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Top 6 Most Popular and Powerful WordPress Membership Plugins
Posted on 20. Jun, 2011 by Steve.
Comparing the Top 6 Most Popular and Powerful WordPress Membership Plugins Over the past half decade, there was a giant boom and bust of premium WordPress plugin developers and WordPress membership plugins are no exception. For some people, this can make finding the right premium membership plugin difficult because you don’t want to end up buying a lifetime license, only to find out that it is no longer supported or on its way out the door. For the most part, there are three key things that you need to focus on when choosing which plugin is right for you – features, reliability, and support. The features are normally what most people look at first, but in the end you just need to make sure that it does what you want and can grow with your membership site. More importantly, you need to give a little extra attention to reliability and [...]
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Is Getting Your Own Membership Plugin Designed a Good Idea?
Posted on 24. May, 2011 by Steve.
Designing a basic WordPress plugin isn’t inherently difficult which is why there is a growing trend to hire a freelancer or company to create customized plugins. While this may serve a purpose in some cases, this isn’t always the best idea. If you are thinking about this for a membership plugin then you might want to reconsider. There are a number of potential hazards that you could run into, especially if you do not have a freelancer developer who you work with on a consistent basis. Here is a closer look at what these problems are and why purchasing a commercially available membership plugin is likely to be the better option. The first problem, or group of problems, all arise if you do not have a freelance developer who you use often. While some people do have WordPress developers on retainer, it is fairly rare. The first problem is that [...]
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Is Your Membership Plugin Keeping Pace With Your Members?
Posted on 19. May, 2011 by Steve.
When you installed your membership plugin when you first launched your site, everything seemed to be laid out pretty well, but over time you may have noticed that there are some minor tweaks that need to be made. The problem is that your plugin is making this task a much bigger problem than it should be. There are a number of different ways that your members can out-pace your plugin. Here is a quick look at the two major areas to focus on when deciding whether or not it is time to upgrade and get a better membership plugin. The first area is your members themselves. There are some membership plugins that were designed to do absolutely everything. Many of them get billed as the set it and forget type plugins that will magically create a membership site out of thin air. Normally they will include a number of feature [...]
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Creating a WordPress Membership Site
Posted on 05. Mar, 2011 by Steve.
Why Creating a WordPress Membership Site Has Become the Most Popular Option When it comes to creating a profitable online business there are a number of different strategies that you can use. There is affiliate sales, Adsense websites, email marketing, PPC, product creation, and much more. Above all of these options, membership sites have become the most popular for a number of reasons. More specifically, the WordPress membership site has taken hold. Here is a quick look at why membership sites, especially those hosted on WordPress, have become so common. Membership sites in general hold a number specific advantages. The primary advantage is that it provides both passive recurring income as well as instant income. It creates passive recurring income from your membership fees, while this does take some maintenance, you really only need enough content to meet the needs of your longest member, assuming that you are drip feeding [...]
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How Many Payment Processors Should Your Membership Plugin Support?
Posted on 18. Feb, 2011 by Steve.
One of the biggest sticking points when choosing a membership plugin for your WordPress site is payment processor integration. There are a number of issues to consider when deciding what your best options are. You should not only consider which payment processor that you want to use, but also what your current and future members want to use. To answer this question, many membership site owners think that they only need a plugin that has “enough” options available, the problem is deciding what “enough” really is. The truth is that one could be enough or maybe you need 10. It all comes down to what your members and potential members want. If you are only operating in the United States then you might be able to use only PayPal, but you might also need a regular merchant account as well. The problem is that most membership sites are not very [...]
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3 Reasons To Choose Your WordPress Membership Plugin Carefully
Posted on 20. Jan, 2011 by Steve.
As WordPress continues to claim a larger share of the CMS world, there are more plugins created for membership sites than ever before. The problem that many people run into is that they either assume that all of these plugins are created equal, or they simply don’t know how to choose the right one. This means that you need to choose your WordPress membership plugin carefully. Here are three all-to-common scenarios that people face when they choose the wrong membership management plugin for their WordPress site. 1. Plugin Dictates Site One the biggest problems that you will run into if you do not choose your WordPress membership plugin carefully is that your entire site will be limited by the plugins abilities. For example, if the plugin doesn’t allow you to post teaser content then your membership sites SEO abilities will be limited or you will be forced to create another [...]
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Comprehensive WordPress Membership Plugins for your Site
Posted on 22. Dec, 2010 by Steve.
WordPress is a popular choice for creating up and maintaining membership websites for a number of reasons; it’s easy to use, it’s very flexible, and a lot of available plugins are evolving to accommodate more needs. Even before comprehensive plugins came about, there were so many ways on how to integrate multiple plugins to setup a membership website and you can all do these for free. As technology evolved to improve on existing methods, comprehensive plugins came into existence which holds a great value to users and webmasters alike. Nowadays, a single plugin can do everything. Below are the top benefits. 1. Everything you need is there. You can expect a lot of cohesion when you use a single plugin, and obviously this is your top advantage. This allows you to manage just every single aspect in your WordPress membership site: registration, recurring billing, and all the details in between. [...]
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