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Membership site setup with Optimize Press?

by clintg
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Hello,


A friend of ours has a kids toy and early learning website.


She wants to change the focus of her website from toys and to focus on the educational part selling their system to early learning businesses to use with their at home caregivers and create some type of accreditation.


They want to create a membership site so I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about that.


If we choose a wordpress theme for their main site I was thinking we could use optimize press for the membership side of their business.


I assume you would have to create a different folder and install wordpress and the optimize press them which acts as a separate website.


I believe we would then need a plugin - wishlist or S2.


We also would want to integrate payment with paypal as a recurring for this.


I was wondering if you have any experience with this - is there customization needed to set up the mship site or is it fairly straight forward? What kind of costs are involved?


If you have any info or advice that would be much appreciated.


Cheers.
#membership #optimize #press #setup #site
  • Profile picture of the author BrianMcLeod
    Clint,

    YES - OptimizePress will let you build a nice, function membership site without too much hassle (though there's a bit of learning curve as with any powerful theme).

    I like to install OP as a dedicated Members Area (domain.com/members) even if you're running OP for the sales side of things at the domain's root.

    YES - you'll still need to choose a membership management plugin to handle the payments and member access functions. DAP works well with OP, I don't care for WL. S2 is free, so...

    Any membership plugin you choose should allow you to set up simple Paypal subscription terms (or fixed term, or one-off sales delivered via members area).

    Hope this helps,

    Brian
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    You can accomplish that with wishlist member, and whatever theme you like. You can also accomplish that with premise.

    Wishlist is pretty straight forward, and they have great tech support.

    If you're reasonably tech savvy, you can setup the permissions in a few hours.

    If you're a newb, you might be relying upon wishlist's tech support.

    Either way; I've setup a few membership sites with Wishlist & OptimizePress (just to sell a few ebooks) and it's a recommended solution.

    (Come to think of it, I also setup a membership site using a random theme I got on ThemeForest once upon a time, also). Both OptimizePress and the other theme integrated seamlessly with Wishlist.

    PS: you will need a second WordPress installation only if you insist upon using OptimizePress as your layout for the membership site, but Wishlist should work fine with the majority of wordpress themes. (I've never heard of any theme not functioning well with it). - In other words you might check to see how wishlist works with your current theme and if you can get it to look good, you can basically make any content on your installation private. (Both pages and blog posts).

    I would personally recommend asking wishlist customer support if you have additional questions, because they'll be happy to help you out.

    Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author webfixsol
    Clint,

    Optimizepress already have membership templates that helps you create membership pages. It integrates well with wishlist, dap, s2, (at least as confirmed & tested by OP themeselves) and other membership plugins I believe.

    If you don't have quite the knowledge and especially time to learn and create it yourself, then you can look for someone who can do this for you.

    As for the specific membership plugin that fits for the product/service that you wisht to sell, then it all depends on how you wanted your membership site to be setup (ie its functions, layout, etc).

    DAP is a bit expensive than Wishlist but DAP has more features than wishlist has to offer. Both support is great as far my encounter with their support is concerned.

    You can check each plugin and see if they have the features that you need.
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