membership and video hosting
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Is there any way for me to setup wordpress so I can have a membership site to enable members to access videos I upload? I only want the videos accessible to my members. Thanks.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I’ve been doing some research and it looks like membership site plugins may only be available using the WordPress.org supported sites, meaning WordPress doesn’t host your site. Here’s a good article I found just a bit ago:
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Does this videopress support doc help?
https://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/
Note also the FAQs https://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/view-all/#frequently-asked-questionsYou can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
To change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings
See here please:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/The person will have to register a username account which requires an email address only, but does not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.
Upon receipt of the invitation the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.
Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.
Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.
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P.S. Note that you cannot set up a registration by membership site on a wordpress.COM blog by using any plugin as they are available only for WordPress.ORG installs.
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You are welcome. Allow me to share a little more please.
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
In the event that you want to hire a web host https://wordpress.org/hosting/ and move content to a wordpress.ORG install, if you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and get advice from wordpress.ORG bloggers.
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Can I add a footnote here?
How will people find your site if it’s Private?
Membership sites that have their Privacy settings set to Private get no exposure to search engine traffic because of their privacy settings.
One way to help resolve this is to also set up a Public “teaser” site with a contact form so users can request an invitation to sign up for your Private site. In order to accept the invitation to your Private site, every user will need to create a WordPress.com account (as tt said above).
Another less viable option is to make your site Public but to password protect the pages where the videos appear. Password protection is only as secure as the people who have them. In other words, not very.
Having a Private site is the only way you can control who can see your site and will allow you to remove users at some point in the future if necessary. A Public site will not give you this option.
Hope that helps.
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