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Turn WordPress Blogs into Paid Membership Sites

Mike Phillips — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:30:00 GMT

WordPress has emerged as not only a leading blogging platform but also a content management system for many Web publishers. Now there is a simple plugin available that will turn your blog into a paid membership site.

The WP-Membership plugin allows publishers to collect membership fees for WordPress blogs via PayPal, Authorize.net, and YourPay, with additional payment gateways in development. Membership fees can be collected via recurring payments, with multiple subscirption levels, various subscription lengths and pricing options. Free and paid trial options are also available, as are page-by-page options so that certain content can be free while other, "premium" content can be fee-based.

WP-Membership is available from Synergy Software Group for $29.97 for a single domain with lifetime free upgrades.

WordPress 2.6.1 Released

Administrator — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:55:00 GMT

While there are no new features have been released in the latest version of WordPress (2.6.1), there are over 60 bug fixes which might just be worth the upgrade.

From the WordPress Blog: 2.6.1 offers several improvements for international users. Styling of the admin for right-to-left languages is much improved thanks to the efforts of the Farsi and Hebrew translation teams, and a mysterious gettext bug caused by certain PHP configurations is now fixed. For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. Image insertion problems in the Press This feature experienced by IE users are also fixed. Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages.

WordPress users can download the latest stable release here: http://wordpress.org/download/