WordPress Based Membership Site

Since Brian’s Teaching Sells lots of people have been approaching me asking how they can make their blog into a membership site.

In the past I have had a straightforward solution, a combination of Amember and WordPress can work ok, and it is the basis for existing membership sites that I have built such as Performancing Hive, and so on.

Recently though I heard about a new WordPress plugin that aims to build out a WordPress blog as a member site directly.

Appropriately it is called “Your Member WordPress Membership Plugin“.

This I had to investigate!

Features include:

Obviously if you add this to an existing blog or site then you need to make sure a significant portion of it stays free to keep that search engine juice!

Admin Tour_demo

A word of warning to anyone who thinks of using this, take a look at what you see when you log in to their own site:

Cambridge New Media Services 203A Dashboard 2014 WordPress

Yup, the bog standard WordPress dashboard. Do customise the user experience otherwise you will lose the trust of your customer. This could set in some serious buyers remorse.

That aside, things look well with this plugin and at only $50 I will be trying it out for myself.

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Blogging

Comments

2 Responses to “WordPress Based Membership Site”

  1. Tim Nash on July 31st, 2008 2:00 pm

    A good workaround is Dashboard Editor Plugin Though we are currently experiencing some minor bugs with it in 2.6.

    That said this is as much a Wordpress issue as Your Members however future version will allow you to specify a “member” page which will obviously remove this problem all together.

  2. kiatlc on August 11th, 2008 6:27 am

    Hi, could this plugin send reminding letter to both subscriber and me when his subscription date is due? Does it have cycle option like monthly, quarterly and yearly?

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