Adii is the co-founder of WooThemes and this much anticipated book digs deep into the inner workings of his business philosophy and how that’s helped him and co-founders Mark and Magnus build one of the most successful WordPress theme companies on the web.

Now here’s where this gets exciting…

We have an exclusive “sneak peak” at the cover of Adii’s book.

Check it out:

Get Adii’s book for FREE with any new WishList Member purchase from July 27th – August 27th.
Click here to get your copy today!

WishList Products and Adii Pienaar From WooThemes
Want To Help You Build A “Rockstar Business”!

As a WishList customer, you’ll love this book as Adii shares the inner workings behind his business philosophy which with co-founders Magnus and Mark, have built one of the most successful WordPress Theme companies on the web.

But wait… there’s more!

In addition to the book, you’ll also receive access to an exclusive interview we’ll be conducting with Adii on how to take his strategies a step further when creating your own Online Community.

The interview will be taking place early August. We welcome your questions for Adii and you’ll be able to submit these below in the comments.

During this interview we’ll be exploring his thoughts on how to quickly build your own following using the strategies outlined in “Rockstar Business”.

The video will be released for ALL customers shortly afterwards.

So when you purchase WishList Member anytime between July 27th – August 27th, you’ll get the book shipped to your door, the interview as well as all the other regular goodies!

IMPORTANT DETAILS:

• The book “officially” goes on sale towards the end of August and therefore we’ll likely begin shipping the books on September 1st.
• Shipping will be free for all U.S orders but there will be a small shipping charge for all international orders (we’ll contact you by email to let you know what it will be before we ship the books).
• The interview will be taking place during the second week of August. The video will be posted online in the WishList Member Customer Center shortly afterwards.
• This special offer expires on August 27th, 2010 at 11:59pm PST.

So Get Your Copy of WishList Member Today!

With that said, please note:

**You Will Need To Have PHP5 Installed On Your Server**

Most hosting companies have upgraded their servers to PHP5 but please double check with your hosting company before you upgrade.

Here are more insights regarding this release…

Download Instructions:

You can download the latest version of WishList Member from within your WishList Member Dashboard.  You will see a link to the latest version.

Here is a sample screenshot:

Best practices include…

1)  Deactivating WLM first (you’re settings won’t be lost).

2)  Unzip the WLM zip file.

3)  Upload the “wishlist-member” folder to your WP plugins folder.

This will overwrite the old version (don’t worry, your settings will still be there!).  If you’re uploading using an FTP program, make sure your “transfer type” settings are “Binary” and NOT “ASCII”.

4)  Then activate WLM in your plugins.

Links Mentioned In The Video:

WishList Member v2.3 – Full Release Notes Are Located Here
WishList Member API – Get the full API notes here
WishList Insider – Membership community for membership site owners
MP3 Download – Interview with Dan Ariely (Predictably Irrational)

It contains detailed info regarding new updates, new features and bug fixes contained within this release.

It also contains information regarding the new WishList Member API.

You can find the details below…

Important Notes for Version 2.3

• As of Version 2.3 (any build), WishList Member now requires PHP5
  

• function wlm_insert_user added. Use this instead of wp_insert_user now, because some servers experienced issues with wp_insert_user
• AutoResponder integration using SendStudio.

Bugfixes

• Clickbank integration is fixed and tested on hostgator accounts

• Uses of the characters || passed in the transaction ID caused other parts of the system to malfunction. Removed the || from the stored version

• Fixed issue with Cydec transactions truncating the transaction ID and only showing the order id on ADD command

• support for Wordpress 2.9 and 3.0 added to member management area. Now, WLM Version 2.3 can run on both versions of Wordpress
• fixed misspelling of MakeNoSequential to MakeNonSequential in API

• Admin overwrite and wrong password issue is solved

• fixed issues with paging and sort in the Members tab

• Added SendHTMLMail function for sending HTML mails

Changelog

• Updated broadcast email admin user interface and applied some javascript fixes

• Added function GetContentByLevel this function allows you to find content tied to a specific level. You can pull for categories, posts, pages, and comments

Changelog

• Added override for member id on function GetUserLevels. This override only works for extensions as the current user is not available with a remote call

• Added Hook capture $_POST values from the PayPal IPN Transactions

• extra question Mark icon removed on the Settings page at the bottom
• new shape of wlm version and build number added to dashboard

• wlm/wp3 integration possible bugfix.

