Wishlist Member Plugins

If you are thinking of opening a closed members forum or you are already managing one and you want to know how to keep your forum active and alive then these tips from our Wishlist Member Tips Series are for you:

Tip #66: bbPress vs. SimplePress – Which Forum to Integrate with Wishlist Member?

There are only few plugins that integrate with Wishlist Member, among them are bbPress and SimplePress.

Many of our clients are asking for our advise on which plugin has a better integration with Wishlist Member and which is more recommended.

What You Get in this Tip?

In this tip we go over the pros and cons of using bbPress vs. SimplePress

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Tip #40: Should You Add a Forum to Your Membership Site or Not?

Many of our clients ask us whether of not we recommend adding a forum to their membership site.

The short answer is “Yes”, we recommend adding a members’ forum, the longer answer is that there are some factors to consider before setting it up.

What You Get in This Tip?

In this tip we go over 7 excellent reasons to add a forum and 3 issues to consider before doing so…

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Choosing the right pricing model/s for your membership site is a very important aspect that can have a major effect over your overall sales and revenues.

In this post we have collected important tips from our Wishlist Member Tips Series that talk about how to price your membership site, including using trial periods, free / paid membership, subscription-based etc.

Tip #58: Free vs. Paid Trial Period for Your Membership Site

Trial periods have become a very popular tactic to attracting new members, and many membership sites’ owners are already implementing this tactic.

Some offer free trials and some offer paid trial, but which converts more trial members to full paying members?

What You Get From this Tip?

In this tips we give you our insights to why, on the one hand, you should go with a free trial, why on the other hand, you should go with a paid trial and which option to choose.

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If you are still using the default Wishlist Member error pages text or if you are looking for ways to design your error pages to maximize your conversion rates then the following tips are exactly for you:

Tip #61: Convert Your Pay Per Post Error Pages into an Asset

If you are using Wishlist Member pay-per-post feature you probably realized that the Wishlist Member error page that is displayed to a member or a visitor that does not have access to the content is the general error page (which is defined inside the Wishlist Member settings).

It is very important that your error page will drive the potential customer to purchase the content that he is trying to view.

A good error page should include content that is relevant to the content the visitor tried to view.

Because Wishlist Member only supports one error page when using pay-per-post, it is impossible to create an error page that will suit and be relevant to all your pay-per-post content using Wishlist Member alone.

What You Get From this Tip?

In this tip we go over how you can create a dynamic error page for your pay-per-posts to convert more visitors to members and maximize your revenues.

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Tip #52: How to Know Which of Your Protected Content Non-Members Tried to Access?

I already discussed about the importance of the error pages to increasing your registration rates and revenues in the tips below:

• Tip #49: How to Design Your Membership Site’s Error Pages to Increase Conversions
• Tip #4: 3 Components to Creating a Killer Error Page to Increase Your Revenues

But what if I told you that there is a way to know the exact pages your non-members tried to access?

Knowing your most popular protected content that attracts the highest number of visitors can help you understand what type of content they are looking for, create more of it and increase the chances of them to convert into members.

This tip is short but very useful, so if you still don’t know what is you most attractive protected content among non-members, you don’t want to miss this tip.

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If you are looking for new ways to increase the registration rates to your membership site then the following tips are exactly for you:

Tip #46: How to Shift Paying Members from Membership Site A to Membership Site B?

If you ever thought of shifting subscribed members that are paying you on a monthly basis from one membership site to a new one, then you probably found out that though it is definitely possible, it does require some planning so the transaction will be as smooth as possible for your members.

Sometimes it is necessary to shift members to a new membership site, and in this tip we go over all the options to do it the right way.

What Yo Get in the Tip?

• In this tip we go over 2 relatively simple and easy options to add subscribed members to a new membership site
• The downside of each option
• 2 ways to adding members to the membership site fast
• Important things to know when adding members in each way
• How to shift members from membership site A to membership site B in 1-Click!

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Tip #45: Reasons Why You Should Limit the Registration Capacity to Your Membership Site

Have you ever thought about limiting the registration capacity to your membership site?

If not, than you really should read this week’s tip as in this tip we give you 3 very important reasons why you should limit the registration capacity and how it can actually increase both your registration and retention rates.

What You Get In This Tip?

• 3 Important Reasons to Limiting Your Registration Capacity
• How Increasing the Registration Capacity will Help Increase Your Registration & Retention Rates
• How Can You Limit the Registration Capacity Using Wishlist Member?

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If you are thinking about selling individual posts using Wishlist’s pay-per-post feature then these are the tips for you:

Tip #51: How to Sell Multiple Posts using the Pay-per-Post Feature in One Purchase

Wishlist Member allows selling individual posts using the pay-per-post feature.

Selling pay-per-post content has many benefits, however, selling through the pay-per-post feature has a main downside:

You need to create separate purchase buttons for each pay-per-post, which means that each post needs to be purchased separately. If someone wants to buy several posts, he needs to make several purchases, which can extends the buying process, makes it clumsier and reduces the purchase rates.

