• 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:

1. Are you using free version of MemberWing? Free version does not support automatic account creation. Only Webmaster and Professional versions support it.
2. 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 repeated notifications and no changes will happen into the database. Having said that if user was just a regular subscriber and bought new membership – he will get elevated to “Gold” or other premium member.
   Every time before running test transaction – make sure to remove new customer’s account from Users database.
3. Did you check your email account SPAM folder? Quite often overly agressive anti-spam filters of your email provider treat as spam very legitimate emails. Make sure new account confirmation email did not end in your in-box SPAM folder.
4. Is your site password-protected?
   Paypal or other processor’s IPN callback cannot get through if your site has any type of access or firewall protection to access IPN script.
5. Try to access your IPN script manually directly from your own browser in the following format:
   http://www.YOUR-SITE.com/wp-content/plugins/YOUR-MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/notify_paypal.php
   or
   http://www.YOUR-SITE.com/wp-content/plugins/YOUR-MEMBERWING-X-DIRECTORY/mwx-notify-paypal.php
   to quickly check see if it is accessable.
   If you are some sort of getting browser error – it means IPN script is not accessable for some reason, possibly due to invalid path or access restrictions imposed by your hosting account.
6. Check to see if you have __log.php file created inside MemberWing’s installation directory:
   /wp-content/plugins/YOUR-MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/__log.php
   This file is created and updated each time your system receives payment notification from Paypal (that is if it’s correctly setup). If you don’t see __log.php file than it means Paypal‘s IPN either never reached your script or never was fired out for some reason.
   Tip: __log.php actually gets created and updated every time any of notify*.php scripts get accessed.
   To force creation of __log.php file – navigate with your browser to:
   http://www.YOUR-SITE.com/wp-content/plugins/YOUR-MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/notify_paypal.php
   and then refresh/check memberwing’s directory again – __log.php must be created now. If it still not created – make sure your directory is writable.
7. Are you testing with sandbox enabled in MemberWing admin settings but using Paypal button created within your real, non-sandbox account?
   This won’t work – if you test purchase with sandbox – everything, including your emails needs to be sandbox emails.
   Paypal pay url (encoded into the button’s code) needs to be sandbox url (www.sandbox.paypal.com) if you are testing in sandbox mode. This is common mistake when people enable sandbox mode and then trying to run test with buttons created in non-sandbox mode.
8. Check your inbox SPAM folder. Some email services try to filter spam too aggressively and many ligitimate emails are ending up in SPAM folders.
9. Diagnose Paypal IPN errors using Paypal IPN history page. To do that:
   - Login to your paypal account
   - Follow this link:https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-ipns-history
   It will show you your IPN activity history as well as any status codes that paypal received. This area of Paypal will show you all IPN activity history as well as possible error codes.
10. Did you change your domain name or wordpress address or blog subdirectory *after* setting up Buy/Subscribe button?
    In this case IPN notification will never reach your script.
    Make sure IPN points to the same site where MemberWing is installed.
11. To create test “purchase” manually without exchanging money, charging Paypal or credit cards – look into notify_test.php file located into memberwing’s directory. This file has instructions to follow if you want to “generate” test purchase manually and see what kind of emails your customers will be receiving and to test integration with autoresponder. This way you will also be able to test Aweber integration if wanted to.
    Please note that this feature does not include free support.
12. Do you have any caching plugins active? Disable caching plugin(s) and re-run tests.
13. Some plugins (notably “Bad Behavior plugin” is one of them) prohibit access to files by outside scripts, including Paypal payment notifier. See if you have any plugins running that may prevent IPN script to be accessed normally.
14. Same type of “blocking” could be introduced by hosting providers as part of their own anti-spam / anti-hacking efforts. Contact your hosting provider and make sure that they are not blocking calls to IPN scripts.

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 self-managed affiliate softwares, RAP automatically manages affiliate payoffs – in fact it happens right away and you don’t need to remember to allocate your precious time for housekeeping needs.

RAP includes templates to customize your sales pages any way you wish.

Here is a list of main features of Rapid Action Profits system:

• Complete integration and automation of sales functionality
• Instant affiliate sign-up without approval hassles. Helps to grow network of your affiliates the quickest way.
• Together with traditional marketing creatives and templates – includes peelaway ads and adsense ads templates.
• Includes equity partner to share portal revenues with other parties.
• Allows to offer 100% commission for your front-end offer and pay different commission levels to different affiliates and joint venture partners.
• System to manage and promote One Time Offers.
• Sales pages Split Testing capabilities
• Ability to create expirable and hidden downloadlinks for your digital products.
• Discount Coupon Management System

Rapid Action Profits has an active discussion forum where you’re more than welcome to chat with other users of this system.

What is MW Gradual Content delivery plugin?

MW Gradual Content Delivery wordpress plugin allows you to gradually release content (articles) to your visitors and members, depending on how long reader been a member with your blog. The longer user been a member – the more premium content he will see compare to the guy that just joined.

