How to Build a Membership Site With Joomla

How do you make a membership site in Joomla? making a membership site in Joomla is all about choosing the right extension, and there are abundance of extensions to elect from in Joomla 1.5.

Build you site

Build your Joomla site. Make sure you have the latest patches installed. Write all your articles. For the time being, if you're implicated about habitancy finding pages you want them to pay for, just don't release those pages. At this step, however, make sure your site is up and populated.

Design your subscription plans

The next step is to build your subscription plan. You need to build your plans before your choose an factory so you know what requirements you have in the extension. Consider the following.

Do you want memberships to automatically renew? (Some habitancy like self-operating memberships, particularly the habitancy receiving the money. Some habitancy particularly hate self-operating renewals and won't join a site that has self-operating renewals.)

Are all memberships fixed to one distance or time, or can you buy a month membership, six months, and a year?

Do different levels of membership offer way to different content? (For instance, a silver membership gives you way to "How to Make 0" where as a Platinum membership lets you way "How to Make ,000.")

Is it okay for your members to pay through PayPal?

How much are you willing to pay for the extension? (Most membership site extensions are purchased with a subscription plan. As a rule of thumb, the distance of time your purchase is for is how long you have way to new revisions and patches to download. Sometimes it is how long you can ask the postponement business for support.

Write out your requirements and your build plan.

Browse through the available extensions

Go to the Joomla site.

http://Extensions.Joomla.Org

Search for the term

membership site

or

Paid Membership and Subscriptions

or navigate through the categories until you get to the strict spot.

Home - e-Commerce - Paid Membership and Subscriptions

Select an extension, setup it, and configure it

Look through the extensions and pick the one that best meets your criteria. Make sure the postponement works with the version of Joomla you are using. I have used Joompolitan's Ipn Sub, but my version was called Subscription Manager. It was easy to configure and works well. I have used Amember and I got it to work. However, I do not propose amember. Amember is not in effect a Joomla postponement and it is difficult to configure and get all things to work. I didn't have much luck with the hold habitancy either. Amember is a standalone stock that can work with article administration systems other than Joomla, and I think that's what makes it more difficult. If you want to have one stock that works on complicated platforms, however, you should definitely look into it.

Installing the extension, as long as it is not amember, is just a matter of choosing Install/Uninstall under the Extensions menu. Once it is installed, look for it under Components and look for a configure option. Each of these extensions is different, so if something isn't obvious, read the documentation.

At the moment I'm particular fond of Aec for membership sites, since it seems to be the first membership postponement that works with Joomla 1.6.

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