So I'm working on a model paysite, my first adult site, taking over for someone else who bailed. I'm building the site in WP right now, which is "fun" since I've never used WP for anything except blogging before! I'm used to hand-coding things (HTML, CSS, PHP). Yeah it's slow, but I'm still teaching myself the more advanced areas of webmastering/php and it helps me retain info. But I'm starting to get the hang of this WP thing...
Obviously I'm going to need some kind of member management, but I'm not too keen on just using the WP login for that. It seems a little unprofessional, although I'm sure there's a way to customize the login page and I already found a plugin to hide the dashboard from "subscriber" level users. I'd feel like I'd rather just write my own PHP login system and maintain my own database for complete control. Unless anyone has found a really useful (ideally free) member plug in for WP? Magic Members looked perfect but I'm not about to pay $100 for something like that unless that's what a lot of people recommend. I have more time than money.
Zombaio has their password management system of course, but do I HAVE to use that? I'd rather control access through sessions than through .htaccess, unless that's a bad idea for some reason. Call me picky, but I think the login popups are annoying and butt-ugly.
Then there's the issue of Zombaio integration. Their documentation was of some help but I'm still not sure what precisely I need to do for my site to mesh with Zombaio (i.e. how with both my site AND zombaio clear the user to login?). Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks a ton for any help!
