After giving up on amember, I did some further investigation and “your members” started to look really good. They do not have a trial version, and none of the others looked promising. I was also running out of time, so decided to dive in with developers license.
Resources:
Installing
- Got the email promptly, downloaded, unzipped, relocated and activated. No problem
- entered email address to activate, wandered around and did a bit of setup
- Admin screen could use a bit of css to improve presentation – maybe float those list options next to each other
- decided to try adding a download since I was intending to sequester our files. Discovered that this version has a minor annoyance about the upload folder. It automatically created the upload folder that it wanted, however I had to manually change the permissions using my ftp tool to get the upload of a download (!) to work.
- Some of the documentation looks like it needs an update – there is inconsistent terminology which is a bit confusing – I guess “registration fields” are “custom user fields”?
- Code changes required to cope if you have used the wordpress constants to relocate your wordpress admin and content folders.
Live
It is now live over at http://intuitiveweek.com.
- Currently membership is managed on a “partially protected content” basis – ie the shortcodes are used to block out parts of the post, leaving a teaser.
- This site also offers a private podcast, using the private RSS token that YM offers. A further code fix was required in this version to remove the mp3 enclosure if there were mp3′s in the post if the public feed was used. Ideally it should do this only if the mp3 is in the private section. Hopefully the guys will include this in the next version.
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