Offer Closed

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That aside the plugin itself is exceptionally useful and I’ve already had it suggested to me (hi Diego!) that it’s also a “lite” membership plugin.

It does a very simple thing and it does it very well.

It allows you to password protect WordPress pages (not posts).

My own personal reason I had it built was because I wanted to be able to create private pages that only JV partners and super affiliates could access by invitation only.  I’ve seen lots of marketers do this, but usually the pages aren’t protected and you either know about them or you don’t.

The advantage for me of using this plugin is you can advertise the page openly on your site as the “JV Partner Page”, but only those with the password will get access to the content on it.  This then invites curiosity and potential affiliates asking about access to it.

Look at it another way and what you do is set a page up so that it requires sign up to the affiliate mailing list before they get access to the affiliate information

That’s my own personal reasoning behind it, but when Diego pointed out to me that it could also be a “lite membership plugin”, that magic bulb really lit up in my head.  Ding!

Imagine this.

#1 – You set up a series of pages all with a common password.
#2 – You place learning and useful downloads on the pages.
#3 – You put the course up for sale. (Or run it as a freebie for a sign up.)

With a bit more detail behind that, you could set the information on each page to all point to the same sale or sign up page.  Anyone accessing one of the pages that they can see on your site get to see an instruction to go to the desired page in order for them to continue.  Once they have the password they can enter it on each page.

Alternatively you could put them in an autoresponder sequence and only give them the password to the next page after a few days.

That’s a powerful feeling that you have the ability to enter the password but others don’t.

All without having to install and set up a complicated membership plugin.

There are some other thoughts buzzing around my head about the usage of this plugin, and I’m sure you’ll come up with some too once you start thinking about it.

For example if you’re into the offline scene, you could set up private content and discussion on pages for individual clients by setting a password on a page that’s just for them.

Or you could run a personal coaching programme where you only allow access to the next page in the series when you’re satisfied that the current page plan has been completed to your satisfaction.

The real beauty and power of this is that you can make pages both publicly viewable on menus etc but without them being accessible to everyone, and it’s drop dead simple to do it.

We’ve built the plugin so that on activation by default you start with a blank page and a password box when you protect a page.  You can set a global password, set a cookie duration and add some global HTML before and after the password box so that you can add some styling and instructions.

You can also override the global settings on a page by page basis and add different passwords and top and bottom HTML to the protected pages.

When the password is entered, the page reveals itself.

The pages can be standard WP pages or also pages created by the Page Template Plugin.

It’s REALLY cool and if you can’t tell by now I’m very excited about its potential.

You don’t always need a complicated membership script and all the associated fiddly setup time.  Sometimes a simple FAST solution is what you need, and the PPPP is certainly that.

The plugin goes on pre-launch sale on Friday 27th April at 6.00pm GMT (1.00pm EST) at a brain popping $10 before official launch.

-Frank Haywood