We’re in the midst of changing forums from BBPress to Discourse. We have a Membership based website on WordPress using WooMembership with 2 levels of member access (they all get the forums), except if they cancel their subscription/membership.
I want to know if its possible with the current WP Discourse plugin to ensure that ONLY paying members are allowed to enter the forum?
If so, is everything done through the plugin?
Thanks,
Yes, if you use your WordPress site as the SSO provider for your forum, there is an action hook that you can use to limit which users are able to login to the forum. The hook is called wpdc_sso_provider_before_sso_redirect. Some code like this, added to a plugin or your theme’s functions.php file will work. You will need to figure out how to check the user’s WooMembership level.
add_action( 'wpdc_sso_provider_before_sso_redirect', 'wpdc_custom_check_user_membership', 10, 2 );
function wpdc_custom_check_user_membership( $user_id, $user ) {
if ( /* Some condition that returns true if the user doesn't meet the membership requirement */ ) {
wp_safe_redirect( home_url() );
exit;
}
}
Simon,
Is this something you would be interested in getting paid to do for me? And setup properly?
And of course, thank you for that response – it looks like it’s very doable and gives me confidence that this is something that can be done.
I can’t take on any private work, but I can give you some help through this forum. Most of what you are looking to do is provided by the WP Discourse plugin out of the box. By default, the WP Discourse plugin will give all users on your WordPress site access to your Discourse forum. To limit access to users who have purchased a membership, we just need to know how to fill in this part of the code that I posted above:
/* Some condition that returns true if the user doesn't meet the membership requirement */
How to get the membership level for a user is documented here: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-memberships-function-reference/#section-6. Anyone who has some experience with WordPress programming should be able to help with this. It won’t require any knowledge of Discourse to figure it out.
Got it – thanks for your help – looks straight forward. I’m looking at the hosted Discourse, $100/mo - is that the plan that would be easiest to connect with the plugin and run the forum?
I just want to make sure that, they can only access the forum via going to the main website, and they can’t just access the forum without logging in via website or cancelled their membership.
Thanks,
Yes, that will work fine.
Hey,
I just want to give an update here.
We have go ahead and did the $100/mo plan. And we have coded it so that it works and detects membership plan levels.
So everything is good, and looks like its working properly.
Thank you very much for your help.
I’m looking to do the same. Would you be willing to share your final code for:
/* Some condition that returns true if the user doesn't meet the membership requirement */
Yes, not an issue - I will replace some numbers with 99, and the url with a fake URL.
I have attached it here.code.txt (595 Bytes)
Hope this helps.
Hi @JeremyC, I’m considering doing something similar. Would you be able to share your experiences with it? I’d love to talk about it to see if this is a good fit…
Hey, I posted my experience on Mar 22 and attached the code for it in the txt file.
Cheers,
我知道这是一个旧帖子。我想集成相同的流程（用户通过 WooCommerce 会员注册并访问 Discourse 论坛）。不过，客户不想将 WordPress 作为 SSO 提供商。这仍然可行吗？
感谢您的任何见解！
这里有几种不使用 SSO 的可行方案：
当用户通过 Woo Memberships 注册时，通过 Discourse API 向其发送论坛邀请。或许可以使用 Zapier 来实现此功能：Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier
当用户通过 Woo Memberships 注册时，创建 Discourse 用户账号和/或将其添加到 Discourse 群组。这可以通过 Discourse API 完成。虽然实施起来比单纯发送论坛邀请要复杂一些，但考虑到您可能还需要在会员资格到期时从群组中_移除_该用户，因此研究这种方案或许值得。
谢谢！关于第二点有相关文档吗？是使用 Discourse API 吗？
建议从这里开始：如何逆向工程 Discourse API。有关创建用户的详细信息，请访问 https://docs.discourse.org/。在文档中搜索“user”，即可了解如何通过 API 创建用户。
Meta 上的帖子中也提供了大量相关信息。以下是为您准备的搜索链接，供您入门：Search results for 'create user API。' - Discourse Meta