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Membership sites

Why You Shouldn’t Use WordPress for Your Membership Sites?

January 30, 2010
Why You Shouldn’t Use WordPress for Your Membership Sites?

I’ve argued in the past that you should use a CMS like WordPress to run your membership sites. In fact, I described two different ways you can have this set up: a) with an external membership script and b) with a WordPress membership script. Recently, however, rayfellars left a comment on my blog saying Alex [...]

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Building A Membership Site with WordPress

April 25, 2009
Building A Membership Site with WordPress

Earlier, we talked about choosing a CMS to run your membership site. I made it clear that my preference was to use WordPress. Now, how do you go about building a membership site with  WordPress? After all, isn’t it meant for blogging? Well, yes it is. Which is why WordPress would be ideal if your [...]

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Choosing a CMS to Run Your Membership Site

April 9, 2009

Image by mr.throk via Flickr When I first started the WebBriefcase.net site, my first choice for managing content was WordPress. At the time though, WordPress was just not powerful enough for what I had in mind i.e. run a video tutorial membership site. So, I moved to Joomla. Although Joomla was simple enough to learn [...]

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