With MW Gradual Content you can preload your membership site with an excellent content but your visitors will be exposed to it gradually on a predefined schedule. This process is automatic, once you uploaded the articles and specified maturity for articles.

You are able to specify maturity per article which gives you fine grain control over your content.

What’s the benefits of using MW Gradual Content plugin?

Gradual content delivery, also known as content dripping (as well as bleeding of content) elevates your online membership site business to a next level.

1. Protects you from content leechers - people who subscribe, steal all your content and then unsubscribe (even requesting a refund).
2. Ability to have your paying members to stay with your recurring membership site business for longer.
3. Ability to automatically “evolve” your membership site’s content for premium members without your day to day involvement in the content delivery process.
   This opens doors for you to launch multiple automated membership site portals.
   Many membership sites could be launched with preloaded content prescheduled for gradual delivery.
4. Fine grained control of delivery schedule on a per post / per article basis.
5. Will work with other membership site software, such as WP Wishlist and others.

Your members will benefit from it as well. If your site is educational by nature – it will allow them not to get overwhlemed by lots of complex stuff and process and absorb information in a proper gradual step by step order.

All above benefits will translate into more money for your online membership business as well as happier and longer lasting relationship with your audience and customers.

How it works?

With MW Gradual Content Delivery plugin you use custom fields to specify ‘maturity‘ of each article in days. For the given article to be shown to member his maturity level (how long he has been a member) must be equal or exceeding the one specified. ‘Custom fields’ are small extra information areas available at the same screen where you editing your post/article – see picture below.

For example if specified article ‘maturity‘ is ‘60‘ then only users who been members for at least 60 days will be able to see the content of this article.
You specify each article maturity via custom field: ‘maturity‘ and set it’s value to a number of days.
Example: Key: maturity   Value: 30 – means for this article to be seen user must be a member for at least 30 days long with your membership site.

Specifying Article Maturity Level. Only members for at least 30 days could see this article.

What if “young” user will learn about URL from “old” user and try to access it?

He will see 404 error and will not be able to access this article until his membership term is mature enough.

I want to build membership site. Give me the list of what I need.

You need:

1. Website + wordpress installed and configured. Contact Us if you need help in that.
2. Membership site software plugin. Membership site software will take care of automated payments and creation of user groups and permission levels (depends on complexity of given plugin).  There are many available, including our own MemberWing membership site plugin.
   Above 2 steps will take care of creation and management of users and protected areas on your site.
   If you want to be able to gradually release content to your members, enjoy protection again leechers and keep your paying members for longer then you need …
3. MW Gradual Content delivery plugin.
   You may combine MW Gradual Content plugin with any membership site script or plugin, such as  with our own MemberWing Membership Site plugin. Although MW Gradual Content plugin was optimized and rigorously tested to work well with MemberWing. By combining both of these plugins you’ll get access to powerful fully featured membership site software solution.

I want fully featured but simple to use solution. I don’t have time to dig technology to make my business work. Is your software right for me?

• With MemberWing membership site plugin you create premium content just by virtue of inserting little marker {+++} inside the content like this:
  Free teaser available to attract visitors and search engines {+++} Premium content visible only to members...    Done.
• With Gradual Content plugin you schedule delivery of articles just by setting 1 custom field, for example:
  ‘maturity’ to ’30′ if you want this article to be visible only to ones who been members for at least 30 days.
  Rinse and repeat for other articles.
  Done.

Can’t get simpler than that and that’s what our users are loving it for.

Note: MW Gradual Content plugin is already integrated with premium editions of MemberWing membership site plugin.

Although if you are using membership plugins from different vendors – you may purchase MW Gradual Content plugin separately to enhance features of your existing membership sites:

1. Login to your WordPress admin panel
2. Go to: Settings – > General -> Membership
3. Check this: [x] Anyone can register
4. Set “New User Default Role” to “Bronze Member” – or whatever role you want free member to be.
5. 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.

