What Should You Do with the Membership Plugin? -

Apr 6, 2022

If you design an online course with WordPress there are a variety of ways to achieve your goal.

WordPress is the perfect tool to create and sell online classes since it's a flexible platform and also you have the platform. However, there are so many plugins to choose from that sometimes it can be a little confusing.

Perhaps you're faced with this issue in relation to your online courses and aren't sure of which way to take. If you choose to run your own WordPress site, you'll have to make the following choices to your online courses:

  1. Make sure to only use the courses you have chosen.
  2. Make sure to use a plugin for memberships only.
  3. Utilize both

It all depends on the particulars of the project. Therefore, it's impossible to establish a strict guideline for when to apply each. Let's take a look at the most common scenarios.

1. Using Only

If this is something you're considering, you do not need a membership plugin for protection of the content. Our LMS will protect your content and does not need the assistance of a membership plug-in using Our Access Settings.

For instance, suppose that you wish to market three different courses. The contents of these courses (lessons and quizzes, for instance.) cannot be viewed by those who aren't yet registered. Only registered users to attend the class can access the materials. If one person purchases a course, they won't have access to other courses. They are only able to take advantage of one course.

If the course you're attending isn't free it's possible you're thinking about how you can include a payment option tuition. Integrates with the most well-known shopping carts:

  • Simple Digital Downloads
  • SamCart
  • ThriveCart (beta)

It's crucial to know that the WordPress shopping carts (1 and 2 above) have connections to hundreds of processors for payment. comes with the following three payment options in case you want to use no shopping cart.

  • PayPal
  • Stripe
  • 2Checkout

There is no problem using all of them for taking payment. This will protect your content and course without the any membership software. Students who opt for this method appreciate the streamlined process for designing their courses since it eliminates the necessity of learning a new solution.

2. Using a Membership Plugin (Only)

It's crucial to keep in mind that there are instances in which an LMS plugin isn't required.

If the task you're working on only demands protection of a few posts, pages or even assets that are within the boundaries of your WordPress site Then a membership plugin will suffice. A learning management tool for this scenario would be excessive.

An example is if there is a website that offers a community forum to users and perhaps some helpful downloads for users. If this is the situation, you don't need a plug-ins like this as there isn't a need to enroll students into courses, scheduling quizzes, badges, awards, points and learners' reports.

3. Utilizing Both and a membership plugin

While a membership-based plugin may not be required, it could be advantages to using a membership plugin, based on the requirements of your organization.

In the case of for instance If you're looking into getting additional metrics from your members, then utilizing a member plugin can be a great value addition. Many membership platforms come with reports. Utilizing this in conjunction will give you more information about your members.

Another scenario where you can make use of each option is when you have an existing membership site but would like to add some course capabilities in a more formaland structured way. It's simple to upgrade the membership page by developing classes for your members to take. There is no need to alter your approach to handling membersas they'll be similar when you use this plugin for membership.

It is possible to directly connect to the following membership solutions:

  • PaidMembershipsPro
  • Restrict Content Pro
  • Memberful
  • Wishlist Member
  • Memberium
  • UltimateMember
  • ActiveMember360
  • iMember360

A word of caution Avoid locking in vendors!

Learning programs can vary in the demands, and sometimes the requirements change. It is possible to begin your course by choosing any one of the options above and freely switch as needed.

The one thing I've learned from more than a decade of working in the field of online learning is that software for learning as well as online courses aren't all-inclusive. The learners change, and that applies to needs.

No matter if you are using or not, I recommend advise you to stay clear of any method focused on using a single e-commerce platform, or method for content protection. Also take care not to use any solution that is billed with the tagline "all-in-one". Rarely is this even true however if it's true, it means that you're locked in too. It's not a good idea to be taking this risk. It has caused people major pain throughout the years.

Still confused? Watch this video!

In this webcast, we will look at typical scenarios where using a membership plugin and together may make sense.

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