{"id":4101,"date":"2009-07-12T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T01:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2019-02-28T06:55:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:55:31","slug":"wishlist-member-review-how-to-turn-your-wordpress-blog-into-a-membership-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/wishlist-member-review-how-to-turn-your-wordpress-blog-into-a-membership-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishlist Member Review: How to Turn Your WordPress Blog into a Membership Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all my affiliate site posts queued up for the next 2 months and some time on my hands this weekend, I decided to get to work making the Super Affiliate Handbook available as an online tutorial, through a membership site.<\/p>\n<h3>My primary concern was how to set up a membership site <em>easily<\/em>.<\/h3>\n<p>The setup is relatively simple for someone who has worked through installation directions more than a few times, but I did manage to mess things up with some bad file permissions that required another intervention by my favorite geek and host master extraordinaire, Steve Hetrick. The temporary downtime aside, I am quite happy with Amember.<\/p>\n<p>However, I recalled reading that there might be a plugin available that could turn a WordPress blog into a membership site.<\/p>\n<p>What could be more perfect, especially since the main focus of the tutorials is affiliate blogging.<\/p>\n<h3>My search brought <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/go\/wishlistmember\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wishlist Member<\/a> to the top of the results.<\/h3>\n<p>Per the sales page, the list of features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unlimited Membership Levels<\/li>\n<li>Simple Installation With New or Existing WordPress Blog<\/li>\n<li>Flexible Membership Options<\/li>\n<li>Sequential Content Delivery<\/li>\n<li>Control Viewed Content<\/li>\n<li>Shopping Cart Integration<\/li>\n<li>Easy Member Management<\/li>\n<li>Multi-Level Access<\/li>\n<li>Total Content Protection<\/li>\n<li>Secure RSS Feeds<\/li>\n<li>Subscription Length Control<\/li>\n<li>Login Redirection<\/li>\n<li>Create Your Membership Site Using WordPress & WL Member<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sneak Peak&#8221; Content Display<\/li>\n<li>Custom Error Pages<\/li>\n<li>Partial Content Display<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On confirming that Wishlist Member could be integrated with my shopping cart of choice (Clickbank) and my <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/aweber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aweber autoresponder<\/a>, I decided that it was worth a try. <strong>Note<\/strong>: Wishlist Member also integrates with 1ShoppingCart, PayPal, Cydec, Autoresponseplus and GetResponse and generic systems.<\/p>\n<p>The single licence version of Wishlist Member is $97 and the multiple licence version is $297. With a <strong>30-day refund policy<\/strong>, I opted to buy the multiple licence version &#8211; realizing that if the plugin worked as well as promised, I would definitely want to use it on other blogs.<\/p>\n<h3>My experience with Wishlist Member<\/h3>\n<p>After buying Wishlist Member, I purchased a new domain, <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/bluehost-review\/\">set up hosting<\/a>, did a <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/the-1-minute-blog-installation-video\/\">1-minute WordPress installation<\/a>, uploaded the plugin, installed the theme that came with the plugin&#8230;  and was off to the races.<\/p>\n<p>Within 30 minutes, I'd watched a few of the tutorial videos, set up 8 modules using Pages (you can restrict member access by post, page, categories and comments) , a sequential upgrade that drips content over time and input some articles. By the way, the video tutorials are accessible without having to purchase the product.<\/p>\n<p>The video below shows the results of those 30-minutes, as well as how membership content is protected, even when someone is smart enough to figure out the URL of a higher-level module.<\/p>\n<div><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fOHIMsIcOCQ&hl=en&fs=1&\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fOHIMsIcOCQ&hl=en&fs=1&\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>If you'd like to view a larger sized video, it's available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fOHIMsIcOCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/go\/wishlistmember\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wishlist Member<\/a> is a GREAT choice for bloggers who want to set up their own membership sites, especially in terms of ease of set up and price.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/go\/wishlistmember\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wishlist Member<\/a> gets a 2 big thumbs up from me and my HIGHEST recommendation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all my affiliate site posts queued up for the next 2 months and some time on my hands this weekend, I decided to get to work making the Super Affiliate Handbook available as an online tutorial, through a membership site. 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