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Member Areas – Selling Your Knowledge and Protecting Your Content

The sharing and selling of content has become a huge industry in the last five years, and it’s only becoming more and more common for entrepreneurs, creators, and even hobbyists to use this opportunity to sell online access to their work or create free communities to better understand their site users. For readers interested in protecting content on their site or limiting access to paid members, Member Areas is a powerful, yet simple tool. This chapter will cover the basics of creating a member area, setting up paid or free memberships, and gating content to limit access to a subset of users.

In this chapter, you’ll learn about the following:

  • How to use Member Areas
  • Different ...

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