Thanks for a great post and glad to hear you like WishList Member

I’m actually one of the co-creators and thought I’d jump in to answer a couple questions that came up regarding “Forum Integration” and adding an “Affiliate Program”.

1) Forum Integration – Many of our other customers have shared that the BBPress.org plugin works well with WL Member as well as SimplePress (http://simplepressforum.com/) since they both the same user database as WL Member.

As long as you had a link to the forum on your blog, non-members wouldn’t be able to see it or access it without logging in first (if you used the hide/show feature).

We will be coming out with an add-on soon that will allow deeper forum integration (protecting parts of a forum) but for now this “all” or “no” access will work.

2) Affiliate Integration – It’s important to note that WishList Member does currently integrate with other affiliate management tracking systems.

Many of our customers are currently using Clickbank.com and 1ShoppingCart.com to successfully manage their affiliates so it is possible to setup a membership site using WL Member and have an affiliate program at the same time.

Essentially, it would work just like any other product that you would setup with these programs. You would just give the URL of your membership site as the product URL and then any person that is sent to your site through an affiliate link will automatically be cookied. Therefore if they buy, the affiliate will be credited accordingly.

With that said, we also just finished development on our Full Integration with iDev Affiliate Tracking.

This is in the final beta testing and is scheduled to be released before the end of the month.

So this would allow to you have Full Integration with iDev which manages affiliate programs for many payment processors.

Hopefully that helps.

If anyone has any other questions you can always reach us at our support desk here:

http://www.wishlistproducts.com/support

All the best.

Stu McLaren

Thanks for a great post and glad to hear you like WishList Member

I’m actually one of the co-creators and thought I’d jump in to answer a couple questions that came up regarding “Forum Integration” and adding an “Affiliate Program”.

1) Forum Integration – Many of our other customers have shared that the BBPress.org plugin works well with WL Member as well as SimplePress (http://simplepressforum.com/) since they both the same user database as WL Member.

As long as you had a link to the forum on your blog, non-members wouldn’t be able to see it or access it without logging in first (if you used the hide/show feature).

We will be coming out with an add-on soon that will allow deeper forum integration (protecting parts of a forum) but for now this “all” or “no” access will work.

2) Affiliate Integration – It’s important to note that WishList Member does currently integrate with other affiliate management tracking systems.

Many of our customers are currently using Clickbank.com and 1ShoppingCart.com to successfully manage their affiliates so it is possible to setup a membership site using WL Member and have an affiliate program at the same time.

Essentially, it would work just like any other product that you would setup with these programs. You would just give the URL of your membership site as the product URL and then any person that is sent to your site through an affiliate link will automatically be cookied. Therefore if they buy, the affiliate will be credited accordingly.

With that said, we also just finished development on our Full Integration with iDev Affiliate Tracking.

This is in the final beta testing and is scheduled to be released before the end of the month.

So this would allow to you have Full Integration with iDev which manages affiliate programs for many payment processors.

Hopefully that helps.

If anyone has any other questions you can always reach us at our support desk here:

http://www.wishlistproducts.com/support

All the best.

Stu McLaren

I used both Wp + Amember and WP + Your Member.
For relatively simple memership sites I had good results even with free plugins and a paypal account.

From my experience AMember is a “must have” only if you need to manage affiliates but for most membership is just too much.

But, really, if one need just to require a payment for register a user to WP there are some pretty good free plugin avaiable. Sure you need to combine two or more to achieve the attended results but when you have done it once, the process is the same for all the memership sites you’ll create.

Too bad that there isn’t a good affiliate manager plugin for WP…

Stefano

I used both Wp + Amember and WP + Your Member.
For relatively simple memership sites I had good results even with free plugins and a paypal account.

From my experience AMember is a “must have” only if you need to manage affiliates but for most membership is just too much.

But, really, if one need just to require a payment for register a user to WP there are some pretty good free plugin avaiable. Sure you need to combine two or more to achieve the attended results but when you have done it once, the process is the same for all the memership sites you’ll create.

Too bad that there isn’t a good affiliate manager plugin for WP…

Stefano

I think a mini-tutorial on serving up files that are stored with the Amazon AWS system would be great. I do my backups with that service but I’ve never used it for file sharing. For example, as I build my WP membership site, I’m not sure how to actually locate the URL of my media files to link to them in pages and posts.

Thanks.

I think a mini-tutorial on serving up files that are stored with the Amazon AWS system would be great. I do my backups with that service but I’ve never used it for file sharing. For example, as I build my WP membership site, I’m not sure how to actually locate the URL of my media files to link to them in pages and posts.

Thanks.

Thanks Chris

Thanks Chris