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Setup Membership to sell blogging subscriptions

Hi,

I read many posts about setting up Membership plugin, but I’m a little bit confused about that.

I’ve setup a wordpress network with subdomains.

I’ll try to explain what I wish to do.

1) I wish to use membership plugin to let users signup into my network and pay to build their own blog (or multiple blogs).

2)I wish to give users a trial period, so that when it expires they have to buy a subscription.

3) I do not want that registered users can manage or enable the membership plugin. I wish to use it only for sell blogging subscriptions from my primary network site.

4) I wish that users can signup using the standard wordpress signup page (wp-signup.php) instead of using the membership signup page; after they signup using wp-signup.php they should gain a trial period (for example 14days). So they can mess up with their own brand new registered blog.

5) After (or during) the trial period they can decide to signup for a subscription.

6) During the trial period they can’t create more blogs, but manage only one.

Could you give me any suggestions?

Thank you very much in advance.

Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:17:23
  • Michael Bissett
    • Recruit

    Hey @Virgo Statistic, hope you’re doing well today. :slight_smile:

    Actually, for points 1 – 5, that’d be a job more suited for our Pro Sites plugin:

    https://wpmudev.com/project/pro-sites/

    To have users have to subscribe in order to keep their site running, you’d need to enable the “Pay To Blog” add-on.

    Unfortunately, this:

    6) During the trial period they can’t create more blogs, but manage only one.

    Isn’t possible at present. There was a plugin quite some time ago that did limit this, but that hasn’t been updated in a long time.

    Let me know if you need further assistance here. :slight_smile:

    Regards,

    Michael

  • Virgo Statistic
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Michael,

    thanks for the reply.

    But with pro sites I can not let a user create a limited number of blogs.

    With pro-sites any payment is blog oriented not user oriented. If a user singup for 5 blogs for esample, he should pay 5 times, instead of pay a single subscription to create up to 5 blogs.

    Excuse me if I was a bit unclear in the explanation :slight_smile:

  • Ash
    • Code Norris

    Hi @Virgo Statistic

    Yes, you are right. The payment is blog oriented in Pro Sites plugin, not user oriented.

    With membership plugin, you can limit the blog creation based on different level, but it still needs some custom coding.

    Also, no 4 and 6 are not possible with membership plugin, and no 5 is partially impossible.

    In this case, you can post a job in our job board where you can get help from a developer to customize the membership or pro sites plugin to fit your needs.

    https://wpmudev.com/wpmu-jobs/

    Cheers

    Ash