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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What WordPress theme should you use with DAP? The short, sweet, beautiful answer is this: any theme will work with DAP. DAP plugs in and protects existing content, and can take any theme you have and turn it into a membership site. I love that about DAP! If you’re seeing a formatting issue with DAP, [...]
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Note: As a special 48-hour bonus to DAPGuru members, I offered to answer any and all DAP questions free of charge. Here’s Fern’s question: Hey Crystal. I’m setting up an affiliate program from my new membership site/product launch and was interested the best way to do it in DAP. I understand how to new members [...]
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Note: As a special 48-hour bonus to DAPGuru members, I offered to answer any and all DAP questions free of charge. Here’s Deborah Savadra’s question: I’m putting together an e-course to sell to my newsletter readers called The WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word. I put together the first to-be-protected post, published it, and (since I [...]
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I love watching technology change and testing out the next big thing. Last year, the top resources I used helped me rock my websites and generate automated income, saved me time, and helped me create professional website elements that converted visitors into buyers. This list is my “secret stash” of website helpers that made 2011 [...]
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One of the foundations of a good website is that it loads fast. If your site loads slowly, people will click away and you’ll lose them! If you’re paying to drive traffic to your site, you’re throwing money out the window if your visitors aren’t staying long enough to buy from you. By hosting your [...]
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SEO can be a tricky beast for new websites. For membership site owners, whose best content is typically protected behind the membership wall, this can be even tougher. Thankfully, your home page, sales page, and about page are perfect places for increasing your SEO. If you’re using the DAP Sneak Peek feature, you can [...]
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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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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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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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