Per post subscription?

Hi Ok say I had a tutorial site and each post was an e-course series. Is it possible to grant access only to the users who subscribe to that specific post? For example is a user subscribed to tutorial series A they will not have access to the content in tutorial series B unless they also subscribe to it etc.

Is it possible to do something like this using this plugin?

Hey there.

Yeah, you can sell access to specific posts, either using custom capabilities or the specific post/page restriction.

Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)
Video » s2Member (Specific Posts/Pages)

These, though, don’t support subscriptions, only one-time payments.

To sell subscriptions you’d have to use s2Member Levels, but these give incremental access, which may not work for your site. And s2Member currently only supports a single subscription per user, so selling multiple subscriptions for access to different content, would not be possible yet.

I hope that answers your question. Let me know if you have any more. :)

Yes this helps a lot actually. Maybe subscription was the wrong word what I meant was access. Can this can this be done without the user having to REALLY pay? Why I want to do this is so i can organise my lists and email news letters better depending on which tut a user is following.

Ah, I see.

Well, yes, you can give custom capabilities to users manually editing their profiles, not just them purchasing them.

So you were talking about email subscriptions actually, right? Are you trying to manage their access and restrict it unless they subscribe to it? Well, you can protect the posts with the custom capabilities, then when they try to open them they won’t be able, unless you gave their accounts the custom capability you protected the post with.

Another thing you can do is use WP tags, then they can subscribe to the RSS feed of the tag, if I’m not mistaken. One of these plugins may help you emailing the users based on tag feeds: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/rss-to-email

I hope that helps. :)