Looking for membership software that effectively manages your WordPress Multi User (MU) Blog subscription? Then you are at the right place, CMS Members is the perfect software (only available software for wordpress MU as of current date) to manage your Multi user blogs to control subscription with payment systems

Managing WordPress MU Members Using Software

This software can lets you design various task under this one simple plug-in uploaded with your wordpress Multi user blog. It will helps you to automate your subscription levels,  some other order items, Newsletter management and much more

Some of the other features of this membership plug-in

• Unlimited membership levels and members
• Effective member management like create, suspend, renew the user accounts from the admin end
• Accepts major payment gateway like PayPal and 2CO ( 2checkout)
• Discount Codes management
• Custom fields management with your wordpress MU Blogs
• Member s can manage their account and their membership from their panel ( Renewal of account , Making payment )
• Protecting specific posts and RSS feeds of blogs
• Seamlessly integrated with your affiliate membership plans

Sounds interesting? Take a look at the complete future list and information from CMS Members official Page

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Looking for  professional  newsletter manager account at free of cost  to send and track your email marketing functionality to your campaigns .

Believe or Not! MailChimp offers free account with monthly credit of 3000 sending credits and 500 subscribers. Really its big happy news for startup marketers whose e-mail list is below 500 subscribers and its free to manage the account for ever until you want to increase your list or credits ( And also having affordable price structure to lift your limits ).

The only condition is they will embed an affiliate link of MailChimp in the footer of every e-mail send with your account.

If you are not bother about your affiliate link on the footer ( you will get rewards points when any of your leads became subscribed members you will get rewards)

Some other advantages of MailChimp services are

Advanced Reporting supports campaign tracking details, list statistics and much more

Hundreds of beautiful templates and easy to customize and use

In Built Social Sharing functionalities – sharing with popular networks like myspace,Facebook,Twitter and much more

Excellent integration options with popular platform like WordPress, Blogger and even with your websites

There is also other good options with Mailchimp  , but I am letting Mailchimp official  website to describe their full feature list

Sound interesting take a look at their features and subscribe if you are interested. Happy Blogging

WordPress MU – Registration Form

If you read my earlier story Stock Market Community For Serious Stock Market Professionals, you may know that I am running the community for stock market professionals which is powered by WordPress MU ( Multi User Platform )

WordPress MU is the most powerful multi blogging software that ever found with web 2.0, comes with versatile features to run a multi blogging platform successfully online.  There is no second thought about security of the wordpress blogging software, but spammers became more brilliant and comes every day with new loop holes that made the Blogs those powered with MU Platform suffered seriously with emerging spam.

My story:  My suffering

When I get started with my wordpresss Mu powered community portal I nearly got 30-50 spam blog (sblogs) signup every day. It made me seriously think over fighting with the spam because these spammers . But what made me surprise is , I have tried every possible spam prevention tools like captcha  and  Recaptcha  with my blog but everything seems to be sucks .

The sbloggers are

• Stolen my web spaces by creating numerous blogs
• Registering various domains under their name and making not available to the real users
• Directly attacking the quality of portal ( if real customers found bogus or spam users information with our blog  they will surely debut with genuine  of the information present in the blog)

Solutions for controlling SBloggers and Registration Spam

Block Spam By Math

This Block Spam by Math really smart plug-in will works against automated spam bots register with your blog.  This plugin will adds simple math questions with your signup form so only the real users who solve the math will be allowed to register with your blog. To get working with your blog, you need to make small changes with your registration file on your default theme.

Pros : Brilliant Plug-in ,simple and yet powerful plug-in

Cons: Not working with some customs themes and WordPress MU versions

Block Spam By Custom Image

This custom image plugin is an claims to be alternative to the captcha  (  studies shows that  regular Captcha images are predictable  and easy to broke) and this plugin produces custom image protection while registration as did by other captcha concept . The best part is the custom images are works better than regular captcha but it needs little or some modification with your theme

Pros : Alternative to the captcha protection

Cons : seems not working with all web hosting configuration , confusing installation

Forcing Signup Code while Registration

This is what I am using with my community portal to block spam blog registration and I got excellent results. I have found zero spam blogs registered with my blog after installing these techniques when compare with approximate 30-50 spam blog registration in previous days

I am using WPMUDEV premium plugin “ Signup Code “ for doing this, this pretty simple plug-in works better than my previous attempts . I have  upload this plugin to my WordPress ” mu-plugins folder “  and  added my signup code in the “ options”  in the “ Site Admin” menu

And my registration form now is ready to be protected from the prying eyes of spammers.  But you may have the question that, How my real users found the invitation code with my portal? ,I have made pretty much simple  just added the invitation code with   my Signup code branding image which will be displayed with my registration form.  Real Users can find the code while registering and effortlessly register with my blog

Advantages of this method

• Fights better than other spam blogging methods easy to install and manage from admin panel, zero code edits required
• Best brand promotion (Only users having Invitation Code will be allowed)
• Can be used as a profit model (you can charge for Providing Invitation code)

Finally it has been launched!  Having a complete portal about stock market is my dream from the year 2007 but due to several work schedules I couldn’t get involved with specific projects.   But the time has come after the middle of the year 2009 and the process has been come into force.

Stockz.Biz is the stock market business community network dedicated for serious stock market professionals. We here at stockz.biz perfectly added the social networking feature to our business platform that delivers and grow your network than ever before

If you are a serious about stock market business networking to grow your business then you can register for an account with  our stock market community . Yes its Free. Why you wait? Just  Start Registering!

Do you ever wonder about making money online by selling website membership with your readers? But it’s true! Thousands of websites making huge money just by selling their website  membership with huge readers base ,Now, it’s your time to build your  membership website that provides long term money making success

What all about membership websites?

Imagine that you are expert in the particular subject, and now you want to make money by selling your stuff online, you will provide the quality information and your readers will pays money for the information by reading through your website.

But I am not an expert in writer, what I Do?

To be the successful membership website owner, you need not to be an expert in writing. But only thing you need to have is to provide the exclusive information which is contains in-depth of view of your niche that makes your readers profitable.  But if you are planning for a serious membership website, you may hire an expert writer for your content writing needs. I personally know many of stock market tips providers who are making handsome money by providing premium stock market tips through their website.

How do I get started with Membership website?

Two get started; you need two main aspects (You can build other Secondary aspects like marketing channels according to your preferences)

The website which is going to be the delivery medium for your service

Membership software which will manages all of your website membership operations from one end

Reliable Web Hosting Service

To get started with membership website you need a website from a trouble free hosting provider (I recommend HostGator) because your website is your service channel, so it should be available 24 hours a day, 365 a year .If your website goes down you may lose the customer forever!

Membership website Software

Membership software will helps you to automate your payment process, managing subscription, and preventing your content from unauthorized access (Writing the code from the scratch involves more money and time than developing websites from the membership software)

After getting these two aspects, now you can integrate the membership software with your website .This will take few minutes, if you follow the guidelines of the supplied information from the membership software vendor.

If you have any problems or having no time to install from your end then you may ask your vendor to install it on your web server, most of the software providers will do this for you by charging nominal fees.