Hey Guys –

I have a project where its a social community site where all the members create the site content on their own. I have 2 profiles(roles) that all users will fall under (employer & employee). Then I have 3 membership levels for each role (FREE, Standard & Premium). The idea is to pair up these users by category and control the level of access/features they have based on account type. So direct messaging is available only to premium members, push notifications only available to premium members. The more features and ability to build out your profile is based on your membership type. I would obviously add membership plugin to restrict access and capability as well as ecommerce capability for checkout.

I know bbPress and BuddyPress are forums and social communities but will they integrate well into membership type communities where clients need to pay for additional access to social community and forum features?

If not, is there a premium application that handles these types of projects?

Thanks so much!

[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 4 months ago]

Nothing immediate that I know of.

direct messaging is a buddypress thing, so suggest you post on their forum in case someone knows a hook you could use.

Forum visibility can be controlled by using

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

which may give you some features you want

[@robkk Moderator 8 years, 4 months ago]

@mshane8

I have 2 profiles(roles) that all users will fall under (employer & employee). Then I have 3 membership levels for each role (FREE, Standard & Premium). The idea is to pair up these users by category and control the level of access/features they have based on account type. So direct messaging is available only to premium members, push notifications only available to premium members. The more features and ability to build out your profile is based on your membership type.

I know there are plugins like s2 member and paid memberships pro that you might be able to use that might work with bbPress. User role permissions for features in BuddyPress I am not sure of and you may need to go to the BuddyPress support team, and see if they know anything that can do something like that.

https://buddypress.org/support/

I would obviously add membership plugin to restrict access and capability as well as ecommerce capability for checkout.

There are sure some membership framework plugins that work with popular ecommerce plugins like woocommerce or easy digital downloads.

I know bbPress and BuddyPress are forums and social communities but will they integrate well into membership type communities where clients need to pay for additional access to social community and forum features?

I say look into using s2member or paid memberships pro. I suggest you contact the BuddyPress support forum if they have any suggestions, or just search their forum and see if a question like this has already been answered.