Premium Subscriber Does not recognize the different groups

  • Angelo, I’ve got one more hiccup and it’s kinda big that I can’t seem to wrap my head around. Sorry, I just realized it this morning when I went to add my own custom label.

    I have four levels of Memberships that were created; each with its own access restriction. When I login as a Bronze member (my base membership) I still have access to ALL of the podcasts.

    I’m thinking, I may need to create four different Podcast Channels for each membership level. The podcast channel recognizes several capabilities that are pre-built into Groups but it does not recognize (list) a manually added capability in the drop down on the “Other Settings” tab.

    For instance, I have a Bronze group that has a bronze capability that derives from the capability of premium_content. Woocommerce understands that and throws up a restriction to any category/podcast not included in the bronze capability. PowerPress however does not. It allows access to all membership levels as long as you’re a Premium Subscriber.

    I am about to add shortcode to all of my posts so that every level from Customer on up can read my entire posts but I need to ensure that folks that sign up for a membership only have access to what’s included in the plan they signed up for.

    Am I missing something or is there a workaround for this?

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  • ding ding ding; I now think that may be the correct course to take. I’ve added four separate feeds and will go back and add each episode to the correct feed instead of a blanket “premium podcast” which gives users access to everything regardless of which membership they sign up for.

    My hope is that each higher level of membership will inherit the capabilities of it’s parent (the way it’s setup in Groups).

    I think this is the way to go but won’t know for sure until all 500+ episodes have been updated. My only issue is that the PowerPress’ capability drop-down list DOES NOT show any newly created capabilities (a la your example with the MemberPress plugin). Since I’m using WooCommerce and their Subscription, Membership and Group plugins + the free Groups plugin my only option is to select Premium Content capability. There are “manage WooCommerce Membership” and a “manage WooCoomerce membership plan” capabilities present in your drop-down list but that appears to be more administrative.

    This will take all day to finish. Hoping this works.

    Plugin Author Angelo Mandato

    (@amandato)

    PowerPress Uses WordPress roles and capabilities. The Groups plugin adds its own capabilities. The current solution with WooCommerce Membership does not allow for deviating beyond the one role.

    I can work with you to add code necessary in PowerPrses to work with the Groups plugin. Please contact me at cio [at] blubrry dot com (replace at and dot).

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