Selling Pay Per View content online is very profitable. It allows your customer to access content for a short period of  time. The good thing about Pay Per View content is you don’t have to worry about the security of the product as you are not giving away any product. The content is on your site. You are just giving certain content access to your customers temporarily once they pay for your content.

So how does Pay Per View Content work?

A customer lands on your product page where you have the pay per view content (e.g. videos). The customer chooses one and pay for it. After the payment he/she gets redirected to your site and can access the video.

In this tutorial I’m going to show how you can setup the pay per view content with WP eStore, a very popular WordPress shopping cart plugin.

Configuring Pay Per View Content with eStore

1. First we are going to create a normal HTML page with a video in it. We want our customers to come back to this page once they successfully pay for the video. Sometimes It’s really easy to navigate to a WordPress page by clicking on different links on your site. But we don’t want anyone to discover this page. That’s why I just created this static HTML page and uploaded to my server.

page containing the video

2. Now let’s configure a product which will be used to charge payments from the customers for this video. So click on Add/Edit Products under eStore menu on your WordPress Dashboard.

eStore Add/edit Products

3.  This is how the Add/Edit Products menu looks like -

Add/Edit Products Menu

4. You need to enter a name and price for the product (e.g. video)

Add/Edit Products - Name & Price

5.  Now go to the Digital Content Details section. In the Digital Product URL field you need to enter the URL of the page where you have the video. Check the Pay Per View Content option (that way the plugin will know what type of product this is).

Digital Content Details Section

Click Save Product at the bottom of the page to save the product.

6. After you save the product, it will be assigned with an unique product ID which you can see at the top of the page. You will need the product ID to use within the shortcode later.

Product ID

7. To find the product ID of any product you have configured so far you can go to eStore->Manage Products.

eStore manage products

8. Now that we have configured one product we are going to create a page and place an Add to Cart button on it. We need to use the following two shortcodes on that page -

The first one creates an Add to Cart button for the product ID – 33 ( the one we just configured) and the second one display the items in the shopping cart once the Add to Cart button has been clicked.

This a sample Test Product page -

Sample Test Product page

9. Once we publish the page we can see an Add to Cart button on it.

Test Product page (published)

10. Now Let’s create a Thank You page where your user will be redirected to once they make a successful payment. You can place the following shortcode on this page if you want to deliver the URL of the video page to your customer via Thank You page.

Don’t worry the page URL will be encrypted so the customers won’t know know the actual URL of the page.

This is a sample Thank You page -

If you publish the page you won’t see any page link. The page link will be only visible after anyone purchases the product.

11. Now Let’s go to settings (under eStore->Settings).

12.  There are many things that you can customize in the General settings. I’m just going through the basic settings. The first thing you need to do is specify the URL of the Thank You page in the Return URL field. It will allow the customer to be redirected to the Thank You page after making a successful payment.

13. Make sure to keep the following checkboxes checked -

a) Use Automatic Post Payment Processing – Which allows the plugin to do post payment processing (e.g. sending out email to the buyer with the encrypted video page link).

b) Use Automatic Customer Record Removal – The plugin will delete the customer record from the database if refunded.

c) Enable Transaction Result Display – Allows you to display the encrypted page link on the Thank You page after a successful payment.

14.Once you are done click Update Options at the bottom of the page.

15. Now go to the Payment Gateway Settings tab at the very top of the page

16. If you want to display the encrypted video page link on the Thank You page you need to also specify the PDT Identity Token under the PayPal Settings. (please click here to learn how to retrieve the PDT Identity Token from your PayPal account)

Click Update option at the bottom to save the settings.

17. Now that we have configured the settings we can now go back to the Test Product page to do a test purchase and see how everything goes. First click on the Add to Cart button. You will see that one item has been added to the shopping cart. You can now click the Checkout With PayPal button to proceed to the PayPal payment page.

pay per view content checkout

18. After the payment your customers will be redirected to the Thank You page where they will be able to click on the encrypted page link to go to the video page. The seller and buyer will also receive separate emails containing the transaction details.

Thank You page with encrypted link

19. Once the customers click on the link they will be redirected to the video page.

Video page after the transaction

As you can see that the plugin has masked the actual URL of the page so that the customers don’t know the URL of the page. Even if the customers copy the mask URL for later use they won’t be able to view it until they pay for it again.

