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How to Filter WordPress Posts by Category

September 26, 2015 By Bob Patterson Leave a Comment

WordPress is a very powerful content management tool with lots of ways to slice and dice your content. When you have a large number of posts it can become difficult to sort them. Well, categories to the rescue. When you categorize your posts you are essentially putting them into buckets. And you can apply more […]

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How to mass import new members into WishList Member

September 23, 2015 By Bob Patterson Leave a Comment

Many new membership site owners ask how to import a large number of new members at one time. Fortunately WishList has a feature that allows you to import a simple Excel csv file with as many members as you like. All you have to do is download a template from WishList Member, add your member […]

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Avoid Credit Card Cancellations with the WishList Member – Stripe Integration

May 4, 2015 By Bob Patterson Leave a Comment

The WishList Member – Stripe integration is an excellent way to accept credit cards without the expense of a full-blown shopping cart and merchant account expenses. However like everything else it does have it’s limitations. One of the biggest tradeoffs for using this simple solution is that neither Stripe nor WishList Member is setup to […]

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Top Three Attributes of Successful Membership Site Owners

April 1, 2015 By Bob Patterson Leave a Comment

Why do some people have successful membership sites (or any business for that matter) while others struggle? I’ve wondered that myself and decided to find the common denominators among the more successful. Over the past six years I’ve worked with nearly 200 different membership sites. Some are wildly successful and others sadly are not. Why […]

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How to add a new email account to your web hosting account with cPanel

March 3, 2015 By Bob Patterson Leave a Comment

Because most of our clients are hosted on web servers using the popular cPanel interface I thought I’d do a quick video that shows how to add a new email account. There are literally dozens (probably hundreds)of different email services and hosting platforms so it’s impossible to show how to do this on all of […]

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How to embed media files stored in Amazon S3

February 26, 2015 By Bob Patterson Leave a Comment

  Here’s how to embed a media file that is stored in your Amazon S3 account. https://s3.amazonaws.com/wishlist-master/Blog+Videos/embed-media-files-s3.mp4

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How to Use Amazon S3 and embed video links in WordPress

February 20, 2015 By Bob Patterson Leave a Comment

In this video I’ll show you how to use the Amazon S3 console to upload video files, make them visible to the public and embed them in a WordPress page or post. Here’s the link to the Amazon S3 Console page. Related Posts: How to open an Amazon S3 account

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WishList Member member list vs WordPress User List

July 24, 2014 By Bob Patterson Leave a Comment

Do you wonder about the difference between the Member List built into WishList Member and the User List that is part of WordPress? You’re not alone. The WordPress User List is part of the core functionality of the software. It gives the ability to add, delete and mange users within WordPress. The WishList Member “Member […]

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How to Get an Amazon S3 Account and Connect it to Backupbuddy

July 21, 2014 By Bob Patterson Leave a Comment

We install Backupbuddy on almost all of our client WishList Member (and other) membership sites, and advise everyone to setup an Amazon S3 account to use for remote backup storage (among other things). Here’s the link to open an account: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ Amazon S3 is a simple web storage service that gives you the ability to […]

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How to backup your WishList Membership site with Backupbuddy

July 19, 2014 By Bob Patterson Leave a Comment

There are many ways to backup your WordPress site, but my very favorite is Backupbuddy. This easy-to-use backup plugin is made by the folks at iThemes. It’s not free, but well worth the investment. Backupbuddy gives you the ability to backup your entire site or just your database with one click of the mouse. It […]

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