• Desmond Ong (desmondblog.com):
  - Discount coupon codes for my membership site. They can get a cheaper subscription if they use a certain code.
  – One-time LIFETIME membership payment mode.
  • Answer:
    Both of these features could be implemented via e-junkie. E-junkie is an inexpensive “digital” shopping cart that is supported by MemberWing. It cost starting from $5 flat monthly. You may create a product at e-junkie named “Lifetime Membership” and integrate it with MemberWing so upon payment user will get logon immediately. Then use your e-junkie admin interface to generate discount coupon or gift certificate that users name be able to enter at checkout. It could be %-based, $-based, single use, multiple use, have expirations date, etc.. – very flexible and you can change it at any time to reflect current promotions.
    The only problem is that all will only work with single payment type of membership, not with recurring. E-junkie does not support recurring yet.
    Paypal supports entering coupons at a checkout but does not support generating coupons yet for reasons beyond me.
• Nikola Jankovic (peomedia.com):
  - recurring payment option
  – affiliate program for recurring payment
  – 2checkout payments
  • Answer:
    Recurring payments is supported via Paypal, and full membership automation is supported in MemberWing premium editions. Recurring payments + affiliate program is supported via PayDotCom. We are in process of integrating MemberWing with self-hosted scripts such as Post Affiliate Pro – coming soon.
    2Checkout payments are supported via e-junkie. The only thing to remember that e-junkie does not support recurring payments, although if you are ok with one-time membership scheme – it is great solution.
• Kevin at IT Europe:
  1. Removal of the branding on the free version.
  2. Integration with Community Builder.
  • Answer:
    Branding removal is of course possible but not with free version. That’s minor inconvenience that allows us to release and update free version and for you to launch fully featured membership site in minutes. Professional Editions of MemberWing all has branding removed.
    Community Builder I think is from Joomla world. While MemberWing is for WordPress only for now – but in a future we might look into partnerships with able Joomla guys to bring simplicity and power of MemberWing to Joomla as well. Not there yet though.
• Eric Scouten:
  1. I’m not interested in having multiple levels of membership and that seems to be pretty thoroughly built into MW.
  2. The state that I live in (Washington) requires that I collect sales tax for WA residents when selling access to digital downloads …
  • Answer:
    1. MW does support 4 levels of membership but it doesn’t mean you have to use all of them. You may use only 1 – no problems. It’s like owning BMW M5 – it can go to 238 km/h, but you don’t really have to drive that fast at all times. But potential is there in case you need it.
    2. Eric concerned about matching tax collections with local state requirements. This could be done via sophisticated shopping carts that might be aware of USA and local state tax codes. MemberWing does not do any shopping-carting and it won’t help you to buy more taxes for sure.
• Jobmass. com:
  I’m using another plug-in to restrict access to certain posts and pages- the user has to log in first.
  Would be great to incorporate this feature into memberwing
  • Answer:
    That’s EXACTLY what MemberWing does. And it’s basic version is free even!
• Likvid Design:
  Many people have subscriptions to tech sites from corporate accounts. This means that they’d like:
  – roaming accounts not locked to an email address
  – a good way to track and print receipts and invoices, preferably with billing history.
  It would be super if these features are added in.
  This is a great product! All the best to you.
  • Answer:
    MemberWing is not roaming account-aware app at this point. And definitely not going to be a competitor to Quickbooks or so for receipts/invoices/billing history tracking.
    What I see in a future is a possiblity of integration with other community softwares, like forums so that user will have single point payment and same login at different screens. Thank you for the kind words as well!
• Auntie Jo:
  That one is easy – based on a question I asked just a little while ago.
  I like the ease of use of the “content markers” – so simple to set up!
  BUT I would like a feature where you could (if necessary) use ALL markers on a single page/post – to enable you to give your members an ever increasing view of the post/page depending on their level of membership.
  i.e on the same page or post .
  • Answer:
    Auntie is talking about having post like that:
    …Free content {+}Bronze content {++}Now silver content {+++} And this one is for Gold members only, etc…
    Auntie, sincerely I was going to start with excuses “why it’s not possible…blah”, but then decided to look into code
    So the real answer is – it is possible to do and will take me about 3 hours to implement which I currently don’t have. If I will see more commercial interest in this feature – it might happen. Cannot give any promises regarding this feature yet.
• Daniel Correa:
  Hello
  I appreciate so much this plugin and it’s very util to me.
  The answer 1) The capacibility to work with 4 kinds of member, because it’s perfect to my model
  2) Im brasilian and have working with a brasilian payment system called pagseguro (http://pagseguro.uol.com.br) . Works like paypal, and I wish a automatic system to control de payment of users. Actually is a manual process. Im not using paypal becaus it’s very hard to transfer money to my country.
  • Answer:
    Sorry Daniel, no plans to implement this Brazilian payment system for now.
• Merka Dabzil:
  OK folks – here you go!
  – keep it simple. No need for another aMember…
  – maybe a module for safe (paid) downloads that can’t get ripped by any wannabe G00gle h4xx0r…
  – Only for WordPress. Period. And WordPress fully supported.
  – its cool you offer a version for free – but mentioning that it seems to be completely half-assed even without Paypal support only AFTER the download is somewhat… well, did encourage me not to install it. I would prefer a fully working time-limited trial so I can really decide what I am going to pay for.
  – option for fixed-term membership sites. No automatic infinite subscription, but limited to 12 months or 53 weeks of newsletter etc.
  …. ‘k, thats it for now…
  Seems to me like you almost nailed it. Some polishing, and this should do very well – there is a lot of demand for a simple and WORKING WP membership plugin.
  Cheers and keep up the great work!
  • Answer:
    – Safe downloads “module” is perfectly handled by ejunkie with which MemberWing works well. So the answer here is “yes”.
    – WordPress *is* indeed.
    – Well free version does support paypal but of course you’d need to add/remove users manually.
    – Option for what you name “fix term” membership sites is fully supported by Paypal “Buy”, “Pay now” buttons as well as via e-junkie’s facilities, as well as via PayDotCom affiliate network.
    Full automation of payments+users for above features is supported by MemberWing Professional
    – …and you’re right about polishing – doing it almost non-stop!
• Phil Meyer:
  One feature which I think would be pretty great would be to optionally allow one’s members to post on the blog, and in doing so:
  * set how many times a member (according to level, but possible individual override) can post within a selected timeframe;
  * select whether a member’s post should be published immediately or pend review (according to level, but possible individual override – possibly also a “trust” system whereby a member’s posts are automatically published after x number of successful posts);
  * possibility to sell the ability to post at various levels to non-members.
  Something like that…
  • Answer:
    These are interesting community-like features. At this point MemberWing offers webmaster to be the only publisher of premium contents. No prerequisites for managing other members publishing credentials. Thanks for letting me know about your features of interest though.
• Dan Ashton:
  The ability to release new content every month would be great, so that someone joining six months after someone else only gets to see Month 1 content, for example).
  • Answer:
    Brownie point for Dan – he was first
    This is the next big feature that it currently in the works to get into the next major release of MemberWing. The only thing is once this feature will be announced – the cost of MemberWing Premium will go up big time – so to lock your cost base and get this feature – order Pro version *before* the announcement.
• Ron Taggy:
  This plugin totally rocks…I have a big requirement and this is the main one that’s preventing me from using it completely on all my sites…
  * The ability to drip content, so members don’t get access to all the content at the same time. So, let’s say, I put out new content every single month. When someone joins today, I only want him to see Month 1 content and not everything at the same time. Each month, he will get access to the next set of content etc
  • Answer:
    You’ll get it. See my answer to Dan Ashton above.