Want to Try eStore?

If you are interested in setting up your site with pay per view video you can get eStore from here

• WP eStore

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Once you setup a new website with WordPress the first thing you want to do is sell product. In fact there are many WordPress shopping carts out there. One of them which I personally use is WP eStore. One thing I like the most about eStore is it’s usability. It is so well designed that the users will never get confused with settings. And even if you face any problem you can post your issue on the plugin support forum and are expected to get a reply within 24 hours – which I hardly see anywhere else.

So How does eStore work?

eStore allows you to sell both digital and tangible products. If you are selling digital product (e.g. ebook, mp3 etc), every time a customer purchases your product eStore will encrypt the download link and send it out via email (Which makes it a really powerful shopping cart plugin). It means your actual product URL never gets revealed to the customer.

What happens if the customer knows the actual product URL?

This is a big security issue to your product as well as your business. If the customers knows the product download link he/she can just post it on a forum and other people won’t need to purchase your product anymore, they can just easily download the product from the forum.

How do I configure eStore?

1. Let’s get to the main point now i.e. setting up eStore. It’s fairly easy. Once you install the plugin go to the eStore menu under the WordPress Dashboard and click Add/Edit Products.

eStore menu

2. Every time you want to configure a new product you can do it from the Add/Edit Products menu. This is how the Add/Edit Products menu looks like -

Add/Edit Products menu

3.  First You need to enter a name and price for the product.

Product Details

4. Now Click on the Digital Content Detials Section. If it’s a digital product you need to enter the actual URL of the file in the Digital Product URL field. Make sure that the Downloadable checkbox is checked (Then the product will be offered to the customer as an anonymous download).

Digital Content Details Section

5. Click Save Product to save the newly configured product.

Product save

6. Once you save the product an unique ID will be assigned to the product ( you will need it later to use inside the shortcode).

Product ID

You can always find the ID of a product from eStore->Manage Products menu.

eStore manage products

7. Now that we have configured one product we are going to create an Add to Cart button for it. First create a page and insert the following two shortcodes -

The first one will be replaced by an Add to Cart button when you publish the page and the second one will show the items in the cart when someone clicks the Add to Cart button.

Test Product Page

8. Once you publish the page you will see something like the following:

Test Product Published Page

9. Now Let’s create a Thank You page where your user will be redirected to once they make a successful payment. You can place the following shortcode on this page if you want to deliver the digital download to your customer via Thank You page.

This is a sample Thank You page -

Sample Thank You page

If you publish the page you won’t see any download link. The download link will be only visible after anyone purchases the product.

10. Now Let’s go to settings (under eStore->Settings).

eStore settings

11.  There are many things that you can customize in the General settings. I’m just going through the basic settings. The first thing you need to do is specify the URL of the Thank You page in the Return URL field. It will allow the customer to be redirected to the Thank You page after making a successful payment.

eStore general settings return URL

12.You can configure the global Shipping & Tax Related Settings for all the tangible products.For example – if you specify 5 in the Base Shipping cost it will add $5 to the original price of the tangible product (during checkout). You can also specify a tax rate if needed.

Tax Related general Settings

13. Make sure to keep the following checkboxes checked -

a) Use Automatic Post Payment Processing – Which allows the plugin to do post payment processing (e.g. sending out email to the buyer with the encrypted download link).

b) Use Automatic Customer Record Removal – The plugin will delete the customer record from the database if refunded.

c) Enable Transaction Result Display – Allows you to display the encrypted download link on the Thank You page after a successful payment.

Post payment processing settings

14.Once you are done click Update Options at the bottom of the page.

Save settings

15. Now go to the Payment Gateway Settings tab at the very top of the page

Payment Gateway Settings

16. If you want to display the download link on the Thank You page you need to also specify the PDT Identity Token under the PayPal Settings. (please click here to learn how to retrieve the PDT Identity Token from your PayPal account)

PayPal settings

Click Update option at the bottom to save the settings.

17. At this point we have configured the basic settings to sell the product – Test Product. Let’s go back to the Test Product page we created earlier. If you click on the Add to Cart button you will be able to see that one item has been added to the shopping cart. Click Check out with PayPal to proceed to PayPal Payment page.

