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Wishlist Member - Wordpress Membership Site Plugin Review

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How I Discovered the Wishlist Member Plugin for Wordpress

"How can I Make a Membership Site Based on Wordpress?"

That's the mission I originally set out on when the time came to create my first Membership Site. You see, I've had tons of experience with Wordpress and decided that if there were a way to create a Membership Site using a plugin or something similar it would probably work out a lot easier than learning two whole new systems at once.

After all is said and done I probably spent about a week trawling through search results, scraping forum posts and reading blog reviews before I came to the conclusion to purchase Wishlist Member. There were actually quite a few Wordpress membership plugins it turns out but the best appeared to be Wishlist Member. The closest competitor was a plugin called WP Member but there were a few things that knocked it down such as being subscription based and requiring third party coding software to run.

Ultimately I chose to purchase a Multi-Site License for Wishlist Member and have been using it ever since. I'll start out by telling you that I am very happy with the solution but I'd like to take the rest of this lens to share with you the reasons why...

What's so Good About the Wishlist Member Plugin then?

I'm glad you asked ;) The first thing that stands out about this plugin is that even somebody that doesn't know how a thing about code can use it. Everything can be managed through the plugin with no need to tweak 'this and that' bit of coding on your Wordpress installation.

Installing the membership plugin was easy, so easy in fact I was at actually shocked at how quick and simple it was. If you've ever installed a plugin on Wordpress before then you are good to go. Even if you had never installed a plugin you could probably do it I'd say. But in that case perhaps you should be spending a little time getting used to using Wordpress first.

Once it's installed onto your Wordpress the next thing to focus on is configuring everything. Every step of the way is documented in free videos that you can access on the Wishlist Member website and you are also provided with reference manuals when you purchase. Both the videos and the guides can come in useful at this point as you get used to the way the plugin handles things like different membership levels and protecting specific pages.

From start to finish you are able to set up a complete Wordpress membership site in less than an hour and with practice, using only the basic options probably a lot less. As if they could make it any easier the team even throw in a couple of themes which you can use for your website if you haven't had a chance to source one of your own yet.

Wishlist Membership Site Plugin Reviewed

Some of My Favorite Features

There are so many things possible with the Wishlist Member plugin that it would be silly to list them all for you after they have done such a great job at their website. What I've decided to do is share just a few of my favorite features that this membership site plugin offers.

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Unlimited Membership Levels - Multiple Levels Possible on the same blog!
Sequential Content Delivery - Schedule content based on the length of a user's membership.
Create Teasers - Benefit from higher rankings by choosing to share teasers.
Integration with PayPal, 1ShoppingCart, ClickBank & More - Enough Said.
Secure RSS Feeds - Stop RSS thieves from accessing your content.
Simple User Management - Everything handled in your dashboard, no need to touch the database!

Wondering What a Wishlist Membership Site Looks Like?

One of the beauties of Wordpress is that you can use any number of themes to customize the look of your website and the overwhelming majority will work with modern plugins. I understand though that it can be hard to imagine how some of the features would work when applied to a real website, so I will share with you a website that I recently helped to develop with Wishlist Member.

Pimpworthy Seduction - This membership site is set up for recurring billing when a user purchases an ebook. The user purchases the ebook and chooses to subscribe for a monthly payment with access to all of the websites articles and ebook on the backend. Every step of this process is managed by Wishlist Member and Paypal.

Another great example of Wishlist Member is on the official site for the membership site plugin. They distribute all of their plugins and bonus material using Wishlist Member so you will get to experience everything from the perspective of a customer as well from the very start. It's always satisfying to see a company that actually uses the product they sell!

In Conclusion...

If you haven't guessed already I highly rate this plugin and have absolutely no regrets for purchasing the Multi Site License. The only thing that I could possibly complain about is that if you plan on developing membership websites for other people then they will need to purchase their own licence. Slightly clutching at straws for a drawback there but I really haven't had any other problems with the software.

UPDATE: Wishlist Member are now offering commercial licenses on request. They've also told me about a ton of new features that are soon to be released so I would definitely sign up now before they decide to change the pricing structure.

You can purchase a Single Site License for only $97 and if you decide to opt for the Multi-Site License like I did, it's still only going to set you back by $297. Both packages come with full documentation, three months support & free updates. I give this plugin four and a half stars out of five.

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