WAIT! Did you know that you get FREE INSTALLATION of DAP? Yes, even if you are only trying out the free trial and haven’t paid us a dime!

But if you must to do it yourself, then here you go

1. Download & Unzip Files

Log in to your member’s area at http://DigitalAccessPass.com/dap/ . Download the following 2 files…

a) dap.zip

b) DAP-WP-Livelinks.zip

Unzip the two zip files (separately) to your desktop. You should see 2 folders named dap and DAP-WP-LiveLinks.

2. Upload Files

a) Upload the entire dap folder on your computer, to the root of your web site. The root directory is where your web site’s home page is usually located. This directory also goes by the name “public_html” or “www” or “htdocs”.

WARNING: You may not rename the dap folder to anything else. The name of the folder MUST be dap, and regardless of where your blog is (in the main folder, or in a sub-folder), the dap folder must be in your root directory.

Once this is done, the dap folder should be accessible by at http://www.Example.com/dap/ – but wait – don’t visit that link yet.

b) Upload the entire DAP-WP-LiveLinks folder (including the folder too) to your WordPress plugins directory, which is wp-content/plugins/

3. Activate Plugin

Log in as WordPress admin, go to the “Plugins” page, and activate the DAP-WP-LiveLinks plugin. Just activating the plugin installs the DAP tables in the same database as your WordPress blog.

If there are any errors, you will see them on your screen. If not, you will see a message that says that installation is complete, with just one final step remaining (see below).

You will also see the email and password for the DAP Admin account that has just been created for you.

There is no need to log in separately to the DAP Admin Control Panel, as you have already been logged in as DAP admin during the installation.

But save this DAP admin login info for future reference.

4. Permalinks Update (final step)

Within the WordPress admin control panel, go to “Settings > Permalinks”.

Under the section “Customize Permalink Structure”, pick any option other than “Default“.

IMPORTANT: Regardless of whether you made any changes on this Permalinks page or not, you MUST click on “Save Changes”.

REPEAT: Don’t forget to click on “Save Changes” whether you changed the permalink structure or not.

5. Access DAP

You will now see a new link on your WordPress Admin Menu  (bottom left, below “Settings”) called “DigitalAccessPass”. Click on that link to access your DigitalAccessPass Admin Control Panel.

6. Setting Up Cron

This step is not required to get started using DAP. This is required only when you are ready to start sending out autoresponder and broadcast emails. And also for testing payment integration with, say, 1ShoppingCart or ClickBank. But ultimately you do need to set it up. So click here for the instructions.