Add to cart - digital product

18. Once you made the payment you will be redirected to the Thank You page and the encrypted download link of the Product will be delivered to you.

Thank You page with download link

The buyer and seller will also receive separate notification emails.

What if it’s a tangible product?

1. Say, we want to configure the Test Product as a tangible product. The first thing we are going to do is change it’s price to $10.00 (as you really can’t add shipping and tax on $.01 product). Now let’s move to the Digital Content Details Section. Before we had a download URL in the Digital Product URL field. Now we will keep this field empty.

(Please note that only for tutorial purpose I’m editing the product to make it tangible. In your case you don’t need to do that. You can create as many new products (both digital and tangible) as you want.)

2. We also have a product specific Shipping & Tax settings section. You can specify a shipping cost for this item in the Item Shipping Cost field. If you want to override the Global Tax settings (we configured earlier in the General Settings) you can specify a different item specific tax. Otherwise leave the field empty.

Shipping & Tax Settings - Product Specific

Click Save Product at the bottom to save the product settings.

3. Now if you go back to the Test Product Page and click on the Add to Cart button you will see that a shipping ( base shipping: $5 + item specific shipping: $10) of $15 and Tax (10% of $10) of $1 have been added to the cart. You can now checkout the same way you did before.

Add to cart - Tangible Product

This time after you make a payment the Thank You page will not display any download link. The buyer and seller will receive separate emails regarding the confirmation of the order.

Nice and simple! you can setup everything in 5 minutes.

Want to try eStore?

If are interested to discover the power of this shopping cart please check it out here -

• WP eStore

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What comes into your mind when you think of increasing your website conversion rate? Probably a few Google searches and you will find out plenty of tips from thousands of websites out there. You have to assume that those tips will be effective for your website. But you don’t know for sure as you can’t really see what the visitors are doing on your site.

Anyway, as I said before that many people have already researched on increasing conversion rate I’m not going to exaggerate it anymore or add some other additional tips. Something different which you don’t have to assume. You will experience it by yourself.

So What is it?

Just a single word – ClickTale

What is ClickTale?

ClickTale is a website tool that allows you to optimize your website by monitoring your visitors.

What does ClickTale offer?

ClickTale comes with various features. Let’s have a look at them so you know how they work.

1. Visitor Recordings

ClickTale records each and every move of a particular visitor. You can see what actually your visitors see, where they click on your website. So you can easily figure out which section of a page/post your visitor is spending time on, which product catches their attention but they don’t purchase as they are not convinced enough (i.e. you need to improve your sales page). If you are selling product and trying to increase the conversion rate I think this is the best approach i.e. seeing your site through the eye of visitors.

2. Real Time Monitor

Monitor where your visitors are coming from and what they are doing including which pages they recently visited. It is really effective for landing page optimization. As you change your content you can see how they react to the changes you made to the site. You can also see which marketing campaigns are bringing you targeted traffic.

3. Campaign Tracking

With campaign tracking you can easily monitor the behavior of your subscribers i.e. everything your subscribers do after they follow the link to your marketing campaign. You can see which communications are generating the most conversions, at which point you are losing the customers.

So what do you think? Is it worth a try? If you really care about your business I think it will definitely help you increase the conversion because you know exactly what to do and where.

Why not ClickTale then?

Let’s get started with ClickTale here

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Email sent! Please check your inbox for the download link.

Squeeze page is a page where a visitor lands and is offered to receive free products by entering his/her name, email address. The sole purpose of squeeze page is to capture the visitor’s email address for follow-up email marketing. These days people mostly use Aweber, MailChimp, GetResponse auto-responder services for their email marking campaign. But do you know that the flexible WP eStore integration with these auto-responders can make your life even easier?

How does eStore come into this?

No matter what auto-responder you are using, first you need to capture the visitor’s email address by offering free products. Once the email has been captured your auto-responder will do the rest i.e. sending out different offers to that email time to time as you have set it up in that campaign. But you want to make sure the download link doesn’t get revealed  to the visitor once he/she signs up through squeeze page. That’s where eStore comes in handy.

What happens when your product download links are not secure

1. Someone will sign up and share the links to different file sharing websites, forums etc.

2. If people can find out your product links on different forums they don’t need to sign up through your squeeze page anymore.

