Building Website

[Lokantha]

Is Wordpress typically the recommended platform to build a membership/subscription website? What about online boutique/clothing?

Any recommended hosting with decent speeds for a membership site with 500-1,000 members?
-The site just delivers weekly content & archives former content. No forum or anything.

Any theme favorites?
Necessary add-ins?

I have favorites on all of the above, but it’s been several years since I’ve built a site & want to evaluate other experiences & opinions.

Thanks everyone!

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[foodiepersecond]

Is Wordpress typically the recommended platform to build a membership/subscription website? What about online boutique/clothing?

Any recommended hosting with decent speeds for a membership site with 500-1,000 members?
-The site just delivers weekly content & archives former content. No forum or anything.

Any theme favorites?
Necessary add-ins?

I have favorites on all of the above, but it’s been several years since I’ve built a site & want to evaluate other experiences & opinions.

Thanks everyone!

Seems like the trend now is Wordpress or Squarespace. I am currently using Wordpress since I don't know coding (actually, I have started to learn it on the side now). I think its great for newbies and can help you with SEO, web development, and such. The only thing I see as a problem is they both have set layouts so there isn't too much variation where as you setting it up from scratch.

 

[SEBASTlAN]

WordPress + managed WP hosting should be good enough for most business models.

 

[Tourmaline]

I'm really not a fan of wordpress for websites. They're okay.

Many of the fastest and most powerful sites are built on ASP.NET.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[Robert Brown]

Wordpress would be the best choice.

 

[LittleWolfie]

Wordpress has some intresting plugins for weekly content and subscription site. There are some nice plugins like leaky paywall to occasionally share a taster or free sample if you will to get subscribers.

There are probably better choices for a pure ecommerce site, though if your familar with wordpress go for it.

Re speeds, just buy a good host, use second generation web images,minfy javascript, use a content delivery network and/or cache your images/videos in region based AWS.

Bootstrap is probably better,but will take longer to set up.

Wordpress is okay,but quick and dirty.

 

[Monkeycom]

Is Wordpress typically the recommended platform to build a membership/subscription website? What about online boutique/clothing?

Any recommended hosting with decent speeds for a membership site with 500-1,000 members?
-The site just delivers weekly content & archives former content. No forum or anything.

Any theme favorites?
Necessary add-ins?

I have favorites on all of the above, but it’s been several years since I’ve built a site & want to evaluate other experiences & opinions.

Thanks everyone!

Before the sale of my publishing business (e-zine), all my content was delivered automatically via e-mail, without any membership space or similar. It makes things a lot easier believe me!

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[LittleWolfie]

Before the sale of my publishing business (e-zine), all my content was delivered automatically via e-mail, without any membership space or similar. It makes things a lot easier believe me!

Did you have a website as a sign up page? How did you get your subscriptions?

 

[Monkeycom]

Did you have a website as a sign up page? How did you get your subscriptions?

I operated exactly as the model I described here.
I used 3rd party traffic providers to send me ongoing leads, that I monetised.

Feel free to pm me if you have private questions.

 

[Spino]

• Wordpress CMS
• SiteGround Hosting with optional Cloudflare caching
• WooCommerce if you have ecommerce or EasyDigitalDownloads for digital content/membership
• Elementor Pro page builder

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[LittleWolfie]

I operated exactly as the model I described here.
I used 3rd party traffic providers to send me ongoing leads, that I monetised.

Feel free to pm me if you have private questions.

Thanks I will once I have gone through that.

 

[Lokantha]

Before the sale of my publishing business (e-zine), all my content was delivered automatically via e-mail, without any membership space or similar. It makes things a lot easier believe me!

Thanks buddy! I also have a third party traffic provider I use (a close friend's business). Never thought of this option, and I think I'll try this at first.