@Brajesh
I was a bit curious how you have the forums setup on buddydev, and was hoping maybe you could give me some advice.
What I am after:
I am building a site to sell my wordpress themes and want to provide forum support to members only.
Important to me:
- When a wants to purchase a theme on the website, they must first register
- Once a person completes payment via paypal, they should then have automatic access to the forum for their theme
- Each theme will have its own sub-forum so only members that purchased that theme have access to that forum
- The purchaser should then have instant access to the file download for the theme they just purchased
- Eventually - Once I have a number of themes, I will create the ability for the user to have a monthly membership with access to all themes and support forums
- If the subscribers membership expires, they loose ability to access downloads and forums
Questions:
1. I notice that I have access to the member forums here because I am a member. It has been so long, that I don't remember if this was an automated process or not.
Do you have your site setup, so that once a person purchases a membership that they have instant access to the members forums?
If so, how?
2. Do you have your site setup so that once my membership expires, that I loose access to these members only forums?
If so, how?
3. Do you have any ideas how to do a forum setup where each member has access to only the forum that pertains to the product they purchased?
--I notice you only have one level here right now, but curious if you have this functionality behind the scenes
That's it....
I already have all the tools I need if I use vbulletin, but have no idea of what tools are available for WordPress. I'd love to hear what forum software, membership plugins, etc.. would be needed to pull off a project like this.
*Does anyone think bp + a few other plugins would be a good tool for this project?