3. You will be loosing a significant amount of customers.

4. Your online business will be in danger.

That’s why it’s really important to keep your files safe.

How do you configure the squeeze page options in eStore?

After you install eStore go to eStore->Settings from the Dashboard.

eStore Settings

There is an Autoresponder Settings tab. Clicking on that will open the Autoresponder Menu. You can configure your auto-responder related options here.

eStore Autoresponder menu

After you configure everything, save the settings by clicking on the Update button at the bottom.

Now we want to create a product which we want to deliver via email once someone signs up through sqeeze page.

Let’s go to eStore->Add/Edit Products from the Dashboard.

eStore Add/Edit

You will see the eStore Add/Edit Product Menu.

eStore Add/Edit Menu

Simply enter a name for the product.

eStore Add name

Now let’s move to the Digital Content Details section. Here you need to enter the actual download link for the product. For example- I’ve an ebook whose download link is – http://www.example.com/ebook.pdf

eStore Digital Content Details section

Make sure that the Downloadable checkbox is checked so the plugin knows that this product will be offered as an encrypted download link i.e. the person who will receive this link will not know the actual URL of this file).

In case you want to add the customers of a product to a specific auto-responder list, there is also a Autoresponder Settings section. This is really useful when you have multiple products that you want to configure with different lists. If you want to add all the customers to the same list you can leave this field empty and the plugin will add them based on what you’ve specified in the Autoresponder Settings.

eStore product specific autoresponder settings

Now save the product by clicking Save Product at the bottom of the page.

At this point you are ready to go. Now all you need to do is just use the following shortcode on a WordPress post/page and the plugin will automatically create a squeeze page for that product.

Where 1 is the ID of the product we just created ( you can find the ID of all the products from the eStore->Manage Products menu).

It will create a normal sqeeze page like the following -

You can also use the ajax (the page will not refresh after clicking the download button) version of the squeeze page. You need to use the following shortcode to generate the ajax squeeze page -

Where 1 is the ID of the product we just created.

Ajax Squeeze page Demo:

Please feel free to enter your name and email to see how the ajax squeeze page works ( Don’t worry I haven’t configured this product with any auto-responder. This is just for the tutorial)

Once your visitor signs up for the product he/she will receive an email with the encrypted download link of the product you created earlier. The visitor will also be added to the auto-responder list you have configured.

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If you are interested in setting up a secure squeeze page, eStore might be a good choice for you. You can get the plugin from here -

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Lightbox is becoming a very popular topic for displaying video or image in overlay on your site. For a long time I’ve been searching for an ultimate Lightbox solution which will allow me to display any video or image in overlay. Lately I just discovered a WordPress Video Lightbox plugin which does exactly what every WordPress user wants, for example – Displaying Youtube, Vimeo video with lightbox effect, Displaying image with lightbox effect, Displaying popular self hosted video formats – flash, mp4, mov etc.

How the plugin works?

There are shortcodes available to display different types of videos and images. All you need to do is just copy the shortcode and paste it on a post/page. You can trigger the pop up effect either from an anchor text or an embedded image on a post/page. Please have a look at the following example so you know what I’m talking about -

Say, I want to display a Youtube video with lightbox effect. I can use two shortcodes here. One will pop up the video when someone clicks on a text and another will pop up the video when someone clicks on an image.

Click here to open the video

You can do the same thing with other video formats as well.

Shortcode Inserter

WP Lightbox Ultimate is an easy to use plugin which also gives you the flexibility of using a shortcode inserter ( a tiny square box sticked to the visual editor of your page/post). With a single click you can enter any shortcode on a post/page. So you don’t have to manually copy and paste a specific shortcode.

Overlay Display Style

Different styles are available for overlay display. You can use PrettyPhoto, Fancybox, Colorbox etc.

Click here to open the video with PrettyPhoto style

Click here to open the video with Fancybox style

Click here to open the video with Colorbox style

Why is it a must have plugin?

1. It allows you to create professional sales page by displaying overlay videos.

- Increases you conversion rate

2. Really effective for a video membership site.

3. You can easily promote your products through video.

4. Allows you to boost your Email Marketing campaign.

Want to Try the plugin?