• Erlend Førsund:

  The biggest challenge in creating a membership site I think is to set up the payment functions with paypal.
  Some kind of tutorial or service would be very welcome.
  Erlend (Norway)

  • Answer:
    I do plan to put more detailed step by step tutorials on setting up paypal and other payment processors and affiliate networks. Step by step – more good stuff will come soon!

More answers will be coming soon!

Multifunctional WordPress Membership Site plugin

User’s Guide

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Installation and Configuration:

1. Download the latest version of MemberWing
2. Unzip and upload ‘member-wing‘ directory into ./wp-content/plugins
   So the resulted directory is: ./wp-content/plugins/member-wing
3. Activate it: goto dashboard, Plugins -> Member Wing -> Activate
4. 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.
5. Make a note of “Premium Content Warning Message”. This message will be displayed to an 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. Create this page and describe the benefits of joining your membership site. Paste your Paypal’s “Subscribe” button code.

Integration with Paypal.com :

1. Make a note of “Paypal IPN code…” text field inside MemberWing admin settings area. This string needs to be copied into your paypal subscription button code into “advanced variables” (see Step 3 – “customize advanced features” below)

Setup Automated Payment processing and user management features.
Go to your Paypal account and create subscription button. While logged into your paypal account follow these steps:

1. You need to have Paypal Business or Premier account to have IPN enabled. If your account is not Business or Premier – you need to upgrade it first using whatever instructions Paypal provides you with.
   If your account is Business or Premier and IPN is enabled enabled – you may proceed. If you are not sure about your IPN settings- do this:
   – Go to My account->Profile->Selling Preferences->Instant Payment Notification Preferences.
   – Press [Edit] button and enable it: [x]
   – Set notification URL to the root page of your domain: http://www.yourdomain.com/ Why root? It really doesn’t matter in this area as long as you set this URL to the domain that belongs to you. You will customize actual Paypal notification URL further down for each button that you will generate. (IPN URL for your subscription buttons must point to the MemberWing’s plugin notify.php script)
2. Go to: Merchant Services->”Create buttons”->”Subscribe”. These options might be named a bit differently for your specific paypal setup. You need to find an area for subscription button creation.
3. Step 1 (Choose button type …): Accept payments for…: “Subscriptions and recurring billing”
4. Item name – set a name for your membership, such as “John’s Success Blog Gold Membership”. Ignore subscription ID.
   NOTE: It is very important so that the name of your subscription will contain either of these words: “bronze“, “silver“, “gold” or “platinum“. MemberWing will use the name of your subscription to know which member group new paid user should be added to.
   If you need only 1 subscription level – then you don’t have to use any of the above words. In this case MemberWing will automatically add new paid member to the “Gold Members” group and you’ll need to use “gold” separator to define premium contents, such as:
   …free teaser…{+++}premium contents starts here…
5. Further down: “Customize Button” -> [x] Add text field. This is important step to offer your new member to pick his username/password.
6. “Enter name of text field” = “Desired username:”
7. “Add another text field” -> “Enter name” = “Desired password:”
   NOTE: desired User ID and Password fields that you just created – must be present and in this same order for payment automation to work properly.
   NOTE: Do NOT check “Have Paypal create usernames and passwords”. Leave it unchecked.
8. UPDATE: You may skip creation of username:/password: fields. If these filed will not be created MemberWing will generate username and password for customer.
9. “Customize appearance” – feel free to change anything there.
10. Further down set currency, recurring amount, billing cycle, etc.
11. Step 2 (Track inventory): you don’t need to do anything here as we are talking information access subscription.
12. Step 3 (Customize Advanced Features):
    You need to have Paypal business account to have IPN enabled. If it is enabled – you may proceed. If not – you’ll see a message:
    “Upgrade to a PayPal business account…”. Follow steps to do that. After that:
13. Check if you want customer’s shipping address. It is recommended to enable it as it will let you market to your customers by mail as well.
14. Check [x]“Advanced Variables” and paste into the text field the code that is shown inside MemberWing’s configuration area under
    “Paypal IPN code to be used during creation of Paypal Subscription button”. This line should look like:
    notify_url=http://www.memberwing.com/wp-content/plugins/member-wing/notify.php
    (but with your domain name of course). Copy and paste this line into “Advanced variables” text field.
15. Press “Create Button”.
16. Repeat above steps for each membership subscription button you want to create. MemberWing supports 4 levels of membership and if you want to use, say, 3 levels for your premium membership site – you’ll need to create 3 subscription buttons.

