Our latest Wordpress plugin: Buddypress paid membership
A few days ago I posted a tweet with a link to a plugin we’d abstracted from a project for a previous client and are now releasing as fully open source. After a couple of days of user testing and iteration, I’m very pleased to announce that Buddypress paid membership is now ready for use!
So what is this beast? It’s a simple plugin really, essentially adding the ability to charge for membership of your Buddypress powered social network.
Simply download and install the plugin as you would any other, go to wp-admin and enter your Paypal credentials and different account types/charges and you’re away! Simple as that… The plugin will add the necessary fields to the Buddypress registration page and a user will then be required to enter valid information, with the payment being processed via Paypal.
If you want to add specific functionality for the different account types, the user’s account type can be retrieved by calling:
get_usermeta(get_current_user_id(), 'account_type', TRUE)
Nifty, no? Download it now…
Chris:
Looks good, but ran into an interesting glitch in the registration page. I’ve added several extra fields to my registration page (I’d like them completed BEFORE the registration is done, and when I activate this plugin, the payment details fields appear after EVERY extra field. Makes for a long and confusing reg screen.
Any thoughts, aside from moving the extra fields and having them done on the profile screen?
Running Beta 2 of WP 3, and BP 1.2.3.
Thanks!