This week a reader wrote in with a great question: Quick question…what have you found is best place to put Member Profile & User Links area? I don’t want it taking up prime real estate- once a member knows where to login in…they are set, don’t want to ‘cloud up’ menu bars for non-members. Thanks! [...]
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Often, clients come to me with requests to create a DAP site when a simpler solution would suffice. Those simpler solutions are also FREE. As is the case with Pie Register, a fun, simple alternative for sites that don’t need a massive member area: Pie Register (click to visit website) Cost: Free! The Basics: Very [...]
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Here are common needs site owners have that Digital Access Pass (DAP) is a little too powerful for…. They can be met with more basic software platforms, in some cases, FREE software alternatives. (Why am I telling you this? Because I hate to see you spend money when you don’t need to- and because I [...]
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Want your Digital Access Pass members to be added to your Aweber email list? Here’s a quick video on how to set it up. It’s one of the easiest pieces to any integration! The steps for adding Aweber to Digital Access Pass: Get your Aweber list email from your Aweber dashboard (listname@aweber.com) Select the product [...]
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I had the opportunity to help a client integrate Digital Access Pass with BuddyPress, which was already installed and integrated into her theme, and she had a powerful member area with it. She was moving from a completely public BuddyPress system to making the whole BP area private with DAP, which was a big move. [...]
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After you’ve purchased Digital Access Pass and are ready to plug it into your WordPress website, what do you do from there? I get this question a lot- many site owners install the LiveLinks plugin, set up their cron jobs and get everything ready- and don’t know how to really turn their site into an [...]
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The Digital Access Pass + BuddyPress integration is a fun one, and you can use the two to create powerful, member-driven sites. There has been some confusion over whether or not you could make them work together, and how exactly they talk to each other. In the tutorial below, Digital Access Pass handles all the [...]
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Many people assume you have to have vBulletin to have a powerful forum, and/or to integrate it with WordPress and Digital Access Pass. Quite the opposite. In some cases, using vBulletin can be a time and money pit, if you don’t have the resources to learn it and use it effectively. Let’s compare vBulletin with [...]
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I’m a positive person. I like good news. I love hearing a good story. I like it when the hero overcomes adversity. I root for the underdog. And I’m a little disappointed in the results of a split test campaign I did this morning. Now, I do split tests regularly. Typically the more “hyped” subject [...]
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For first-time membership site owners, it’s easy to miss a few things when you’re setting up pages and pages of code. It’s also hard to keep track of FTC regulations, Payment Systems, all the top-level pieces while remembering to test your “Buy Now!” buttons. For DAPGuru Members only, here’s a checklist that’ll help you get [...]
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