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WishList makes membership sites easier to setup
WordPress is an amazing publishing platform but what if Google AdSense isn’t enough to pay for the operation? What if you need to setup a fully featured membership site?
All over the world, millions of bloggers are thinking up new ways to bank on their content (or products, or services). To sell these offerings, some of them might want to consider turning their “free blog” into a “membership blog” where some things are free and some others are only made available to paying visitors (or customers).
Since WordPress doesn’t ship with the capability to bills members to access different levels or sections, the only option is to turn to a plug-in such as WishList.
This plug-in is sold for either US$97 for a “single site” license or US$297 for a “multi-site” license, which makes it an affordable solution for paid membership sites.
A free option for the WishList plug-in would be nice but that doesn’t seem to be in the works, for now.
So, what do you get, with WishList?
How about easy integration, detailed support guides, training videos, one (1) year of unlimited updates and support as well as four bonus goodies that just sweeten an already fair deal.
Also, with WishList for WordPress, you get the following:
- Unlimited membership levels;
- Simple installation with either new or existing blogs;
- Flexible membership options (i.e.: free, trial or paid);
- Sequential content delivery (from “level 1″ to “lever 2″);
- Control over the viewed content;
- PayPal shopping cart integration;
- Easy member management;
- Multi-level access memberships;
- Total content protection;
- Secure RSS feeds;
- Subscription length control;
- Login redirection to the page of your choice;
- Sneak peak content display;
- Custom error pages; and
- Partial content display.
If you’re a blogger looking to install the WishList plug-in into your WordPress site, you should be able to do it within an hour. Most of the work, on your part, will be to figure out how you want to structure your sales to optimize successful conversions.
Regarding the plug-in itself, it works well and doesn’t seem to slow down the pages loading time, which is a definite plus.
Money shouldn’t be an issue for getting your hands on the WishList plug-in because as soon as you start operating a paid membership site —if your offering is any good— you’ll make your “initial plug-in investment” back very quickly.
So if you’re seriously looking to build a membership web site, WishList delivers.
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