Integration with 2Checkout.com :

1. In your WordPress admin area, left sidebar,  goto Settings->MemberWing Plugin
2. Find area named: “2Checkout.com integration”. Copy/paste URL from the edit field. It will look like this:
   http://www.Your-Website.com/wp-content/plugins/Memberwing-Directory/notify_2co.php
3. Copy this URL (you will be pasting it into your 2Checkout’s admin panel soon.
4. Login to your 2checkout.com vendor administration panel.
   https://www.2checkout.com/2co/login
   Make sure you’ll use “New Vendor Admin Area”
5. Navigate to Account->Notifications
6. Find “Global URL” area. Paste URL from MemberWing’s admin area in here.
7. Press [Apply] button.
8. Check radiobutton named  (x)-Enable All Notifications
9. Press proper [Apply] button. This will populate URLs in other edit fields on this screen.
10. Scroll down on this screen and at the very bottom press [Save Settings] button.
11. Above will cause any sales/refund event to send notification directly to MemberWing script. MemberWing script will pick up notification and will perform appropriate action, such as adding or removing users from your member’s list automatically.
12. You, as administrator, will get notifications by email whenever these actions will happen.
13. TIP: To  generate “buy” button for your recurring subscriptions:
    1. Goto Products->View, click on little “screen” next to your product.
    2. Copy HTML code into the “join” page of your blog.
    3. TIP: within given HTML code you may replace ‘action’ URL to “one page checkout” URL:
       https://www.2checkout.com/checkout/spurchase 
       That will streamline the checkout process for your customers even more.

Integration with PayDotCom.com :

1. Login to PayDotCom.com
2. Go to: My Products tab->Create a new product ( or My Products tab->View/Edit my products)
3. Create new subscription product (or edit existing one).
4. Set product Title, such as “John’s Success Blog Gold Membership”.
   NOTE: It is very important so that the name of your subscription product will contain either of these words: “bronze“, “silver“, “gold” or “platinum“. MemberWing will use the name of your subscription to know which member group new paid user should be added to.
   If you need only 1 subscription level – then you don’t have to use any of the above words. In this case MemberWing will automatically add new paid member to the “Gold Members” group and you’ll need to use “gold” separator to define premium contents, such as:
   …free teaser…{+++}premium contents starts here…
   If you will not use any of above keywords to define your product – then MemberWing will assign all users to “Gold” membership level.
   
5. Click on “Payment Settings”.
6. Find area named: “IPN URL:“
7. Paste into this area URL snippet found under your MemberWing administrative settings / PayDotCom IPN URL code to be used…:
   WordPress Settings->MemberWing plugin->PayDotCom IPN URL code to be used…
8. Fill in all other subscription product details at your PayDotCom product creation screens.
9. [Save]
10. Go to:  My Products tab->View/Edit my products
11. Find your product there and click: Make Payment Button.
12. Copy/Paste snippet of PayDotCom “buy” code into your “join” page.

