Restricting pages to list of users with individual passwords

  • Hi, I am wanting to set up a WordPress site for our members to access our courses, which are in the form of PDF files. I dont wnat to use an LMS plugin because we dont use many of their features (e.g. no quizes and no payments) and they seem to overcomplicate the prtocess of uploading a new course. At the moment I have a simple process: create a new static page for each course, upload the PDF files from the media repository. We will have about 90 courses, each with 8-10 modules (PDF files) so I will probably use a plugin that helps me organise them into folders.

    The problem is that the courses should only be available to paid members. But the banking, user registrationm and assignment of passwords will be done on another external website. So we need to send the imforation from that to our course website, and process this so each user can enter their own password to be aboe to view the site.

    I tried to search for a plugin that could handle this, but they all seemed to want to do the processing of the user registration on the same site. Has anyone come across a plugin that will do what I am aiming to do?

    Thanks, Glenn

    • This topic was modified 8 months, 3 weeks ago by glennfulford.
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  • Moderator bcworkz

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    If authenticating user logins is managed on an external site, that site would need some sort of API we could use to validate a user/password login attempt. WP can authenticate users this way through its “authenticate” filter, but you’d likely need bespoke code to accomplish this since communicating with the API is likely unique to that particular site.

    Similar for who can see what on your site. WP would need to to query the external API to find out what a user is allowed to see. WP could then allow or deny access accordingly. Again, you’d likely need bespoke code to accomplish this.

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