Managing Subscriptions through Wordpress (Ultimate Member + Paid Memberships Pro)

[monumentex (Sean)]

Hi everyone, great to be a part of this community.

I’m developing a community around the topic of emotional intelligence and relationships. It’s a place where people can ask questions, vent frustrations, offer advice or just a listening ear. The base level of the forum will be free. A more intensive and therapeutic section will be private with paid subscription access.

I’d like to get some feedback on my implementation plan to make sure I’m on the right track. So far, I have prototyped this platform around these technologies:

• Wordpress - CRM
• WooCommerce - Vitamins, Health Products
• Discourse - Forum
• Ultimate Member - Account/Role Management
• Paid Memberships Pro - Subscription Management

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Am I correct in understanding that Roles should be set in Ultimate Member (Free Subscriber, Gold Member, Moderator, Author etc). Paid Membership Pro should fire hooks at Ultimate Member when someone upgrades accounts. Discourse can then mirror those groups and permissions through the WP Discourse plugin.

Do I have that right?

Do roles in Discourse need to be set up separately from roles in Ultimate Member? Does that copy over automatically?

Is there anything else that I need to consider in the development of this project?

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I have read through these three threads. I suppose I’m just looking, not for implementation advice, but for confirmation that I have the core functionality laid out in the right way.

Manage group membership in Discourse with WP Discourse SSO

When Discourse is used as the SSO provider, you can check if a WordPress user has a Discourse account by checking if the value returned by this statement is empty: get_user_meta( $user_id, 'discourse_sso_user_id', true ); You’ll need to do something to handle the case where the user doesn’t yet have a Discourse account. Creating the user via the API and adding them to the appropriate groups is probably the right solution. It will take some work to set that up.

Memberpress: how to add users to groups upon Sign up

Try this. I haven’t tested it, so there could be errors. It’s worth having this as a reference. Let me know if it doesn’t work. add_filter( 'wpdc_sso_params', 'wpdc_custom_sso_params' ); function wpdc_custom_sso_params( $params ) { $add_groups = array(); $remove_groups = array(); if ( current_user_can( 'mepr-active','memberships:48259,48238' ) ) { $add_groups[] = 'TransformPlus'; } else { $remove_groups[] = 'TransformPlus'; } if ( current_user_can( 'mepr-active','memberships:…

Install and configure the WP Discourse Wordpress plugin for Discourse

To get started with the WP Discourse Plugin, go through each of these topics in order and watch the videos at the top of the topic. Install the plugin Connect to Discourse Set up Publishing Set up Commenting Set up DiscourseConnect The two main plugin features, Publishing and DiscourseConnect don’t have to be used together. You can just set up Publishing (and Commenting), and not use DiscourseConnect, or just set up DiscourseConnect, or set up both. There’s a short description of each featu…

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I’m also looking to hire a developer(s) and designer(s) to implement this project with me. Please don’t hesitate to give me a shout if you’re interested or you have an excellent recommendation on a graphic designer or a web developer you trust.

Thank you!

[omarfilip]

• WooCommerce
• Ultimate Member
• Paid Memberships Pro

It is unnecessary to use all of these. Since you are going to be using WooCommerce anyway, a better approach would be to use WC Subscriptions and/or WC Memberships which integrate well with the WooCommerce core. Additional layers from PMPro and Ultimate Member will only complicate things and reduce reliability.

Alternatively, consider Discourse Subscriptions and use Discourse as the SSO provider. If the benefits of membership are access to specific areas of the forum, then this would probably be the best solution and you wouldn’t need WordPress membership management at all.

[monumentex (Sean)]

The idea was to avoid paying $200/yr for a proprietary plugin. Thank you for the tip on Discourse Subscriptions. That might just do the job.