Wanted : beta testers of new wordpress plugin

The link isn't working.

I'm on it

And here's a suggestion before I even get started testing - include this plugin FOR FREE with the aMember purchase, just because your competition has already surpassed this "wordpress integration" stage and is tying their products directly into wordpress right off the bat, for free (Alexander, email me for direct links and examples, if you are really curious about the sources).

Small price cut to take for you, huge reason to stick to aMember for all the customers

oh, and you could've organized the folders a bit clearer too... attached is an example.

A few questions first...

1) in this setting:



what do those "add after..." and "keep for..." columns represent? might wanna clarify that a bit...

2) in this setting (on page/post pages):



what does "show post preview" actually show?

I couldn't get it to work...

And what part of the content is actually selected as "preview" portion to show?

3) The option "When post should not be available for user:" could be expanded to show the signup page, a custom created page (that has the sales copy, upsell link, whatever), or something along those lines? As it is right now, it's pretty restricting and serves little purpose from an actual customer's point of view.


4) "Error page that should be displayed when user try to access restricted content" and the setting right after that - where do we find and customize that amember_access_denied_default page?

5) I'd suggest combining all the aMember setting sections into a single one under Settings, instead of having 3 separate ones right now (aMember settings/aMember Levels/Protect Categories)... it might be VERY confusing having them separate when you can easily combine them into a single page with some tabs for separate sections.

6) I'd also suggest adding some sort of a button/popup menu into tinyMCE editor to actually allow for selecting specific parts of the content that you want to protect and wrapping them up in pre-defined User Levels (instead of doing it all manually).

Again, just mainly suggestions from usability standpoint... haven't tested the functionality 100% just yet, and have no idea how that Incremental Content dripping actually performs either. Yet.

Alex,

I have not had a chance to test this plug-in but while looking at the files saw a file named "shortcodes.php" with the following comments in the file:

Code:

//////// SHORTCODES;
//////// FULL LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE:
/* [amember_url] - url of aMember installation as set in aMember plugin settings
 * [amember_signup_url] - Url of signup page as set in aMember plugin settings
 * [amember_user var='name'] return logged in user's info for example:
 * [amember_user var='name'] will return user's name: John Doe
 * [amember_user var='email'] will return user's email: test@test.com
 * [amember_user var='login'] will return user's login: test
 *
 */

I did not see any mention of short codes in the documentation. Does this mean you can place aMember forms and info directly onto a WP page using short codes? Is it functional now or is it an upcoming feature?

As I stated in this post, this is the missing link in a WP - aMember integration. To be able to integrate without having to theme aMember files is neat. This makes the changing of a theme much easier.

Thanks.

Alexander, do you also have a WPMU version?

At the next release of WordPress (Version 3.0), WPMU will no longer exsist. The code base of WP and WPMU are being merged. There will be a setting that would support multiple blogs from within the WP 3.0 installation. Speculation on the release of 3.0 is May 1st at the opening of WordCamp San Francisco).

I am not sure how this would affect this plug-in, but I assume it would work for single blog installations and multiple site installations.

I was already working on the idea of updating my amProtect plugin for WordPress/aMember with the capability of inserting any and all of your aMember forms anywhere you wanted into WordPress pages so that you would not have to update the aMember templates if you didn't want to.

Just FYI.

We'll see where this goes now.

Miso,

I'm curious. Who exactly are you referring to when you talk about Alex's competition tying into WordPress for free?

Not sure it would be smart to mention their heaviest competition (in my opinion) in public... but email me.

You might want to update the description on that page somewhere to say that... so the users are not asking the same question as I did

And you mean that we don't even need the Incremental Content plugin in place in aMember in order to deliver content like this within wordpress incrementally, with this in place?

This is what I had in mind... if you take wp-ecommerce plugin, for example (and there are tons of plugins that do this), they create a custom "Plugin Name" menu and have sub-menus available under it linking to specific option pages:



Hence, why I suggest creating a top level admin menu called "aMember" or something short and sweet, and then having all the other pages/options listed underneath it... makes not only for a much more organized plugin, but easier to find, use, understand, etc.

Alex,

Will this plug-in allow the placement of aMember pages directly onto a WordPress page with a short code? I see a shortcode.php file, but no documentation about using shortcodes.

Thanks!