Integration with ClickBank.com :

1. Goto Clickbank.com and create single payment or recurring membership product:
   Clickbank.com ->Login->Account settings->My Products
2. Get it approved by Clickbank
3. Goto Clickbank.com ->Login->Account settings->My site->Advanced tools->Edit
   - Come up with- and enter secret key
   - Click “request access” for instant notification URL
   - Change all “NO” to “YES”
   - Scroll “Terms of use” and check “I understand…” checkbox: [x]
   - Click [Save Changes & Request API access] button
   You should get message “You have been enabled for instant notification”
4. Login to WordPress admin at: www.YOUR-SITE.com/wp-admin
5. Go to Settings->MemberWing plugin
6. Find area “Your Clickbank Secret Key”- enter your secret key over there
7. Find area “Clickbank product keyword”. Enter the keyword that appears in the name of your membership product. For example: membership or gold.
   When someone purchases one of your clickbank products – MemberWing will be notified by Clickbank via integration mechanism every time for every purchase.
   But only the product names that contain above keyword (in case-insensitive manner) will be processed by MemberWing. Others will be ignored.
   If this keyword field is left empty – all sales from clickbank will be processed as membership sales by MemberWing and all purchasers will become premium members.
8. Find area “Clickbank Instant Notification URL” – and copy URL that is listed over there
9. Go back to: Clickbank->Account settings->My site->Advanced tools->Edit
10. Paste URL into “Instant Notification URL” field
    - Press small “(test)”link.
    - Wait few seconds until message “The test notification successfully sent…” small window appears
    - Close this small notification window
    - Press [Save] button.
11. Now Instant Notification URL should be visible at:
    Clickbank->Account settings->My site->Advanced tools->Edit screen, together with your secret key
12. Now whenever someone purchase your membership product via clickbank (one-time payment or recurring) – new customer will automatically
    become a premium user at your MemberWing-controlled membership site.
13. To set Clickbank product in TEST mode follow these instructions:
    http://www.clickbank.com/vendor_tools.html#Vendor_Tools_12

Integration with AWeber autoresponder

You may integrate MemberWing with AWeber autoresponder system so that every new subscriber will automatically be added to your mailing list at AWEBER.com. To do that follow these steps:

1. Login to your WordPress admin panel and follow to Settings->MemberWing plugin
2. Find section named “Integration with AWeber autoresponder”
3. Check [x] Enable integration with Aweber autoresponder service.
4. Enter address of your list at aweber in the format: your-list-name@aweber.com
5. Press [Save] to save MemberWing settings.
6. Login to your Aweber admin panel and activate MemberWing parser for your list. If you cannot find MemberWing parser – you need to open ticket with AWeber or by sending email to help@aweber.com
   Request MemberWing parser to be activated for your list. Please mention that MemberWing parser is already created (it is paid by us, MemberWing) and they just need to enable it for your list.
   Once MemberWing parser is activated – you are ready to go.

Integration with MailChimp autoresponder.

You may integrate MemberWing with MailChimp autoresponder in the same fashion as with AWeber. MemberWing supports both autoresponders simultaneously if you wish. To enable integration of MailChimp with your membership site please follow these steps:

1. Login to your WordPress admin panel and follow to Settings->MemberWing plugin
2. Find section named “Integration with MailChimp autoresponder”
3. Check [x] Enable integration with MailChimp autoresponder service.
4. In “Your MailChimp API key” enter your Mailchimp API key. Get your Mailchimp API key on this page.
5. In “Your list ID number” enter your mailchimp list ID. To get list id, login to your mailchimp admin panel, then go to lists, Click “settings” for your list and find it’s ID at the bottom of that page.
6. Press [Save] to save MemberWing settings.
7. Now every time new user paid to join your membership site – he will also get into your mailchimp list.

Mailchimp also allows you to pass custom username/password login information that customer created via Paypal (see Paypal integration above with “desired username”, “desired password” fields) directly into welcome email that will be sent to this customer. This will ensure reliable delivery of login credentials to your new customer and reduce possibility of loss of email into spam folder.

To have Mailchimp deliver username/password information with welcome email please follow these steps:

• Go to your MailChimp Lists (create one if it’s not created yet).
• For your list – click on “forms” link.
• in “forms & response emails” click “Final ‘Welcome’ Email“.
• Find and click on tab “Build it“.
• On the lower right of that page find “add a field” tab and click it. You will need to create 2 new fields: USERNAME and PASSWORD.
• Click “text” as a type of field to enter.
  • field label: Username
  • field tag: USERNAME
  • field size: medium
  • required – unchecked
  • field visibility: visible
  • Click [Save field] button to save it.
• Click “add a field” tab again. Repeat the steps above but use ‘Password’ for label, and ‘PASSWORD’ for field tag.
• Above the list editing window (above [edit], [remove], [use images] buttons) click [Save] button.
• If you want more control over the form content – you need to use Advanced Mode.
  • To switch to advanced mode – click on “advanced mode” link at the bottom of the page.
  • Click [Switch] on confirmation dialog
  • Click on Final “Welcome to our list” Email
  • Now you may edit exact wording of text and HTML version of “Welcome to our list” Email.
    Don’t forget to preview and then save each one
  • To switch back to “Visual Designer” – Click on [create forms] button at the top and then [Switch to Visual Designer] big button.

