MemberMouse
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Do I need a certain WordPress.com plan to be able to use/plugin MemberMouse?
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In order to use any plug-in, you need a WordPress.ORG site. WordPress.COM does not allow for any third party plug-ins for security reasons. No upgrade will change that.
WordPress.ORG and WordPress.COM (which is where your account is hosted) are two different platforms, using two different types of software.
What are you wanting to do? There are many features already built into .COM sites.
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That is very helpful!
I am wanting to develop a site where I can share free educational resources, as well as sell digital goods and have paid subscription memberships that have access to restricted content. Would I be able to do that with the WordPress.COM Business plan?
Other website builders that I have looked into either are unable to do the paid subscription memberships, or that feature is very expensive.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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It’s not possible to set up a paid membership register on a WordPress.COM hosted blog and provide username accounts and logins. That can only be done on a WordPress.ORG software install.
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Is it possible to develop a WordPress.COM site where members have to create an account and login to gain access to FREE content? The end goal would be to track/analyze who’s downloading what content.
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Hi Melissa,
Based on what you’re looking to do I highly recommend you give MemberMouse a try. We’ve spent years fine tuning our software to make it easy and affordable for people like you to run subscription sites and we currently support a large range of customers from those who run smaller non-profit sites to large sites with over 100K members.
Here’s a some examples of current customer sites:
http://reflexionyoga.com
http://paleoplan.com
http://jorgecruise.com
http://marketinggenesis.com
http://chicagopremiumaccess.com
http://sofrep.com
http://www.conferenceinabox.ioIf you want to learn more about what MemberMouse can do, our support center has numerous videos in it. The Getting Started video series is particularly enlightening. It walks you through the process of creating a site with MemberMouse step-by-step (http://support.membermouse.com/knowledgebase/articles/318351-getting-started-with-membermouse)
As was mentioned already, in order to use MemberMouse you will need to download WordPress from WordPress.org and then sign up with a hosting provider so you can install WordPress. Here’s a list of WordPress’ recommended hosts: https://wordpress.org/hosting/. Here’s an article from our support center with our own recommendations: http://support.membermouse.com/knowledgebase/articles/319196-wordpress-hosting-providers
When you’re ready to try MemberMouse out you can do so for free and cancel anytime and our support team will be on hand to help you get up and running as quickly as possible.
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Dear Membermouse-thanks for the information, but please note that commercial content is not really welcome in these technical support forums. Thanks for listening.
@melissavoigt @elwray – While not possible to use the above service on WPcom, it is possible to set up a Private membership site in a roundabout way, but it would necessitate basically setting up 2 sites, one Public and one Private. The Public site would show “teasers” and membership instructions with payment being handled through PayPal. You can use Wufoo or Jotform if the standard WP Contact Form is not sufficient. Once payment is received you can send the new member an invite to view your Private site. See here to understand Privacy settings: https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Unfortunately “tracking” who is downloading what content is not really possible here for free. See the Stats Support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ to see what information can be tracked. Only the annual upgrade to the Business Bundle ($299/year) allows you to use Google Analytics
All in all when considering the above, setting up the WPorg software on a 3rd party host is still probably the best way to go.
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