https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members Gravity Support Forums Topic: Building membership site with GF and Members en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:55:50 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members#post-28633 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:46:09 +0000 TurboWebs 28633@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for the update. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members#post-28578 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:05:47 +0000 Justin Tadlock 28578@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We've developed a system at DevPress.com that we're getting ready to deploy. It uses the User Registration Add-on, Members, and some code that interacts with e-Junkie. It'll probably be a while before we release the code to the public because we want to fix all the little issues that will inevitably crop up on a live site. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members#post-28569 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:34:50 +0000 TurboWebs 28569@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Has any progress been made on this?<br /> With the PayPal addon, User Registration addon, and Members plugin, you could come up with nearly a perfect membership system.<br /> I say 'nearly' because ideally I'd have a subscription-based payment, and when the subscription is cancelled by a member via PayPal, then PayPal would notify the Members plugin so that accesss to protected content is cut off at the end of the billing cycle.<br /> I know this is possible because it's how the eMember plugin works. There's something called a subscription ID that PayPal creates and eMember recognizes.<br /> But I like the way Members looks like it works, it's free, and I have a lot of respect for Justin Tadlock as a developer. And Gravity Forms is the best thing since sliced bread. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members#post-13651 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:10:00 +0000 GCRInc 13651@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks, Carl. Thanks about what I figured. I'm OK with using the WordPress login system, but I'd hate to force first-time users to register with WP, *then* come back and fill out a second form to access content. That's why I look forward to the Registration Add-On. Any idea when a beta will be ready? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members#post-13645 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:23:45 +0000 Justin Tadlock 13645@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm good with developing my own features and can deal with existing users accordingly. Building a membership site is simple. Knowing how to interact with the payment system is the only thing I'm unfamiliar with. The biggest thing I need is the appropriate hook to switch a user's role based on a few bits of information.</p> <p>All I really need to know for sure is a few of things:</p> <p>* When a user has successfully paid for something.<br /> * Exactly what that user purchased.<br /> * What that user's ID is.</p> <p>I'd also need to know the opposite:</p> <p>* When a refund was issued.<br /> * What product the refund was for.<br /> * What the user's ID is.</p> <p>If I know the correct hook to get this information, I can make pretty much anything I need happen. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members#post-13626 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:53:05 +0000 Carl Hancock 13626@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Gravity Forms doesn't manage password protection of content. You can certainly do this with Gravity Forms, however it isn't something it does out of the box so it would require a customization using PHP to make it do what you want.</p> <p>If you wanted to control access based on user registration, then yes you could use the upcoming user registration add-on to register a user as part of your form process. But it would be based on full WordPress logins, not a password protected page. </p> <p>You would also have to use a plugin such as the Members plugin to then protect pages and set them so only logged in users can access them. Gravity Forms doesn't do access control. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members#post-13605 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:55:14 +0000 GCRInc 13605@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,<br /> I just downloaded GF (with a developer's license) and Members a few days ago, and I'm trying to do something similar to what Justin is describing here.</p> <p>I'm building a crowdsourced investigative journalism site. I want to give people a choice to access certain restricted content: Either make a donation, or spend a minute filling out a form. Once they do either, I want them to get a password that's valid for a month or a year, depending on whether they gave money or completed the form.</p> <p>How can I make this work? Should I wait for the User Registration Add-On? Assume that my PHP knowledge is minimal, but that I can copy-paste code like a champ. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members#post-13525 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:42:56 +0000 Carl Hancock 13525@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We'll take a look at the hooks and add additional hooks where appropriate. </p> <p>We are also getting ready to release our User Registration Add-On that works in tandem with the PayPal Add-On that you may find useful. This allows you to use a form to register a user, pay through PayPal, and add the configured role when the user is registered.</p> <p>But it isn't setup to allow for existing users to be able to register/pay so that is the only drawback with it right now. So some custom integration would still be necessary.</p> <p>But yes, you should be able to role your own membership system using Gravity Forms and the PayPal Add-On. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members#post-13481 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:22:54 +0000 Justin Tadlock 13481@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I've been looking through the code a bit and found three hooks that might be good possibilities to use: <code>gform_paypal_post_ipn</code>, <code>gform_post_payment_status</code>, and <code>gform_paypal_fulfillment</code>. The last one seems like the best hook for my needs.</p> <p>The goal is to create a function that will change the user's role to "gold_membership" upon successful completion of the payment. This form would only be shown to logged-in users with the default subscriber role. Here's what I'm thinking might work. What do you guys think?</p> <pre><code>add_action( &#39;gform_paypal_fulfillment&#39;, &#39;my_update_user_role&#39; ); function my_update_user_role() { global $current_user; if ( !empty( $current_user-&gt;ID ) ) { $new_user = new WP_User( $current_user-&gt;ID ); if ( !empty( $new_user ) ) $new_user-&gt;set_role( &#39;gold_membership&#39; ); } }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/building-membership-site-with-gf-and-members#post-13306 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:54:35 +0000 Justin Tadlock 13306@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hey, guys. I finally got that developer's license for GF. It's something I've been meaning to do for a while.</p> <p>I'm posting today because I'm thinking of getting rid of my current membership plugin and building a system with my Members plugin and GF (w/PayPal add-on) for <a href="http://themehybrid.com" rel="nofollow">http://themehybrid.com</a>. Membership would be a one-time fee rather than subscription-based.</p> <p>Right now, from what I can tell, I'll need to implement these steps:</p> <p>* User signs up with regular signup form.<br /> * After logging in, the user can pay for an upgrade to the private areas of the site.<br /> * The payment gives them a unique key to enter to access private areas, which I know I can create to handle changing the user roles.</p> <p>Do you think this process can be done? Or, do you have alternate solutions that might work better?</p> <p>I'll be spending time this Saturday and Sunday working through some ideas (and updating Members too). </p>