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,
Ich weiß, dass dies ein alter Thread ist. Ich möchte denselben Ablauf integrieren (Benutzer meldet sich über Woo Memberships an und erhält Zugang zum Discourse-Forum). Der Kunde möchte jedoch WordPress nicht als SSO-Anbieter verwenden. Ist das immer noch möglich?
Danke für jeden Hinweis!
Ein paar mögliche Ansätze, die kein SSO erfordern:
Sende Benutzern über die Discourse-API eine Einladung zum Forum, wenn sie sich über Woo Memberships anmelden. Dafür könnte man eventuell Zapier nutzen: Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier
Erstelle einen Discourse-Benutzer und/oder füge ihn einer Discourse-Gruppe hinzu, wenn der Benutzer sich über Woo Memberships anmeldet. Dies kann über die Discourse-API umgesetzt werden. Die Implementierung ist etwas aufwendiger als das einfache Versenden einer Forum-Einladung, aber da du möglicherweise auch die Möglichkeit benötigst, den Benutzer aus der Gruppe zu entfernen, sobald seine Mitgliedschaft abläuft, könnte sich dieser Ansatz lohnen.
Vielen Dank! Gibt es eine Dokumentation für den zweiten Aufzählungspunkt? Verwendung der Discourse-API?
Ich würde hier beginnen: Wie man die Discourse-API reverse-engineert. Für Details zur Erstellung von Benutzern schauen Sie sich https://docs.discourse.org/ an. Suchen Sie in der Dokumentation nach ‘user’, um Details darüber zu erhalten, wie man einen Benutzer über die API erstellt.
Es gibt auch viele Informationen in Beiträgen auf Meta. Hier ist eine Suche, um Sie damit zu starten: Search results for 'create user API' - Discourse Meta.