Integration with Rapid Action Profits (RAP):

1. Please note that in order to process recurring payments with RAP you’ll also need RAP recurring payment addon. Without it you may only be able to process single one-time payment.
2. Install and activate MemberWing plugin
3. Install and configure RAP, create at least one membership product that will be used with MemberWing.
4. Unzip memberwing_rap.zip and copy all addon files inside RAP installation:
   …/rap_admin/addons/RAP/memberwing_rap/
   so that addon’s files will end in this location:
   …/rap_admin/addons/RAP/memberwing_rap/install.php
   …/rap_admin/addons/RAP/memberwing_rap/ipn.php
   …etc…
5. Go to RAP administration screen, Addons, click on MemberWing addon and have it installed.
   Confirm successful installation (3 green checkmarks)
6. Click again: Addons->MemberWing addon and addon’s administration screen will open.
   You will need to do 2 things:
   – Paste integration code from MemberWing plugin’s
   – Select product(s) that will be integrated with MemberWing – usually your “memberships”.
7. Login to your WordPress site’s admin panel at:
   http://www.YOUR-SITE.com/wp-admin
8. Go to Settings->MemberWing plugin and find section named: “MemberWing + Rapid Action Profits Integration code”
9. Copy code from this section.
10. Go back to RAP administration -> MemberWing addon’s administration screen.
    Paste the code into the proper field (RAP+MemberWing integration Code)
11. Select product(s) to be integrated with MemberWing – usually it is “premium membership” products.
12. Press [Save Settings]

If no error messages appeared – your RAP is successfully integrated with MemberWing now.
Now every time new customer purchased your membership product – MemberWing will create a proper premium account for him.
Your membership product name is used to determine his membership level. Use keywords: “bronze”, “silver”, “gold” or “platinum” in product name as a hint. If no keywords are used in product name – default level “Gold” will be assigned to new customer.

If you want to disconnect/deactivate integration between MemberWing and RAP – go to RAP administration screen, MemberWing addon, uncheck all products and press [Save Settings].

MembeWing Usage :

1. Inside your article (or page) body insert premium contents marker like this:
   My first premium article:
   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.
   My another premium article:
   Free teaser part visible for everyone. {+} This part is only visible to Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum members.

2. You may insert these markers into already existing articles as well and they will become protected.
3. If for some reason you cannot use Paypal IPN – payment notification functionality – you’ll have to add each premium member manually upon successful payment. You’ll also need to remove member from “premium” group if he cancels his subscription.
   To 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.
   Don’t forget to remove user if he cancels subscription.
   NOTE: This step is not necessary if you properly created subscription buttons with IPN code enambed as described in “Setup Automated Payment processing and user management features” above.
4. 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.

Demo:

Check out our Demo category with samples of articles written for Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum members.

To get access to our “premium” demo articles please try logging in as one of the above premium users.

At the right bottom corner of our website you may find administrative area where you can try logging in and logging out.

Logins and Passwords are:

Bronze User: bronze/bronze
Silver User: silver/silver
Gold User: gold/gold
Platinum User: platinum/platinum

Which hosting service provider to choose?

After trying handful of hosting providers over the years I gradually moving my sites and blogs to Hostgator. I spent quite a long time hosting with plethora of overpriced providers ending with 1and1 in 2002. While they (1&1) do receive their share of online flames they were doing rather ok for my needs.
Last year I discovered and was actually impressed by the performance of websites hosted off hostgator‘s simple shared account. I signed up with them and on quite a few occasions was pleasantly surprised by the quality of their tech support. These guys are really willing to take extra steps to solve your issues.  And also have to admit that 80% of my blames to them were actually ended up being caused by either my own actions or crippled environments I was working from.
Also little known fact – Hostgator offers dedicated IP address for only $2/mo. Having dedicated IP address (note – not the same as dedicated server) allows you to run your site and feel safe that no spammers or porn is sharing same IP  with you. Also this is good way to hide your online business project locations from spies and nosy competitors who are always sniffing for opportunities.
Hostgator also offers “reseller” accounts where you can become you own “little hosting” provider for your clients.

Anyways – if you are looking for hosting provider – you got a choice to consider.
I also strongly recommend choosing hosting provider that offers SSH (secure shell) access with SVN available. Having SSH access gives you capability to upload and download files to your website securely.
SVN(subversion version control system) gives you capability to install and upgrade WordPress in seconds instead of going through painstaking FTP based multi-step procedures. Installing and upgrading wordpress using SSH+SVN is easy, fast, secure and quick. I no longer use FTP for these purposes.

Installing WordPress. The Right Way.

