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Here is the scenario... I am selling a desktop app that has unique license keys for activation (like microsoft)... and am wondering how to create an environment where the user can login and see their license keys. I have looked at the WPMU premium Membership plugin... but I don't see how that could work. I am also evaluating other Membership plugins (Memberwing, s2member, etc)... however, I still can't seem to crack this pickle.
Ideally the user would be able to view their subscription and cancel from within the logged-in environment. (Then I would manually revoke their license keys).
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My question might have been unclear. I am probably going to use http://wyday.com/limelm/ for my license mgt... I'm just trying to figure out how to configure wordpress so I can manually input the license keys so the user can login to wordpress and view their license keys
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@gtdrummie just throwing an idea out there. You might be able to create a plugin that adds a custom field in the user's profile so as an admin you could go to User > select the user > Edit and in addition to biographical info there was something like license information. You could then use a redirection plugin so when your users logged on they could see their profile right away and have access to their licensing information. Does this make sense? It's past my bedtime so sorry if it doesn't. :-)
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Actually... after playing with it a little, the previously linked plugin wont work because it allows creation of user-editable fields. Ideally only the admin would be able to edit.
Everything at WPMU Dev is quite customized and it probably isn't an available plugin they probably used something similar to: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/10/adding-and-using-custom-user-profile-fields
but with a url ending in "?page=subscription" there might be some modifications to the subscription plugin that would allow you to get that functionality.
@aecnu do you have an inside WPMU Dev insight on how this was done?
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Greetings gtdrummie and Xavier,
Xavier is quite right that most of this on WPMU Dev is highly custom coding to include the site theme and the license display.
In regards to the scripts I mentioned, I do not have any details on them, but I was just trying to offer you a solution regardless of the source as long as it is legal of course.
The second suggestion, though it had a cost involved, included everything with a cart from what I can tell and possibly a free demo.
The only things I can further offer at this point is to send you to the applicable feature requests since the plugin is currently not available here on WPMU Dev nor can I find one anywhere else.
The more popular a request is and the more votes it gets, the more likely it will be considered.
It might have already been suggested. It is worth a quick search to add your votes before submitting a new suggestion.
If you wanted to possibly have a custom solution yourself, alternatively you could see if there's a developer available at wpmu jobs who could get onto it right this minute.
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Greetings gtdrummie,
Thank you for this great question and a significant item to bring up.
After doing some research I found the free script below and a more modern version here: http://www.phplicengine.com/
Which of course neither of them are WordPress integrated but I believe it is still possible to do so with custom coding.
I like the link above because it appears to include a cart and much more as shown here: http://www.phplicengine.com/compare_phpaudit_iono_phplicengine.php
Thank you for being a WPMU Dev Member!
Cheers, Joe
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My question might have been unclear. I am probably going to use http://wyday.com/limelm/ for my license mgt... I'm just trying to figure out how to configure wordpress so I can manually input the license keys so the user can login to wordpress and view their license keys
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Oops... I forgot to mark this as Unresolved.
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For example... how could I create something like this:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-admin/profile.php?page=subscription
How could I associate license key(s) with the user?
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@gtdrummie just throwing an idea out there. You might be able to create a plugin that adds a custom field in the user's profile so as an admin you could go to User > select the user > Edit and in addition to biographical info there was something like license information. You could then use a redirection plugin so when your users logged on they could see their profile right away and have access to their licensing information. Does this make sense? It's past my bedtime so sorry if it doesn't. :-)
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When I say redirection plugin I mean http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/login-redirect/
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It makes sense... I'm a code tinkerer, not a a developer / creator, so I'm not sure how I would go about doing it.
I'll play with this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extra-user-details
From the my previous example... how did the folks at wpmu do this:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-admin/profile.php?page=subscription
Is there a WPMU plugin that enables that?
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Actually... after playing with it a little, the previously linked plugin wont work because it allows creation of user-editable fields. Ideally only the admin would be able to edit.
Still wonder how WPMU did it...
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Everything at WPMU Dev is quite customized and it probably isn't an available plugin they probably used something similar to:
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/10/adding-and-using-custom-user-profile-fields
but with a url ending in "?page=subscription" there might be some modifications to the subscription plugin that would allow you to get that functionality.
@aecnu do you have an inside WPMU Dev insight on how this was done?
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Greetings gtdrummie and Xavier,
Xavier is quite right that most of this on WPMU Dev is highly custom coding to include the site theme and the license display.
In regards to the scripts I mentioned, I do not have any details on them, but I was just trying to offer you a solution regardless of the source as long as it is legal of course.
The second suggestion, though it had a cost involved, included everything with a cart from what I can tell and possibly a free demo.
The only things I can further offer at this point is to send you to the applicable feature requests since the plugin is currently not available here on WPMU Dev nor can I find one anywhere else.
You can now make plugin and feature requests here:
http://wpmudev.uservoice.com/
The more popular a request is and the more votes it gets, the more likely it will be considered.
It might have already been suggested. It is worth a quick search to add your votes before submitting a new suggestion.
If you wanted to possibly have a custom solution yourself, alternatively you could see if there's a developer available at wpmu jobs who could get onto it right this minute.
Thank you both for being WPMU Dev Members!
Cheers, Joe
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