Membership Script For WordPress
April 25th, 2010 — Announcements, DAP, Updates, Versions
DAP v3.7 & LiveLinks 1.2 are both out of beta. They are now final release candidates. (What’s in 3.7 & 1.2?)
Download both from your member home page.
DAP v3.8 (& LL 1.3) will be here hopefully within the next couple of weeks.
And don’t forget to check out “Product Chaining” that will be part of that release.
Ooh, very exciting times ahead! 
- Ravi & Veena
March 11th, 2010 — Announcements, DAP, New Features, Plugins, Updates, Versions
Here’s a pretty accurate list of what’s coming in a few days on 03/15/2010 03/16/2010….
* Spanking-new DAP Admin Dashboard Navigation Menu
* Comments on protected pages/posts are now hidden from un-authorized users. Comments are shown only to authorized, logged-in users who have access to view that post/page
* DAP now hides WordPress Page links from the sidebar as well as from the WP standard navigation menu. So if a WP Page (not the same as a WP Post) is protected and the user (logged in or not-logged-in) is not yet eligible to view it (or access has expired), then the link to the protected page will no longer even “display” on your blog’s sidebar.
* Title of the Login/Logout Widget on the sidebar, can now be customized
* Login/Logout Form can be completely changed to however you want it to look.
* One-Time Offers (OTO’s) are now free and part of core DAP
* Complete “Power Customization” of protected content error messages (ones with the DAP lock image)
* Ability to redirect unauthorized users to a custom URL : to any page on your site, to any page on any site, to a product-specific error page, or to your sales page.
* Separate customizable error messages for logged-in users (who have lost access to expired content, or because they don’t yet have access to it because of the dripping) and non-logged in users
* Login-form shows up right on the error page for non-loggedin users trying to access a protected link. So when someone visits a protected link, DAP will show them something to the effect of “Sorry, you don’t have access… Click here to buy access to this content. Already a member? Log in below…”
* You can customize every last piece of the error message.
* Custom Product-Level Redirection After Login: You already have this feature at a system-level, where you can say where users should go after login. Now, depending on what product or membership level the user has purchased, you can now configure them to go to a different page after login. To achieve this, you would publish multiple login forms on your web site, one per product/membership level. And pass a hidden form variable called “redirect”. So after the user logs in, you can take the user to any page on any site you want. In effect, what this does is allow you to control the “URL After Login” for different products, and allow you to redirect them to any custom page immediately after they login. Of course, you must set up one login form PER product. May not be too useful for the average DAP Admin, but this has been requested a lot for a while, so we decided to implement this. Low hanging fruit, actually . In a future version, you will be able to set this “POST_LOGIN_URL” at a Product level, right within the Product page.
* DAP is becoming a Platform! WooHoo! You will soon be able to Develop Plugins For DAP just the way people today can Develop Plugins For WordPress. So DAP will no longer be just a Membership Script – it will become an entire platform by itself – something that different developers and companies and vendors can extend easily without touching or modifying the DAP core files.
And finally…
* [HUGE] Upsell-Tree for Regular Paypal: You can now do 1-Click Upsells using just a plain ol’ Paypal Standard (business) account. No merchant account required. This Plugin will be sold separately and will not be released as part of DAP core.
And to think that we’re just getting started in 2010! DAP is absolutely going to ROCK! So stay tuned.
And feel free to comment below.
Cheers!
- Ravi Jayagopal & Veena Prashanth
January 19th, 2010 — Announcements, DAP, Plugins, Updates, Versions
Have you checked out our spanking new “Upsell Tree” video? Also check out the new documentation for installing Upsell-Tree.
If you recently purchased the Upsell-Tree plugin, simply download the latest versions of both DAP and UpsellTree and upload all files to your site. We made some minor fixes and improvements.
Did you know that DAP v3.5 and LiveLinks v1.1 have been out for over a week now? Download them from your member’s area.
Even if you recently upgraded DAP, it’s not a bad idea to just download all new DAP and LiveLinks files and upload them once more to your site. Doesn’t hurt, plus you can be absolutely sure you have the latest files.
Feel free to comment below.
Enjoy!
- Ravi & Veena
PS: Oh, and Paypal Pro support is coming very soon
November 29th, 2009 — Announcements, DAP, Updates, Versions
DAP v3.4 and LiveLinks v0.9 (BETA) are here!
Both will be officially “beta” for another day or two, but they’ve have been tested a lot.
