general question of adding user roles is needed or not

Hello!

Thanks for joining us here in the GeoDirectory support forums, we’re glad to have you.

About your questions, let me respond here and we can follow up if more is needed.

1# You can set a customization with a PHP Snippet to add the package id to the body class. Then you can use CSS to target they ‘package id’ to show or hide items on the Detail page. The package id corresponds to the pricing package, like ‘free’ or ‘platinum’. https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/common-code-snippets/#package

2# Blogs – You can create a custom post type (CPT) called ‘announcement’ and charge users for those, too, using GeoDirectory tools. If you want those announcements to be free for paying subscribers, you could issue them with a discount using WP Invoicing to make the announcement effectively free.

3# GeoDirectory Roles and Memberships – GeoDirectory doesn’t have any built in features that integrate with membership roles, or features to add a role to a user after payment. We are looking at paid roles and have a beta test available, but that feature by itself doesn’t address your complete use case. You could possible use that feature to bestow a role, though, by telling users to take a discount back through checkout to grab the role upgrade, but you would need to try that out to see if it meets your needs using the “Members” plugin. https://wpinvoicing.com/looking-for-beta-tester-for-paid-members/

4# 3rd Party Memberships – Many members have had success managing roles and memberships with S2 Members. I have not heard of any other membership plugin being able to essentially ‘protect’ the ‘add-listing’ page for the ‘announcement’ CPT I mentioned above.

5# Advice – My Personal opinion is that your site will be simpler, run faster, and be easier to manage if you avoid 3rd Membership software and find a way to work with the GeoDirectory features described in #2.

5# Concierge Support – If you need personalized support from GD Expert consultants to provide concierge setup of these options, feel free to check out https://geodirectoryexperts.com

Here in the forums we can provide assistance with documentation and any bugs you might come across. We hope you don’t find any, but if you do, we hope you come back and let us know so we can address them right away! 🙂

Thanks again for writing in, and let us know if there’s anything else we can do

Hi Ulrike,

Give it a try and let us know if there anything we can do.

🙂