members site using wordpress

[mikesouth]

I tried this several years back and couldnt do it because wp didnt integrate at all with ccbill or netbilling

Im considering it again...i thought I read that bettercgi has a solution now but I cant find it or a price for it.

also what would happen if i installed wordpress into my members area? Im guessing that would open up lots of permissions issues for wordpress...anyone tried that?

Thanks y'all.

[BradBreakfast]

Just use two WordPress installs and two databases. One for your tour and one installed in your /members directory. Keeping them separate allows different themes, etc without having to use any "pay site plugins" to separate and complicate content management. Just manually create trailers for your tour, as your going to need them for your affiliates anyways. I would use some sort of caching plugin for your tour like W3 Total Cache. In the future, if your tour traffic become too much, utilize cloudflare.com on your tour, and keep actual server resources for your paying members. If you can afford it in the future look into a CDN, but shop around and bargain them down.

Originally Posted by mikesouth

I tried this several years back and couldnt do it because wp didnt integrate at all with ccbill or netbilling

Im considering it again...i thought I read that bettercgi has a solution now but I cant find it or a price for it.

also what would happen if i installed wordpress into my members area? Im guessing that would open up lots of permissions issues for wordpress...anyone tried that?

Thanks y'all.

[slawek]

wordpress is blogging platform.
Why u wouldn't try some cms platform, for example like a joomla?

[JOKER]

Originally Posted by slawek

wordpress is blogging platform.
Why u wouldn't try some cms platform, for example like a joomla?

Since when is wordpress just a "blogging platform" ?!

If you treat Wordpress as a CMS you can very well do whatever you imagine with it.

Stop limiting your own imagination with preconceived notions is the start to that I guess.

[mikesouth]

Originally Posted by BradBreakfast

Just use two WordPress installs and two databases. One for your tour and one installed in your /members directory. Keeping them separate allows different themes, etc without having to use any "pay site plugins" to separate and complicate content management. Just manually create trailers for your tour, as your going to need them for your affiliates anyways. I would use some sort of caching plugin for your tour like W3 Total Cache. In the future, if your tour traffic become too much, utilize cloudflare.com on your tour, and keep actual server resources for your paying members. If you can afford it in the future look into a CDN, but shop around and bargain them down.

so the one in the members dir will run fine...adding content and all that stuff and of course only paid members can access it.

I was planning on using two installs one in the members area and one for the front end. I have strongbox on the members area now I guess I will give this a try tomorrow couldnt hurt anything I hope

Thanks man

[mikesouth]

Originally Posted by slawek

wordpress is blogging platform.
Why u wouldn't try some cms platform, for example like a joomla?

because wordpress is a mature platform and if not loaded down with plugins its very efficient

and joomla is no different really both are written in php and use mysql to do what they do. wordpress has more and better support to my liking

[Mutt]

I made a thread recently about the same subject, search threads started by me and 'WordPress' in the subject - had some really good feedback and links

[jimmycooper]

check with Bella Bellini. Her site looks great and I believe she did everything on wp.

http://www.missbellabellini.com/

[mikesouth]

Thanks guys Ive already done the front end on wp and i like it

for a cms it isnt the most elegant setup for a members site but the price is right and I know how to mod the themes and all that the way I want

actually for a cms all it lacks is a plugin that would deactivate a post after 30 days then re-activate it in X number of days and do that forever

[mikesouth]

Found that thread mutt...thanks exactly what i needed to read

thread here is done thanks guys!

[JOKER]

Originally Posted by mikesouth

Thanks guys Ive already done the front end on wp and i like it

for a cms it isnt the most elegant setup for a members site but the price is right and I know how to mod the themes and all that the way I want

actually for a cms all it lacks is a plugin that would deactivate a post after 30 days then re-activate it in X number of days and do that forever

Pretty sure a resident WP wiz from GFY can write a plugin like that fairly quick, might not hurt to ask one