Your membership site is set up. Now it needs content. In this lesson, you'll add pages to your site, then protect them so only members can see them. You'll also see how to show a page only to certain members, like people who bought a specific course. You'll do both steps for every page you want to keep private.
To add a page to your membership site, publish it to the site's domain. Every page hosted on that domain is part of your site. Build the page as usual, then click Publish. If your site uses your own domain, choose My domain, pick it from the Domain dropdown, and add a file name, like lesson-1. If it uses an Ontraport domain, choose Temporary domain, enter your site's subdomain, and pick the Ontraport domain it's hosted on. Then click Save and Publish.
You can also create a page right from the Pages section of your membership site's settings.
Here's the catch. Adding a page to your site doesn't protect it. By default, every page is public. To make visitors log in first, you have to protect it.
Open the page and click the Settings tab, then Display Settings. Under Display this page to whom, choose All logged in members. Now any contact with an active membership can see the page once they log in.
Next, set where everyone else goes in the redirect field. If you leave it blank, visitors without access see an access denied message. A better choice is often your sales page, so people who can't see the content get an offer to buy it.
For finer control, choose Some logged in members instead, then click Add a condition. Only members who meet your condition can see the page. For example, to show a lesson only to people who bought your course, choose Has ordered a certain amount of product, set it to greater than or equal to 1, and pick your course.
For membership levels, use Field is this value. Pick your membership level field, choose contains, and select the level. Members at that level get in, and everyone else goes to your redirect.
You can protect part of a page the same way. Hover over a block, click the gear icon, then Display settings, and choose who sees that block.
Display settings can also release content over time. You protect each page with a field value, like week 1, then an automation adds the next value on a schedule. You'll build that step by step later in this course, in Bringing it together.
So: publish each page to your membership site's domain, then protect it in Display Settings and choose where everyone else goes. Next up: giving users access, so your members can log in and see it all.