=== Wordpress Membership Site Plugin Memberwing === Contributors: gesman, MemberWing Main URL: http://www.memberwing.com/ Tags: membership site, membership plugin, membership website, wordpress membership site plugin, wordpress membership plugin, wordpress membership site, wordpress subscription site, subscription site, build membership site, build membership website, start membership site, start membership website, membership site software, membership site script, how to create membership site, download guard, download protection, how to build membership site, rapid action profits, rapidactionprofits Requires at least: 2.5 Tested up to: 2.8.4 == Description == MemberWing allows you to quickly build powerful [Wordpress Membership Web Site](http://www.memberwing.com/) in minutes. MemberWing includes **multilevel SEO (Search Engine Optimization) enhancements** to help your membership site rank higher on major search engines as well as to boost visitor engagement. MemberWing features: * **Simplicity and zero configuration** to begin - simply upload and activate. All required features are on by default. Just insert simple marker `{+++}` after free teaser and your article or page automatically becomes SEO-optimized "premium" content. - Free teasers helps new visitors to get interested in your content and help them decide to join to read more. - Free teasers helps to boost website SEO by allowing major search engines to index and rank premium pages. * **4 levels of membership**: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum. Use just 1 or all 4 if wanted to. * **Progressive and mixed content protection**. Allows you to include content designed for different levels of memberships into the same article or page. Each member will only see what he allowed to. * **Integrated with AWeber autoresponder system**. Integration with AWeber allows you to have new members automatically added to your aweber mailing list upon receiving payment for new subscriptions. * **Digital Content Theft Tracing and Prevention**: TraceFusion. TraceFusion helps you to detect, terminate and prosecute individuals and cheating members who steal and illegally share or distribute your premium content. When premium user accesses and downloads your premium content - TraceFusion uniquely marks each premium download with invisible digital signature that is specific to each premium member. Having found digitally signed file on internet you will be able to discover which member leaked it with surgical precision. TraceFusion offers the following benefits: - Gives you unique precise knowledge about identity of members who steals and illegally shares your content without authorization. - Enables digital tracing for your valuable binary contents such as premium movies, images, ebooks, PDF, MP3, ZIP and other digital binary files. - Enables digital tracing for your text contents, such as HTML articles, posts and text pages. This feature helps to protect your content against content scrapers. - The following information will be available for you (and only for you) about digital thiefs and crooks: Exact date and time he downloaded your content (1 second precision), IP address of his computer, his username, first name, last name and email (as registered by your site). * **Digital Content Download Protection with powerful SEO and advanced marketing features** enhanced with *PromoFusion* logic: - Digital Content Protection prevents content theft and protects your files against unauthorized downloads. No more problems with link sharing. - PromoFusion logic automatically substitutes premium content with promotional or shorter version of material for free visitors. - PromoFusion logic keeps new visitors engaged with your site for longer and delivers them extra rich media information to help them decide to become a paying members. - PromoFusion logic allows Google to index more of rich media content on your website. This is powerful SEO feature by itself. * **Gradual Content Delivery** (content dripping) - protects again content leeching and helps to keep paying members to stay active for longer. * **Payment and user management automation**, integration with multiple payment processors and affiliate systems. MemberWing [membership site software](http://www.memberwing.com/) supports the following systems: - Integration with PayPal single payment "buy now", "pay now" and recurring subscription "subscribe" buttons. - Integration with 2Checkout.com shopping cart and payment processor. - Integration with PayDotCom.com affiliate network. Allows you to promote your [membership site](http://www.memberwing.com/) via army of affiliates and have new paying members to be added automatically. - Integration with e-junkie.com shopping cart and affiliate network. - Integration with ClickBank.com - Integration with [iDevAffiliate affiliate tracking software](http://www.memberwing.com/get/idev) - Integration with [Rapid Action Profits](http://www.memberwing.com/goto/rapidactionprofits) - digital product delivery and affiliate tracking software. - Cannot find your payment processor? It's easy to develop extension to support any payment processor with new MemberWing API. * **Open API are available to create payment processing extensions for MemberWing**. MemberWing's [membership site script](http://www.memberwing.com/) API allows development of MemberWing extensions to support any kind of payment processor to support recurring and single payments for memberships. API extension's documentation is available here: .