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Wordpress Membership Plugin That Sync's With Forum?

by Mark Blaze
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Hey,

Am working on a membership site and the main website is going well and is all planned out!

HOWEVER!!! Ive come across a damn techy problem which im sure must exist somewhere but after searching ive only turned up trumps.

So what i want to do is create a premium section on my wordpress blog and then also have a two tier free/premium on a forum too and vary the access for each!

Now they need to syncronize so that it's the same user/pass for both and also auto change the status's for both and really be hand's off!

Ive seen this done similarly before however the forum really did suck and is not easy to use nor admin.

Anything like this exist or am i stuck with a massive custom coding job?

Mark Blaze
#forum #membership #plugin #sync #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author uclaboyz
    are you using vbulletin?
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Koop
      Hey Mark,

      I don't have a definitive answer for you but you might try the guys over at iThemes.com. I know they are using the SimplePress plugin for their forum but am not sure what they are using for the membership side of things.

      With their system, you login to your member account and then can gain access to the member-only forum without having to login again.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mark Blaze
        Originally Posted by Kevin Koop View Post

        Hey Mark,

        I don't have a definitive answer for you but you might try the guys over at iThemes.com. I know they are using the SimplePress plugin for their forum but am not sure what they are using for the membership side of things.

        With their system, you login to your member account and then can gain access to the member-only forum without having to login again.
        Sounds like that is exactly what i want!

        Will go and check it out and send them an email and see what they say

        Thanks Kevin!

        Mark Blaze
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        • Profile picture of the author blkfin
          Hey Mark

          I believe they are using a combo of simplepress and amember.

          I am using wishlistproducts and find it very easy to use, i plan on adding simplepress as the forum.

          Good Luck

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    • Profile picture of the author Mark Blaze
      Originally Posted by uclaboyz View Post

      are you using vbulletin?
      Don't have anything installed except wordpress and could actually even use something different now i think about it and keep the same design and a similar layout as it will be on a sub directory.

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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by uclaboyz View Post

      are you using vbulletin?
      That's the solution I want.

      Basically, I want Wordpress and vBulletin to share login information, so whenever you change your password on one it changes on the other. I'd also like them to share login state, so logging into either logs you into both.

      And once that's accomplished, I can start thinking about how to integrate that with PayPal subscription payments so accounts get updated according to subscription status.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mark Blaze
        Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

        That's the solution I want.

        Basically, I want Wordpress and vBulletin to share login information, so whenever you change your password on one it changes on the other. I'd also like them to share login state, so logging into either logs you into both.

        And once that's accomplished, I can start thinking about how to integrate that with PayPal subscription payments so accounts get updated according to subscription status.
        Yep seeing as vbulletin is the best forum script in my opinion im surprised that no solution for this forum setup has been posted!

        Maybe marketer's are too cheap lol

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        • Profile picture of the author Tyler Pratt
          Here is what you need a free forum plugin

          Simpleress
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          • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
            Originally Posted by Tyler Pratt View Post

            Here is what you need a free forum plugin
            You pay for what you get.

            I hate Simpleress. It looks like crap and it's hard to use. Maybe I'm just not seeing anyone who's set it up "properly," but if it's that hard to do, I just can't be arsed.
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            • Profile picture of the author Kevin Koop
              Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

              You pay for what you get.

              I hate Simpleress. It looks like crap and it's hard to use. Maybe I'm just not seeing anyone who's set it up "properly," but if it's that hard to do, I just can't be arsed.
              I haven't used SimplePress (yet) but I do spend a good deal of time inside of the iThemes customer support forum (which is built by SimplePress) and really like it!

              What is it about SimplePress that makes you say it "looks like crap?" I'm not saying there aren't more aesthetically pleasing forum solutions out there but it looks good to me... especially if it's going to be used inside of a protected members area where the real focus is on content/easy navigation.
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              • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
                Originally Posted by Kevin Koop View Post

                What is it about SimplePress that makes you say it "looks like crap?"
                Primarily that every time I see it, the site has crammed it into the same space that would normally be taken up by a blog post, which is much too narrow for a decently usable forum display.
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Anderson
    Nanacast + Member Lock Plugin Documentation + Simpleress

    Simple press plugin uses the same data base as the wordpress blog which makes the kind of model you are talking about quick and easy since it does it all right out of the box without having to do any custom development or hacking.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarcMilburn
    Any forum integration solutions for us guys on InfusionWP?

    Any help would be great!
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  • Profile picture of the author Brandon Sheley
    Check out simplepress if you don't want to pay a coder to make the integration mod.
    Go with vbulletin is you want the best solution, there are a few wp-vb bridges at vbulletin.org, or check out freelance sites and have someone make you a plugin to suite your needs. I'm estimating it will rung 150-200$ for a custom vb-wp integration mods.

    good luck, let us know what you end up doing
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  • Profile picture of the author brandon_holcomb
    If you have not found the solution i would suggest to you simple press forum plug-in for wordpress. I use this plug-in in its simplest of forms for some of my websites. Seems to work very well.

    simple-press.com
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  • Profile picture of the author brandon_holcomb
    Take a look at my example. 2500megs.com/for-forum/
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    I think the vbulletin/WordPress bridge is free:
    Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings - vBulletin.org Forum

    SimplePress is great because it's free, but they could really do with hiring a designer to create some decent looking skins.
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  • Profile picture of the author Glenn Pegden
    Apologies for continuing this off topic, but WordPress is no better or worse than any other similar product, the fact it's open source is normally seen as a benefit to security, not a hindrance as the code is made available for peer review, allowing problems in the code to be spotted and fixed before release by a much larger pool of people than a commercial product.

    As somebody that used to get involved a lot more with post-compromise investigation, cleanup and hardening of websites, I can safely say that with wordpress (like almost every other large mature open source project) almost every compromise was down to poor or lazy installation (shortcuts taken to get it working) or user error (social engineering, password sharing etc) thankfully code based exploits are very low and no better or worse than the majority of similar projects (commercial or open source).
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