Excellent initiative!

There is another membership plugin available (which I won't mention here 'cuz it's not a WPMU plugin) that does just that: allows you to sell access to specific posts/pages/content/URIs with variable access durations.

Your addon will help Membership go that extra mile. Heads up devs! :-)

pcwriter's method works and is basically what I am already doing, but is time consuming to do for every post.

I've started working on an addon for the membership plugin. It definitely isn't in a production ready state, but it is a first attempt at simplifying the process a little bit. There are a few assumptions this add-on makes that won't work for everybody. With this addon, every time you publish a new post it: 1) Creates a new access level that just gives access to the new post, 2) Creates a new membership subscription with the new access level with an infinite duration.

So basically a user that buys access to many post, will actually purchase many subscriptions, each subscription giving them access to a single post.

Now I just need to find a way to create a way to list all of these subscriptions in an organized way. It is quickly going to get unwieldy for the user to find the subscription (post) they want to buy access to. Maybe I can find a way to intelligently display the corresponding subscription in the message that appears when a user doesn't already have access to a post.

40,000 + unique downloadable products

Sounds like you might be better off with an e-commerce plugin like MarketPress: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/e-commerce

That's actually quite a simple scenario that the Membership plugin handles quite well.

For each page you want to sell access to:

1. Create an access level (perhaps give it the name of the page itself), drag "Pages" into the Positive Rules section and check the page you want to sell.

3. Activate the PayPal gateway with Single Payments.

3. Create a subscription giving access to only the access level you just created (you could call that "page-name-subscription" so it doesn't get confusing), select your payment gateway and assign a duration.

I think that's about it (Just be sure the follow the setup steps properly first... I haven't played with the plugin for awhile, sorry)

Basically I need to sell access to a wordpress "page" on that page I will have a unique download link for that product. Also on that page I will have other information for the buyer like support links, spec sheet, etc.

This page wont be unique to the buyer.. because I can also sell access to other buyers. what will be unique is the content on that page.

How do I give access to that page to the buyer for X days?

I would bulk upload these pages into wordpress and assisn a user group to all so the public non payers cant see.

Please let me know how I can get this done.

Thanks,

Jerry

Membership is really designed to handle much more complex scenarios than that so it is going to require a level for each page.

You might want to consider using another method. For example, you could use products in MarketPress along with the Password Protect Selected Content plugin.

You could use products instead of pages so that when people purchase the product, they are given the password to access the content.

Thanks,
Phil

Otherwise, is boils down to that "Membership" is limited in its access-level capabilities, since it doesn't really work on all user levels, and has an internal hierarchy that is still a mystery (to me at least)
/y

I'm struggling to find a solution for this, and have been at it for several hours now with User Role Editor, Admin Menu Editor, Membership Access levels... removing all modifications, applying again, etc; no luck so far (and luck is what's needed, because logic doesn't apply anymore... :-)

Otherwise, even if this does somehow works - I wouldn't want to limit the menus to Admins - how would I administer the site then?

Bottom line: is there a way to enable a specific user / role (that is not admin) to view the Membership Menu? Failing that, is there a way to show the subscription level in a user's profile?

Thanks,
/y

Thanks,
Phil

The aim is indeed for the user to see Membership on their site admin.
The user is an editor/admin of the site too, but I would like to keep them out of the plugins/appearance/etc but still allow for content editing and for listing the Members that registered with their subscription level. There is no other way to see this info.

Alternatively, if there's a way to plug the subscription level to the regular user profile, that will suffice.

Thanks,
/y

Is the user an Editor of your main site?

The setting only determines whether or not a user can see Membership on their site admin, not whether a user can see Membership on the main site.

Thanks,
Phil

This setting overrides any access-level settings.

I have a user that has a certain access level that allows basic site operation - similar to Editor in permissions. Regardless of what I permit/disallow in the Membership/Access Levels for this user, he doesn't see the Membership menu in the admin.
I basically only want him to see the "All Members" menu item (so he can keep track on how many members per subscription level there are).
If I set the option "This user has access to administer the Membership system" in the user profile, it overrides any access level settings and gives the same view as Administrator.

Is there a way to allow a non-admin user access to the "All Members" tab while keeping the access level settings for that user?

Thanks,
/y

Hope this helps,
-drmike

I'm afraid we won't be adding multiple levels to the supporter plugin. Our upgrades plugin was our original "paid upgrades" type plugin and it allows for multiple packages. While testing with Edublogs we discovered that a single package is 110% more effective in getting users to signup. So with that information we built the Supporter plugin.

To make a long story short, the Supporter plugin was purpose built to have only one level.

Thanks,
Andrew

We would like to be able to have multiple billing options built into supporter.
example:
$9.95 membership level (0)
$15.95 membership level (1)
etc....

Possible use to determine level would be adding an argument to the is_supporter options like so: is_supporter(#)

is_supporter would default to argument = 0 for backwards compatibility.