• core/PluginMethods.php – CreateEmailBroadcastTable –function called in the wpm.php to initialize table upon activation of the plugin
• admin/members.sendbroadcast.php – holds the form used to update and send EmailBroadcast

API Updates

• Added the following functions to the API
  • GetOption
  • GetMembers
  • GetLevels
  • MergedMembers
  • GetMemberCount
  • MakePending
  • MakeActive
  • MakeSequential
  • MakeNoSequential
  • MoveLevel
  • CancelLevel
  • UnCancelLevel

Changelog

• Updated Email Broadcast and added HTML/TEXT emailing.
• admin/members.broadcast.php – Change it to display and manage archived emails
• admin/members.php – Change menu for broadcast EmailBroadcast
• wpm.php – Added a line that calls the CreateEmailBroadcastTable function on activation

Bugfixes

• wlm/wp3 add new member bug fix.

• Added “Reset Limit Counter” checkbox under the list of “IPs Logged in Today” in the member profile section. This allows the admin to reset the user’s login limit counter.
• Added option to send email notification to admin if a daily login limit has been reached. This email contains the username, email address and the IP address of the user trying to login.
• Added error handling routine that displays a link to WishList Products Support
• Added [wlmuser post] and [wlmuser get] merge codes. this allows admin to display the data that was originally posted during registration on any page… example [wlmuser post licensekey]. useful for displaying data passed during registration.
• Added pagination links at the bottom of the Content Protection admin area
• Added MailChimp integration.
• Added auto-backup trigger when a version change is detected
• Added backup methods to core/PluginMethods.php. They are:
  • DoBackup – runs the backup routine
  • RestoreBackup – restores a previous backup
  • DeleteBackup – deletes a backup (useful for cleanup)
  • ListBackups – lists all backups
• Added option to send email notification to admin if a daily login limit has been reached. This email contains the username, email address and the IP address of the user trying to login.
• Added [ismember] and [nonmember] “private” tags.
• Added “Enable File Protection” option in Settings page. Default value for this setting is “No”
• Added ZeroClipboard functionality to allow copying of text to clipboard
• Added Registration Email Confirmation Email template
• Added checks for “registration email confirmation” in WPMRegister
• Added checks for “require admin approval” in WPMRegister
• Added LevelPending method – returns/sets user’s “Require Admin Approval” status for a level. Note that this is not related to the old Pending status that WishList used to have. That feature will be removed soon.
• Added LevelUnconfirmed method – returns/sets user’s Email Registration Confirmation status for a level.
• Added Active and Status properties to WishListMemberUser Class
• Added GetMemberActiveLevels Method
• Added GetMemberInactiveLevels Method
• Added reCaptcha library to extlib/
• Added reCaptchaResponse method in core/PluginMethods.php.
• Added reCaptcha tooltip in Membership Levels tab
• Added reCaptcha public and private key fields in Settings tab
• Added wpm_showHideLevels and wpm_doAction javascript functions in admin_more.js. This is used by the new Members tab dropdown interface
• Added $enc parameter to SaveOption and AddOption. Parameter defaults to false. If set to true, then the value of the data to be saved is encrypted before it is saved
• Added $dec parameter to GetOption. Parameter defaults to false. If set to true, then the value of the data to be returned is decrypted before it is returned
• Added Tooltips Links to WLM admin user interface.
• Helpicon.png for ToolTips added.
• Function Tooltip($tooltipid) added
• Added option to hide/not hide after login and after registration pages
• Removed MailChimp from Experimental mode
• Add New Function CheckMemberTransID to PluginMethods for Cydec integration
• Function GenerateRandomString , used to generate random TxnID
• Comment protection for new post by default will be off. that means comment for members belong to selected levels at new post editor displays by default.
• After Reg page is NEVER protected and After Login page it depends on the settings

