how to build a members website

Various jargon like Flash, PSD, and HTML go into the making of membership websites for WordPress. While you may not have to learn all these in detail, you will still need to have basic knowledge of web designing to manipulate your way through these web design templates. The best membership site is one that suits your needs, requirements, and unique specifications. (more…)

It is not uncommon to find that WordPress is the favourite content management system used on the internet today. It is especially a favourite amongst bloggers because of the simplistic features, frequent updates and the extensive customizability features that allows you to create the perfect blog or website. In addition to all the many plus features is the easy way to create subscription WordPress sites.

A major advantage of WordPress sites is that you are not limited to RSS feed subscriptions only! There is an array of options available to suit the most discriminating webmaster’s requirements.

In order to allow for paid subscriptions on your WordPress site you can make use of  WP-Member, our premium Membership Plugin. wp-member is a first-class plug-in that will change your single level subscription WordPress site into a distinguished full multilevel membership site.

The best part of WP-Member is that it is super easy to use and you do not need any prior WordPress or coding or configuration knowledge.  You only need to select the membership level for posts, categories and pages and WP-Member will by design deal with access rights, payments, and subscriptions of members.

It would be wrong not to recognize RSS as the most popular option, and is commonly found on almost all blogs, websites, and especially media related websites on the internet. What is significant with subscription WordPress sites is that you are not limited to only the blogs on a website but members can subscribe to blogs or sites by using tags or even different categories.

You can make use of two easy ways. Permalinks are the easiest way to do this. It is as simple as adding “add/feed” at the end of an URL to get a feed. In the event where Permalinks are not made possible, it is just as simple. Then you only need to add “&feed=rss2” to the URL.

This is what makes creating subscription to WordPress so astonishing. You can turn almost any content into feeds! All you need to do is to affix the feed value to the applicable URL.

The following tips will assist you to create subscription WordPress sites easy and uncomplicated as well as customized to your needs and requirements.

1. You can create subscription options on a WordPress site or blog where members can subscribe to specific entries on a blog of a specific category or on receiving all the comments that is posted.
   Subscribing to a specific blog entry or comment is helpful if your members only want to follow a specific discussion or a certain topic. This way they do not need to read all the entries in order to find the ones they are interested in.
   Members or even visitors can have the option to subscribe to receive notification of all the comments posted on the site.
2. You can create subscription to WordPress sites for email notifications and updates. This is the most number one choice for most internet users. Make sure your site offers users the option to select a daily or at least a weekly email update.
   Email notifications are preferred above RSS feed readers because it is often found that these RSS readers are crammed full with other sites and this hinder the effectiveness.
3. An option that will surely put your site a cut above the rest and make it appear very impressive is when you create a subscription WordPress page where members can choose the various products or options regarding their subscription.
   This is the ideal place to provide options such as daily or weekly information email notifications, notifications on special offers, or notice on fresh comment or content. Make sure that the subscription plug-in is properly installed and ensure it works properly.
   The layout of the subscription page is also very important. It must be appealing, easy to understand and straightforward to make the selection options your readers would want to use.

To create subscription WordPress pages is not something you do quickly to get it up and running as soon as possible. The subscription page on your blog or site portrays in a large way the overall impression you will leave with visitors and members.

Therefore it is important to spend enough effort to create subscription WordPress pages that impress and are effective in all aspects.

Our status as the number one WordPress Membership Plugin has enabled us to create multiple customized versions of our WordPress Membership Plugin. Two of these WordPress Membership Plugin versions have been trialed and are due to be released within the next two months.

Our ability to expand and develop new versions of our WordPress Membership Plugin is only made possible by our customers support for our range of products. Everytime we release a new version of our WordPress Membership Plugin, we will first offer it as a free upgrade to our existing customers.

Our new WordPress Membership Plugin feedback system has allowed us to gather users first hand experiences of using our WordPress Membership Plugin. This will be continued and expanded to ensure we are developing the right features for our customers, both current and future.

In short, if you want the best WordPress Membership Plugin, you have come to the right place.