Creating Member Directories: Ultimate Member Review
Most membership plugins focus entirely on restricting content to members: who can access the content, when, how much does access cost, and what to do if a member doesn’t have access. However, they don’t make it easy to build a...
Restrict Content Pro Review
This is post 10 of 11 in the series “Membership Sites” (Click to expand) Some membership sites will need the ability to create course or content schedules and time the release of these schedules based on how long a customer has...
Selling an online membership with recurring payments
We’ve got an entire post category devoted to creating a membership site, so there are lots of options available to do so. However, what if you want to sell other products aside from your memberships, or you need to ship...
More Membership options: WooCommerce Easy Content Restriction
There are lots of options out there to create a WordPress membership site, and the right one will depend on your needs for content restriction, payment gateways, order management, and more. WooCommerce presents a pretty popular choice because of the...
Ask Sell with WP: How do I restrict products to members only?
This question comes from Emily: How can I restrict products to members so that only members can purchase them? Our site is a club that only offers purchasing to registered members, and customers that aren’t members must sign up before...
Using the Paid Memberships Pro WooCommerce Add-on
This is post 9 of 11 in the series “Membership Sites” (Click to expand) We’ve already written about creating a Membership Site using WooCommerce, but today we wanted to tell you about another option for your WooCommerce membership site. PMPro now...
Selecting a Membership Plugin for WordPress Multisite
There are a lot of scenarios in which a membership site would benefit from using a WP Multisite install. Sometimes administrators want to allow members to create their own child sites within the same WordPress installation, while other times it’s...
Building Paid Memberships Pro: Interview with Jason Coleman
Editor’s Note: This article is written based on an interview with Jason Coleman. Jason is a co-founder of Stranger Studios, a WordPress agency, and is the lead developer of Paid Memberships Pro, a free membership plugin for WordPress. You can...
Paid Memberships Pro Review
There are several approaches to creating a membership site with WordPress, as there are a lot of plugins available, and they each do things differently. One of the most light-weight plugins to work with is Paid Memberships Pro (PMPro). PMPro...
MemberMouse Review: Powerful WordPress Memberships
One potential problem with membership plugins or services is scalability. Will it be easy to protect content when I have tons of posts and pages? Will I be able to protect different kinds of content as my site grows? Will...
Running Successful Membership Sites
From the Editor: This is a guest post from Jason Glaspey, founder of PaleoPlan.com and co-founder of the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE). Running successful membership sites requires constant optimization and sometimes involves restructuring to maximize revenue from the membership model....
Wrap-up: Membership Sites with eCommerce Plugins
This is post 8 of 11 in the series “Membership Sites” (Click to expand) Integrating Membership Sites with eCommerce Plugins We’ve recently written several articles on creating membership sites using WordPress eCommerce platforms that we’d like to summarize and compare side-by-side...