\extensions\Sample_PaymentNotificationExtension\readme.txt * **Open Interface is available to create custom functionality extensions for MemberWing**. Write your own enhancement for MemberWing, sell it and we will promote it for you for free directly from http://www.memberwing.com website! Code sample for custom functionality extension is available in this directory: .\extensions\Sample_FunctionalityExtension * **Support for any standard wordpress theme**. No changes are needed to existing site to make it [membership website](http://www.memberwing.com/). * Note: some features are only available in Premium Edition of MemberWing. == Installation == 1. Unzip files and upload them inside MemberWing's directory under 'wp-content/plugins'. Resulted names will be: './wp-content/plugins/membership-site-memberwing/*' OR './wp-content/plugins/memberwing-membership-website-premium-p1/*' 2. Activate plugin at the plugin administration page. 3. If you see an error: "Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error" - try to activate is second time. Second try might be required to activate IonCube and it is normal with some hosting providers. NOTE: MemberWing software uses IonCube technology to protect integrity of it's source code. IonCube technology is supported by most quality webhosts. MemberWing tries to detect and reactivate IonCube support automatically for you. If you still see errors trying to activate plugin do this: - Access the following page and follow the instructions presented: (substitute it for proper URL pointing to your MemberWing location) http://www.YOUR-WEBSITE-NAME.com/wp-content/plugins/MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/ionize_wordpress.php - This page will offer you extra diagnostics and help links about IonCube support at your hosting provider: http://www.YOUR-WEBSITE-NAME.com/wp-content/plugins/MEMBERWING-DIRECTORY/ioncube/ioncube-loader-helper.php - If you still having problems trying to activate IonCube - that means your hosting provider did not enable IonCube support. Please contact your hosting provider and request this: "Please activate IonCube for my account". Most respectable hosting providers will be happy to either accomodate your request quickly and provide you with clear instructions on how to do so. If your hosting provider will refuse to accomodate your request (for whatever reason they present) we recommend you to change hosting provider to the one that offers reliable services and support for modern technologies. Here is our currently recommended WEB Hosting service that is cost efficient, full-featured and includes one-button Wordpress installation facility: http://www.memberwing.com/goto/hosting/ Here is web page that contains latest information and tips regarding setting up IonCube: http://www.memberwing.com/memberwing-plugin/memberwing-and-ioncube-loader-support/ == Upgrading == * If you are upgrading from MemberWing version 3.x or earlier please note that MemberWing 4 now uses IonCube and your hosting provider must support IonCube. Easiest way to check it is to do the following: - Deactivate your current older MemberWing - Rename it's directory - Follow installation instructions above to install the latest MemberWing - If new MemberWing is reactivated successfully - you're all set. - If you have problems - please follow steps described at Installation, #3. * MW Gradual Content Delivery is now integrated directly into MemberWing 4. So you do not need to have it as a separate plugin now - please deactivate and remove MW Gradual Content Plugin directory. == Free Features == * Full membership site functionality included. * Simplicity. Just use simple marker - {+++} inside text and your article automatically becomes SEO-optimized "premium" content. * SEO - Search Engine Friendliness. Allows using free teasers (short snippets of text) visible to anyone, including search engines, while keeping your premium contents protected and accessible only to members. This feature helps your membership site to be found by prospects on major search engines. * Support for up to 4 levels of premium memberships - Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum. Allows you to charge different fees for different levels. Or use just one if wanted to. * Enhanced First Click Free Functionality. Allows you to customize the number of first click free pages for better visibility and balance between premium and "free ticket" pages. Customizing the number of First Click Free pages allows you to study and optimize membership signups as well as gain higher rankings on Google. * Ability