Wordpress Membership Plugin - MemberWing. And it’s free!
October 2, 2008 by admin
If you want to convert your wordpress blog into membership site and shy spending hundreds of dollars upfront - keep reading! 
The new free wordpress membership plugin - MemberWing allows to convert your existing blog into membership site without any changes or re-designs.
MemberWing was built with Search Engine Optimization and speed in mind.
By inserting small text marker "{+++}" inside any article (old or new) - the content of it will become "protected" and available only to registered premium members. Simply put - anything that was before the marker - is visible for everyone - so put your teasers here. Anything after the "{+++}" marker will only be visible to users who are "Gold" or "Platinum" members. This is great feature that allows search engines to index and rank free text "teasers" part of your blog/website. Other plugins and multi-hundred dollars membership software packages does not have this very useful feature. They just lock site completely leaving you on your own with zero chance for organic rankings.
Once activated, plugin created 4 separate group members - Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. So you may (if wanted to) have 4 classes of contents and charge fees accordingly to access each class of contents. The way you mark contents of your articles for each group is the same simple one - via markers that separate free teasers from premium "juicy" part. {+} - Bronze members, {++} - Bronze and Silver members, {+++} - Bronze, Silver and Gold members, etc..
Membership plugin MemberWing supports latest version of self-hosted Wordpress 2.6+ and works on any hosted account that allows wordpress installations.
I've installed it here - and protected this article
Here's how your protected article will look like, when viewed by non-premium member:
...{+}The rest of this article is available to premium members only. Become a member
(You can customize this text and links)
Hello
I downloaded the plugin, activated and all went well….the only issue is that it does not add the roles (Gold, Bronze…etc) to the users creation form in add user, I still have only the default ones by wp.org…. any suggestions? thanks alot
Make sure you have the latest version of wordpress installed. 2.7 highly recommended.
If you still have problems - i could try to help you if you’ll get me admin login to your blog.
Gleb
I have the latest installed and its not an upgrade but a fresh one! could it have anything to do with RegisterPlus Plugin??
I dont know much about register plus.
Try to disable all plugins and then enable only memberwing and see if it behaves differently?
Gleb
I tried but same problem! this is a nice software too bad it cant work with my version. I think the roles list is not being updated.
maybe something with version of PHP your hoster is using? Is it 5.x?
So memberwing is installed/activated but there are no “Gold” and “Silver” etc… user groups exists?
I am hosting on ownrd dedicated server….the PHP is the latest version…
and yes after install/activate everything works well - like the code insertion and it blocks the in between - but there are no “Gold” and “Silver” etc… user groups exists?
is there a log file I can send you or something similar? Unfortunately I can not give admin access as per group policy.
I am looking for a plugin that can enable the download of files only when users are registered and logged in,and the plugin can connect to paypal for payment process, do you know of something like that?
With MemberWing you may hide download links although they won’t be protected against sharing between members. This may or may not be of your concern.
Check out another commercial plugin WP-wishlist - they have mind boggling list of features and digital content protection might be part of it as well.
Gleb