Trying to bring paying members from wp to discourse

[helmi]

Hey there,

trying to find a good setup for a membership project. The current plan is to have either an external provider or something wordpress based for the payment. Either way the users will be held in wordpress and assigned to roles based on their status of payment.

In this thread I read that groups/roles are transfered from wp to discourse but couldn’t find any hints how this is handled within the wp discourse settings.

Can anyone hint me to where I can get this information? So basic goal is to only give users access to the forums that are paying members. As soon as the cancel their subscription or similar I move them to different roles in WP and want them to not have access to discourse anymore (or maybe in a more complicated setup to certain groups).

Any tips are appreciated. Thank you!

Helmi

[tshenry (Taylor)]

The following guides should be what you are looking for:

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 …

How to create private categories using category security settings

This video explains how you can use group permissions to create private categories (or private “forums”). Scroll down for written instructions. [How to create a group and add permissions to a category] The Security tab on the category edit page is used to control both the visibility of categories and what users can do in a category. This is done by defining an access list of groups that associate a group name with an access level. The default permission for a new category is that t…

[helmi]

thanks, Taylor. That basically looks like what I was looking for but it’s a way more hacky solution than I hoped it would be. I fear the maintainability of that hack makes it a no go. I’ll go and see what else could be done.

thank you!

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Unless you change your membership roles frequently, it’s not that bad.

If wordpress is only for membership management you might check out memberful, procourse memberships, or Patreon.