API Updates

• core/API.php:AddUser – API function call for adding WP Users
• core/API.php:EditUser – API function call for editing WP Users
• core/API.php:DeleteUser – API function call for deleting WP Users
• Added isMagicPage() to API
• SetProtect function added to API ( Set a post/page Protection to yes or no)
• IsProtected($id) added to API. This function is useful to check a page/post is protected or not
• Fixed API. Previous versions does not output the results on REST calls
• Applied fixes to Api.php with regards to returning of levels
• Added links for API Documentation and Release Notes

Changelog

• Changed “new version available” text in dashboard to make it sound/read better.
• Added checking for duplicate Registration URLs on membership levels and shopping cart integrations.
• Changed color of error messages to red (using the Wordpress “error” CSS class). Makes errors stand out even better.
• Made upgrade notification in Dashboard more prominent.
• Content protection .htaccess enhancements
• Added 404 error to Content protection if file does not exist
• Variable clean-ups
• Sort levels by level order and subscription timestamp added to Login Hook
• Orginal widget function modified to accept input $args["title"]; and $args["title2"]
• Replaced buttons with a dropdown menu in Members tab
• Added second parameter ($status) to isSequential method. This allows us to easily enable/disable user sequential upgrade with just one function call
• Modified DoSequential to now accept a parameter ($id defaults to null). If this parameter is passed, then the sequential upgrade will be executed for that user ID only. Allows us to easily force a sequential upgrade on a per user basis
• Modified interface for the Membership Levels tab. We now hide a few options under “Advanced Settings”. Makes the page look cleaner and less confusing for newbies
• Added option to Require Captcha Image on Registration Page
• Added option to Require Email Confirmation After Registration
• Added option to Require Admin Approval After Registration
• Added “Detailed Access” tooltip
• Added “Registration Requirements” tooltip
• Changed behaviour of GetMembershipLevels Method to also exclude “Pending” and “Unconfirmed” levels if third parameter is set to true. Also changed variable name for third parameter from $nocancel to $activeOnly
• Added code to WPMRegister to set Unconfirmed status of user if level being registered to has this option enabled
• Modified sidebar widget so that it also adds a strikethrough on pending and unconfirmed levels as well
• Changed Members tab interface to now also allow manipulation of Confirmed and Approved status
• Removed “OLD Pending” feature. (Note: Code is still there, either commented out or just skipped)
• Modified LevelPending method to update Level timestamp (registration date)
• Modified admin_more.js to accommodate new options in Membership Levels Tab
• Word “Level(s)” from WLM loginout widget was missing from po file to translate. It is added now: “Level”, “Levels”
• On IE 8 password field is shorter than username field. So new css class name added to original login widget.
• Modify integration.shoppingcart.quickpaypro check for the full transaction id if it does not exist parse out the order ID and check for that Cydec Modification
• Force Unprotected removed from “After login” and “After registration page”.
• WishList Member now requires PHP5
• Changed revision to 2.30.xxx

Security Enhancements

• WLM no longer reduces the login limit counter when someone logs out. This prevents abusers from logging and out sequentially allowing access to an unlimited number of people to actually get access

