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Could use some advice and feedback. I'm setting up a new online community. I'm not sure i understand the correlation between wordpress user and S:P user groups. I am getting junk sign ups to my WP Users, and definitely do not want to allow them access to my Forums. am I on the right track here?
Q1) "Guest with sneak preview" and assign anyone subscribing to it? Then set up the Forum to map that to a user group which allows viewing-only for that role?
Q2) '"Free" -- Once they "register" and "login", same thing but with posting privileges in the free forum area?
Then I have paying groups:
1) Knitalongs (KAL are free with purchase): Members will get access to the corresponding Forum for each one. The requirement is they purchase the kit from a separate site. Do I set up separate user groups for each KAL?
thoughts: the KAL could run as blog posts, which link to the forum discussion area for comments. I could then use wishlist member to allow certain people to see all of those blog posts and link to the discussion? To link to the offerings, i could build a page that pulled from category tags??
2) Courses (pay per course): several of them and they can pick and choose which they Purchase, some will be free with registration.
these will be self-contained courses, mutually exclusive but don't require a purchase of supplies, the same group issues that the KALs would have, I think.
3) Club membership (all access): Access to everything.
I'm trying to decide whether to use Wishlist member, OptimizeMember, or Zippy Courses. I think all three use the wp commenting functionality. zippy courses won't control access to blog posts, but i think Wishlist and optimize both do. Any suggestions?
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Hey Lea-Ann,
Definitely on the right track. I've got no experience with Zippy Courses or OptimizeMember but we used Wishlist member here for quite some time with great results.
It might be worth taking a look at our FAQ, specifically How to Configure Simple:Press with Membership Plugin. In this case it uses Wishlist as an example but the principles are the same.
What you're talking about is covered in that article and it's broken down into the first list you see after the first two paragraphs.
As far as the KAL's go, how many are there? Hopefully not too many as setting up a user group for each one is probably the right way to go, then set up permissions at forum level for access i.e KALgroup1 forum: KALgroup1 usergroup has access, KALgroup2 usergroup doesn't etc..
The beauty of the way SP does usergroups, permissions and handles memberships is that you can pretty much do what you want, even if sometimes it might take a while to set up!
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Thanks, Ike. I'll take a look at that article. I'll probably have at least two KALs going monthly. That is my bread and butter at the moment.
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Two is manageable! I was expecting you to say you had 25 kits for sale on the other site.. 🙂
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