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,
Я знаю, что это старая тема. Я хочу интегрировать тот же процесс (пользователь регистрируется через Woo Memberships и получает доступ к форуму Discourse). Однако клиент не хочет использовать WordPress в качестве провайдера SSO. Это всё ещё возможно?
Заранее спасибо за любую информацию!
Вот несколько возможных подходов, не требующих использования SSO:
Отправлять пользователям приглашение на форум через API Discourse при регистрации через Woo Memberships. Для этого, возможно, можно использовать Zapier: Automate sending Discourse invite emails with Zapier
Создавать учётную запись пользователя в Discourse и/или добавлять его в группу Discourse при регистрации через Woo Memberships. Это можно реализовать с помощью API Discourse. Такой подход сложнее в реализации, чем просто отправка приглашения на форум, но, поскольку вам может также потребоваться возможность удалить пользователя из группы по истечении срока действия членства, стоит рассмотреть этот вариант.
Спасибо! Есть ли документация по второму пункту списка? Использование API Discourse?
Начните с этого: Как провести реверс-инжиниринг API Discourse. Для деталей о создании пользователей посмотрите на https://docs.discourse.org/. Найдите ‘user’ в документации, чтобы получить подробности о том, как создать пользователя через API.
Также в постах на Meta доступно много информации. Вот поиск, чтобы начать: Search results for 'create user API' - Discourse Meta.