With so many membership plugins for WordPress being available, it’s a real challenge to figure out which one to use for a particular web site. Chris Lema has been helping to clarify the matter for some time and now offers an even easier to use aid – a great infographic that guides you through multiple membership options towards a plugin that is more likely to be the answer:
Choosing a WordPress Membership Plugin
“Theme creep” is what I call it when functionality that has nothing to do with the presentational layer of a WordPress website “creeps” into the theme. What this ends up doing is chaining you to a WordPress theme that seemed like a beautiful and great one for your site when you first saw it. Chains you so that in six months or thirty, when you find yourself wanting a visual change of pace you’re left with a terrible choice: your pretty new look or your properly functioning WordPress site.
It’s a very accurate term for crawling over the boundaries of presentation and into the realm better served by plugins. This always makes me feel uneasy about WordPress themes perfectly suited for the task at hand: what if the development stalls, there will be no support for new WordPress features? What will it take going to reproduce the functionality, presuming that the theme permits to edit the code?
Nice roundup of available options for membership in WordPress by Chris Lema, grouped by price, content dripping, pausing memberships, and even the ability to use Stripe. The last option is for those who dislike PayPal but still need to easily accept membership payments.
This post discusses WordPress plugins that let you perform the following tasks:
Show products via slider.
Integrate Cart to a theme.
Embed Amazon style Wish-list.
Display random products.
Add credit card payment gateway to your website.
Add earnings graph.
Embed PayPal.
MailChimp integrated Subscribe checkbox.
Automatic postage calculation
Add donation system.
And much more…