I'm trying to set up a membership site using wordpress (that part's easy) but also have a paid newsletter component (e.g. mailchimp) so only registered (paid) users can sign up/have access to the newsletter and have the whole thing be streamlined easily.
So for e.g. a user registers, pays, and automatically becomes a member and is added to a mailchimp list
I did look into ghost but my main issue there is it seems difficult to create custom home/landing pages and I'm not a coder
Hello ybyalik, on WordPress you can easily put content behind a paywall using https://memberpress.com/
You can set it up exactly in the same way, user tries to register -> is asked to pay -> becomes a member and going further you can also automate the adding to MailChimp part.
Alternatively, MailChimp guys have recently re-done their own website builder which supports payments out of the box and everything happens inside of Mailchimp
Hu ybyalik -- so I think The Prepared does this but I believe it's not an easy integration, I think it's more work/coding than setting up something with Ghost http://theprepared.org/
With Ghost, I would say you have a couple of options:
I do think the time/money of doing it anywhere other than Ghost will end up far more than the one-time cost of figuring out a Ghost landing page, but might be wrong of course!
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