If you’ve ever considered using a membership site of your own and if you’re wondering
which platform you should use for your membership site, you should use a membership
plugin such as WishList Member which installs on top of WordPress. The reason for this
is because WordPress is always updated and approved and has all the features you need
to run a membership site while also being very intuitive and easy to use. Use WordPress
as a base for your membership site and then install a WordPress plugin such as WishList
Member to act as the membership site gatekeeper because WordPress allows to easily
add lots of content. It has lots of quick membership plugins and the code has been tested.
In WordPress, to add a piece of content is very easy. Go to Posts, Add New, fill in the
form and boom! You have a new post or page in your membership site. WordPress is also
a full blown content management system which means you can grant access to other
people for them to add content to your blog. It’s very easy to even import lots of content
in bulk using WP Import so it’s in everyone’s best interest for you to use WordPress as a
base and then install a membership plugin to handle the payments.
There are lots of quick membership plugins and membership add-ons for WordPress and
they will support pretty much any payment processor that is in use including PayPal, One
Shopping Carts, Click Bank and many others. All someone has to do is pay you. And
even if someone does not have a 1ShoppingCart account or a PayPal account, for
example, all these processors handle normal credit cards. So if someone has a credit card,
they can fill in that form and pay whatever price you ask to get access to whatever your
site is.
And in addition, most WordPress membership software has this idea of levels which
means that you can add bonus modules or digital courses or just sell multiple products
from the same WordPress website very quickly and easily. And unlike a lot non-
WordPress based membership plugins, the code for WordPress has been tested. If
something doesn’t work, doesn’t make sense, it is fixed and repaired quite quickly and it
is improved over time. Even if you use a simple membership plugin that only handles a
few features, most of what you want to do is built into WordPress, not into your
membership plugin. The membership plugin mostly handles the payments and WordPress
does the cool stuff.
Use WordPress as your membership site, install a membership plugin on top of
WordPress to handle the payments and set it up right now before someone else beat you
to it.
And once your membership site is set up, make sure to back it up so you don’t lose all
that hard work using this plugin, Backup Creator.
