Discussion forum integration with WP Wishlist & aMember

[optimuswarrior]

Hi there,

I've been researching the best way to integrate an autoresponder and a discussion forum with wordpress in a membership site. I've narrowed my search down for a membership site system to WP Wishlist and aMember on the strength of what they say they can do on their website. Still, some things are not 100% clear.

The key things I want right now are (all through a single registration):
1. membership registration leads to content delivery via wordpress.
2. automatic optin to aWeber.
3. automatic registration with a discussion forum (prefer phpBB first, then vBulletin).
(later will be interested in affiliate sales and am using paypal payments.

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Let's compare the two for each of the three needs above.

A. Wordpress Wishlist
1. yes, it's actually a built in plugin that integrates with the Wordpress dashboard and does a lot of cool things. That is it's MAIN great feature.
2. it will do opt-in to aWeber very well.
3. it will not do discussion board registration unless its to BBpress or simplepress. I prefer to use phpBB because people are used to it's simple look. These two forums look busy and small print = hard to read.

Question: Will phpBB or vBulletin accept an email or script from the overall registration that it can parse into its own registration? Anyone write one yet?

B. aMember
1. it says it has a wordpress plugin. But they are not specific as to how it plugs in. Does it give the same features as WP Wishlist?
2. currently they have problems opting in to aWeber. It appears to have been like this for a while. Does it work in any capacity or is aWeber out of the question?
3. they WILL go automatic registration with vBulletin well. How does it do with phpBB?

The purpose of this site I'm creating is to make a membership site based on community interaction and educational continuity programs.

Thank you! Your thoughts are appreciated.

[jonb]

I'd dispute the notion that Simplepress looks busy or is hard to read. My board, at least the way I have it configured, is nice and clean, and the text size is plenty big. It's pretty customizable, so perhaps you haven't messed around with it enough.

I'm really happy with SP.

[Frank Bruno]

SimplePress is a very clean forum but if PHBB is what is holding you back then you should consider sacrificing something because its very difficult to get exactly what you want, with anything really.

Amember I do not believe will allow multiple levels using WordPress.

Frank Bruno

[optimuswarrior]

Originally Posted by Frank Bruno

Amember I do not believe will allow multiple levels using WordPress.

Frank Bruno

Aha! At last someone knows something specific about the aMember wordpress plugin.

Hmm... ok, well that won't do. hmmph!!!


And simplepress....what if I want to migrate from simple press to phpbb in the future. Do able or not?

AND is it possible to get so many users on it that it won't work well anymore?

[David-JP]

Amember I do not believe will allow multiple levels using WordPress.

Sure it will. Check out my signature for a demo.
You can also integrate it with phpbb to have multiple levels on your forum.
http://amember-phpbb.com/ is my phpbb and amember demo.

David

[bobcrawford]

Are there any free plugins that work with amember to integrate a message board. I'm not fussy about which board.

[David-JP]

Are there any free plugins that work with amember to integrate a message board.

Not at this time- I'm hopeful they will move to releasing the plugins as part of the script package in v4.0. Beta should be released next week.

If you have wordpress integrated you could use simplepress, but I'd recommend phpbb3.

David

[Alan1234]

Hi, I'm just starting to integrate SimplePress with a WordPress multi-site that uses WishList to set up a membersite. I want to have a fully-integrated registration. When someone pays to join they are entitled to use the forum without an additional registration. Any caveats or advice will be appreciated.

[Alan1234]

Jon,

I'm new to this forum, but not to writing. I'm an SCBWI member, published author, etc., and I have to say that the children's writing community has always been impressed with your material and with the delivery of it. I'm just starting off with SimplePress. Wish me luck.