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The Best Membership Plugins for Word Press
Word Press is the largest open sources blogging plateform on the internet, and it's because of ti's ability to change and adapted to everyones wants and needs that it has become a powerful and widely expandable. Webmasters and blog owners can install a combination of plugins to add special features to the blog so the blog ends up being more unique or expands to more sophisticated roles. While some use Word Press just as an additional feature to there website as a blog, many people ahve started to use word press as a content management system and this allows webmasters to use the many more dynamic features of Word Press. Word Press is such a great plateform, because not only does it allow you to customize the look and feel of the blog or website it also allows you to generate an income from the same source. You can convert the blog into a WordPress membership site and then use the one or more of the following plugins afterwards.
Digital Access Pass
Digital Access Pass is a Word Press pluging that will allow you to turn your Word Press blog into a automated platform It comes with an autoresponder, this is a way for your to automatically collect emails and name and automatically send thous how join emails about anything you want. These email can be used for anything, from a product promotion to only the very best of your members to a weekly newsletter giving quility informaiton. What makes the plugin great is that it can handle large databases of email addresses by using a queue system. Another great feature that Digial Access has is it help you market your blog or website by automatically making all of your members affilaites for the site, this means that they will be encouraged to market your site for a percent of anything your selling. It features integration with PayPal Express Checkout and other popular payment processors along with the standard on-site credit card processing.
Wishlist Member
Wishlist Member can be considered as an alternative to Digital Access Pass. It is recommended for people that will not rely on drip marketing or sending promotional material in segments. This unlike Digial Access is allot easier to install and also comes with allot of instructional videos that allow you to fully understand what your doing. Although there is no drip marketing support, many of the other good features found in Digital Access Pass are found in Wishlist Member.
WP-member
For an even more simplified approach, WP-member can handle the smaller business blogs especially if the budget is limited. The annual fee to use this plugin is allot lower then the above two and also provides a beautiful intergration with paypal allow you to offer memberships to members that are either subscription based or one time fee. Webmasters can also manage free members by sending them free trials and/or other nice offerings and deals.
Page Link Manager
If you do not want certain membership pages to appear in your WordPress navigational bar, you need to do some PHP code editing which can be time consuming even if you know what you are doing. Page Link Manager basically simplifies the process so no experience is required.
Flash Video Player
Although content is important for search engine optimization purposes. You need video because allot of people learn and simpley love to watch video, and if you can serve your members this type of content they will feel that it provides better content. Flash Video Allow you to share videos with members. Just input the URL of the video and the plugin creates the player at an instant. This plugin can save you money in registering in services.
Once you know which ones of the membership site visit one of the links below to find out additional information and get discounts. If the plugin is compatible with the latest version of WordPress or the version you are using right now, you can safely install these plugins by referring to their documentation.
