The next update is almost here!
Both DAP v3.4 and LiveLinks (LL) v0.9 should be out in just a couple of days.
We have some very cool new features packed into this release.
WordPress User Integration
DAP now fully integrates with the WordPress user tables. Which means you can now put to use awesome WordPress plugins that require the user information to exist in the native WordPress user tables. Also see our earlier post about this.
WordPress Forum Integration
We have so far tested DAP with bbPress and Simple:Press and both work great!
If DAP works with these two forum plugins, then it should work with other WP forum plugins too.
Other New Features
* [New] More columns added on the “Users > Manage” screen. New colums include: “User Status”, “User/Product Status”, “Opted Out”. So in one glance, you can see if a user is active, if the user/product status is active, and if the user has opted out of receiving emails from you. Any of the users that are “Inactive” or “Unconfirmed” will be highlighted with a bright color (orangish?)
* [New] Merge code %%AFF_LINK%% can now be used in blog posts too.
* [New] 3rdPartyNotification Email now contains details about the product that just got a signup
* [New] There’s a new file called “/dap/inc/protected_html.php”. The contents of this file will show up below the padlock. You can customize this page with any sales copy you want.
* [New] Links on “User Home Page” are now sorted by “dripping order” – newest at the top, oldest at the bottom.
* [New] Changed affiliate earnings summary on user home page to now show “Product Name” instead of just the “Product Id”. So affiliate can know what product on your site that they referred someone to.
* [New] Minor changes to Look & Feel of various DAP pages
* [Bug-fix] Fix for the “Umlaut” above letters in the user’s first/last name
* [Bug-fix] Removed JS alert on “Export Affiliates” from archive functionality
* [Bug-fix] Some servers don’t seem to like the second “http://” in affiliate links when you’re redirecting to a new page other than the default affiliate landing page. Fixed this to remove the second “http://” from the affiliate link. It will not affect your existing affiliate links.
[Note] LiveLinks v0.8 was not a general release. It was given to just a few select DAP users who reported LiveLinks 0.7 conflicting with their theme. So regardless of whether you have LL 0.7 or 0.8, you can upgrade to LL v0.9.
Feel free to comment below.
- Ravi
18 comments ↓
Dude. You Said you’d take a vacation. But the awesome keeps on coming. Don’t stop. Product chaining! Vbulletin.
Continue Dap’s ascent.
Thanks for making this the besT $165 I’ve ever spent!
Thanks Ravi, you’re awesome
David
Ravi,
I am quite amazed, and pleased, with how fast you are upgrading DAP. The other membership software developers move like dinosaurs compared to DAP. Keep up the great work, and welcome to you wife for joining you.
Chris,
Product Chaining is coming very soon. Promise!
Now, regarding vBulletin, once 3.4 comes out, all of your DAP users will be in WP.
So you will be able to use any WordPress/vBulletin plugin that’s out there.
Does that help? Or did you want a pure DAP/vBulletin integration? Meaning, you want to run vB outside of WordPress, and still want all of your DAP users to be ported over to vB and logged in automatically into the forum?
- Ravi
Joe,
Thank you for your kind words
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We try
- Ravi
Vbulletin oiutside of WP would be the way to go.
Also–get a “subscribe to comments plugin” for this blog.
Chris,
Subscribe-to-comments now added
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Will add ‘vBulletin outside WP’ to the list. Should happen sooner than later.
Thanks,
- Ravi
So, are users now going to have usernames in WP? Will the WP account be logged in concurrently with the dap account? Also, it would be awesome to have the capability to create multiple, product specific login pages. For example, one for affiliates and one for full members.
Anyways…I’m being nitpicky…this looks awesome. The forum support was much needed and, as usual, you’ve delivered.
Thanks Ravi!
Adam,
>>are users now going to have usernames in WP?
Yes, correct. Same as their DAP email id.
>>Will the WP account be logged in concurrently with the dap account?
Yes. Autologin to WP when they log in to DAP.
>>Also, it would be awesome to have the capability to create multiple, product specific login pages. For example, one for affiliates and one for full members.
Can you email me directly and expand on that? Sounds interesting.
Would be extremely nice to have the ability for members to create usernames. I’m not so sure my members will love the idea of their email being displayed to other members (and the general public if the forum is readable by the public).
Will send an email
Would love a future release to offer product access on more than a time-variable level. For example, All members, including new sign-ups, would have access to the current live broadcast, but the archive would drip in the traditional way, 1 per month. So all members can participate in the newest content, but not gain access to the entire archive prematurely at month 1 of sign-up (what DAP already exists to prevent). Just a thought. I realize that such requests can get infinitely complex with n-variable access permissions
Adam,
The email id will not be displayed on the blog.
WP has what is called as a “nicename”. DAP will set this to be the “Firstname Lastname” (ex., “Ravi Jayagopal”). That is what the logged in user as well as other users will see.
Hope this helps.
- Ravi
Mark,
This feature already exists. This is how DAP on our own site (http://DigitalAccessPass.com) is set up.
The dap.zip file is always available to all users, as it is set up to be available on “Day #1″.
Same way, add your “current content” to be available on “Day #1″ and set up different dripping for your future/archived content.
Does this help?
- Ravi
That sounds like a viable solution. Would still be nice to have user defined usernames, but that’s good enough.
Ravi, I understand what you’ve written, but that approach does not solve the situation I’ve explained. For instance, if Member A joins in January, Member B joins in Feb, and C joins in March…they are each entitled to the new content release for the current month (set to release at Day 1″), but customer B would see Jan and Feb material, due to their being marked for release on Day 1, and customer C would gain access to Jan, Feb and his entitle March content. So the problem is here: I understand how to make stuff available on Day 1/current, and I understand how to drip existing content, but this is complicated when one needs to combine both current access AND archive dripping, where the points of entry and access privileges change. In fact, maybe what I’m describing is too complicated a way of approaching membership, and I should try a different approach, but the problem I face is the parameters of what is current and what is archive/drip change depending on the date of entry into the system (when the content is not set forth in a defined sequential order, but a combination of live access for the current month and subsequent archiving/dripping). Oh my God, I realize how complicated this looks. Let me know if you can figure out where I’m coming from here. Thanks!
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Mark – you may be thinking of having content that’s dripped according to the calendar dates, instead of Day 1, etc. So for a particular page, make the content available from say December 1 – December 30. That’s what I’m doing for my live coaching sessions. But my other content gets dripped by the length they’ve been a member.
At the present time, you can’t do both, if that’s what you are asking for, but I can’t think of why you would want to. You may be making it more complicated than it needs to be.
Ravi – great updates. I’ve just made my promo tools pages with the new %%AFF_LINK%% codes. Here’s an example of what they look like:
http://imsuccesslibrary.com/profits/my-account/promo-tools/banners
This was the main part of 3.4 I was really excited about. The forum will come later
Bob
Thanks, Bob. You’re right: simplicity is probably the best approach for this. I need to find ways to remove and reduce complexity, not add on to it. Especially given that we are both educators…our sites should exude simplicity and conciseness (yours looks fantastic!).
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