to specify IP address to allow unrestricted access to contents. Useful for news services to allow Google crawlers to index all content. * No site changes are necessary to convert it to membership site. * Support any standard Wordpress theme. * Fast and lightweight. * NOTES about Free version of MemberWing plugin: - Free version of MemberWing plugin require manual addition and removal of premium/paying members. - Free version of MemberWing plugin is branded and contain backlinks to memberwing.com website from protected pages. - Unbranded version of MemberWing as well as full set of payment processing, automation and affiliate networks integration features are available in Premium Editions. == Premium Features == * Digital Content Theft Tracing and Prevention. This feature helps you discover and terminate sources of your content leaks. * Digital Content Protection - prevents premium content theft and unauthorized downloads of your premium content. * PromoFusion logic - automatic substitution of premium content with promotional media of your choice during free visits. * Gradual Content Delivery (dripping content) functionality. * First Click Free feature allows better promotion of membership site on search engines. According to Google Specs: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-click-free-for-web-search.html * Premium edition includes everything from free edition, PLUS: * Gradual Content delivery functionality. This functionality gives you ability to release more content to longer staying members automatically. Protects you against stealing of content, keeps paying members to stay active for longer and opens possibilities to operate multiple recurring payment membership sites on autopilot. This is a separate plugin that is packaged with MemberWing premium editions. * Progressive and mixed content protection - allows you to include content for different levels of memberships into the same article or page. MemberWing will show only parts of content that current user is authorized to view. This feature is great to stimulate already paying members to upgrade their membership levels without you doing any extra work on your contents. * Payment automation, integration with Paypal.com, 2checkout.com and other payment processors as well as integration with a number of affiliate networks. * Integration with [Rapid Action Profits](http://www.memberwing.com/goto/rapidactionprofits) - digital product delivery and affiliate tracking software. http://www.memberwing.com/goto/rapidactionprofits/ * Automated integration with PayPal single payment "buy now", "pay now" and recurring subscription "subscribe" buttons. * Automated integration with 2Checkout.com shopping cart and payment processor. 2Checkout allows to sell recurring subscriptions without requiring people to sign-up anywhere (contrary to Paypal's approach). * Automated integration with PayDotCom.com affiliate network. Allows you to promote your membership site via small army of affiliates and have new paying members to be added automatically. * Automated integration with e-junkie.com shopping cart and affiliate network. * Automated integration with ClickBank.com * Integration with Rapid Action Profits - affiliate tracking, payment and marketing system. * Unbranded version available in Profession edition of MemberWing * Ability to install MemberWing on unlimited domains and websites available in Profession edition of MemberWing * API. MemberWing IV will include support for custom payment processing and affiliate services extensions. It will be easy for anyone to create (and sell) custom expensions for MemberWing that would support 2 very important areas: - Custom payment processors - Integration with third party affiliate software and networks. Fully featured Premium Edition of MemberWing can be purchased here: http://www.memberwing.com/purchase/ == Brief Usage Guide == Premium Markers --------------- Premium markers are used to separate free teasers from "juicy" premium part of your articles and pages. - Open the plugin configuration page, which is located under Admin Panel->Settings->MemberWing Plugin - Make a note of Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum content markers. - Start creating new or open existing article or page. - Write one paragraph or so of introduction to this article. - After it - type 'gold premium marker': {+++} - After this marker enter main premium part of this article or page - Save/publish - Open another browser (where you are not logged on as blog admin) - Load new premium page - Observe MemberWing in action - only free teaser is visible and premium part is protected. - NOTES: * You may greatly customize 'premium content message' inside MemberWing settings in your blog admin area. * You may progressively combine premium markers inside of the same article or page: Free teaser...{+} ...Premium content for bronze, silver, gold and platinum level members ...{++} ...Premium content for silver, gold and platinum level members ...{+++} ...Premium content for gold and platinum level members ...