You can get the plugin from here

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Nowadays, everybody likes to shop online. You can get pretty much everything just with a few clicks on your computer. It’s really comfortable for the customers which is why this is also a lucrative business for the sellers.

Selling mp3 is a good option for you if you are planning to launch an online mp3 store. One good advantage of this is it’s a digital product. As soon as the users purchase mp3s they get the download links. So you don’t have to worry about shipping or delivering the products to the customers.Recently, after some research on different WordPress shopping cart plugins I found a quick way to setup a mp3 store. Basically, it’s a tutorial on setting up a mp3 store on a WordPress site. You need to get the following WordPress plugins for this tutorial-

Required Plugins

• WP eStore – It allows you to sell digital products securely from your website.
• Audio Player – A mp3 player which you can use to play the sample mp3s.
• Extra eStore Shortcodes – A free plugin which enhances the features of eStore e.g. different fancy displays of products.

Once you upload and install all the plugins please follow the step by step instructions below:

1.  Go to Categories under eStore.

2. This is how the category menu looks like:

3. Enter a name in the Category Name field e.g. My_Mp3_1. Now click on the Save Category button to create the category.

4. You should be able to see a Category ID for the category you just created at the bottom. Copy this ID to a notepad, in case you forget (you can always come back to Categories to have a look at the ID though). You will have to use this ID in the shortcode later.

5. Now go to Add/Edit Products under eStore.

6. We are going to add a product here (by entering name, price, download link etc.). The Add/Edit Products menu will look like this-

7. First, you need to enter the name and price of the mp3. For example:

Product Name: On_the_wing-Owl_City

Product Price: 1.50 (Please don’t use any currency symbol here. You can specify it in the General Settings of the plugin. Also make sure that you enter the price to two decimal places e.g. 1.00 , 3.00 )

8. Before you go to the next step you might want to upload a demo version of the actual mp3 file (Probably a duration of 10-15 second. It’s totally up to you) . So please open your FTP client (I personally use FileZilla) and connect to the server. You can also use the WordPress Media Uploader to upload the file but I’d recommend you to have a dedicated folder for the demo mp3s. This way it will be easier for you to manage the files later. Copy the URL of the demo mp3 to a notepad for now.

9. Now You can go to the Additional Product Details section. There is a field named Product Description where you need to enter the following shortcode:

Replace the URL with the URL of the demo mp3 you just uploaded. For example :

You can see how the Product Description field looks like:

10. Now please move to the Thumbnail Image URL field Where you need to specify a thumbnail image URL for the mp3. A thumbnail of 150×150 pixels would be nice for the display. For example:

11. In the Product Category field, don’t forget to check the box next to the category (In this case, it’s My_Mp3_1) this product belongs to.

12. There is also a field name Button Image URL where you can specify an Add to Cart type button image.

for example:

You can access some button images from the images directory of the eStore which will be at -

13. Now please go to the Additional Product Details section. You can upload the full version of the mp3 if you haven’t uploaded it yet. Copy the URL of the uploaded file and paste in the Digital Product URL field. For example:

http://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/mp3/on-the-wing.mp3

You need to also check the Downloadable box which will allows the plugin to deliver the mp3 in an encrypted download link. It means the customers won’t know the actual URL of the mp3 while they download.

14. Click the Save Product button at the bottom of the page to save the product details.

You will see a yellow message at the top saying that a product has been added. This way you can add as many products as you want. I added four products for this tutorial. If you are done with configuring the products you can now move to the next step where I will show how you can display the products on a page/post.

15. Please create a new post/page and place the following shortcode on that page -

Where id is the Category ID (in this case we are using the ID of My_Mp3_1 category which is 1) and style is the fancy display number (here we are going to show the products using fancy display 1)

16. Now place the following shortcode after that -

This shortcode will show the items in the cart when added (You can also place the widget named WP Cart for Digital Products on the sidebar to display the shopping cart. You can find it in the Widgets menu)

Now if you view the page you will see all the mp3s (from category My_Mp3_1) in the following style -

Captains_and_cruise_ships-Owl_city

Price: $1.50

Fireflies-Owl_City

Price: $1.50

On_the_wing-owl_city

Price: $1.50

Whats_Left_Of_Me-Nick_Lachey

Price: $1.50

If you are interested please get the following WordPress plugins from here -

• WP eStore
• Audio Player
• Extra eStore Shortcodes

Please leave a comment if you have any suggestions.

