Create Your Membership Business With Wordpress & Memberpress

A step-by-step guide suitable even for beginners. From basics to advanced. With proven real-world scenarios.

What you'll learn

How to build and manage your own membership website with Wordpress and Memberpress.

How online membership businesses work, the benefits they offer and which famous real-world examples exist.

What the technical building blocks and key success factors for your membership website are.

Why the combination of Wordpress and Memberpress is perfect to start your membership website.

What hosting exactly means and how to select an appropriate hosting solution.

How to best configure and secure all hosting-related as well as Wordpress parameters.

How to start in terms of website design, structure and domain.

How to protect your contents with Memberpress and how to define memberships.

How to set up Paypal and Stripe accounts, how to connect both payment gateways to your website and how to properly test them.

How to deal with common real-world support requests.

How to build a powerful toolkit to generate recurring revenue, to manage a growing customer base and to stay flexible concerning future requirements.

Requirements

You'll learn everything you need in this course.

You don't need expertise in coding, web design or similar technical fields.

Some web / online affinity is beneficial.

Description

Welcome to 'Create your membership business with WordPress & Memberpress,' a practical and detailed guide for anyone looking to establish a successful online membership site. This course is designed for all skill levels, from beginners just starting out to experienced professionals looking to refine their skills.I start with a comprehensive overview of online membership businesses, sharing insights and experiences to help you understand the landscape. You'll learn the critical success factors that make a membership website thrive and how to apply these principles to your own project.Then with the help of a sample memberships website the course dives deep into the nuts and bolts of using WordPress and Memberpress. I'll walk you through the process of setting up your hosting environment with Siteground, installing WordPress, and configuring your site for optimal performance and security. You'll get hands-on experience with the WordPress dashboard, learning how to tailor your site to your specific needs.My step-by-step instructions ensure that you're not just copying actions, but truly understanding the 'why' behind each step. This approach helps  you to create a website that’s not only functional but also capable of growing with your business.Furthermore, the course covers the critical aspects of content protection using Memberpress, integrating payment systems like PayPal and Stripe, and handling the financial side of a membership platform.By the end of this course, you will have a solid foundation in building, running, and securing a membership website, backed by real-world examples and professional insights. Sign up to transform your concept into a fully functioning membership business.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Online Membership Businesses - Overview & Own Experience

Lecture 2 Intro & Agenda

Lecture 3 Real-world examples and how they work

Lecture 4 „Memberships“ and „Subscriptions“ - same or different?

