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5 Best WordPress Member Directory Plugins Compared (Hands-On)

Author: Colin Newcomer
Last Updated: June 26th, 2024

Looking for the best WordPress member directory plugin to showcase the users at your membership site in a public list? In this post, we go hands-on with 5 great options to help you find the plugin that's right for your unique situation. Beyond sharing each plugin's key features, we'll also have a look at important […]

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What’s the Best WordPress User Profile Plugin? 5 Options Compared

Author: Colin Newcomer
Last Updated: July 9th, 2024

Do you want to give your site members professional-looking profiles? A WordPress user profile plugin can easily add this functionality to your site. But if you don't know what you're looking for, you might end up with the wrong tool. There are plenty of beginner-friendly plugins that let you create member profiles - and even […]

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What’s The Best WordPress Translation Plugin in 2024? 5 Options Compared In Detail

Author: Colin Newcomer
Last Updated: June 26th, 2024

It’s a global world, and if you want your website to be ready to greet people who speak different languages, you’ll need a multilingual website and a WordPress translation plugin. Translating your WordPress site is a big endeavor. This isn’t like swapping out one contact form plugin for another – you really need to dig […]

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Setup Pay What You Want Subscriptions in WordPress

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: April 19th, 2018

Accepting donations or enabling a variable pricing for your subscription plans is really straight forward using the Pay What You Want add-on for Paid Member Subscriptions. You're probably familiar with the concept of allowing users the ability to set their own price for things like downloads, access to premium content, or to make a donation […]

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How to Approve New WordPress Users (From Dashboard or Via Email)

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: July 9th, 2024

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 […]

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Tutorial: WordPress Restrict Page Access to Logged In Users

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: July 9th, 2024

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 […]

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WooCommerce Restrict Content Tutorial: Multiple Options

Author: Adrian Spiac
Last Updated: January 22nd, 2024

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 […]

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Setup a WooCommerce Members-Only store with Paid Member Subscriptions

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: January 25th, 2024

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 […]

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How to Market a Software Product: 10 Tactics to Market WordPress Products

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: September 27th, 2021

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 […]

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Roundup of WordPress ecosystem #1 – January 2017

Author: Patricia Borlovan
Last Updated: February 9th, 2017

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 […]

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