Try S2 Member… It’s free and has a lot of functionality. Integrates easily with PayPal.

1. Membership (as above)
2. Monthly revenue (as above)
3. User created content (I.e. Facebook, twitter, kijiji, Craigslist, kickstarter, MySpace)
4. The ability to vote user created content up or down.

Actually re: Wishlists’ content drip.

A way around this is to use MailChimp/aWeber.
Add people to a list, set up A/Rs for that list.
Each message can refer to a file or some content on S3 or in the email itself or hosted on MC/aWeber.

I guess it all comes down to what you want to achieve.

WList has its problems – the drip feed/content feeder is horrible to use. I have 52 weeks of content so I have to create 52 (!) products and shift people up them. Shocker.
Callbacks post purchase are tricky (the user guides are woeful).
The option to force unsubscribe people who cancel, from a MailCHimp/other mailing list is BLOODY AWESOME, I wish Premise did this.

Premise is shocking – a total mess. Good idea, bad implementation. No way to set currency, the shortcodes are a nightmare. The integration into WP itself isn’t too bad. Using tags for access levels etc.

I think the larger issue is WordPress wasn’t (Really) meant for membership sites. htaccess rewrite issues, plugin conflicts (amember plugin kills MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate)…it’s a nightmare.

For me, if you’re going to run a membership site, using content, you use amember.

I think WP needs a nice paywall plugin that does a few detects on # of visits, puts up the wall or cuts content at read-more points and offers a kick out to Paypal. That’s it. (Oh, I am considering developing this – any devs out there want to do some work together let me know).

I’m running into a serious limitation with s2, in that it does not contain a built-in option for displaying a membership directory. Furthermore, searching users by custom fields is notably difficult, even by their own developers. They seem to be looking for ways to address these issues in a way that is backwards-compatible, but this was promised over a year ago. My guess is that it must be a difficult situation is such a commonly-requested feature has not been implemented yet.

I’m about to set up two membership websites and also have liked what I’ve seen of WishList. To display a membership directory, tho, do I need anything extra — such as “Business Directory Plug-in”?

Many thanks!

Thanks in advance!