Building a WordPress Membership Site with Ecommerce
1h 6mIntermediate2021-10-21
Authors

Carrie Dils
Development, WordPress
Course details
Do you need to implement a membership and ecommerce solution for yourself or a client? Are you looking for guidance on tools you can use to build such a solution? This course from experienced developer and blogger Carrie Dils is just what you need. Carrie gives you an overview of what you will need for this course and the demo project you’ll be building, then defines paid membership sites and project requirements. She explains why this course uses WooCommerce and WooCommerce Memberships. Then Carrie dives right into the steps to set up your site, set up your store, set up and configure memberships and membership plans, and restrict content and products based on membership plans. She shows you ways to manage members and shares some tests you should run before launching your site. Carrie finishes up with a discussion of additional integrations you may need, depending on your project requirements.
Skills covered
E-Commerce DevelopmentWordPressContent Management Systems (CMS)Web DevelopmentOpen SourceOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Build a paid membership website
- 02 - What you need
- 03 - Demo project overview
1. Getting Started
- 04 - What is a paid membership site
- 05 - Define project requirements
- 06 - Why WooCommerce
- 07 - Why WooCommerce Memberships
- 08 - Set up your site
2. Setting Up Your Store
- 09 - Installing WooCommerce
- 10 - Importing demo products
3. Setting Up Your Memberships
- 11 - Get and install WooCommerce Memberships
- 12 - Setup and configuration
- 13 - Create products for memberships
- 14 - Create a membership plan
- 15 - Add custom profile fields
- 16 - Create member discounts
4. Restricting Content and Products
- 17 - Understanding restriction rules
- 18 - Restrict content to members
- 19 - Restrict products to members
- 20 - Dripping content
5. Managing Members
- 21 - Set up member account area
- 22 - Manual member management
- 23 - Customize email content
6. Before You Launch
- 24 - Test registration and payments
- 25 - Test access to content
- 26 - Test email deliverability
Conclusion
- 27 - Additional integrations
- 28 - Next steps