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Login Limit issue wherein stale logins are not being removed from database. Also, the logout redirect feature messed up the login limit a bit. Fixed that too.
• Relocated loading of $this->attachments (File Protection) from the class Constructor to the Init method instead (hooked to WP init) because it uses Wordpress functions that are not yet loaded on class creation thereby causing it to fail in some blogs
• Update MagicPage due to conflict with WP E-commerce (also known as WP Shopping Cart) plugin. The conflict was Wishlist Member Magic Page is duplicated when the WP E-commerce plugin is activated. We now make sure that No page wth title ‘Wishlist Member’ is duplicated.
• Added “Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii\r\n” to mails being sent by aweber, getresponse and generic integration. This would hopefully fix the issues with Aweber
• Added check for availability of “mime_content_type” function before using it in FileProtect. If it’s available then use it, if not then just use the mime type provided by Wordpress
• Replaced all instances of $this with $that in all lib/integration.shopping.*.php files
• File protection does not return the correct filename. Fixed that now.
• Fixed file protection bug that prevents downloading of files directly uploaded into the WP uploads folder. We no longer protect files in the WP uploads folder that are uploaded directly via FTP as they don’t exist in the WP database. Also fixed mime type problems – we no longer rely on the WP stored mime types but use the PHP function mime_content_type instead.
• Fixed code that calls shopping cart integration methods. It was hard coded before which makes no sense anymore since we now allow plugging in new shopping carts.
• Added code to attempt to fix data corruption caused by rolling back to an older version of WishList Member not supporting the WLMDecrypt and WLMEncrypt functions.
• Fixed page attachments bug wherein WL Member does not inherit an attachment parent’s protection settings if the parent is a page.
• Fixed SetContentLevels method. It now makes use of the passed $id together with the value of $_POST['post_ID']
• FileProtection – included the file being accessed in the session name that’s being generated. This prevents the user from downloading all files within the next 30 seconds because his IP is granted access.
• Fixed profile update redirect.
• Fixed PHP Warning Reports
• Increased max length per CSV line to 10000. the old limit of 1024 doesn’t seem to be enough for some people’s CSV files.
• Made use of sessions to make content protection work with download managers.
• Removed trailing space from lib/integration.shoppingcart.authorize.net – there should be no trailing spaces.
• We now only auto-generate backup if the current version is not empty.
• Loaded WP’s wp-includes/pluggable.php in the Activate method because it’s required by WP_User.
• Fixed blank registration page problem in Wordpress 2.9 when the magic page is moved to trash. Now we regenerate the magic page’s status is not publish
• Rewrote the MagicPage method to deal with conflicting plugins causing WL Member to create tons and tons and tons and tons of magic pages
• Added array casts to foreach, array_values and array_keys. eliminates more PHP warning messages.
• Fixed problems with member import for Mac users by enabling auto_detect_line_endings in PHP
• Fixed download protection bug that let’s public users access protected posts
• Fixed page attachments bug wherein WL Member does not inherit an attachment parent’s protection settings if the parent is a page.
• Fixed SetContentLevels method. It now makes use of the passed $id together with the value of $_POST['post_ID']
• Added code to attempt to fix data corruption caused by rolling back to an older version of WishList Member not supporting the WLMDecrypt and WLMEncrypt functions.
• File protection does not return the correct filename. Fixed that now.
• Replaced all instances of $this with $that in all lib/integration.shopping.*.php files
• Added check for availability of “mime_content_type” function before using it in FileProtect. If it’s available then use it, if not then just use the mime type provided by Wordpress
• core/PluginMethods.php:FileProtect — made use of sessions to make content protection work with download managers.
• core/PluginMethods.php:SetFileProtection – PHP Warnings on non-array parameters
• Fixed PHP Warnings when exporting members
• Fixed PHP Warning (passing array to md5)
• Fixed more PHP Warning on arrays
• FileProtection – included the file being accessed in the session name that’s being generated. This prevents the user from downloading all files within the next 30 seconds because his IP is granted access.
• Loaded WP’s wp-includes/pluggable.php in the Activate method because it’s required by WP_User.
• We only auto-generate backup if the current version is not empty.
• Updated the Concatenation of Name for MailChimp 1. Michael John Lopez becomes firstname – Michael; lastname – John Lopez 2. Juan dela Cruz becomes firstname – Juan; lastname – dela Cruz
• WP 2.9 bug fix. When we deactivate WLM, we permanently delete the Magic Page and not simply move it to trash.
• PreventDuplicatePosts Fix. We now base it on the contents of $_POST and not $this->OrigPost
• Added global After Login and After Logout pages to ExcludePages. This automatically unprotects said pages.
• Added per level After Login pages to ExcludePages. This automatically unprotects said pages.
• Plugin Conflict: Pretty link. It block the redirections that happen after the registration form is submitted.
• Added redirect to homepage on invalid SC integration requests. prevents 404 to be returned when an SC integration URI is visited thereby reducing “check errors” with the supported shopping carts.
• Fixed MagicPage conflict with the “Yet Another Related Posts” plugin.
• Fixed slowdown caused by loading file attachments by running the process as a cron event. This speeds up loading time (especially when there are many attachments on the site).
• Fixed Sequential upgrade bug that removes users from inactive levels when sequential upgrade runs.
• Fixed email confirmation process
• Fixed registration bug that keeps on complaining about reCaptcha by moving the “return $recaptcha” line in the reCaptchaResponse method to the right place – outside the if block
• Fixed Sequential upgrade bug that messes up the membership levels when ADD and MOVE are combined. The DoSequential method now pre-determines the levels first and adds them all at once at the bottom of the method.
• Fixed WishListMemberUser::LoadLevels code that retrieves the transaction IDs. Problem was that it was looping through the wrong variable.
• Paypal IPN Fix – we no longer redirect on ShoppingCartRegistration. Found out that Paypal IPN expects a 200 OK header response.
• Fixed slowdown of large sites caused by the WLMDecrypt routine. We no longer Encrypt WLM data. Rather we only Encrypt data that needs to be encrypted
• Fixed ReadURL bug wherein it calls the URL twice if page returned is a blank page. The bug is caused by WP_Http returning “false” in the request body if page returned is blank making our code think that an error occured and thus trying to retrieve the URL via file_get_contents. Fix made by appending empty string to request body.
• Fixed default category protection bug
• Added category protection radio buttons on the “Add Category” form for newer WP versions
• Possible fix for this issue - If you add another levels( more than two) newest added level will be removed by seq upgrade in the code, you can see this at login widget when user logs in. (because Transaction ID is left empty?)
• Remove_action(’init’…) removed. Fix for Semiologic plugin.
• Updated the Mailchimp Integration
• Change to fix the GetUserLevels. When the idsonly flag was passed with the value of false or the default of false it would still only show id’s.
• Method FileProtectLoadAttachments – changed UpdateOption to SaveOption. SaveOption is the right method call
• Changed file protection htaccess so that it does not protect images
• File protection bug fix: we now call FileProtectLoadAttachments first before checking for protection status.
• Sequential upgrade bug fix. Prevent members with empty TxnID or wrong Member Since Date move to wrong level.