FYI, we have upgraded our own site DigitalAccessPass.com to the newest version.
So, if you can’t wait to get your hands on the cool new features, then just comment below and say so, and we’ll send you the new version right away!
Upgrading takes just 2 clicks…
- Ravi Jayagopal
P.S.: We’ve already started work on the next version due end of December (DAP v3.5)…
November 23rd, 2009 — Announcements, DAP, Feature Requests, Updates, Versions
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.
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.
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.
* [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
October 28th, 2009 — Announcements, DAP, Updates, Versions
Just Released: New versions of DAP (v3.3) & LiveLinks (v0.7).
You can download them here.
Check out the change log, then upgrade DAP and LiveLinks by following the instructions below.
1) Upgrading to the latest version of DAP.
2) Upgrading to the latest version of LiveLinks.
Feel free to comment below.
October 16th, 2009 — Announcements, DAP, Versions
DAP v3.3 is almost here (Release date: October 27th).
If you can’t wait to get started, and wish to download the beta version, then email us and we will send you the download link.
Here’s the final feature-list of what’s in 3.3:
Finally! DAP can now be accessed within your WordPress Admin Dashboard (link to the bottom left on your WP admin menu).
All your existing WordPress blog posts and pages will show up on the “Products” page. (Note: If you’re upgrading from an earlier version, then just edit any existing blog post (just one), and click on “Update” – no need to make any changes to the post/page. So basically, create or modify a post, and that triggers the creation of the posts/pages list that will show up on the DAP Products page. This applies to those who are upgrading only).
So no more copy-pasting permalinks from your blog into DAP. Just click and add to Product!
Protect every post and page in your blog by adding them all to a product with just 1 click.
You can selectively select multiple posts/pages from the new list on the Product’s page, and add them to the Product.
When adding multiple posts/pages to a product using 1-Click-Protection, you can now choose an “Interval” to separate these posts by.
So for example, if you are adding 10 posts using 1-Click, and choose the interval as 1, then all 10 posts will be added automatically separated by a day each (instead of adding them all on day 1 itself). So, choosing an interval of 1 will add your posts like this:
Day 10 – Post (newest post by published date)
Day 9 – Post…
…
…
Day 2 – Post…
Day 1 – Post (oldest post according to the published date)
And if you choose the interval 7, then, the 10 posts will be added with an interval of 7 days in between, like this:
Day 64 – Post (newest post by published date)
Day 57 – Post…
…
…Day 8 – Post…
Day 1 – Post (oldest post according to the published date)
Now you can set a product to be double-optin (optional), and also the thank-you email (optional) subject and body to be specific to that product.
If you leave the double-optin subject and body empty, then the product automatically becomes single-optin (meaning, no optin required).
If you leave the thank-you email subject and body empty, then no instant thank-you email will be sent.
Thank-you email will be sent (if you enter some text in there) regardless of the Optin – i.e it will be sent for both Single-optin or Double-optin. Of course, with Double-optin enabled, thank-you email is sent *after* your member has clicked on the double-optin link. For single-optin, it is sent instantly during signup.
1) Note down the “Product ID” for the product that you are creating an aweber sign-up form for. You will see this “Product Id” on the Product page now (new field added) above the “Product Name” field.
2) So let’s say your product id is 1. Now remember the 3rdPartyForm.php in the folder /dap/inc/ ? Now make a copy of that file in that same folder, and rename that as 1.php (just the productid followed by “.php”). So if your product id were 10, this file would be called 10.php .
3) The Aweber confirmation screen is triggered only during double-optin. So next, make sure you put some text in the Double-optin subject and body of that specific product (the global “Activation Email” and “Welcome Email” on the “DAP Templates” screen are no longer valid. All double-optin and thank-you emails are now product-specific)
4) That’s it. Now when when your member clicks on the confirmation link, that link will activate their account only for that specific product. And then, *if* there is a <productid>.php file in the dap/inc/ folder, that form will be presented to them. So for each product, you can now have a different <productid>.php file in the dap/inc folder. Which basically means, you can add the members of each product to a different list on Aweber.
Send BulkMail to users who signed up for <product list> between <date 1> and <date 2>
So for example, you can schedule an email to go out to all users who signed up for “Potty Training Tips” between 10/01/2009 and 10/15/2009.
