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If you allow public registration on your site, it can be a good idea to manually approve new WordPress users before you start letting them interact with your content or online store. This should help you cut out spammers or weed out users who shouldn't be there. The good news is that even complete beginners […]

If you run a community site that allows user registration, you probably need a simple way to control which users can access certain private pages of your WordPress site. For this, you'll need a plugin that lets you manage user-specific content in WordPress. This is where Profile Builder comes in. This tool offers a WordPress […]

If you're a membership site owner, one of the most effective things that can help you boost your site revenue as well as retention rate, is setting up a WooCommerce store for your members. Or, if you already have a store, you might be looking for a way to set up WooCommerce restrict content functionality […]

If you run a WordPress membership site and are also looking to sell products to your private audience, then setting up a WooCommerce members-only store is the way to go. This enables you to sell products exclusively to your members as well as have multiple membership plans, each with access to different products. Whether we’re […]

If you are a business owner with a technical hat, then it's most likely that you have spent some hours coding and building your product and close to none on WordPress marketing. But in order for your product to actually get to meet its customers, you'll also have to learn how to market your software […]

After writing the article "Overview of the WordPress Community in 2016" and getting feedback for the article on various platforms, I decided to continue writing them, but I changed its name into "Roundup of WordPress ecosystem". This is the first article from a monthly series that will showcase what happened around the whole ecosystem in […]

We're excited to announce a new integration between AffiliateWP & Paid Member Subscriptions. Paid Member Subscriptions is our WordPress Membership plugin that enables you to create and manage member subscriptions, grant and revokes access to posts, pages, categories as well as custom post types based on the subscriptions your users have purchased. AffiliateWP is an affiliate […]

In 2016 our plugin business had a 28% growth in revenue over the previous year. During the end of the year break, I took some time to analyze what this number really means and if this metric should be the most relevant one to focus for the years to come. To put things in perspective, […]

Letting users customize their profiles is a great way to encourage them to spend more time on your forum website and interact with each other. However, this is not a feature either WordPress or bbPress offers by default. WordPress supports user registration, but provides very little functionality in terms of profile customization. Fortunately, there are […]

Over the course of 10 months Paid Member Subscriptions grew from 0 to $4000+ in monthly revenue, from a minimum viable product (MVP) to a fully fledged membership plugin that can compete with the already existing options.