Today I made two significant updates to the amProtect plugin for WordPress that allows you to protect your content with your aMember products.

1. Protect Entire Categories

The first improvement is pretty straightforward. Now you can protect entire categories.

It works just like protecting an entire post or page. When you add or edit a category you’ll notice a new section at the bottom of the page with checkboxes next to all of your aMember products. You can just check off any product/subscription that should protect every post in that category.

amProtect Edit Category Screen Shot

The same rules apply as if you’d checked those products on your post. But you can still edit the post to add even more product/subscriptions and/or also use the amprotect tags to protect portions of the content. It is all cumulative.

2. Show Alternate Content

The second improvement may not be as easy to understand at first. I’ve added an else condition to the amprotect tags.

Sometimes the replacement text phrases are not enough to show to non-members or members who don’t have a particular subscription. Sometimes you just want to show alternate content to the protected content. Maybe you need a way to do something in a different language that cannot be covered by the replacement text phrases.

But here is my favorite use of this new feature…

Imagine having a video in WordPress that is protected for your paying customers. But for anyone who is not logged in and/or has not purchased that video you want to show a free shortened preview teaser of the video. Now you can do that with a new tag:

[amelse]

You’ve made two versions, one paid and one free and you have your embed code. Here is how you would edit the post:

[ amprotect=xxx ]
  Embed code for paid version goes here.
  Put a link to the download link or any related members-only content here too!
[ amelse ]
  Embed code for free version goes here.
  Put a link to your sales page here too!
[ /amprotect ]

(Please note that I put extra spaces in the tags for demonstration purposes that do not normally go there.)

If they are signed in and have paid for the video then they get to see that version. If they are not logged in and/or have not paid for that video then they will see the free version.

It’s that simple. One URL in WordPress that can now be used for both your prospects and your customers!

The possibilities are huge here for what you put before the amelse tag and what you put after.

If you haven’t picked up a copy of the amProtect plugin yet you can get it here.

(I definitely need to make a new video for amProtect soon!)

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