New user account is not created or notification email did not arrive? Remedies

Symptoms:

You installed MemberWing, ran test transaction but new user did not get created and/or notification email did not get delivered.or:
Your new member paid but he did not receive notification email.

Tips, Hints and Remedies:

Are you using free version of MemberWing? Free version does not support automatic account creation. Only Webmaster and Professional versions support it.
Did you ran test transaction against already existing account?or:Did you ran test transaction against your own administrative account/email?All test purchases must be done from account/email that does not yet exist in Wordpress Users database. If account already exist – MemberWing will not send [...]

How to protect sidebar data and widgets via membership site options

Some asked an excellent and reasonable question:

How to protect sidebar data for the membership site?

The problem is that premium content markers { +++ } does not work within sidebar content. But the task can easily be solved with the help of free, simple and powerful Widget Logic plugin.

The sequence of steps to create a premium-only sidebar widget would be like this:

Install and activate Widget Logic plugin
Go to Appearance->Widgets
for the sake of this example let work with Text widget – drag and drop “Text” widget to the sidebar of choice.
Title it “Premium sutff” of whatever you want.
Inside of [...]

Protecting your membership site business from content theft – MemberWing as an integrated solution for complete digital content protection and theft prevention

In the previous article about digital content and information theft I explained that theft sometimes could actually be beneficial for your business(surprise!). But for more often that not when your main product or service got stolen it means immediate loss of sales, revenues and increased business risk and costs for your online enterprise.

I also briefly highlited possible ways these issues are addressed today. In most cases any anti-theft measures brings more complications than solutions. Often hundreds and thousands of legitimate users and customers suffer just because you need to protect yourself against one or two crooks.

In this article I [...]

Protecting your digital hard work with your membership site

Internet allows you to convert you skills, experience and creativity into digital format and share it with the whole world almost instantly.If what you do helps other people to solve their problems they’ll gladly pay you for that.

Hereby we will discuss membership site model of selling information and methods of protecting your digital property against theft.

So, what is digital content?

On the internet everything is digital.For simplicity let separate information into 2 types:

Plain text:HTML – Thats what text on web pages, posts, articles are made from :)
Downloadable information:Ebooks, PDFs, movies, sound files, MP3, downloadable ZIP archives, [...]

Membership sites and SEO – what you don’t know may kill you[r organic rankings]

There is plenty of information about websites and SEO but very little of value written about Membership Site SEO issues specifically. Particularly about problems that most membership sites have with their Search Engine Optimization.

Keyphrase
Number of results
on Google

web site SEO
371,000,000

membership site SEO
867,000

web site SEO = 371,000,000 results on Google
membership site SEO = 867,000 results on Google

So besides the fact that there is not enough information on the subject – many facts are just not disclosed by members+hip software creators. Because if people would knew what they are getting – these vendors and developers would [...]

MemberWing and IonCube support

MemberWing 4.x uses IonCube technology to protect integrity of it’s source code and prevent code tampering. IonCube support is required from your hosting company for MemberWing to work.Most modern webhosters support IonCube automatically – so you don’t need to worry about it.

But when you try to activate MemberWing plugin and observe this error message:“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error” – it means IonCube is not currently enabled at your hosting space.MemberWing code attempts to enable IonCube support for you. To test this  – try to re-activate MemberWing plugin second time. If it will be activated [...]

Integrating your membership site with Rapid Action Profits system

Premium editions of MemberWing 3.77 and higher now include free addon for smooth integration with Rapid Action Profits (RAP) system.

RAP is a powerful all-in-one web marketing, affiliate and joint venture management and secure digital product delivery platform.

RAP also includes unique feature where affiliate is paid immediately via Paypal after referring sale to you. This feature makes RAP-based sites very attractive for affiliates.RAP allows you to market infoproducts very efficiently, include upsells, include downsells (if upsell is rejected – it will offer paying customer cheaper version of something) and pay different commissions on different products.

Contrary to other [...]

How to add free members to membership site without payment

If you have membership site (based on MemberWing or any other software) and would like them to become a members without requiring payment – here are steps:

Login to your Wordpress admin panel
Go to: Settings – > General -> Membership
Check this: [x] Anyone can register
Set “New User Default Role” to “Bronze Member” – or whatever role you want free member to be.
Send visitors to this page for login or registration:http://www.YOUR-SITE-NAME.com/wp-login.php 

That’s it – now anyone can join for free and be assigned role that you set.