Complete Tutorial: How to Build a Membership Site on WordPress
SOURCE: CodeinWP
Summary
Here’s a comprehensive step-by-step guide to building a membership site on WordPress, letting site owners deliver premium content to customers or a select audience (members). It’s emphasized that building a membership site requires more than just installing and activating plugins—several challenges that need to be addressed are listed and proper plugin configuration and content creation are also crucial.
The article goes into detail over the steps involved. Note that the technical specifics in these instructions cover the author’s software preferences (plugins needed on top of Wordpress itself). But it does give you a really good view of what’s involved in setting up membership capabilities with your WordPress site and establishing a membership environment that caters to the needs of most site owners.
Excerpt
“When you look at it, there’s hardly any other method out there that would give you full control over what portion of your content the users can access. For instance, with a standard product or a book, such control is just not possible. People tend to pass around books and other forms of physical products. But in most cases, they won’t pass around their membership site details.”
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