Memberships & Income · Full walkthrough
Publish something for your members.
Choose whether a post is for everyone, members or paid members.
Before you start
Decide whether this post is for everyone, members or paid members. Review the website’s membership settings before offering paid access.
Write a post for the intended website
Open that website’s News / Blog and choose Write a Post. Write the article and its free introduction, choose its title and images, and keep it as a draft while configuring access.
Open News / Blog and create a post. Write the content and give it a title that clearly describes what readers will receive.
Review the draft’s images and links before changing its audience. The audience setting controls access to the post.
Choose who can read it
Under Who Can Read It, choose Everyone, members who sign in for free, or paid subscribers. Membership setup controls access; a paid post needs the website’s payment and subscription setup. Review which part of the post visitors can see before signing in.
Choose who can read it: everyone, members or paid members. Compare that choice with the promise you make on the website and in the post’s introduction.
A member-only post and a paid-member post have different audiences. Choose deliberately rather than assuming every signed-in visitor has paid access.
Check sign-in and member email settings
Review the website’s member sign-in presentation and the News / Blog Automation Config choice for sending posts to members. Publishing and email are separate settings: do not assume every post is emailed. Test the signed-out, free-member and paid-member access appropriate to this post before publishing.
Open member and payment settings to confirm the site’s available plans before choosing paid access. A public link card to an outside publication is not a Podspun paid post and cannot grant that publication’s subscription access.
If you enable post emails, review the account’s email setup, audience and the actual published post. Keep welcome messages and campaign sends distinct from access permissions.
Review membership settings and the post, then publish when ready. Test the public view and the relevant member view.
Check the sign-in or membership invitation a visitor sees and confirm that the intended readers can reach the full post. Review any associated member email as well.
Review checklist
- The post has the intended access level.
- The visitor invitation describes that access accurately.
- The appropriate member can read the full post.
If you get stuck
A reader cannot access the post
Check the post’s audience and whether that reader has the required membership.
The post is visible to the wrong audience
Review and correct its access selection, then test the public and member views again.