Hi Nigel,
for a new client project I have to do the following: It is a website where you can buy a christian magazine. It has categories and needs some CPT's. Besides of this, the customer of the christian magazine should be able to read some articles of the magazines for free and for other articles he should only see some of the text like in the attached image (I think this effect is possible via CSS blur, isn't it? -> versteckter Link) If he wants to read the whole article, he can buy a subscription for the magazine at the external Webshop of my client and than he should have access to all articles of the magazine. Fot this I wanted to use Toolset and the Toolset Access plugin. Is this kind of functionality possible with toolset?
Thanks
Thorsten
Hi Thorsten,
Thank you for contacting us.
Nigel is on vacations and will be back tomorrow, but I'll be happy to assist while he is away.
The Toolset Access plugin can be used to protect or restrict access to either full content items or partially, as explained in the following guides:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/limiting-read-access-specific-content/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/access-control-texts-inside-page-content/
We also have a detailed guide on using Toolset plugins for creating a membership website at:
https://toolset.com/learn/create-membership-site-wordpress-using-toolset-plugins/
Since you mentioned that the actual subscription will need to be purchased from an external Webshop, your website's admin will need to change the user's role manually to a paid member, after the payment has been processed externally.
The flow would be:
- a visitor will come to your website and register as a free member
- he or she will be taken to the external webshop to buy the subscription
- once it is confirmed that the payment/subscription has been successful, your website's admin can change that user's role to a paid member, so he or she can access full content.
I hope this helps and please let me know if you need any further assistance around this.
regards,
Waqar
Hi Waqar,
thanks for your answer and explanation. How would the workflow be, if the customer doesn't register on the website and so the unregistered customer only sees content like blured content and after buying th subscription in the external webshop (Gambio -> a german webshop), can the Site-admin register the customer (with username and PW) by himself and change the user role for this member? If yes, is the register by the site-admin for the payed customer a CPT (Username/PW)?
Also is it possible to automate the registration process by connecting through an API?
Thanks
Thorsten
Hi Thorsten,
Thanks for writing back.
> How would the workflow be, if the customer doesn't register on the website
> and so the unregistered customer only sees content like blured content and
> after buying th subscription in the external webshop (Gambio -> a german
> webshop), can the Site-admin register the customer (with username and PW)
> by himself and change the user role for this member?
- The workflow would remain the same and the only difference would be that the blurred content would be available on the website to all visitors, without any free member role registration.
Once the subscription is purchased, the website's admin will manually create a user account for this new member and set the desired user role, which will give him/her access to the full content.
> If yes, is the register by the site-admin for the payed
> customer a CPT (Username/PW)?
- The website's admin will add a user account for each customer in WordPress regular user accounts, from WP Admin -> Users -> Add New, You won't need a separate CPT for storing the customer information.
> Also is it possible to automate the registration process by connecting through an API?
- You can get in touch with Gambio platform's support team, to see if they offer any WordPress plugin or an API, to automate the process of user registration at WordPress. If they don't offer it, then you'll need to keep managing this manually.
regards,
Waqar
