About: WordPress Rocks

Another Scenario:

Sites that sell plugins and themes often have support websites that go along with the plugin or theme.

Sadly due to the nature of WordPress, especially most forums for WordPress such as bbPress, it is virtually impossible to assign just a single forum to paid members.

We see where if a customer purchases a theme or plugin that they are given access to the entire bbPress, or other forum instead of being granted access to just the forum that belongs to that product.

The same goes with documentation and help videos.

It becomes to difficult to separate out everything, so once a customer makes a purchase they have access to all documentation on the site instead of just the documentation that belongs to that one product that they purchased.

Why is this really bad?

Well in todays world, it is easy to get your hands on virtually any software, and WordPress being built on php, it is just as easy to de-obfuscate and null the themes or plugins (s2members included).

What I have found is that customers are smart. They will purchase a product ‘properly’ just to receive good support. So many times a customer is going to purchase a single product from my stores, only to turn around and download all my other products for free. They have access to my support forums, and depending upon their illicit source, they may even have virtually instant access to my upgrades.

so, a single purchase gives the customer unfettered access to my entire support system and I really loose out.

I could always go the jv route and put each product on its own dedicated site, but there are so many reasons not to do that as my time is going to be wasted just trying to maintain that many sites.

It would be much easier if s2members would simply allow me to assign an entire network site to a particular product. I’ve been waiting for s2members to do this for what seems forever so I am writing this huge pre-sales post in hopes that I make a good enough argument that everyone will jump on board and request this if it is not already possible and easy to do with s2members.