Building paysites using wordpres....
 

Anyone ever done it??

you can make a free hosted blog... there's a wordpress plugin that can handle affiliate codes and replace a string in links with ref code of your affiliate.

but i don't think no one has ever built a paysite using wordpress before...

no... because that would be the dumbest fucking thing ever

Putting content behind a paid members area in wordpress is very simple, there are several plugins to do this. Many are mainstream versions, but easily modded to work.

I'm not recommending it, but its easily doable.

I am building a tour as we speak using WP. The member's area however will likely be handled by one of our MPA3 or NATSv4 installs though. The tour part is easy, and now that WP has become a full blown CMS with seemingly tens of thousands of plug-ins and templates, for SEO and some other purposes, it makes sense in some cases to use WP as a tour platform.

Hmmm. Would it surprise you to know that you are wrong about that?

This from a person with blog stuff in their sig. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I'm sure it's entirely possible, however starting with a tried and tested paysite CMS would be your best option as it's built specifically for your purpose. You'll probably save a lot of time, money, and headaches in not having to hack up Wordpress.

second only to what you just posted... :2 cents:

We do, and I've been learning the ins and outs of it myself.

Working on my first non blog site using WP today.

Wordpress is great, you can make any kind of site with it.

i believe you absolutely can build a paysite using WP if you used the right plugins, and customized/hacked it up to function the way you want it to.

Yes usually amateur girls who know everything in the world yet have no clue what they are doing do it. It's stupid, exploitable, and when you upgrade and suddenly your entire wp crashes dont come here and cry

I see a bunch of the babe / erotic content sites using wp or something similar as paysite tours. I think they look really badass and looks to be working pretty well as far as search engines are concerned. My only question would load on wp be a issue? I have had some pretty serious load related problems using wordpress for traffic generation. I can only imagine that the same would be an issue for a paysite tour. The potential load from affiliates sending clicks may be to much for WP to handle, even with some of the caching plugins out there. I am not a wordpress expert though.

WP and Load issues
 

I'm not a WP expert, but I have several WP blogs, and so I search for information from WP experts.

The feedback that I have found is that any traffic over 10k is the threshold for WP. Anything over that and you are going into the never-ending battle to keep it running. This assumes that you are already using the supercache (etc.) plugins/mods to run it.

Also, some knowledge of how WP interacts with the database and php calls is necessary, because one plugin or badly coded page can result in excess database hits that just kill your performance.

That's nonsense.

http://www.techcrunch.com/

You can do anything you want to do.

If your budget calls for using a free CMS like Wordpress.. Go ahead..

I have never had my Wordpress installs magically stop working because of a update and if a plugin is buggy I know right away.. *shrug*

I use wordpress for A LOT of different sites not just simple blogs..

10k shouldnt even phase a wp with a cache plugin. Must be on a real weak ass host.

http://www.gaymoviestube.com/ uses WP

Kman is dead on. in the end it's all code, you can do whatever the hell you want with it as long as you know how.

it has archives, categories, updates. sure its possible.

can i see samples of such sites? Drupal is good too

Im sure it would only help your web presence :2 cents:

Some pretty conflicting views i see.

For the record I don't plan on building one. I was just curious to see if anyone had ever done one.

we've done it and we're about to launch the core engine to do that, not only tours, but also members area. Anyone saying it's not possible basically has no idea about what he/she is talking about, so don't pay attention to them

On a side note, this kind of WP tours and beats almost any CMS out there, and as you may imagine, WP grows every single day, while you can expect 1 or 2 updates a year from any other CMS, so it's easy to see that not only it can be done, but it will be the way to do it very soon. Really affordable, extremely customizable and with 10x more features than any other script out there, it would be dumb not to do it that way :2 cents:

You could use it as members area management system..

Most of the anti-wordpress opinions in this topic are probably not based on any real evidence. I'd bet several have tried and find it working just fine for their needs. The platform is very flexible and as long as someone knows their way around it and keeps up with relevant security notices, it should be doable.

everything is possible today, but if you success to build paysite whit WP, that will not be WP anymore :lol:

I have done it, Im not going to say why I did but I will say I am glad I did it. Yes it works very well.

If you do it you should know what you are doing

If you know why you want to do it, by all means do it, if you don't know why you would want to do it you shouldnt do it.

Tried it, sucks. :2 cents:

Solid hardlinked pages on a real domain give cohesive attraction & buyer confidence to microniche paysites, in contrast wordpress clutter can too easily distract or gloss over the viewer.

ive done it for a client, so yes its possible

I'd love to see a couple examples of some paysites using WP. What plugin did the gay tube site use up there? ^^^

lots of membership plugins out there, most only provide paypal, but a few offer other processors.

here are some

http://wp-member.com/

http://www.newmedias.co.uk/wordpress-membership/

http://www.memberwing.com/

http://member.wpwishlist.com/

also you can integrate amember pro with wordpress

http://www.amember.com/

Thanks :thumbsup

Thanks for the list, any idea what plugin that tube sit is using?

Thanks for theses links!

You can build any site, with any cms.


....How well it works, and how easy it is to do. Is all up to the person converting the cms to use on their site. :2 cents:

You could make a paysite out of phpbb if you were good enough.

when will you people learn that wordpress can power any type of site?

You're all wrong.

says the he/she :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:thumbsup

Your the definition of "WRONG"

Fucking sicko :1orglaugh

No reason you can't have those things with WP, and as for the clutter, that would probably be the easiest problem to solve. :2 cents:

Wow... PR8 and 424 is the alexa ranking.

Hi there, I'm looking for some work like this and would like to show you an example. Can you hit me ICQ 88-05-05 sometime?

Thanks!

stay tuned something big is about to be released.

:thumbsup:thumbsup

If you don't have money for Paysite system you shouldn't build paysite

:2 cents::2 cents:

How is life in the box?