Statement of Purpose
Create a membership site that provides access to learning materials for a fee. You’ll learn how to set up a site that sells several training courses that a member can purchase and then have access to. Course materials will have video, text and audio components. Membership on the site will also grant access to a forum. Finally, the course materials will be viewable in mobile versions as well.
Principal tools
- WordPress
- Thesis
- WP eStore
- WP eMember
- WP Affiliate Platform
- AWeber
- Simple Forum
- S3FlowShield
- Amazon S3 for video hosting
- Vimeo for mobile hosting
Course Outline
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Lesson 1 – Introduction – Go to the lesson
- Course Description
- Membership Site Components
- Site Structure Using WordPress
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Lesson 2 – Initial Site Setup – Go to the Lesson
- Considerations When Choosing Membership and Shopping Cart Plugins
- General WordPress Settings
- Change Email Details
- Quick Setup of Thesis Design Options
- The Site Architecture
- URL Structure
- Create Static Front and Blog Pages
- Setup Thesis Nav Menu
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Lesson 3 – WP eStore Settings- Go to the Lesson
- WP eStore General Shopping Cart Settings
- Shipping & Tax Related Settings
- Secondary Currency
- Pay Per View Content Settings
- Post Payment Processing
- Email Settings
- Create Product Categories
- Create Products
- Display Products on Posts and Pages
- Display Product Catalog
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Lesson 4 – WP eMember Settings – Go to the Lesson
- Understanding WordPress User Roles
- Create new user type for paid members
- Configure WP eMember General Settings
- Configure WP eMember Pages/Forms Settings
- Create Membership Levels
- Manage Content Protection From Admin Screens
- Manage Content Protection From Page Edit Screen
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Lesson 5 – Configure Autoresponder & Email – Go to the Lesson
- Create a list for free signups – Aweber & Mail Chimp
- Create the signup forms
- Create lists for premium signups – Aweber & Mail Chimp
- Create a catchall list – Aweber
- Create the welcome autoresponder message
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Week 6 – Configure User Signup
- Add the signup form
- Configure free membership sign up
- Stylize the signup forms
- Add the login form
- Create a PayPal Sandbox testing environment
- Test setup with PayPal Sandbox
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Lesson 7 – Create Member Dashboard
- Add Members Menu
- Download & Install the BYOB Thesis WP Menus Plugin
- Configure plugin
- Add welcome message to the dashboard
- Add attention box to dashboard
- Add bookmarks to dashboard
- Add purchase history to the dashboard
- Add Member Profile
- Install Simple:Press Forum
- Add Forum Groups
- Add Forums
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Lesson 8 – Configure Simple:Press Forum
- Understanding WordPress/WP eMember/Simple:Press Forum User Configuration
- Configure Simple:Press Forum Permissions – User Roles
- Configure Simple:Press Forum Permissions – Permissions
- Configure Simple:Press Forum Options
- Configure Simple:Press Forum Components
- Configure Simple:Press Forum Profiles
- Configure Simple:Press Forum Other Settings
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Lesson 9 – Deliver your Video Content
- Video Hosting Options – hosted, self hosted, download
- Video Hosting Considerations
- Video Hosting Scorecard – hosted solutions
- Video Hosting Scorecard – self hosted solutions
- Rick’s Suggested System
- Set Up Amazon S3
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Lesson 10 – Setup Secure Content Delivery
- Set Up Amazon S3 – Part 2
- Install and Configure S3FlowShield
- Secure Delivery of Videos & Other Content Hosted on Amazon S3 Using S3FlowShield
- Mobile Videos hosted on Vimeo
- Setup for Secure and Mobile Video
- Setup for Visible and Mobile Video
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Lesson 11 – Personalize the User Experience
- Personalize – Add Profile
- Personalize – Add Course List Widget
- Personalize – Control Widget Display
- Personalize – Add User’s Forum Posts
- Course Specific Sidebar Content – Control Content Display
- Add Module List for Each course
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Lesson 12 – Strategies for Displaying Teaser Content
- Publicly accessible pages with teaser content
- Teaser Video Content
- Teaser Text Content