And we’d like to give you the entire interview absolutely FREE

Here’s the backstory on why you’ll want to listen to this…

Intro To Dan Ariely

Dan is a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University – he basically studies people and the decisions they make.

I know what you’re thinking… how does this effect me?  Am I right?

Well, if you know how and why people make certain decisions you immediately gain a HUGE advantage as far as how to position your products, improve the customer experience and increase your sales.

During this interview we talk to Dan about how the results from his research can help all small business owners.  For example, in Part 1 of this interview you’ll learn:

• Why a “decoy option” can immediately improve your subscription sales
• How to design a highly effective sales environment
• Freemium or not?  We’ll let Dan’s research answer that one
• The effect of “FREE” and how it leads to completely irrational decision making
• Why social media is playing a much larger role in buying habits – and what to do about it.
• Dan’s brand new research into the effect Brand Names have on our product “perceptions”
• Why paying employees (or contract workers) big bonuses doesn’t always work (and what to do instead)
• and much more!

You can download Part 1 of the interview below:

Dan Ariely – Predictably Irrational

(Part 2 of this interview will be conducted soon)

If you know their preferences, you can tailor your products to grab their interest.

If you know the challenges they face, you can create solutions to help.

But what if you knew WHY your customers make certain decisions?  Then, you could naturally align what you have with their needs as shown by the decisions they make.

This is the reason the book “Predictably Irrational” grabbed our attention and when New York Times Best-Selling author Dan Ariely released the follow up book “The Upside of Irrationality”, we knew we wanted to ask him more.

But we need your help.

We want to include YOUR questions as well so leave your questions for Dan in the comments below and we’ll try our best to work as many as we can into the interview

Each month you’ll have access to a tremendous amount of cutting edge information that you can immediately start using to increase signups, member interaction and retention.

From the membership trainings, resources and support from our rapidly growing community of membership site owners, you’ll have everything you need to make your membership site a tremendous success!

For more information, visit www.WishListInsider.com.

Trusted by over 6100+ people as their preferred membership solution, it’s never been easier to control access to your content, accept payments, manage your members and so much more!

Visit the WishList Member website (www.WishListMember.com) for full feature descriptions, tutorial videos and examples of sites using WishList Member.

So here’s our “official” invitation…

www.WishListInsider.com

For example, why would someone join an online membership or community?

…AND…

What makes them stay once they’ve joined?

These questions and more are answered in this free video…

What Do You Think?

Did you like the video?

We’d love to hear your thoughts.

Also, let us know of any other examples of great “community building” that you’ve come across.

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