Membership With OpEd News

Advocate Membership      1 mos/$12.02, 3 mos/$20.02, 6 mos/$30.02, 12 mos/$49.02, Lifetime/$300.02

Advocate Membership is for those who like a higher level of member benefits than the Basic Membership. You get several benefits unavailable to the Basic Members, particularly ability to see statistics for most popular content and page views on all articles and all member pages. Also, larger bio in your profile, ability to post comments after expired time for non-premium members, create a customized URL for your member page and view your fans.

Benefits and Features

Choose Multiple Image Sizes from commonsSearch

When searching for an image to use in an article, you will have your choice of several different sizes on images to use. From 150px to 800px.

Automatically see articles as one page

Articles longer than one page have a set of links you need to click to go to the next page. With this benefit, all articles will appear as one long page.

Add your links to articles, audio/video interviews and talks to Members page

On your Members Page, you can show a list of your links to your articles, audio/video interviews and talks that you have done anywhere on the Internet.

Full Access to Statistics for anyone, & Main Site Most Popular Stats

In addition to being able to see YOUR stats on your archive page, you will be able to see page views of other writers, on their archive pages.
You will be able to see the stats on popularity pages as the advocate membership plan allows. .
In addition to seeing stats on archive and popularity pages, you will be able to see the number of page views on the articles, diaries and polls themselves. That's easier.
See the Advocate membership plan stats option for more details.

Basic Access to Statistics for yourself and Main Site Most Popular Stats

You will be able to see how many people have viewed your content on OpEd News. On your personal members page, all articles, etc. will be shown with a number representing page views.

When you log in and go to your Profile, all articles and other content will be shown with the same page-view count.

When you view the most popular pages for the site, you will see the actually numbers, not just the rankings, for all content, not just yours.
You cannot see other people's stats. You cannot see page views on the articles themselves. That's the next level option.

Commenting beyond usual time limit plus a higher character limit

Commenting on articles is cut off two weeks after the article is first published. With this benefit, you can continue to comment on any article without any time limits.

Also the limit for the number of characters in your comment is removed.

You can Turn off Ads Below the Banners

This Membership benefit allows you to choose whether or not you want to see advertisements on article pages (below the main banners at the top of the page.)

A Larger Bio Than Regular Users

Regular users are limited to a bio that contains only a few words. You will be able to create a bio which is much longer. (The bio appears on every submission you post to the website.)

Your Own Customized URL (Page Address)

As a member, you have your own members page. This page is usually located at https://www.opednews.com/authors/authorX.html where the X is your member number.

That may be difficult to remember when sharing your page address. Thus, you will have a customized page address similar to https://www.opednews.com/johndoe where 'johndoe' is a name you can choose, in your Preferences. (And change whenever you like.)

View Your Fans

Wherever your membername appears on OpEd News, such as on a comment or as the author of an article, readers may choose to "fan" you, meaning they get an email, every time you submit content.

With this benefit, you will be able to see how many people have become your fan on OpEdNews. On your personal members page, you will have a section for Fans where you can view a list of all your fans (and be able to visit their members pages).

6,000 Characters Allowed in Your Comments

You can enter a much larger number of characters in your comments.

4,000 Characters Allowed in Your Comments

You can enter double the number of characters when you enter comments.

Download Any Series

You can choose any series from the Series page and download the collection of articles in the Series into a single file on youe computer

Editing of articles allowed beyond usual time limit for 3 days

Modifying an article after publication is usually limited to 24 hours after the article is first published. With this benefit, you can continue to edit your article for 3 days.

Editing of articles allowed up to 5 days

Modifying an article after publication is usually limited to 24 hours after the article is first published. With this benefit, you can continue to edit your article for 5 days.

See Number of Page Views on Series and Series Pages

When viewing the table of contents for Series or any of the pages in a Series, you will be able to see the number of page views (hits) the page (or whole series) has.

Show The Actual Message in the Notification Email

When you get an email notifying you that you have a message in the Message Center, normally that's all it says. With this benefit, the email says who the message is sent from. And contains the actual message text that was sent to you. Plus, a link so you can directly reply.

Show Who Message is From

When you get an email notifying you that you have a message in the Message Center, normally that's all it says. With this benefit, the email says who the message is sent from.

Advocate Membership      1 mos/$12.02, 3 mos/$20.02, 6 mos/$30.02, 12 mos/$49.02, Lifetime/$300.02