There is a lot of buzz in blogsphere about membership sites these days; it seems membership sites are the only way left to make huge money. I know some of you guys out there have already join Yaro Starak’s Membership Site Mastermind program, but what about those who can’t afford this course but still want to create their very own membership site and then wish to make a big big money out of it.
I’m here to help you. I will give you some idea about how you can create a premium membership site with your favorite blogging platform WordPress.
What is a Premium Membership Site?
A premium membership site is one where visitors pay either a subscription or one-off fee to access special members-only content. You must have experience this sometimes where you have been refused to have access certain area or contents of a website as you are not the paid member. Well this is exactly a membership site where you charged to access “members only” content. 
How to create a Membership Site using WordPress?
WordPress can be used to build a premium membership site. For this you need to use couple of WordPress Plugin made specially to create paid membership functionality.
[1] WP-MEMBER
WP-MEMBER is a premium WordPress Plugin. It is basically formed to create unlimited membership levels and select which post, page and category can be viewed by each membership level. Select one or multiple membership levels per post, page & category and WP-MEMBER will automatically manage users’ subscriptions, payments and access rights.
Membership Plugin is the most sought after and most used WordPress membership / subscription plugin in the world. It has been built using the latest technology to provide you with the most powerful membership plugin around. Our technical support team are highly trained and experienced in WordPress, web 2.0 and customer services so that should you ever have any queries, they can be answered swiftly and accurately.
[2] EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin
EasyPayPal is a WordPress plugin that allows you collect payments from your WordPress membership site users. When a new user creates a login on your site, they will be taken to PayPal to process their payment. When they return to your site, the next payment date will be updated based on a period that you define. After the next payment date, the user will attempt to login and they will be taken to PayPal to process their next payment.
There are some more features EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin has like:
- Charge for Content’ using Pay Buttons
- Simple Pay Now (No Login Required)
- Charge to Publish’ using a Custom Payment page
- Custom Subscription Page
- Subscriber-only Content
Download EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin
[3] aMember Professional Membership Software
aMember is a bit costly affair but very useful and flexible membership and subscription management PHP script. It has support for PayPal, BeanStream, 2Checkout, NoChex, VeriSign PayFlow, Authorize.Net, PaySystems, Probilling, Multicards, E-Gold and Clickbank payment systems and allows you to setup paid-membership areas on your site. It can also be used without any payment system which means you can run voucher promotions, give out free memberships, and integrate with other payment systems. It is indeed recommended for those who are well versed with coding stuff.
Buy aMember Professional Membership Software
Hope the above information will help you to create your paid membership site. So go and create one like this guy did, make lots of money, buy a mansion and have fun.
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Shanker do you need all three of the plugins or one of the three? I have been looking at the idea of a members only section and this is a really good post!
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Great !! I’ve been looking for this for a long time. Thanks =)
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Good post, though I still think membership is not for me
Great information on the plugins. I never knew it existed until now. Will definitely give it a try. Thanks for the great post
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A very good post (and more over well thought topic) Shanker. Though, I wouldn’t make my content for subscribers, I am sure there are pleanty of sites/blogs out there that could actually charge for their premium content.
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It is good to know of the paypal wordpress plugin. I just found building a site nowadays is similar to playing LEGO with my kids
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this is a good read, thanks for your recommendation of membership plugin with wordpress, i will try to use it for my membership site with wordpress
Hello, thank you for mentioning our plugin, wp-Member. Please be aware that the link you are using is no longer relevant as we have a new affiliate system. You should have received an email about it. Please contact me via email and I will create a new affiliate account for you and give you some coupon codes just for visitors to your site.
many thanks
Dave
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