About: Bill X

Hi. I had to leave this problem for a while, and am just coming back to it.

I’ve just been watching Jason Caldwell’s video series on Custom Capabilities, but that hasn’t put me much further ahead in finding a solution.

The problem for me is that Jason keeps referring to, and using, PayPal functionality. But my various memberships are all free, and I don’t want any reference to PayPal at all.

However, I do need multiple protected pages, EACH of which will allow access by certain members only — NOT certain members plus all on levels below them. I can see that I can exclude “all levels below” access using shortcodes/conditionals, or PHP even.

I can also see that if I assign a different membership level to each of those protected pages, I can limit access that way.

But I also understand Jason’s warning about the problems associated with using multiple levels, particularly in regard to future extensibility.

So while I’m convinced it would be better to avoid multiple levels and use Custom Capabilities instead, I’m at a loss as to how to do that, without using the PayPal options.

If it helps to make it any clearer, each of the protected pages I need is a forum subsection that belongs to a particular club. Members of each club should have access to their own forum subsection and no one else’s.