Thousands of websites, what makes yours better than anyone else’s?
content of course.
There are many membership website guides out there, in fact probably thousands, but which ones are really beneficial to you?
Memberships are one of the hottest digital commodities available in the marketplace.
There are some challenges to running a successful membership website and this article will try to cover some of those issues.
WordPress or Standalone Script?
WordPress is one of the most popular and arguably powerful CMS options out there today, however, it also has come weakness in several key areas.
While that is beyond the scope of this introduction to setting up a membership website, I wanted to cover some of the aspects of why WordPress may not always be the best choice.
1. Massive scaling and productivity.
Word press is fantastic for the start up and even some medium sized websites, however, for the enterprise setup; not so much, due to the many changes involved in the production of the platform scaling is a serious issue that could be better addressed by using cloud technology.
2. Security issues.
Since the platform is entirely open it is also open to hackers and attackers, this is not a good thing, for a larger network.
However, even with the risk it is worth it for the average user.
3. Custom scripting.
While you can make changes to WordPress to customize it, for your needs, the platform tends to change so rapidly that often you end up with so many changes that you have to upgrade and so you end up with more work for every upgrade you have to do.
Now, on to using WordPress for the rest of us, including me, since most of us are not enterprise users, and really dont need the kind of power and scaling that cloud computing offers the enterprise client, WordPress is an excellent choice, as long as you take into account the above problems, in advance, you can use WordPress as a stepping stone to success.
If you want to use WordPress to setup a membership website, then one of the better methods is to use a plugin.
