DAP currently integrates only with WordPress-based Forums – like bbPress, Simple:Press, etc.
What this essentially achieves, is that once your forum plugin has been integrated with DAP (explained below), anyone who is a member in your DAP-powered membership site, will also be automatically be logged in to your forum when they log in to your membership site.
So they won’t have to log in twice [like, once into DAP and once into your forum].
Here’s how you set up the DAP/forum integration.
- Download the 3rd party wordpress forum plugin
- Install it as per their instructions. We don’t support the installation or setup of the forum plugin itself.
- Log in to your DAP Admin Dashboard and click on “Config > Advanced”.
- You have two settings on the page that applies to forum integration:
“Sync DAP User data and WP User data”
“Sync WP data only for PAID users“.(Both are explained further below.) - Pick “Y” or “N” for each of them, and you’re all set.
First, a quick explanation of both settings.
1) Sync DAP User data and WP User data
If you turn this to “Y” (for “Yes”), then every time someone logs into DAP, they’re automatically logged into WordPress too (with a “User” role). And because they’re logged into WordPress, that means they’re also logged into your forum (because you are using a WordPress-based Forum Plugin which already integrates with your WordPress blog.)
2) Sync WP data only for PAID users
This one matters only if you have set (1) above to “Y”.
So once you have decided to turn on the DAP/Forum plugin integration, then if you want only your “PAID” members to have access to the forum, then set this to “Y”.
If you don’t care about both FREE and PAID users accessing your forum, then set this to “N”.
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Ravi lets say you have multiple products and one recurring product and you would like to give access to forum only for paid members of the recurring product but not to paid members of other products, is there a way to do that?
Thanks
Fred,
No, that is not possible at this time.
You can give access to your forums to …
1) all PAID users (OR)
2) all FREE users (OR)
3) None.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Have you tried this with a buddypress install? For some reason buddypress pages aren’t working with it.
Debra,
DAP doesn’t integrate with BuddyPress yet. Hopefully, that will happen in the next couple of months.
- Ravi
Thanks Ravi, I’m still getting organised for the launch of my membership offering, but this will help a lot. It’s a real pain to have to log in twice.
Does it work with vBulletin?
Not yet. But it will, in the next version – v3.8. Hopefull end of April. Keep ‘em crossed
Hey Ravi,
Is it possible to sync forum posts with their access level of content?
What I mean by this is if someone has access to only the first month’s content, I don’t want them to be able to access forum posts that are about month 3 or 4.
Because we don’t want them to get confused or ahead of themselves and obviously we don’t want them to get access to what’s to come before they’ve paid.
Thanks =)
Russel,
That is not possible with DAP. Also, that would make it extremely complicated even to design, because now you are talking about dripping even forum topics – just like blog posts.
I don’t think we’re ever going to go that far. Better not to worry too much about the forums. Just control the main content using the dripping. Leave the forums alone.
Endlessly trying to lock down every tiny piece of your site is not going to be very productive for you, and it would probably be annoying for your members too. Just a thought.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Thanks Ravi,
Is there a way to create different user levels for the same product? Where you could set it so each month that they progress forward, they gain a higher access (to the next consecutive user level)?
Also, does dap use the actual WP Roles in any way? Here’s the response I got back from the Simple-Press Admin…
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you can control who has access to a forum… but not topic or post… please see our wiki getting started section about user groups and permissions…
what membership plugin? many folks using wishlist with lots of success… as long as the membership uses wp roles, you can map an spf user group (and hence permissions) to a wp role and control access to forums… the mapping is on forum – options – member settings…
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Thanks again,
Russell =)
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Hi Ravi,
I’m using SimplePress with DAP. When I sync them with both settings to Y, my forum page redirects to my DAP Admin page. I can’t get to my forum at all?
I don’t like the utilitarian look of most forums. I would like to set up a forum sync membersite with Ning. Do you have a way to do that with DAP? If not, I suppose I could have a link to the NING site within the membership portion of my website and members could access it that way. I would want them to be able to come back via a link and not have to re-login. Is this possible? BTW, NING and other such sites are more attractive and social than the usual forum, so if you don’t sync with them, it may be a nice idea for the future. Thanks
Iyoume,
There’s no automatic syncing with Ning at this time. Ning is a great service, even though they’ve gone premium (no more free communities).
We are definitely going to be checking out their API at some point, but for now, you’re better of just managing the adds and removes manually. Don’t let them register directly. You manually give them access via the DAP Dashboard. But without a DAP/Ning integration in place, I’m afraid they will have to log in twice.
Hi Ravi,
Thanks for a great program. Do DAP integrate with SMF, SimpleMachines Forum?
Thanks / Lars
Lars,
DAP doesn’t integrate with SMF yet. We have this on our TODO list. Hopefully within 2-3 months.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Jake,
If you are logged in to DAP as an admin, then first logout from DAP dashboard and test the sync to Simple Press/ Wordpress using a regular user login.
Ravi,
We’re using DAP and buddypress together right now – hoping that the integration will be tighter soon. What’s the status of your work on this?!
–Karen
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