WordPress Membership Integration (Private Forum) with Discourse

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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.

8

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.

9

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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이 스레드가 오래된 것임을 알고 있습니다. 같은 플로우(사용자가 Woo Memberships를 통해 가입하고 Discourse 포럼에 접근하는 방식)를 통합하려고 합니다. 다만, 클라이언트가 WordPress를 SSO 제공자로 사용하기를 원하지 않습니다. 이런 경우에도 여전히 가능한가요?

도움이 될 만한 의견 주시면 감사하겠습니다!

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SSO를 사용하지 않는 몇 가지 가능한 접근 방법:

  • 사용자가 Woo Memberships를 통해 가입할 때 Discourse API를 통해 포럼 초대장을 보내는 방식입니다. 이를 위해 Zapier를 사용할 수 있을 수도 있습니다: Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier

  • 사용자가 Woo Memberships를 통해 가입할 때 Discourse 사용자를 생성하고/또는 Discourse 그룹에 추가하는 방식입니다. 이는 Discourse API를 통해 수행할 수 있습니다. 단순히 포럼 초대장을 보내는 것보다 구현이 더 복잡할 수 있지만, 멤버십이 만료되면 사용자를 그룹에서 _제거_할 수도 있어야 할 가능성이 있으므로 이 접근 방식을 살펴볼 가치가 있을 수 있습니다.

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감사합니다! 두 번째 항목에 대한 문서가 있을까요? Discourse API를 사용하는 것에 관한 것이요?

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여기서 시작해 보세요: Discourse API 역공학하기. 사용자 생성에 대한 세부 사항은 https://docs.discourse.org/을 확인해 보세요. 문서에서 'user’를 검색하면 API를 통해 사용자를 생성하는 방법에 대한 세부 정보를 얻을 수 있습니다.

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