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By: Wordpress Membership Plugin

Wordpress Membership Plugin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:57:20 +0000

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By: Stephen Spry

Stephen Spry — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:18:54 +0000

OK – as promised… here’s even more detail on this process – complete with all the code you’ll need to set it up exactly as I have done.

Just visit this new post :
WordPress, .htaccess and membership sites

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By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:00:41 +0000

That would be great.

I’ve got my index.php in both the wp and the private directory, but when you browse to the one in the wp directory (i.e the unsecured one) it does display the header and sidebar etc ok, but the front page, which is a static page, does not display.

Also the RSS feed seems to want a username/password to burn it in Feedburner, even just to display it.

Tim

By: Stephen Spry

Stephen Spry — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:43:55 +0000

Hi Tim

I don’t know why I didn’t do this before:)

But…

I’ll actually do another post very soon which explains every file needed and where they all go – complete with all the code you’ll ever need to do this – direct from the live example!

So if you subscribed to these comments, or to our main site feed, you’ll know when it appears.

Stephen

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:04:13 +0000

Great little tutorial, thanks.

Something I don’t understand, at the end you say:
“I actually ALSO put the .htacess file (with ONLY the WP stuff in it) and index.php – this time changing it to
require(â€™./wp/wp-blog-header.phpâ€™);
- into the root directory, so the home page of my â€œmemberâ€ directory can be viewed by the public.”

If you do that, what is actually in the protected directory? we only had the index.php and .htaccess in there anyway, so if you put those in the root directory, there would be nothig left in the protected one? or am I missing something (not unusual)..

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:43:46 +0000

Drop me a line, while I have no more review copies at the moment handed the last copy out this morning, I will add your name to the list for the next round.

By: Stephen Spry

Stephen Spry — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:29:00 +0000

Hi Tim

No problems with the plug – seems like I should have a “review” copy of the plugin so I can report on it hint! hint!

Cheers
Stephen

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:57:31 +0000

While I know you have done the searching, but I thought I would throw Your Members WordPress Members Plugin it is a commercial product so might not be to everyone taste but was born out of similar frustration to your own. the big advantage being its very very flexible membership management both in terms of number of account types you can have, but also each account can have unlimited number of subscription types (dates and costs) plus pay per post.

Sorry end of plug what I meant to say was Good Luck and regarding RSS Feeds we use HTTP Authenticated feeds but are looking at token based similar you might think to do likewise from our testing users who have paid are expecting to be able to see full feeds.

By: Sunday

Sunday — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:24:19 +0000

Hi Stephen,

Thanks.
Am looking at situation where it require the administrator to logging in once and can make post for both member and the public.

I will keep watch on this blog for possible solution.

Have a nice weekend

Sunday

By: Stephen Spry

Stephen Spry — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:39:52 +0000

Re the first idea – two identical blogs – yes it would require logging in to the second blog to make a post into the member area.

I’m going to have more of a fiddle with this idea shortly (when I get some time) so I’ll post the results here.