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I was blown away by the demo of Woo Theme’s new course managment plugin, Sensei. I haven’t had an opportunity to use it in a production site yet, but I already have several candidates that look like a good fit. Sensei uses the WordPress Custom Post Types to make it easy to create entire courses [...]
Here’s a quick video that shows you how to manually add new members to your WishList Member powered membership site.
If you missed Apple’s big announcement about it’s new textbook publishing platform recently, you’re not alone. Without the hoopla of a major device launch the textbook publishing announcement didn’t get the attention of the average consumer. But buried within the announcement was a nugget that could be a very valuable tool for membership site owners. [...]
When we build client websites we try to use premium plugins as much as possible. Like themes, premium plugins form reliable developers are better supported and updated frequently. One of our favorite plugin publishers is Pluginbuddy (a division of iThemes) who has created a series of Displaybuddy tools one of which is Rotating Images. Although [...]
Some of the cool new features in WordPress 3.3 are compelling reasons to upgrade. In fact I plan to upgrade a few of my sites when things quite down around here. However we’ve seen at leas one plugin (for now) cause major problems (like you can’t login) that makes me think you should use a [...]
Some people claim that WordPress isn’t secure because it is open source (free), which means that hackers can easily access the software to find holes in its security. Which is silly. Yes, WordPress is free and hackers have easy access to it, but so what? Hackers can easily download pirated copies of software they want. [...]
An often overlooked yet powerful sales tool built into WishList Member are the non-member and wrong level error pages. When set up properly non-members and existing members who try to access protected content will be redirected to the page of your choice…hopefully one with a powerful sales message. The setup is easy. Here’s how to [...]
Website security is like health insurance – you never really worry about it until you absolutely, positively need it and it’s too late to get it. You may think, “That can’t happen to me” or “I’m busy…I’ll get to it next week.” Famous last words! Every day, hosting servers get fried, hackers break into accounts, [...]
Woo Themes is very popular among membership site owners. WishList Member uses a few a few Woo Themes on as to many of our clients here. One of the biggest news stories in the WordPress world last week was Woo’s launch of their free eCommerce plugin Woocommerce. This morning I saw that Jeff Chandler [...]
One of the key questions new membership site owners ask is whether to use PayPal by itself or a shopping cart service like 1ShoppingCart. There’s no easy answer to this question as there are advantages and trade-offs to each. In order to help you make a more informed decision we will compare using PayPal by [...]
