specific post/page access & member levels

On my site, we are selling specific post/page access to various custom post_types. We would also like to create a membership level that will have access to all of these posts. I’d like some advice on how to do this without creating a conflict between the specific post/page restrictions. We also need for those who already purchased access to specific posts to continue to have access.

In other words we want everyone (level 0 and unregistered) to continue to be able to purchase individual access to certain posts, while adding the option to sell full site access as a membership level.

Thanks.

Hello Brett, thanks for your inquiry.

Have you looked into offering a specific post/page access package that grants access to all the pages?

That would work, but the plan is to grant this action automatically to certain approved email addresses. I may not be up to date with all of s2Member’s new features, but I thought the best way to do this was to use the registration notifications api to grant access to new registrants with certain email addresses. The notification would run a custom script to sniff the email address and then (if it passes) upgrade that user to the all-access level automatically.

My concern with writing a script to grant specific post/page access is that it would have to be updated (by me) every time the site owner adds a new restricted post/page.

I reread your suggestion and I think it might work for what I’m doing if I can combine it with a free membership form. For example, if I could add the id=”##, ###, ###” attribute to the free form this would work. Or maybe there’s another way to achieve this same behavior. Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

Adding that kind of data to the button/pro-form shortcode is very possible, with custom capabilities.

I forgot to mention them, but they do require work on your end.

Please check under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capabilities for instructions.

There is also a video by Jason on custom capabilities:
Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)

Would this work for you?

I think this can work, but there’s just one thing I’m not sure how to do. It’s #3 below.

Here’s the steps:
1. I need to “sell” a custom capability with a form.
2. I need to write a function in my theme to test whether the curent user has that capability or not…
3. IF the user CAN view the post… I need to STOP s2Member from redirecting them to the member options page

In the video, Jason’s function redirects users if they CAN’T view the post/page but I can’t do this because the posts in question are already protected by specific post/page restrictions (with no level requirement). If I protect them all by adding them to level 1 (like Jason does in the video), then the people I’ve already sold specific posts/page access to won’t be able to view their purchases anymore. Right? (Because they are still level 0)

So somehow my function that’s called at the “template_redirect” hook needs to PERMIT access to the intended post/page… somehow overriding the redirect.

Please tell me if I’m making sense, and if you have any advice on how to achieve what I’m looking for.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by  Brett Adcock.

I’m afraid that the post protected with Spec Page access won’t be accessible with the right link, unless you created a hack to bypass this, which I don’t know how to do.

One thing you could do is to clone that page for the ones you’re selling the custom capability to.

Would that work for you?

The cloning idea occurred to me, but it’s not practical because there are many different specific post/pages. I’m sure I could get it working initially, but then the client would be left with a bunch of duplicate posts that would inevitably get confused.

Right. I thought it was just one page, but many would be impractical, especially for a client.

I answered here before I found the hook I gave you in the other thread. I hope that one does the trick you need.