to subscribe to see blog content?
How flexible is the free trial in terms of restrictions (number of logins, time, etc?)
Hello, yes, you can create trial membership levels and once the trial ends, the user will be forced to create a subscription if they want to continue to access your website. Trial accounts can also have access to selected content so that they do not have full access to the same content a full member would have.
I’ve been reading a few posts and really and enjoy your writing. I’m just starting up my own blog and only hope that I can write as well and give the reader so much insight.
Does this plug-in support affiliate links (ie; clickbank etc)? and can I have a front page and block all content on the “inside” with this plug in?
Hello, we are working on a clickbank module. Clickbank operates differently to normal payment gateways so we may make a separate plugin for clickbank. You can have all of the usual settings you have with wordpress, wp-member will protect your posts or pages. You could block all content as standard and request a user logs in or registers before they can see any content at all, or you can restrict content item by item creating a unique look for each membership level.
If there is anything further that we can assist you with, please contact us via our customer services team linked in the sidebar and on our support page.
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cool, i will bookmark it,
hello, thank you, i will bookmark it
Very interesting! Thanks!
Oh hell yeah, this is great.
Hello to everyone at http://wp-member.com/,
It’s my privilege to interview you
And your wp-Member plugin is definitely one of the necessary tools to monetize WordPress by creating an online store or membership site!