What is a Member Area?
If you’ve ever walked through an airport and seen a frequent flier lounge, you’ll have seen the appeal of a Member Area: a space set aside for users with elevated status – whether it’s something they pay for or are given access to for some other reason. You might not be offering free champagne and warm towels in your website’s “lounge,” but Member Areas are a great way to monetize or protect your ideas and information in an ongoing way (outside of selling individual services or products that would need to be changed out every time you update them).
Plus, while you can add a password to protect a single page, only Member Areas will allow members to create individual logins, offering the most efficient way to limit access to multiple pages and collections.
How to access Member Areas
To add Member Areas to your site, you’ll navigate to the Settings menu from your HOME menu, and scroll down until you...