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How to Create a WordPress Membership Site

23 July 2010

Creating a WordPress membership site is very profitable nowadays. With a WordPress membership plugin you can easily protect the premium contents of your site which only the premium members will be able to access. As soon as someone subscribes to the premium membership, he/she will be able to view the premium contents. In this way you can increase your website revenue from subscriptions.

There are many membership plugins out there but WP eMember, an easy to use WordPress membership plugin could be a good choice.

Why WP eMember WordPress membership plugin?

a) It allows you to create as many membership as you want.

b) You can set the content (e.g page, post, category etc) protection for all your memberships easily and choose which content can be viewed by which membership level.

c) It allows you to set up the membership payment button in plain Paypal button so you don’t need to have a WordPress shopping cart plugin.

d) Members can bookmark the page or post anytime. Those bookmarks can be shown to them in a list when they log in  so that they can access them easily (A member can only bookmark  the page or post which he/she has access to view).

e) It allows you to protect the section of a post or page (if you don’t want to show the whole page or post to your visitor you can protect a section which can be accessed if anyone subscribes to that membership)

f) It allows you to use the Auto Upgrade Feature to Drip Content (suppose you have basic membership and premium membership on your site. Now you can specify after how many days that basic member will be upgraded to premium member).

g) You can show the purchase history of members if they purchase something from your site while logged in (Each member can see only his/her own purchase history).

WP eMember Video Tutorial

Please watch the following tutorials to have an understanding of how WP eMember plugin works.

1. WP eMember Installation

A quick video on how to install the WP eMember plugin on your WordPress site.

2. How to Setup a Free Membership Site

This video tutorial shows you how to set up a general content protection for anyone visiting your website and how you can give access to members (e.g members of level “free”)

3. How to Setup a Premium Membership Site

This tutorial shows you how to set up a content protection for free members and allow access to premium members. Note that the payment button has been created with WP eStore in this tutorial but you can do it with simple Paypal button as well ( Watch tutorial-4 on how to do it with Paypal button).

4. How to Use a Plain PayPal Button to Create a Premium Membership site

5. How to Manage Content Protection in eMember

Other Miscellaneous Tutorials

Some other useful tutorials to get you started with WP eMember

A. How to Create Membership Levels

A basic tutorial on how to create membership levels (e.g free, silver, gold).

B. Configuring the Settings Options

This tutorial shows you how to configure the settings options in WP eMember plugin.

C. Managing Content Protection

Integration with WP eStore for membership payment

If you are using WP eStore as a shopping cart plugin, this tutorial will show you how you can integrate it with WP eMember.

If you are interested in setting up a WordPress membership site with WP eMember plugin, you can check the plugin here

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7 Comments »

  • Jennifer said:

    I think one of the keys to growing a membership site is having affiliates promote it for you. To gain affiliates, it is important to have an affiliate area that looks and feels professional while also providing them tools and education. I use Wordprses for my membership sites because with the Magic Members and Magic Affiliate plugins, everything can be managed from a central location.

    # 23 July 2010 at 5:11 am
  • Mia said:

    I’m already using WP eMember. It’s great.

    # 23 July 2010 at 12:17 pm
  • Emily said:

    @Jennifer, Never heard of your magic membership or affiliate plugin and don’t know how you can manage everything with two plugins :D lol. But I do use WP Affiliate Platform and WP eMember. They are simple to use and work fine. Also I receive great customer support.

    # 23 July 2010 at 2:39 pm
  • Faye said:

    WP eMember has a lot of great features many people are looking for when setting up their membership sites!

    WishList Member is another membership site plugin that allows you to integrate with payment processors, manage your member and content and so much more. Check it out – http://member.wishlistproducts.com to see what plugin fits your needs the most.

    # 23 July 2010 at 4:42 pm
  • admin (author) said:

    Ye I heard that WishList is a good membership plugin too.

    # 24 July 2010 at 12:48 am
  • asif said:

    WishList too expensive WP eMember lot cheaper and offers same functionalities

    # 11 August 2010 at 10:40 am
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