[NOTE: Read this only if you have a Non-WordPress, plain HTML web site that you wish to protect using DAP]
Ok, so you’re not using WordPress to power your web site.
While you’re really missing out on a *lot* of really cool things that you can do with WordPress, it’s totally fine as far as DAP is concerned, because DAP can protect plain HTML web sites too, not a problem.
But you also need to understand that because you’re not using WordPress, that makes “customizing” your DAP-powered site a tad more difficult, not because of a DAP shortcoming, but just because of the sheer fact that you have to hand-code everything yourself when it comes to a regular non-WordPress, HTML-based site.
So if you’re going to go down this route, there are a few things to consider:
- There are some DAP features which are wordpress-only, that won’t work. Examples of this are: “Sneak-Peek”, “Comment Protection”, etc.
- You won’t be able to use our built-in “Login/Logout Widget”, which shows the login form on the sidebar if users are not logged in, and automatically turns into a “Logout” button once they log in to your membership site.
- You can’t “power customize” or “power tweak” every aspect of your membership area. For example, you can’t put the login form on any page of your web site, unless you know how to do some HTML and coding.
- You will have to use the default login page that comes with dap – that looks like this: http://DigitalAccessPass.com/dap/ . Of course, you don’t have to use our header image – you can replace it with your web site header and footer. For which, you have to at least know how to extract the HTML for the header & footer areas from your current web site. Or at least have someone who can help you with that.
- WordPress users have tons of customizability options, which you won’t. Like switching themes, ability to split the member area into multiple pieces – like “User Profile”, “My Content”, and “Affiliate Links” – and put them on 3 different pages on their WordPress blog. You can’t do that – for you, it will all be on one, default member home page (also at http://DigitalAccessPass.com/dap/).
So, if you are a “power tweaker” and want great control over all of the little things of your membership site, then DAP will not work for you.
But if moving your entire web site over to WordPress is a pain that you don’t wish to (or can’t) deal with, or are not too fussy about power customizations, and just want your membership site to plain “work” right out of the box, then DAP will be perfect for you.
What You CAN and CANNOT Do If You Have A Plain HTML Web Site
(and don’t use WordPress)
- NO: Sneak-Peek
- NO: Comment-Protection for visitors
- NO: Login/Logout widget
- Must use DAP’s default login page, that is only customizable with a header and footer – will take more work (and you must know HTML) if you want to make the login page look exactly like the rest of your web site
- Must use DAP’s default member page, which contains the “My Content” page, “My Profile” and “My Affiliate Info” sections all rolled into one single page – you won’t be able to split them up into multiple pages like you can do with WordPress
- Our Amazon S3 plugin S3MediaVault.com will not work on plain HTML sites
- DAP Shortcodes won’t work, as that is WordPress only
- “In-Page” dripping won’t work
Screenshot Of Sample Login Page
Screenshot of Sample Members’ Area
You can customize header and footer HTML in both cases.