Liz
YourRealEstateClub.com

My hosting provider is linked to in the post above but here’s the full link for you.
http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/recommends/UMC

Just to let you know, I’ve also sent you a personal reply after having a good look at your site.

I think you’re right… your choice of hosting company is presenting a barrier (or two) to achieving what you want to do

Cheers
Stephen

I’m may give you method a try if I don’t get a response from them in another day or two tops. I will differently use your method on my next membership site… I want to have 10 in all.

“Some” content free to the public, and the rest not?

Solution? Two blogs on the same site in different directories - the member one in a “member” directory protected by the .htaccess script - the public one at the root level. Suggest you use the same theme and plugins on both to make management easier, and hard code some of the “cross-links” between them into the theme, perhaps in the header nav or sidebar.

If you don’t want to do that, you’ve probably got to go down the password protected post, or membership plugin paths… neither of which are really suitable for a site with a LOT of content.

Create a “members” category in Wordpress. The URL would be:
yourdomain.com/category/members/

Now - actually create a new folder on your server in the public_html directory called “category”, and within that folder, create another new folder called “members”.

Now… within THAT real member’s folder on your server… put the .htaccess stuff!

That way, all your post titles etc for the “members” will show in the public site (as they are generated by WP) - but they can’t actually click through to anything in that “folder” without a password!

Seriously, I don’t know if it will work, but you could give it try and let us all know!

Cheers
Stephen

Thanks for your response and assistant.

Some content will be view by the public and others for members only.
Please can you put a post like a tutorial for those of us who are novice when it comes to coding and all the stuff relating to wordpress.

With regard to first advise you gave, wouldn’t it means loging in to 2 directory to make post?

Cheers
Sunday

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.

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

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.

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

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(’./wp/wp-blog-header.php’);
- into the root directory, so the home page of my “member” 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)..

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

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

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

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