{++++} ...Premium content only visible by platinum level members ... Digital Content Theft Prevention - TraceFusion ---------------------------------------------- TraceFusion is a digital fingerprinting of every piece of digital contents that leaves your site. Digital "fingerprint" or digital signature is a unique peice of information that is secretly embedded inside of digital materials that are being downloaded or accessed at your site. TraceFusion digital signature contains information about your site, as well as about the person who downloaded your materials. This way if you found some of your materials illegally shared and distributed on internet - you will be able to pinpoint with digital precision who was the person that downloaded it and when it took place. TraceFusion digital fingerprint is encrypted and no one can access it's content but yourself. TraceFusion is enabled by default and requires very little configuration. You may turn it off via Wordpress/MemberWing admin panel if wanted to. MemberWing allows to digitally sign binary (images, movies, downloads, ebooks, sound files) as well as text content such as articles, pages and posts. The following information is embedded into each digital signature: - Your website address - where content belongs to. - Date and time the content was downloaded from or accessed at your site. Precision: 1 second - IP address of person who accessed it - Precise version of software he used to access it, such as web browser or software script. - Member's username as assigned by MemberWing/Wordpress. - Authenticated name, if your system uses additional authentication measures (additional to Wordpress login info). - Member's first and last name (if set in his User account settings) - Member's email. - Address of page he came from and was refered from. Using above data you will be able to uncover content thiefs and take appropriate measures to prevent further learks. To read digital signatures that are mebedded into binary files or text pages - please go to http://www.tracefusion.com/trace/ and follow instructions. Please note - only you may read digital signatures that were embedded by MemberWing with your license key. You cannot read digital signatures generated by other webmasters and they cannot read yours. Digital singatures are impossible to modify or tamper with without completely damaging them. It is impossible to modify them as they are being encrypted and checksummed with multiple layers of algorithms. While they may be removed from text/html pages manually - it will be difficult to do the same with binary downloadable materials without risk of damage to them. Digital Content Protection with PromoFusion logic ------------------------------------------------- Digital Content Protection (DCP) prevents content theft by denying unauthorized users attempt to download premium files directly by discovering and typing URL to files in their browsers. DCP forces user to be logged on to view premium pictures, movies, download ebooks and other materials. The way it is being handled by other software (if handled at all) is visitor is either redirected to "denied" page or served with plain 404 error in case of unauthorized attempt to premium digital content. But MemberWing IV includes powerful enhancement to DCP named PromoFusion designed specifically for promoting and marketing premium content to visitors as potential prospects. Instead of plainly denying access to content and throwing new visitor or prospect away - premium media will be automatically substituted with the promotional version of material in the same format. At a discretion of a webmaster PromoFusion will automatically and transparently serve shorter version of movie or 'promotional' edition of movie. Full version of Ebook (www.yoursite.com/premium/ebook.pdf) could be automatically substituted with the shorter version of Ebook where last page will explain benefits of buying full version and show "buy now" link. Similar concept is ready to be implemented with images as well as with any other protected contents. URL will remain the same but content will differ depending on type of user who is accessing it. DCP with PromoFusion delivers triple benefits: 1. Instead of losing valuable prospect - PromoFusion logic will keep him occupied with the lighter version of site content and maintain delivery of promotional and marketing message to engage him to become a premium member. This is a concept of promotional 'teasers' ported into digital content protection and delivery logic. 2. Google will be able to find, index and rank premium materials at their original URLs. This way your prospects searching for information on search engines will be able to arrive on your site, pre-view your content and get interested to join your membership site. There is no reason to deny, forbid or prevent if you can promote and engage. 