“URL to which User is redirected to when there are no posts are available for display”
This allows you to protect *all* posts and pages in your blog. Then, when someone visits your blog, or a category in which all posts are protected, and WordPress doesn’t know what to show the user, it will redirect them to this URL you enter in the above field. You could create a special WP page called “Members Only” and on this page, you can write some copy about why the user is not able to access the content on your blog. This redirection applies only to non-members who are not logged in to your membership site, and visit your blog’s main page, and you have all posts protected. Or when they try to visit a category in which all posts are protected. Or the category itself is protected.
“How many users to show in the results on the ‘Manage Users’ search screen?”
Default is 25. So on the Users > Manage screen, you will see as many results as you specify in this config field.
1) Earnings Summary By Month: Shows a summary of gross earnings per product, per month, for the time period selected.
2) Incoming Affiliate Traffic: Shows all incoming affiliate traffic (referers: what sites they are coming from), for the time period selected.
Default time period on the page: Last 1 week, including today
New Merge variable for errors: %%MSG%%
You can create a new page, say, titled, “Oops” or “Error”. And in the body of the post, put in the text %%MSG%%
Then, in the DAP Product page, in the “Error Page URL” field, put in the permalink to the above error page.
So now, when a logged-in user clicks on a link that is not yet available to them, or has already expired, then they will be taken to this new error page, with the DAP error message correctly displayed.
The global “Email: Activation” and “Email: Welcome” Templates are now deprecated. Activation (double-optin) and Thank-You (welcome) Emails are both now Product-specific.
There is no more %%ACTIVATION_KEY%% merge variable.
There is only %%ACTIVATION_LINK%%
No need to “assemble” the activation link any more by entering something like:
<http://yoursite.com/dap/preactivate.php?c=%%ACTIVATION_KEY%%>
All you have to do is to enter:
%%ACTIVATION_LINK%%
…in the body of your double-optin email, and that automatically gets translated to the full link (including the “<” and “>” at the beginning and end to prevent the link from breaking up):
<http://yoursite.com/dap/preactivate.php?c=12345&p=1>
When you click on the “Products” page, your oldest product (the one at the top of your products list) will be automatically loaded by default.
When you click on the “Users > Manage” link, the search will be triggered by default, just as if you had hit the “Search” button with all the default search options.
…during installation or admin login
1ShoppingCart recently made a change to their sales notification email format. This update will modify the email template to recognize the change.
Feel free to comment below.
- Ravi Jayagopal
October 3rd, 2009 — Announcements, Feature Requests, Updates, Versions, Video
I was so excited about sharing this stuff with you, that I just made a quick video with Jing.
And don’t forget to leave your questions, comments or suggestions below.
Now watch this video to see what I’m so excited about…
- Ravi
September 17th, 2009 — Announcements, DAP, Updates, Versions
DAP v3.2 is coming soon (in just a few days).
Here’s a list of what’s in it so far…
* NEW: WP WIDGET: Login/Logout Widget: Shows the “Login” form on the sidebar when not logged in, and a “Logout” button when user is logged in.
* NEW: REPORT: On Admin home page: “Earnings Summary By Product” (default span: 1 week)
* NEW: Link to completely “Empty Logs” (dap_log) on the “Admin > Logs” screen.
* NEW: DB: Added 2 new fields to User table: Phone, Fax
* NEW: DB: New field for storing user-photos (upload-photo plugin sold separately)
* NEW: LOGGED_OUT_URL can now be customized via Config
* NEW: PROFILE_URL can now be customized via Config
* NEW: Extended User-Profile that includes many more fields
* NEW: Specify on-the-fly what URL user should be redirected to after they log out…
http://YourSite.com/dap/logout.php?redir=http://www.somesite.com
* NEW: More logging and admin notification introduced for Paypal IPN notification
* NEW: Ability to set up A “Recurring Email” – basically adding the same Email *Multiple Times To A Product*. Very useful if you wanted to send out, say, some kind of a canned “Account Info” email (with their email and password) to the user once a month. So you just setup one “Email” in DAP and then keep adding the same email to your Product with different “Start Day”s. And you now have a “Recurring-Email”!
Oh, and if you think 3.2 is awesome, you have no idea how super-freakin-awesome DAP v4.0 is going to be 
…
Feel free to comment below.
- Ravi
July 27th, 2009 — Announcements, DAP, Updates, Versions
We have a new version of DAP. You can download it from here.
Check out the change log, then upgrade DAP by following the instructions below.
=> Upgrading to the latest version of DAP.