Membership site

  • Resolved Lesley Ward

    (@lesley-ward)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    I’m an accountant and I want to create a membership site to give free training to my clients. They won’t pay to use it, it will just be a controlled way to make sure they know how to use the bookkeeping software and what to look out for when doing their bookkeeping.

    The training will be a combination of onscreen videos, links to other sites and just writing – nothing complicated.

    But it’s important that I know that they’re going through the training and are taking responsibility for their bookkeeping. So each time they finish a module I want them to confirm that they’ve finished before the next module becomes available.

    ideally I’d also like a report which shows me what stage all the members are at.

    Does anyone know if this is possible in WP with plugins and would it be more cost-effective and more fit-for-purpose to use something completely different?

    I’ve tried looking at quite a few plugins which have been mentioned in various blogs but they seem to be based around paid for membership without the ability to check progress.

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  • I have written a system which behaves much as you require.

    It is a plugin that uses AJAX techniques to stream updates to forms back to the database. There is also a customised page header.

    Each user has a login that uses their email address plus a password, depending upon their assigned level (or role) they get a different menu.
    Progression through the forms was restricted if they had any blank answers.
    A status page showed the number of login sessions, plus how many questions they answered in each page.
    The questions were initially prepared in a grid on a spreadsheet, but then put into the database, the final form was created dynamically by javascript in the browser of the user.

    So yes, it can be done, WordPress is quite a suitable platform for doing this. The intrinsic facilities of WordPress saved so much work, things like basic instruction pages, and lost password resets all come free of charge.

    I think you will be looking for an experienced developer, this project has many many dimensions. I kept track of the languages I used, it finished at six. They were:

    1. PHP – server side plugin and theme
    2. HTML
    3. CSS
    4. javascript incl AJAX techniques
    5. SQL
    6. visual basic (for preparing the questions from spreadsheet)
    Thread Starter Lesley Ward

    (@lesley-ward)

    Hi Ross

    Thanks for your response – looks really complicated and quite beyond me!

    I don’t actually need members to take a test, just tick to confirm that they’ve completed the module.

    Wishlist seems to do 80% of what I’m looking for and they have a plugin for a checklist.

    So I think I’ll give that a go.

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