Wordpress Paid Membership Functionality?

Hi,

Here's my recommendation. Am working with it now and it will do what you are asking.

Membership Site Plugin – Wordpress Membership Plugin – MemberWing

Look at MemberWing X.

Gleb, the developer is a member here and a great guy to work with.

Thanks,

John

Hi
you need a membership plugin
find a few reviewed here
Top 10 Best Free, Premium WordPress Membership Plugins

Also, for my newest question -- I don't need to set it up for paypal. In fact, I need to have a membership set up that doesn't need payments and has no branding.

The MWX plugin will do that (pretty sure) as it allows set up of a 'pay per page' product.

May be a bit of overkill for just a one page site, but it will allow payment then automated user/pass set up after payment.

Maybe contact Gleb from his site for more info. Is a great plugin.

Thanks,

John

Mike (NBaller - the OP),

Thank you for bring this thread to my attention, and inviting me to respond to this.

So here goes...

>>1) I could put up a paypal button to receive payments, but how would I be able to send a unique password to the payee right away upon payment?<<

The way you would do this with DigitalAccessPass.com (DAP), is...

* Create a "Product" or "Level"
* In just a few clicks, designate all of your WordPress content that you wish to be delivered as part of this "Product"
* Either drip all of the content at once, or a little bit every X days
* Create a buy button specific to this Product, and then just publish that button on your web site.
* When someone buys that Product, DAP will automatically create a login/password for them, and give them access just to this product.
* Once they become a member, then the dripping starts from Day #1. So whatever content you have to set up to drip, will drip little by little, all automatically.
* Using DAP's built-in autoresponder, you can also setup emails to be dripped on the same day as the content is dripped. So every time a new piece of content is made available to the user, an email will also go out on the same day, notifying them of the new content, thus bringing them back repeatedly to your web site

That's it. All of this will take you about 20 minutes to setup if you have DAP installed. SO every new Product, with new content (or existing content), and buy-button integration, is all about 15-20 minutes away. You can slice-and-dice your existing content (and future content) and quickly create multiple products, with different dripping, some one-off products, some recurring products, and so on. You are only limited by your imagination :-)

>>2) Would I be able to set wordpress so that certain sub-pages (under the lessons primary page) have dynamic passwords? Per #1 above, I'd like to charge people for access, but I don't want to give each person the same password (to prevent sharing of passwords). Once someone logs in, they will have access to all pages.<<
DAP will auto-generate for each user a different password. So there is never any need for password sharing. And DAP also has built-in security checks to ensure that people do *not* share their passwords - you can set DAP to automatically lock a user's account if the number of logins (from different IP's) for a single account exceeds "X" (where X is 5 by default). So if someone shares their password on, say, a forum, then the moment the number of different IP's logging into an account exceeds 5, DAP will automatically lock that account, and send both the user and the admin an email. You can of course, customize what that email would say, and so on.

Hope this helps.

Also, check out our expired WSO page, where a lot of people have asked a lot of questions, and I have replied in great detail to all of them.

Feel free to ask us you have any other questions about how DAP will handle certain scenarios.

- Ravi Jayagopal

Hi Guys,

I'm currently going in another direction and don't need to receive payments. Instead, I just need to make one wordpress page "members only" for a client of mine. The client wants the following:

Client will click on "members only" tab that will be username and password protected. The client wants to use this section to share internal information with about 30-40 employees that she wants to have access additional information. This information would need to be secured.

Along with this, the client would need to be able to monitor usage (time on members site, links viewed, items downloaded) that fell behind members only pages. The client would also be able to change usernames and passwords when necessary.

There is no need to receive payments and no need to connect to an e-mail autoresponder. In fact, the easier, the better.

When I choose the plugin to use, I want something that is reliable, capable, and easy to set up. If it costs money, that is fine. However, if a free plugin can do the work, I'd be happy to go that route as well.

Can anyone give examples of wordpress that are setup in a similar form? Just a standard business wordpress site with a locked member's only section?

Thanks in advance!

Mike

I personally use the emember plugin and incorporate it with their affiliate and estore plugins.

Integrated eCommerce Affiliate and Membership for Wordpress | The Internet Marketers Club

Quentin

Have you checked out Official Wordpress Plugins page? I saw some there.

WordPress › Search for membership WordPress Plugins

I have used s2member which was free along with Buddy Press. S2member has the capability of working with PayDotCom for your affiliate program too.

It is a very simple solution, and the others are robust in terms of features.

I am sure someone will point out the flaws in a free membership plugin, but to date, I have not had any issues with it.

Google s2member then google Buddy Press. Buddy Press is a free plugin that turns your blog into a social network. It is made to integrate with s2member.

So spend money if you have to, but if you are wary of price right now...go with s2member and upgrade later.

CT

If you can't find a plugin already created, you are probably going to have to have someone create it for you. A good place to check that is is elance.com or somewhere you can hire a programmer.

Thanks to everyone for your feedback!

I am also thinking about aMember, but I don't know if I can justify it since it seems like Wishlist would be easier for my client to understand and is $100 cheaper. Since I don't need to integrate it with a payment system or aWeber, I don't need a lot of the bells-and-whistles associated with a $200 plugin.

Also, does anyone know if any of these programs allow you to track usage and downloads by member?

Thanks again.

S2Member - free and very powerful. That is what I use.

http://www.primothemes.com/post/prod...n-with-paypal/

I'm very close to pulling the trigger on DAP. I've read many good things in different forums that tell me it may be the right choice (support being very high since I'm not very technical). Anyway, what's delaying me is that it's critical that the membership software can work on WP mulitsite and on buddypress. Anyone have feedback on those areas for DAP?
Also, how does DAP (or any membership software) handle separating out "groups"? Example: Members have the ability to do activities in one group but not in another. Is that a subscription tied to a specific group that users request access?
S2member also looked promising but the "farm blog" scenario scares me and I can't find much information on that setup.

Fillsee,

DAP already integrates with BuddyPress.

But DAP does not work with WP MU, or the multi-site features of WordPress. At least, not yet :-)

Now when you say "activities in one group", what do you mean by "activities" and what do you mean by "group"?

DAP allows people with access to different "Products" (or "Membership Levels") to have access to different content. Is that what you're asking about?

If you're asking about "Forum groups", then you cannot do that with any of the WordPress-based forum plugins, because the plugins themselves don't offer that kind of power to say (User A can post in Forum A, but not in Forum B).

If you're looking for that kind of power segregation, then it will be available in the upcoming v3.9 where we will have vBulletin integration.

Does that help?

- Ravi Jayagopal