Starters Guide
Quesiton 1:
What’s the best way, (simplest & least complicated), to open up a ‘Members Only’ area on my website, where everything is free?
In other words, people who have not logged into the site, do not have access to this area. But, once logged in, (without having to buy any product), anything in this area is, “Help yourself to anything!” — for free articles, event announcements, free video interviews, etc.
a. Do I create this as a product, or not?
You need to create this as a product in DAP. Then everything you want to make available to the free but registered users, drip/protect it under the product in DAP. When you protect/drip the content, edit the settings to make it available to free users and not just paid users.
b. What do I do with the WordPress Login?
Get rid of wordpress login. Make DAP login the only entry point. If you set up DAP->WP sync correctly, then DAP will automatically sync users to WP and upon login to DAP, the users will be automatically logged-in to WP.
c. How do I tie it all together, so that someone who registers as a member on the site, ends up on my basic MailChimp members list, and gets created as a member in DAP?
Click here to see how to integrate Mailchimp with DAP so when a user is added to DAP, DAP will first create the membership account in DAP and then automatically subscribe the user to Mailchimp.
d. Public Blog, and web content, with no login required.
That’s easy! … Just don’t protect it, and it remains visible.
Multiple Paid Products, and/or Free Products that they have to sign-up for to be able to access.
Setup each product in DAP.
Paid Product – Create a sales page for Paid Product. Then integrate DAP with the payment processor / shopping cart using the documentation here (look for Payment Processing in the left sidebar).
When the user completes a purchase, DAP will automatically create the user account and send out welcome email with the ID/Password to the user (See this doc on welcome email delivery).
You can redirect users wherever you want upon login. See this article on how to redirect.
Free Product – Copy the html for the signup form from DAP’s product manager. Details here.
When the user completes signup, DAP will automatically create the user account and send out welcome email with the ID/Password to the user (See this doc on welcome email delivery).
You can redirect users wherever you want upon login. See this article on how to redirect.
f. Tons of free “stuff”, INSIDE the website, for Members Only … that I can add to on a regular basis, so that people keep coming back to the site to see what’s new.
How do I give my user one simple login, that gives them access to my website, puts them on a autoresponder list, AND registers them as a client in DAP?
— Create product in DAP.
— Use the DAP direct signup to signup users.
— Integrate DAP product with an auteresponder of your choice. See this documentation on diffferent autoresponders that DAP supports and how-to-integrate with DAP (look for Email List Integration in the left sidebar).
— You can add a DAP login/logout widget for login/logout OR/AND a Login page
g. How do I implement a “Not yet a Member? Click Here to Signup!” … on the website itself? (Not just at a Product Level, “Click Here to Get Access!”) <<
Look at /dap/inc/error-nologgedin.php.
h. If I have to make it a product, then could it be done so that you simply give access to the parent page, and/or a category of posts, and then the member has access to everything under that page, or in that category (or sub-categories)?
Yes. See this document on category protection.