MemberWing is a simple, yet powerful plugin that quickly converts your self hosted WordPress site to the membership site.
Here is a list of features of MemberWing membership plugin:
- SEO Optimized from the ground up. Allows you to use teasers (short snippets of text) visible to anyone, including search engines, while keeping your main contents protected and accessible only to members.
This feature allows your membership site to be found by potential members on search engines
- Supports 4 levels of membership - Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.
Allows you to open different contents to different classes of members and charge accordingly. You may use all 4 or just 1 if wanted.
- No site redesign or any changes are necessary - you may add it to already existing blog or brand new site.
- You may protect already existing articles as well as add member protection to the new ones.
- You may selectively protect articles.
- Supports Wordpress 2.5+
- No other software installation required.
- Supports any webserver, works on any hosting account or space that supports Wordpress (which is probably all of them)
- Fast and lightweight.
Current Version: 1.1
Installation and Configuration:
- Download the latest version of MemberWing (link above)
- Unzip and upload the resulted 'member-wing' directory into ./wp-content/plugins
So the resulted directory is: ./wp-content/plugins/member-wing
- Activate it: goto dashboard, Plugins -> Member Wing -> Activate
- Goto Settings tab->MemberWing Plugin - and note the "premium contents markers": {+}, {++}, {+++}, {++++}
Markers are the pieces of text that separate free teaser part of your article from the premium part of it.
- Note: "Premium Content Warning Message". This message will be displayed to unregistered visitor.
Check <a href="/join/"> part of the string. This is URL where your visitors will be given an option to join your site. Edit it to your needs - so it will point to existing page.
Usage:
- Inside your article (or page) body insert premium contents marker like this:
This is teaser of my premium article that everyone can see.{+++} And this is premium part that can only be seen by Gold and Platinum members.
Another article:
Free teaser part visible for everyone. {+} This part is only visible to Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum members.
- You may insert these markers into already existing articles as well and they will become protected.
- Add new users to the premium members area:
- Users tab->Add New User section-> fill in information
- At the "Role" area choose user's role to "Bronze member", "Silver member", "Gold member" or "Platinum member".
- Press [Add User] button.
- Notes:
- Administrator has access to all premium content by default
- Higher level members inherits all properties of lower levels, for ex: Gold will have access to Bronze and Silver' contents, and Platinum will see everyone's contents.
Updates, Support and Contact:
Any questions, comments, requests and bug reports - please contact developer: memberwing@memberwing.com