What You Get in the Tip?

In this post we go over:

• How the pay-per-post feature works and why it allows selling only one post each time
• How you can sell multiple posts using the pay-per-post in one purchase

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Tip #44: How to register pay-per-post buyers to your autoresponder

Wishlist Member has a pay-per-post feature, this is, without a doubt, an excellent feature, however, it has one main disadvantage:

It does not register the users to the autoresponder you integrated with your Wishlist account.

So, one the one hand, the pay-per-post feature has great benefits, but on the other hand, none of the people who purchase it are added to your email list, and that is exactly why I created this tip…

What You Get in the Tip?

In this tip we give you 2 different ways to use the pay-per-post feature and still have the ability to grab your users’ emails.

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If you are thinking about dripping your content or you are already doing so and want to improve your site’s flow and structure then these are the tips for you:

Tip #67: 5 Content Dripping Mistakes You Should Avoid

If you are thinking of dripping your content, or if you are already doing so and you want to make sure you are doing it right to maximize your revenues and your members’ satisfaction, then this tip is exactly for you.

What You Get in this Tip?

• We have gathered the 5 most common content dripping mistakes we are seeing on a daily basis among our clients to help you take advantage of content dripping better.

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Tip #63: 6 Powerful Methods to Delivering Content to Your Members

There are many different ways to deliver content to members to create urgency, make them want to upgrade their membership, increase their engagement, not cancel their subscription and more.

What You Get in this Tip?

In this tip we collected some of the most common ways to deliver content inside the members’ area, including:

• Displaying chunks of content inside any post or page visible only to specific membership levels
• Upgrading members from membership level/ s to other levels after x number of days / weeks / months / years
• Change the protection settings of any post or page (levels / pay-per-posts / make content unprotected etc.)
• Display chunks of content according to each member’s registration date
• Schedule content to be delivered according to membership level
• Manage your content to be deleted / re-posted / moved to a new category etc.

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Tip #50: How to Drip Content using Wishlist Member & Which Option to Choose

Content dripping is an important and very common way to deliver content inside a closed membership site.

Many of our customers keep asking us how can they drip content using Wishlist Member and what is the best way to do it.

What You Get in the Tip?

• Options available to drip content when using Wishlist Member
• When you should use every option
• Tips for content dripping the right way

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In some cases you would want to allow specific users free access to your paid membership site, for example:

• If you are managing a forum and you want to allow access to moderators
• If you want to give free access as a bonus / gift
•  If you have several writers or contributors

What You Get From this Tip?

In this tip we go over how you can easily grant free access to your membership site to anyone you want very easily.

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As your membership site grows and you have plenty of content your membership site may start to look cluttered and unorganized, and your members will find it very difficult to find the content they need.

If you are dealing with this issue, or if you want to prevent this mess and clutter before it gets there and save yourself time and hassles, this tip is exactly for you.

What You Get From this Tip?

In this tip we go over 5 different methods to handling content within your membership site.

This tip is highly important if you are planning on building a big membership site that will contain a lot of content or if you already have a big membership site and you are looking for ways to improve its flow and structure to increase members’ stickiness and engagement.

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There are many different ways to deliver content to members to create urgency, make them want to upgrade their membership, increase their engagement, not cancel their subscription and more.

In this tip we collected some of the most common ways to deliver content  inside the members’ area, including:

• Displaying chunks of content inside any post or page visible only to specific membership levels
• Upgrading members from membership level/ s to other levels after x number of days / weeks / months / years
• Change the protection settings of any post or page (levels / pay-per-posts / make content unprotected etc.)
• Display chunks of content according to each member’s registration date
• Schedule content to be delivered according to membership level
• Manage your content to be deleted / re-posted / moved to a new category etc.

What You Get From this Tip?

In this tip we go over how you can achieve each of the above delivery methods.

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bbPress is one of the most popular forum platforms, and we noticed that many of our clients tried to integrate bbPress with their Wishlist Member membership site, but noticed that the integration does not work 100% .

The Problems with Integrating Wishlist Member & bbPress

If you have already tried to integrate your membership site with bbPress forum you may have discovered that:

1. It is not possible to protect topics and replies created by your forum members automatically.

This means that you must enter each and every topic and reply and change their protection settings manually… Quite impossible to maintain and manage.

It also means that whenever a non-member will try to access the direct link of a topic / reply he will be able to see its content.

2. It’s not possible to protect the main forum’s index page, I.E: http://yourdomain.com/forums

If you want to prevent non members from even having the ability to access the main forums’ page, then just by integrating Wishlist Member and bbPress you cannot do it.

That is exactly why we developed Wishlist bbPress Protection plugin, as it solves these exact issues and more.

In the short video tutorial below you can get a quick overview of Wishlist bbPress Protection and get a close look at its features and how easy it is to activate and use:

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