What Plugins should you choose for a Membership Plugin? -
If you're developing an online course with WordPress chances are there are many ways that lead to your desired destination.
WordPress is an ideal tool for creating and selling online courses as it is adaptable and lets you manage the entire platform. However, there numerous plugins to choose from and sometimes, it's perhaps a bit overwhelming.
Perhaps you are currently experiencing this issue for your own online course and aren't certain how to proceed. If you choose to host your WordPress website, you'll be faced with one of the following choices for your courses:
- Use only for the classes you have chosen.
- Make use of a membership plugin exclusively
- Utilize both
The decision is based upon the particulars of your project, so it is not possible to provide a a hard-set guideline for when to use every. But let's look at the most typical situations.
1. Only using
If you're thinking about it, the truth is that you do not required to use a plugin access to content security. Our LMS can protect your content without the need for an membership plugin by using our Access Settings.
In this instance, imagine you're trying to sell three different courses. The material of these courses (lessons and quizzes like.) is not accessible to students who haven't yet signed up. Only registered users for the course have access to view the material. If one person purchases a particular course, they don't get access to all the other classes. Only access is granted to only the course.
If your course isn't cost-free, you're likely trying to allow making a payment for your class. integrates with the following popular shopping carts:
- Simple Digital Downloads
- SamCart
- ThriveCart (beta)
It is crucial to remember it is important to note that WordPress shopping carts (1 and 2 above) are compatible with numerous payment processors. The carts include the following payment gateways if you choose to not use a shopping cart:
- PayPal
- Stripe
- 2Checkout
There is no problem using any of these options to accept payment. It will protect your course's contents without having to use the membership plug-in. The students who choose this method are likely to appreciate the ease to create their own curriculum offerings as this eliminates an understanding of an entirely different system.
2. Utilizing a membership plugin (Only)
It is important to keep in mind that there are certain circumstances where the use of an LMS plugin isn't required.
If the task you're conducting work on just requires you safeguard a handful of pages, blog posts or assets that are within your WordPress site A membership plugin is what you'll need. An educational management tool is in this instance overkill.
A good example of this is if you own website that has a community forum and possibly the possibility of downloading beneficial software for users. If that's the case it isn't necessary to have an application like this because there's no need to teach courses or do any quizzing. Certificates, badges and points or reports of the learner.
3. Utilizing Both and a Membership plugin
Although a membership plugin isn't necessary, it could be beneficial using an membership plugin depending on the needs that you meet.
For instance, if you're in the market for other metrics for your members , then utilizing a member plugin can be a great value. Most membership platforms offer reports that are built into them. If you use it in combination with them, they will give you more information regarding your members.
Another scenario where you can make use of both is when you've got an existing website for membership however, you wish to include the features of a course with a more structured and formal way. The inclusion of a plugin lets you improve your membership website by developing courses for members to take. It's not necessary to alter the method you handle your members either because it's exactly the same making use of the membership plugin.
has direct integration with the following solutions for membership:
- PaidMembershipsPro
- Restrict Content Pro
- Memberful
- Wishlist Member
- Memberium
- UltimateMember
- ActiveMember360
- iMember360
As a word of caution Take care not to be locked into a vendor!
The programs that you select to join can vary with regard to requirements and, sometimes, the requirements change. You can begin your course using any option above and then change your course as you need to.
What I've learned from over a decade working in the field of e-learning is that the learning process as well as online courses aren't exactly the same for every person. Learning styles change along with the needs.
Whatever you're making use of it or not, whether you use or not strongly suggest you stay clear of any method that promotes the use of an e-commerce website which is an all-in-one solution to protect your content. The same applies to all solutions that are advertised with the tagline "all-in-one". It's rare to hear this and if it's the case, it means that you're bound by it. It isn't a good idea to take this type of danger. The risk has resulted in a great deal of pain throughout the years.
Still confused? Check out this webcast!
In this webcast, we will discuss some of the scenarios that are most commonly discussed where the use of a membership plugin in conjunction could make sense.
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