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,
このスレッドは古いものだと承知しています。同じフロー（ユーザーが Woo Memberships 経由で登録し、Discourse フォーラムにアクセスできる）を統合したいと考えています。ただし、クライアントは SSO プロバイダーとして WordPress を使用したくないそうです。これは依然として可能でしょうか？
ご教示いただければ幸いです！
SSO を使用しない可能性のあるアプローチがいくつかあります：
ユーザーが Woo Memberships を経由してサインアップした際、Discourse API を通じてユーザーにフォーラムへの招待を送信します。これには Zapier を使用できる可能性があります：Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier
ユーザーが Woo Memberships を経由してサインアップした際、Discourse ユーザーを作成し、またはユーザーを Discourse グループに追加します。これは Discourse API を使用して実現できます。単にフォーラムへの招待を送信するよりも実装は複雑になりますが、メンバーシップが切れた際にユーザーをグループから削除できるようにしたい場合、このアプローチを検討する価値があるかもしれません。
ありがとうございます！2 番目の箇条書きに関するドキュメントはありますか？Discourse API を使用しています。
まずはこちらから始めることをお勧めします：Discourse APIのリバースエンジニアリング方法。ユーザー作成の詳細については、https://docs.discourse.org/ をご覧ください。ドキュメント内で「user」と検索すると、API経由でのユーザー作成方法に関する詳細が得られます。
また、Metaの投稿にも多くの情報が掲載されています。以下はそれを始めるための検索リンクです：Search results for 'create user API。' - Discourse Meta