3. Zero-configuration zero-effort automation. DCP with PromoFusion It is always on. As soon as webmaster uploads substitution content - it will immeditately be ready to be served instead of premium materials. Automatic substitution of premium content could be done on 3 levels: - For example, for this premium file /home/public_html/PREMIUM_FILES/photos/myimage.jpg - PromoFusion will make an attempt to serve these files in these order for free users: 1. File level: /home/public_html/PREMIUM_FILES/photos/myimage_denied.jpg This will make substitution file-specific. 2. Directory level: /home/public_html/PREMIUM_FILES/photos/denied.jpg All premium *.jpg files in the same directory will be substituted to 'denied.jpg' for free visitors, unless file level substitution was found. 3. Site Level: /home/public_html/PREMIUM_FILES/denied.jpg All premium *.jpg files in will be substituted to 'denied.jpg' for free visitors, if neither file- not directory level substitution was found. 4. Denied 404 error will be served to visitor No substitution was found anywhere. Last resort. To configure DCP with PromoFusion: - Login to your Wordpress admin panel - Go to Settings->Permalinks - Under "Common Settings" - make sure anything *but* "Default" is selected. - Suggested setting - best for SEO: (*) Custom Structure: /%postname%/ - Login to MemberWing admin panel at Settings->MemberWing plugin - Set/confirm physical location of premium files to be protected by DCP in "Location of premium files, use FTP..." box. - Set/confirm WEB URL for premium files in "WEB URL to link to above..." box. - IMPORTANT: make sure WEB URL settings does not point directly to the physical location of "premium files". For example: Incorrect setting: ------------------ Location of premium files: /home/userjoe/public_html/premium/secret_pic.jpg WEB URL http://mysite.com/premium/secret_pic.jpg <- directly points to above location - INCORRECT Correct setting: ------------------ Location of premium files: /home/userjoe/public_html/PREMIUM_FILES/secret_pic.jpg WEB URL http://mysite.com/premium/secret_pic.jpg - Use your FTP program to upload your premium files into above physical location. These files could be anything - images, movies, flash files, etc... You may create subdirectories to arrange hierarchy of your premium files as you see fit - Create new post/page, embed premium content inside of it via URL derived from "WEB URL for premium files". This way it comes under guard of DCP. Always use WEB URL (configured at Admin panel->Settings) to link to premium files. - Create PromoFusion substitution file and set it's name by appending '_denied' to original file's name. Example: Original file: ---------------------------------------- SEMINAR.swf PromoFusion substitution file name, file level: ------- SEMINAR_denied.swf (place it in the same directory) PromoFusion substitution file name, directory level: -- denied.swf (place it in the same directory) PromoFusion substitution file name, site level: ------- denied.swf (place it in the root directory for all premium files: ./PREMIUM_FILES/) NOTES: - Preparing and uploading of substitution files is optional but highly recommended step. - Once substitution files are uploaded - they will be automatically delivered to free visitors according to rules described above. - If some premium members are still seeing 'promotional' version of digital materials after logging in - pease advice them to clear cache of their browsers. Because premium digital file and "free version" (promotion) digital file are using the same URL - web browsers often try to cache this data aggressively to save bandwidth. Therefore clearing browser's cache will resolve this issue. Gradual Content Delivery (dripping content) ------------------------------------------- Gradual Content Delivery functionality allows you to load your membership site with many articles but only gradually release them to your members if their membership is maintained in a good standing (active). This will prevent new members from leeching all your premium content (by signing up, copying everything and cancelling subscription). This will also help you, as a membership site owner to maintain your subscription base for longer. If your membership site is paid - above benefits means more money for your business. - When creating an article scroll down toward "Custom Fields" section. - Enter key: maturity - Enter value as number, for example: 10 This would mean that only users who been an active members for at least 10 days will be able to see this article. In other words 'maturity' specifies for how many days user needs to be a member to see this article. Administrator of course will be able to see everything. - Save article. - Spawn another browser and see that new article is not visible (because you are not logged on in another browser) NOTE: Gradual Content Delivery only works for articles/posts. It does not affect static pages. == Documentation == More detailed and up to dated [MemberWing User Guide is located here](http://www.memberwing.com/software/wordpress-membership-site-plugin-memberwing/memberwing-user-guide/) Full documentation can be found on the [Membership Site Software - MemberWing](http://www.memberwing.com/) page.