I presume that you’ve already opened an account with your hosting provider. Normally you install WordPress in either of 3 ways:

1. Using hoster’s control panel (usually Fantastico app panel). This does it all for you, but I never used it as I wanted to make sure I know what goes where and how. Fantastico is for whimps.
2. Using FTP download. Get files to your local computer, extract and then copy them to remote. Takes long time and too many steps. For unaware webmasters. Here are instructions if word “ftp” feels warm for you: Install wordpress using FTP.
3. Using SSH/SVN. For cool geeky-ish webmasters. Da best.

I strongly suggest using the latter method as it is fastest, most secure and allows easy upgrade of wordpress installs down the road in the most straightforward fashion. And hence i’ll describe it in a bit more details.
First you will need to create MySQL database for your wordpress + user account (with username/password access to database). Hostgator’s and any other standard Cpanel is perfectly suitable for this need. 1and1‘s panel is clunky, slow, old, non-standard and sucks – and that is one of the reason I am moving away from them gradually. Although it definitely does it too.
After creating database and user account we proceed with actual WordPress install and configuration.

So here we proceeding with SSH/SVN sequence:
If you run Windows locally (like I do) I suggest using PUTTY – SSH client for windows. Download and install putty.
Run Putty and connect it to your hoster’s IP address, port (Hostgator usually gives you port 2222 for shell) type your userid and password.
Once logged in – get into the root folder of your website. If you are hosting with Hostgator – it is most likely ‘public_html’:

 $ cd public_html

Once there – issue a command to retrieve the latest stable version of WordPress.
NOTE: For exact command syntax please refer to this page under “New Install” subsection as you will need to adjust actual command syntax for the most recent stable version number:

 $ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7 .

It will normally take just a few seconds to download the complete set of WordPress files.
Once done – rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php:

 $ mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

After that edit wp-config.php file and include your database and user’s parameters into it. I really think WordPress could make this step a bit more user friendly for beginners, just like other mature CMS-es do.
Use ‘nano’ – a little kinda user-friendly editor for mortals. If you’re immortal with long beard – ‘vi’ editor is an option too. ‘vi’ is not recommended for mortals as it drives people to suicides after realizing that doing very simple things (like moving cursor or deleting 1 character) actually requires memorizing violently long and convoluted sequences of obscure combinations of unintuitive buttons.

 $ nano wp-config.php

Insert proper names for database, username and password that you’ve created previously:
…….
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘your_db_name‘);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘your_db_user_name‘);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘PassW0rd‘);

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost‘);
…….

Save (Ctrl+O, [Enter]) and exit (Ctrl+X).

You’re almost ready.
Launch your browser and navigate to your website:
http://www.your-domain.com/
WordPress will guide you through few initial steps installing and configuring your blog and your ‘admin’ account and giving you obscure looking password.
For the very first step I suggest to login with your admin account to control panel and change your main admin’s account password.
Go ahead, login and at dashboard go to:
Users->”admin” and change password to something more meaningful for you.

You are done with initial install and configuration of your WordPress!

Few notes about upgrading WordPress and old-style installs of WordPress.

WordPress is constantly improving, new releases and bug fixes are happening every so often.
When your wordpress blog is installed using SVN method the upgrades are one-line easy.
When you need to upgrade WordPress just do this:

1. Login to your website using SSH / Putty as described above.
2. Enter into the root directory of your domain.
3. Issue this command:

   $ svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7/ .

   Please note that version number will need to be adjusted to the most recent – always refer to this WordPress Upgrade Instructions page for the exact version.

4. Access this page from your browser:

   http://www.your-domain.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

5. Done!

If you have WordPress-based portal that has been installed using traditional FTP methods it would be a good idea to “convert” it to SVN-type install to make your life easier to do further WordPress upgrades down the road. This procedure described quite well in details at WordPress site here.
Just follow steps to Converting a “Traditional” WordPress Blog to a Subversion Checkout.

Congratulations, you got solid foundation to built on!

MemberWing 2.0 – the all new super improved and updated version of wordpress membership site plugin just been released. Fresh and warm off the hard working test press!

MemberWing is the only plugin in The World that support the following features at ZERO COST:

• Up to 4 Levels of membership for webmaster to choose from.
• SEO Optimized design, allowing search engines to index teasers of premium articles and drive traffic with more prospects toward your membership site right off the bat.
• Fully automated Paypal membership payment system integration. As soon as user paid – system will join user automatically. As soon as member cancelled subscription – MemberWing plugin will remove him automatically.
  Let MemberWing process your payments and do housekeeping while you’ll be working on your great premium contents.
• Simplicty of operation. I mean, just type inside your article this: {+++} and anything after that little marker would become “premium contents”, accessible only to premium members. Anything above that marker is a “teaser” visible and ranked by search engines and available for free visitors. Enough to get them excited to join your portal. Can’t get simpler than that.
• Support any and all themes.
• Support for old and new articles. Convert your good old stuff to “premium” money making contents if you wish.
• Speed and performance.
• ZERO COST.
• Did I mention that it’s a bit cheaper than any other offering on the market?

‘Nuff Said.

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