Lecture 5 Memberships & Subscriptions - my own approach

Lecture 6 Memberships & Subscriptions - my revenue development

Lecture 7 Passive Income - a reality check

Lecture 8 What we’ve learned in this chapter

Section 3: The building blocks of online membership businesses

Lecture 9 Intro & Agenda

Lecture 10 Key building blocks - your contributions

Lecture 11 The tech ingredients - modularity is key

Lecture 12 Talking about budget - an example calculation

Lecture 13 What we've learned in this chapter

Section 4: Wordpress and Memberpress: A powerful duo

Lecture 14 Intro & Agenda

Lecture 15 Modularity is key - seen from a Wordpress perspective

Lecture 16 Modularity in practice: Wordpress

Lecture 17 Modularity in practice: Memberpress

Lecture 18 Wordpress and Memberpress: A powerful combination

Lecture 19 What we've learned in this chapter

Section 5: Wordpress Hosting - finding a suitable solution

Lecture 20 Intro & Agenda

Lecture 21 Overview and recommendation

Lecture 22 Siteground as a starting point

Lecture 23 How to obtain a domain

Lecture 24 What we've learned in this chapter

Section 6: Purchasing a Siteground plan and installing Wordpress

Lecture 25 Intro & Agenda

Lecture 26 Purchasing a Siteground hosting plan

Lecture 27 Installing a Wordpress site on Siteground

Lecture 28 Overview of the Siteground Dashboard

Lecture 29 What we’ve learned in this chapter

Section 7: Configuring the Siteground hosting environment

Lecture 30 Intro

Lecture 31 Dashboard - Site

Lecture 32 Dashboard - Security

Lecture 33 Dashboard - Speed

Lecture 34 Dashboard - Wordpress

Lecture 35 Dashboard - Statistics

Lecture 36 Dashboard - Devs

Lecture 37 What we’ve learned in this chapter

Section 8: The Wordpress Workplace

Lecture 38 Intro

Lecture 39 The Wordpress Workplace

Lecture 40 The configuration options

Lecture 41 How to update plugins manually

Lecture 42 How to perform a rollback / backup

Lecture 43 Posts

Lecture 44 The media library & pages

Lecture 45 Comments

Lecture 46 Theme management

Lecture 47 Navigation menus

Lecture 48 Plugins

Lecture 49 Users

Lecture 50 Tools

Lecture 51 What we’ve learned in this chapter

Section 9: Wordpress - the „Settings“ section

Lecture 52 Intro

Lecture 53 Settings-General

Lecture 54 Settings-Reading

Lecture 55 Settings-Media

Lecture 56 Settings-Permalinks

Lecture 57 Settings-Privacy

Lecture 58 Settings-Siteground Plugins

Lecture 59 What we’ve learned in this chapter

Section 10: Optimizing and securing Wordpress

Lecture 60 Intro

Lecture 61 Siteground Optimizer - Dashboard

Lecture 62 Siteground Optimizer - Caching

Lecture 63 Siteground Optimizer - Environment

Lecture 64 Siteground Optimizer - Frontend

Lecture 65 Siteground Optimizer - Media

Lecture 66 Siteground Optimizer - Speed Test

Lecture 67 Siteground Security - Dashboard

Lecture 68 Siteground Security - Site Security

Lecture 69 Siteground Security - Login Security

Lecture 70 Siteground Security - Activity Log & Post-hack actions

Lecture 71 What we’ve learned in this chapter

Section 11: Real-world scenario: Setting up a professional website

Lecture 72 Intro

Lecture 73 The Scenario

Lecture 74 Choosing a Wordpress Theme

Lecture 75 Preparing our website structure

Lecture 76 Connecting the domain

Lecture 77 What we’ve learned in this chapter

Section 12: Protecting contents with Memberpress

Lecture 78 Intro

Lecture 79 Memberpress - the most important features for our scenario

Lecture 80 The scenario

Lecture 81 Initial Memberpress setup

Lecture 82 Defintion of membership plans

Lecture 83 Content protection

Lecture 84 The sign-up process

Lecture 85 Proper test-setup

Lecture 86 Enable members’ self-management

Lecture 87 What we've learned in this chapter

Section 13: Setting up accounts in Paypal and Stripe

Lecture 88 Intro

Lecture 89 Why PayPal and Stripe?

Lecture 90 Creating a PayPal business account

Lecture 91 Creating a Stripe account

Lecture 92 What we've learned in this chapter

Section 14: Connecting payment gateways and receiving payments

Lecture 93 Intro

Lecture 94 Connecting Stripe

Lecture 95 Connecting Paypal

Lecture 96 Payment processing: End-to-end perspective

Lecture 97 What we’ve learned in this chapter

Lecture 98 Concluding words & outlook

Section 15: Additional information: Real-world use cases

Lecture 99 Intro & additional information

Lecture 100 Use Case #1: „I can’t view my membership contents.“

Lecture 101 Use Case #2: „I have already cancelled and you keep re-billing me!

Lecture 102 Use Case #3: „I need a detailed tax reporting for last month"

Lecture 103 What we’ve learned in this chapter

Everyone who wants to earn money online.,Everyone who wants to build an own online membership business.,Everyone who likes to extend possible existing (online) business models.,Everyone who doesn't know where to start with this and needs guidance.,Everyone who doesn't have the necessary expertise in some or all of the required tech fields.