Hello everybody and welcome to another installment of this blog and what I’m researching at the moment is the possibility of using WordPress themes, either paid or free, as a means of creating a secure membership site where you can put valuable content for your members and most importantly, be able to have it automatically drip-fed to those members’ each month after verifying that they have indeed paid for it first.
If anyone has already setup such a site, I’d really love to hear your comments as to how easy it was, which theme you decided to go for in the end and why you came to that decision. I’ve looked around a lot myself and it can seem pretty confusing as to which is the best and most cost-effective option for your situation and a lot of these membership scripts and themes are not cheap. As an average price, you’re looking at around $300 for the more well-known ones like Digital Access Pass, WishList Member, AMember Pro, Magic Members, OptimizePress, etc. There are some cheaper alternatives such as DLGuard at around $150 but although that protects your content, it isn’t designed to drip feed it to your members and these days, that’s what most people want.
If you wanted to move away from a blog or have a regular non-Wordpress site then I found an excellent alternative in 90 Second Website Builder and the developer Greg Hughes, is super-helpful and quick when it comes to answering pre-sales questions. His video tutorials on how to use the program are second-to-none and he goes into great detail about how to setup a membership site using 90 Second Website Builder and a MySQL database. If that’s too techie for some people then Welly Mulia’s Profits Theme for WordPress is a very viable alternative to any of those I’ve already mentioned above as it has a built-in protected membership function, something that WishList Member and OptimizePress do not. With both of those, you still need to find a way to protect the content, obviously at extra cost to the theme itself. Not ideal.
Rather than me try and explain everything that this theme does, you can check out Profits Theme by clicking the image below to go straight to their sales page to find out more and if you want the free templates as well, just exit the page….
So after a lot of research and investigation, this is the one I’m going to play around with for a bit mainly because it has the membership function built right into the theme plus it can also generate sales pages, optin pages and all the other types of page you need for an internet marketing website and it’s no more expensive than some of its’ rivals. I’ll keep you posted how I get on with it but I’d love to hear from anyone who’s maybe using this theme already or a different theme or membership script that can drip-feed content so please do comment. Thanks and talk to ya soon…



