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If you have read my other post on how to turn your wordpress site into a digital photo store you should already know how to integrate Nextgen gallery plugin with eStore to sell photos from your blog. Nextgen gallery plugin allows you to show all the photos in a nice grid view on a page or post. But you just don’t want to create a photo gallery for other people to view. You also want to sell the photos. That is why you need to have a shopping cart plugin like eStore who offers integration with nextgen gallery plugin.

From my experience, sometimes I’ve heard users having trouble with integration. It’s fairly easy if you follow the detailed documentation.

Most of the time the issue was -

1. Rendering of template gallery-wp-eStore.php failed.

2. gallery is not loading on the page or post.

And the reasons for this issue -

1. In nextgen gallery and eStore integration we need to upload a eStore template file in the “view” directory of nextgen gallery plugin which is not there.

2. After you update a new version of nextgen gallery plugin you need to put that tempalte file back to the “view” directory again.

3. Typing mistake in the shortcode or using wrong shortcode for showing gallery.

Once you successfully integrate nextgen gallery with eStore you will be able to show “Add to Cart” button bellow each image which will look similar like below -

But what if you want to show the gallery in a nicer way? you can’t get anything better than the above display with this integration as nextgen gallery and eStore is two different plugins and eStore can’t change the way nextgen gallery displays the gallery. Well, we can make eStore alone display the images in a fancier way. Lets have a look at the following product display -

Nature Image1

Price: $9.99

Nature Image2

Price: $8.99

Nature Image3

Price: $7.95

Nature Image4

Price: $10.78

Nature Image5

Price: $12.56

Nature Image6

Price: $13.44

You can show the above image display using the fancy6 shortcode of eStore which is nicer than the previous display with nextgen gallery plugin. Now if you can show the photo products in a beautiful grid view then why wouldn’t you use only one plugin? you won’t have to bother about any integration and also you will get a good display with payment button.

How to Implement the fancy display

1. First, upload and install eStore plugin.

2. Now configure the basic settings of eStore (On your dashboard go to eStore->Settings)

4. Go to “categories” under eStore and create a new category. Remember the ID of the category you just created.

4. Go to “Add/Edit product” under eStore and enter all the product details. Save the product. In this way create as many products you want. Dont forget to enter a Thmbnail image URL for the product (this thumbnail will be shown with each product). Also you need check the Product Category while creating each product ( which category you want to include this product to).

5. Now create a post or page and use the following shortcode for showing products from a particular category with fancy6-

Where id=The ID of the category you created before, style=The fancy display type

So the above shortcode will show all the products from category id 1 with fancy display 6

You also need to place the following shortcode on this page to show the items in the cart once Add to Cart button is clicked-

Please note that you will need the free extra shortcode plugin to use this fancy display( which is used with eStore plugin to enhance the different fancy displays). You can get both the plugins from here:

• WP eStore
• eStore extra shortcode

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An easy way to increase your website revenue can be creating a WordPress membership site. The term “creating a WordPress membership site” is a little bit different than just having a WordPress site and start selling product. In this case, you setup a website with a membership system i.e. only members will be able to access some specific content and you can charge them money for accessing the content. So, how’d you protect the content? A WordPress membership plugin allows you to protect the content of your WordPress blog which you don’t want any anonymous visitor to access directly.

There are many WordPress membership plugins but I found three plugins which are well-known for creating a good membership site. WP eMember, Magic Member and WishList Member. All of them have at least the features which an ideal membership plugin must have. I’ve created a comparison list below with the additional features every plugin has to help you choose the right plugin for you.

