{"id":331,"date":"2012-01-09T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T00:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2012-08-23T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T08:30:23","slug":"how-to-convert-your-wordpress-blog-to-a-subscription-based-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/how-to-convert-your-wordpress-blog-to-a-subscription-based-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Convert Your WordPress Blog To a Subscription Based WordPress Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress has always been a very flexible piece of software,  generally the majority of people use WordPress as a blogging platform  and that\u2019s what it was meant to be, however with some tweaking involve  you can convert WordPress to power up any type of site, in fact some are  using WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Converting WordPress to a Subscription Based Site<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Basically you can use WordPress as a Web directory, Classifieds (I\u2019m  working on one soon), selling digital downloads like mp3, .pdf files and  more.<\/p>\n<p>One of the major challenges faced by WordPress users is the payment  gateway system, i know for sure that payment gateway was my main problem  otherwise i would have finished my other project by now, but now thanks  to 2 great plugins the payment problem is at an end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2 Plugins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two plugins i mentioned are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceoftech.com\/swhitley\/index.php\/?page_id=129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EasyPayPal<\/a> plugin and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpboard.com\/plugins\/wordpress-membership-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">membership plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About the EasyPaypal Plugin:<\/p>\n<p>EasyPayPal is a WordPress plugin that allows you to make money from  your WordPress site by collecting a payment from your users. When a new  user creates a login on your site, they will be taken to PayPal to  process their payment. When they return to your site, the next payment  date will be updated based on a period that you define. After the next  payment date, the user will attempt to login and they will be taken to  PayPal to process their next payment.<\/p>\n<p>Find Out More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceoftech.com\/swhitley\/index.php\/?page_id=129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EasyPaypal Plugin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About the WpBoard.com Membership Plugin:<\/p>\n<p>This plugin will change your default wordpress installation to a full  members only blog and you will be able to select if you want to give  access to logged in users only or restrict access to certain posts,  pages or categories. It uses Paypal recurring subscriptions or one time  payments (the choice is yours) and automatic user account handling(user  account will be deactivated if the user subscription has been ended and  he will be asked to pay again). It can be used for many web applications  and it is first for the WordPress CMS\/Blog System.I<\/p>\n<p>Find out more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpboard.com\/plugins\/wordpress-membership-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Membership Plugin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the major differences between the two plugins is that the  EasyPaypal is FREE while the Membership Plugin will set you back for a  modest $25.<\/p>\n<p>Check the plugins out and go through thier features, i\u2019m sure if you  are planning on something like this than one of this plugin will be what  you need.<\/p>\n<p>All the best to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress has always been a very flexible piece of software, generally the majority of people use WordPress as a blogging platform and that\u2019s what it was meant to be, however with some tweaking involve you can convert WordPress to power up any type of site, in fact some are using WordPress as a CMS (Content [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[172,171,173,725,726],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-development","category-wordpress","tag-how-to-convert-your-wordpress-blog-to-a-subscription-based-wordpress-site","tag-subscription-based-wordpress-site","tag-subscription-wordpress-plugings","tag-wordpress","tag-wordpress-freelancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}