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Hello,
I just wanted to share my experiences with paid membership plugins here.
I have spent a couple of days looking now and have ended up with the free s2member plugin. Along the way I tried wp-wave and the plugins found at WPMU DEV. The two latter were a disappointement (as were all “premium” or commercial plugs I have tried so far) and I wish I would not have spent the money. But let me start from the beginning.
As it stands now there are no (or very little) methods on how to differentiate user accounts. WordPress has user roles which define who can do what but this is still far from being suitable for monetization.
My personal wishlist of base requirements for the ideal membership plugin looks as follows:
1. a free membership is possible.
2. admin may define paid membership categories.
3. users may upgrade any time from free to paid membership.
4. users are granted a trial period when signing up / upgrading to a paid plan.
5. admin may restrict access to content depending on the membership.
6. admin may restrict access to features depending on membership.
7. admin may limit ressources (i.e. disk space, number of groups) depending on membership.
I understand that especially the last two points on my list are not easily achieved at all and true enough: After 2 weeks of research I have found no plugin (Commercial or not) that can cater to all my needs. Even more so I have come to the conclusion that every time I compare commercial plugins with open source ones, the open source ones usually win, but thats another story.
To cut to the chase:
s2member has in my opinion the best set of features that neither a wp-wave nor WPMU DEV plugins can top. I think that the plugins on WPMU DEV are just presented nicely, but for each plugin that is presented there you can find an open source one that does exactly the same (or better, no offense).
My solution for now?
I will use s2member to offer two paid memberships in the future each with a 30-day free trial period. The first one is paid monthly, the second is paid annualy offering a 17% discount. Both have the same set of features since I for now see no other proper way of setting up paid memberships. The drawback is that people who want to sign up need a paypal account with a credit card since s2member uses the subscription type payments.
I hope you find this information useful if you are also trying to implement paid memberships on your site.
Hi everyone. I have updated my Invite Anyone plugin to allow invitation by email address. It seems pretty solid, but I would really like to have some other people test it before I make it the stable version.
If you have a non-production site and you wouldn’t mind testing it out, please download the development trunk version at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/download/. If you’re already running a version of Invite Anyone on your site, please make sure to deactivate it before downloading and activating this one. (Note too that you must deactivate and reactivate – if you just replace the files, the necessary db table won’t be created.)
A brief rundown of the new functionality:
– A new subnav item has been added to profile pages, called Send Invites
– Under that item are two pages. The first, Invite New Members, allows you to enter up to five email addresses, a custom message, and select some of the groups you’re a member of.
– The second page is Sent Invites, a list of invitations you’ve already sent.
– When you send the invitation, an email goes to the invitee(s) with the custom message and a link to [your bp install]/register/accept-invitation/[email-address]
– When the user clicks that link, he or she should see the normal register page, with a message above that says “You’ve been invited by [the name(s) of the user(s) who sent invitations]…”
– When the user activates the new account, he or she will receive invitations to all invited groups, as well as friendship requests from all members who sent invitations.
– There is also a new (and ugly!) link on the Group Send Invites page, which takes you to the Send Invites profile page and pre-selects the group you just came from.
– There’s a pretty fair amount of email validation that happens. Try punching in some bad emails (banned on your WPMU install, poorly formed, etc) and see what happens. I should note that right now I’m using WPMU’s native email validation – I haven’t even tried loading it on a single-blog install of WP. I did use if ( function_exists ) so nothing should crash, but it’ll probably allow any old email on single WP.
Phew – I think that’s it.
In the future, things like number of allowed email addresses, the default message, etc will be under the control of the site admin. I’m also going to write some Javascript that does inline validation of form data. But for now I think the key functionality is in place.
Please hammer away at it and leave any bugs/suggestions here.
Hi
Is there a hook to add items to the activity stream?
I have a plugin where you can save posts in WordPress as favorites. The plugin is called “My favorite posts” > http://www.kriesi.at/archives/wordpress-plugin-my-favorite-posts
I would like when a user adds a post as favourite it would be added as an item to the activity stream.
Anyone know where I should start?
Cheers,
Jens
I have installed WP and BP 1.2.3 for my community site.
I would like all members that register to be able to add a post to my default Blog (News) similar to that explaned in the following plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/
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I just wondered if the above mentioned plugin is now redundant in BP 1.2.3 and there is some way of activating this functionality already that im not currently aware of?
2.
If not, I would let each member create a blog. If I did that, how would I keep the origional theme\branding and admin navigation so the users ‘sub’ blogs appeared under my default WPMU/BP install? Similar to how Ning does it (this may not be applicable depending on answer to 1.)
Many Thanks.
Hi All,
I am using the latest version of BuddyPress.
When creating a group everything is fine up to step.2, after that it breaks. It returns to step.1 and gives you the option to go to the next step or previous step. If you click the next step you get a WordPress Failure Notice. I think this is an urgent bug that needs to be fixed. Anyone else experiencing this?
Connor
Hi there, it looks like it’s going to be easier to edit a child theme than edit BP into my WordPress theme, but there’s a few things I’d like to know please.
I know that BP themes use pages, but which pages should I edit? This is what I edit on my WP theme
home.php > home page
archive.php > chronological archive of posts
index.php > post template
search.php > template for search results page
page.php > page template
etc…
In lamens terms, what are the equivalent for these ‘vital’ pages in a buddypress theme? Once I know this, I think I would be just about ok going about editing the default buddypress theme to my liking
thanks
I’d like to clear the air with some of the things that have been bothering me lately about BuddyPress and the buddypress.org forums:
a) Privacy is obviously the most important feature of any so-called “social networking” software. How could the developers of BuddyPress even consider releasing the software without it?
b) When I post something on this board, I expect to get a response within 10-15 minutes. If not, BUMPSVILLE.
c) Rich media is obviously the most important feature of any so-called “social networking” software. How could the developers of BuddyPress even consider releasing the software without it?
d) Some of the plugins that are in the WordPress repository and tagged BuddyPress are not perfect. One of them even made my site crash once. Seriously, plugin developers, it doesn’t make you look very good when your software isn’t absolutely perfect. If I’m paying $0 for your work, I expect that stuff to be Pristine.
e) Group-independent forums are obviously the most important feature of any so-called “social networking” software. How could the developers of BuddyPress even consider releasing the software without it?
f) BuddyPress does not have all the features of Facebook, Twitter, Ning, Orkut, MySpace, AOL, Altavista, Usenet. Please consider adding them soon.
g) Sometimes there is a bug in the software and it takes too long to get it fixed in an official release. Please release versions closer together.
h) Sometimes when the core software is updated too quickly, plugin and theme developers do not have time to catch up and it breaks my site. Please release versions farther apart.
i) The ability to invite people from my Facebook network and my email address book is obviously the most important feature of any so-called “social networking” software. How could the developers of BuddyPress even consider releasing the software without it?
j) Happy April Fools Day
