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[justin (Justin DiRose)]

@madbaker

I have a static sales page (outside Discourse) with an application form. If the application is approved (manual process), I’ll send an invitation to join from within Discourse.

@madbaker

new member logs in to Discourse and sees…an empty forum, but for one topic about ‘creating a membership’ [ perhaps this is where the pro-course-static-page comes in, and I can have a static page with payment options instead? ]

I think you’re going to have usability issues for your user base by making them sign up, get approved, then go into an empty forum, then make them pay for content.

You may be better of by doing something similar where Discourse is locked, but use WP Discourse for SSO and Paid Memberships Pro to restrict access to the community. It’ll all happen more seamlessly for your users.

You could look at this for reference:

Managing Discourse group membership with WP Discourse SSO

The WP Discourse plugin has a couple of functions that can be used to associate WordPress users with Discourse groups. These functions could be useful if you have a membership plugin installed on your WordPress site. These functions are only enabled on sites that are using WordPress as the SSO provider for Discourse. The functions have been made with the assumptions that every membership plugin will do an action when it adds or removes WordPress users from a level, and that the parameters sent …