I’m very new to programming etc. I was wondering about how people would go about creating site membership. I know that with Wix and WordPress that it’s easy to create that sort of functionality.
Do people code it from zero? Or is it usually something added on from a third party?
I’m guessing that the payment part of site membership would be handled by a third party for small to medium size enterprise websites. Is it the same for site membership?
Specifically, I’m thinking about creating an education website where certain content is only available to paying users.
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I’m unclear on whether you are asking specifically about coding this from scratch, or asking about doing it with Wix or WordPress. I don’t know much about Wix, but if you are using WordPress you can add different functionality using plugins. On your WP dashboard go to "plugins" and do a search for membership management. The majority are freemium plugins. I have used Memberpress with some success but there are several!
You can create it by yourself using for example PHP and MySQL. The first thing to do is to create the registration page and the login page, after that you can code a time function so members can get access for 30 days or 90 days or lifetime etc. The payments must be processed by a payment processor, for example: Paypal
So the first step:
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Go to this page and learn how to do step by step. I could add the code here but it is easier to read there. This script is very secure to start learning. And is easy to setup
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