Create a post

Memberful allows you to publish content through an email newsletter as well as a Memberful-hosted website—no external email provider or website needed. In this help article, we'll cover how to use the member website, from creating and managing posts to selecting audiences, controlling comments, choosing publishing methods, scheduling, and viewing published content.

In this help doc:

• Enable or disable the member website.
• Create a new post.
• (Optional) Duplicate an existing post.
• Preview a post.
• Save a draft.
• Select an audience to target.
• Create or select a post category.
• Enable or disable comments and likes.
• Choose to publish via email or web.
• Schedule or publish a post.
• (Optional) Send a preview of your members-only newsletter.
• View your published posts.

Enable or disable the member website

Memberful includes a hosted website feature, which is optional. This easy-to-use website saves you from having to set up and operate a custom website on your own server, so you can get up and running within minutes!

Memberful's hosted website is enabled by default, but you can disable it by navigating to the Website tab, clicking the gear icon, and selecting Hidden.

To enable the website again, navigate to the Website tab, click the gear icon, and select either Public or Members-only.

Create a new post

Navigate to Content → Posts from your Memberful dashboard, and click Create a post.

Add a title and content for your post. Use the icons at the top of the content editor to format your content and add elements like links and images.

You can also drag and drop images from your computer into the content editor. We recommend images that are exactly 768px wide as we will automatically downsize images that are larger than that.

Images will be automatically resized to fit the width of the content area. If you'd like an image to appear smaller than the full width of the content editor, use your favorite image-editing app or a free online tool like this one to add some margins to the left and right of the image before uploading it.

To turn an image into a clickable link, click the image in the editor, then click the link icon that appears on it.

Memberful will automatically use the name of the image file as the caption. Click the caption to enter a custom one.

To embed a video, paste the URL of a video from Youtube or Vimeo into the content editor, and it will be automatically embedded. Only YouTube and Vimeo videos are supported at this time.

While you're in the editor, we'll display a thumbnail of your video as a placeholder, but it will be replaced with the actual embedded video when you publish or preview the post.

Emails can't contain embedded videos, so if you're publishing via email, we'll show the thumbnail of your video with a play icon enticing your readers to click to view the full video.

Duplicate an existing post

If you've already made a post, you have the option to duplicate it with its current settings and content.

Navigate to Content → Posts, find the existing post to duplicate, click the ellipsis icon (...), and select Make a copy.

We copy the following attributes when a post is copied:

• The original post's title — which is appended with the word "(copy)"
• The original post's content and its attachments (videos, images, etc)
• The original post's visibility (e.g. if it's for public view, active members, or for members on certain plans)
• The original post's publishing options which are:
  • Show on members website
  • Category
  • Comments and likes
  • Send to members as email

Here's how the copy differs from the original post:

• The copied post will be a draft
• The delivery settings and "last edited at" timestamp will be reset

Preview a post

Click Preview to see what this post will look like to your members.

Keep in mind that certain elements are not displayed in the post preview. For example, the actual emailed post will include your custom branding elements while the preview does not.

Save a draft

Click Save draft if you're not ready to email or publish your work.

Navigate to Content → Posts → Drafts to access and view all your drafts.

Click Send test email to see an emailed preview of what your members will receive.

Select an audience to target

Your post can be made available to all members, active member on all plans, active members on select plans, or free and inactive members.

When you choose to target only members of selected plans, you can select which plans should be included.

Create or select a post category

Categories allow you to easily organize your posts on your hosted member site. Members will be able to select from a posts dropdown button to view posts from that category.

Navigate to Content → Posts → More actions → Manage post categories.

To create create a new category click Create post category.

After creating your categories, you can also rename or delete them from your Manage post categories setting.

You can then select your post category or click Add new category to manage your categories.

Enable or disable comments and likes

Memberful allows your members to comment on posts you've published to the web, and to 'like' those posts as well. Learn more about comments and likes.

Choose to publish via email or website

With posts, you can:

• Send posts via email — allowing you to send out an email newsletter.
• Publish posts to a Memberful-hosted website — allowing you to offer content on a simple website that's automatically created and hosted for you by Memberful.

To access your post settings, click Settings.

You can choose to deliver your posts via email, website, or both.

If you choose to publish this post to your Memberful-hosted website, your Target Audience setting will determine who can visit the published page.

If you choose to send this post via email, your Target Audience setting will determine who will receive the email.

Schedule or publish a post

You can schedule your post to be published immediately or sent sometime in the future.

To schedule a post for later, select Schedule to publish in the future and enter a date and time.

The timezone that is used for this can be changed by visiting Settings → Localization.

Click Publish to email and/or publish your newsletter immediately or schedule it for the future.

(Optional) Send a preview of your members-only newsletter

You can share a preview of your newsletter to encourage current members who haven't yet subscribed to that related plan. They'll see a snippet of your newsletter content and then a call to action to subscribe.

We show two paywall types depending on your subscribe page settings.

With your custom subscribe page enabled:

With your custom subscribe page disabled:

To send your newsletter preview, enable the Send a free preview toggle.

Related help docs:

• Learn how to manage your posts.
• Manage post comments and likes.
• View whether a member is subscribed to post emails.