Number of membership levels you can create –

eMember                 Magic Member                 WishList Member

Unlimited                         Unlimited                           Unlimited

Control the subscription length of different membership levels –

eMember              Magic Member                 WishList Member

Yes                                       Yes                                    Yes

Protect specific content (e.g. posts, pages, categories, comments) based on the membership levels

eMember                Magic Member                 WishList Member

Yes                                       Yes                                       Yes

Flexible membership options (allows you to create free, trial an paid membership)

eMember               Magic Member                 WishList Member

Yes                                       Yes                                       Yes

Sequential Content Delivery system (allows you to specify when a member will be automatically upgraded to another membership level and can access new content)

eMember              Magic Member                 WishList Member

Yes                                       Yes                                        Yes

Login Redirection (redirect members to different pages after they log in based on their membership levels )

eMember                   Magic Member                 WishList Member

Yes                                       Yes                                        Yes

Control access to different content (specify which membership level will be able to access which content )

WP eMember                Magic Member                 WishList Member

Yes                                       Yes                                        Yes

Teaser content display ( allows you to show the partial content of a page or post  to the visitors )

eMember               Magic Member                 WishList Member

Yes                                       Yes                                        Yes

Autoresponder integration -

eMember                Magic Member                       WishList Member

Yes                                       Yes                                                  Yes

Aweber                              AWeber                                         Aweber

GetResponse                     GetResponse                             AutoResponse Plus

MailChimp                        MailChimp

Payment integration-

Magic Member                       WishList Member                              eMember

Yes                                                   Yes                                                         Yes

PayPal Standard                        Paypal                                                   Paypal

PayPal Pro                                  1shoppingcart                                    WP eStore

2CheckOut                                   ClickBank

CCBill                                             QuickPayPro

Authorize.net                           Red Oak Cart

ClickBank                                    Premium WebCart

WorldPay                                    InfusionSoft

Epoch

Manual Pay

Additional features of Magic member

• Pay Per Post Access: It allows your free members to purchase content (e.g. article) on a per post basis.

• Custom Error Pages: It allows you to create custom error page to change the look of your membership site.

• Secure RSS Tokens: It allows only your members to add the content to their RSS Reader. You don’t need to worry about any non-member accessing it.

• Download Manager: It allows your members to download the content (which they have access to based on their membership levels).

• Simple Press Forum Integration: Magic member allows your Simple Press forum to turn into a paid subscription forum with a page template.

• Multi Language Support: You can use different languages with Magic member plugin.

• Custom Widgets: You can use different ready widgets e.g. Login, Register, Text and Status Widgets.

Additional features of Wishlist Member

• Custom error page: You can redirect the non-members to an error pages while they try to access members’ content.

• Registration Redirect: Once anyone registers as a new member you can redirect them to another page where there will be instructions for them on how to get started.

• Unsubscribe Page: If anyone cancels the membership you can redirect him/her to an unsubscribe page.

• Pending Period And Secure RSS Key: You can have your members to go into a pending period to identify them and verify if they are paid members whereas Secure RSS key allows your members to read the content in their RSS Reader based on what they have paid for.

• Private Tag Protection: It allows you protect your content within the members.

• IP Login Protection: You can specify how many IP’s a member can use a day to access your content ( this is to prevent a member to share their login details with someone else).

• Importing And Exporting Members: You can easily import or export a large number of people.

• Custom registration page: It allows you to customize the registration page by adding html above or below the registration form.

• Email Broadcast: You can easily send email broadcast to your members.

• Membership Blacklist: If any member is causing problem you can blacklist them to prevent from signing up for your site ever again.

Additional features of eMember

• Secure RSS feeds: It allows your members to view the content in the RSS Reader.

• IP Login Restriction: You can specify the number of login attempts from different IP’s with the same member account.

• Domain Level Lockdown: It allows you to prevent visitors from viewing your site content (the site won’t load until they log in).

• One time payment membership option: You can setup a once off payment system where the members will be able to access the content for a specific duration (e,g. lifetime) for one payment.

• Customizable source code: You can make customizations to the code.

• Bookmarking feature: It allows your members to bookmark any page or post for viewing later .

• Flexible membership login: You can place the membership login at any page, post or sidebar.

• Usability with theme: It is compatible with any properly coded (valid xHTML code) theme.

• Integration : It is pre-integrated with WP eStore shopping cart and WP Affiliate Platform plugin.

