Integración de membresía de WordPress (foro privado) con Discourse

Soporte WordPress
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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,

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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;

    }
}
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Simon,

Is this something you would be interested in getting paid to do for me? And setup properly?

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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.

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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.

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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,

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Yes, that will work fine.

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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.

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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 */
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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.

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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…

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Hey, I posted my experience on Mar 22 and attached the code for it in the txt file.

Cheers,

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Sé que este es un hilo antiguo. Estoy buscando integrar el mismo flujo (el usuario se registra a través de Woo Memberships y tiene acceso al foro de Discourse). Sin embargo, el cliente no desea utilizar WordPress como proveedor de SSO. ¿Esto sigue siendo posible?

¡Gracias por cualquier orientación que puedas ofrecer!

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Algunos enfoques posibles que no utilizan SSO:

  • Enviar una invitación al foro a los usuarios a través de la API de Discourse cuando se registran mediante Woo Memberships. Podría ser posible usar Zapier para esto: Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier

  • Crear un usuario en Discourse y/o agregarlo a un grupo de Discourse cuando el usuario se registra mediante Woo Memberships. Esto se puede hacer con la API de Discourse. Será más complicado de implementar que simplemente enviar una invitación al foro, pero dado que es posible que también quieras poder eliminar al usuario de un grupo cuando su membresía expire, podría valer la pena explorar este enfoque.

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¡Gracias! ¿Hay alguna documentación para el segundo punto? ¿Usando la API de Discourse?

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Te sugiero empezar aquí: Cómo hacer ingeniería inversa de la API de Discourse. Para detalles sobre la creación de usuarios, consulta https://docs.discourse.org/. Busca ‘user’ en la documentación para obtener información sobre cómo crear un usuario mediante la API.

También hay mucha información disponible en los posts de Meta. Aquí tienes una búsqueda para empezar: Search results for 'create user API' - Discourse Meta.