Support and Upgrade:

Technical support for customers-

eMember                                        Magic Member                       WishList Member

Yes                                                           Yes                                                   Yes

Cost:       Free (Lifetime)             Free( unspecified)                      Free(1 Year)

Days:       Everyday                     Monday – Sunday                   Monday – Sunday

24 hours                                        9 A.M. – 5 P.M. (EST)               9 A.M. – 5 P.M. (EST)

Plugin upgrade for customers-

eMember                        Magic Member                       WishList Member

Yes                                              Yes                                                 Yes

Free( Lifetime)                    Free (1 year)                            Free (1 year)

Plugin price- eMember                Magic Member             WishList Member

Single-site License:    $49.95                            $97                                   $97

3-site License     :                                                    $197

Multi-site License:      $49.95                            $297                                $297

All of them are good membership plugins and have their own unique features but you have to choose the one which suits you the most. If you are interested here are the links to the membership plugins-

• WishList Member
• Magic Member
• WP eMember

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Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest way to make money online from your blog. But once you sign up to be the affiliate of so many websites and want to promote their products from your blog, it’s hard to manage all the affiliate links sometimes. Every time you create a new post/page you need to manually enter the affiliate URL for all the keywords which is tiresome. That’s when a plugin which will be able to manage all the affiliate links comes in handy.

Affiliate Link Manager, a revolutionary WordPress plugin can be a good choice to make your life easier in affiliate marketing. It allows you to convert the specific keywords in your blog post/page into the affiliate links automatically. So you don’t have to worry about manually creating any affiliate link for a new post/page. Let’s have a quick look at the main features of this plugin to make it clear.

Automatic Keyword Conversion

Set the keywords for affiliate links and the plugin will search for those keywords in any page/post and convert them to affiliate links you have configured.

Cloaking Affiliate Link

It allows you to cloak the affiliate links on your website and can work as a tiny/pretty URL maker.

Keyword Conversion Limit

You can specify how many keywords of  a blog post/page you want to convert into affiliate links. It is to prevent your blog post/page from getting crowded with affiliate links.

Link Customization

Easily customize the font color, style, size of  the anchor texts of the affiliate links. You can also use your own custom CSS.

Link Attribute

Add different attributes to the cloaked links e.g – open in a new window, “nofollow” tag etc.

Customer Support

The plugin comes with free and great customer support which are provided via forum within 24 hours.

Also there is a step by step detailed documentation for this plugin which is available in the Documentation Site.

Affiliate Link Manager Features Overview

Here is a video showing the Affiliate Link Cloaker Plugin in action

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WordPress Clickbank integration is a simple WordPress plugin which allows you to sell any clickbank product from your blog. With WordPress Clickbank Integration you can easily create a ‘Buy Now’ button on a page or post and sell your clickbank products to the customers.

Installation

Via FTP

1. Unzip and Upload the folder ‘wordpress-clickbank-integration’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Via WordPress Plugin Uploader

• On your Dashboard go to “Add New” under “Plugins”.
• Click “Upload”.
• Click “Browse”.
• Select the “wordpress-clickbank-integration.zip” file and hit “Install Now”.
• Once the Installation is completed, click “Activate Plugin”.

Usage

1. Once you install and activate the plugin, go to “WordPress Clickbank Integration” under “Settings”.

2. Under “general settings” of the plugin there is a “Vendor ID” field where you need to enter your Clickbank Vendor ID.

3. There is also an “Image URL” field where you need to enter the URL of the button image ( it will be used as a normal button image for all of your clickbank products). Some Clickbank button images are available with this plugin. You can find them on – http://www.your-site.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-clickbank-integration/images/

4. Click “Update” to save your settings.

5. Now use the following shortcode on a page or post to create a Clickbank buy now button -

[wp_clickbank_product id=PRODUCT-ID]

Replace the PRODUCT-ID with your clickbank product id (e.g 2 or 3).

6. If you want to use a custom button image for different products enter the following shortcode -

[wp_clickbank_product id=PRODUCT-ID image=IMAGE-URL]

Replace the IMAGE-URL with the true button image url (e.g. http://www.your-site.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-clickbank-integration/images/button.gif).

WordPress Clickbank Integration - General Settings

Plugin Demo

The following “Buy now” button has been configured with a clickbank product. Click on the button to see how it works

Product Name: How to Sell ebook From a WordPress Blog

Product Price: $3.00

Download

Download the WordPress Clickbank Integration plugin from here

Please leave a comment if you have any suggestion.

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