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I have been hosting my Revit video training series on Udemy and using my WordPress blog just to drive traffic to Udemy, but changes there have me looking at hosting my courses myself.
1: First I need a membership management tool, like WishList Member.
2: Once I have membership covered, I will need to address streaming video and CDN integration. (Right now I have a couple of courses that amount to 30 GB of video files, and probably 25GB/month in traffic, but that will need to go up.)
3: Once I have those two, I need to manage creating “Products” and tieing them into the previous two. (probably 10 “products” within a year, with anywhere from 15 to 200 “members” for each product, with lots of overlap.)
Is all this really reasonable for someone rather new to WordPress and eCommerce (15 years experience in Architecture and IT, thus the topic of my training courses) or should I be seriously considering hiring someone?Also, I am trying to understand the Enfold licensing. To me it looks like as soon as I have anything on my site behind a paywall the cost goes from $55 to $2750, which is right out of my startup ballpark. Hoping someone can set me straight there, because I have been really happy with the theme. But of course when I switched from Standard theme I wasn’t expecting a change in hosting from Udemy.
Thanks for any insights!
GordonHi pragmaticpraxis!
For the license question you can find more information here: http://themeforest.net/licenses . I don’t think you would need the extended license because you are only using the site on a single instance and you aren’t re-selling the theme as part of a MU setup or anything. If you want to get full confirmation you can contact Envato support: http://support.envato.com/
As for the other issues, if you are unsure of how all of the plugin interaction would work I would do some more searching on available plugins and even try to find some tutorials going over what you are trying to accomplish.
WooCommerce for instance has an extension for memberships, groups and subscriptions to access content for the membership/group levels:
- Groups (free) – provides the membership and access control capabilities. Download it here.
- Groups Integration for WooCommerce (this plugin) – allows to sell group memberships through WooCommerce
- WooCommerce Subscriptions – if you want to sell memberships with recurring payments
Regards,
DevinDevin, thanks for the info! I will contact Envato directly, just to be sure.
As for WooCommerce, I tool a look at it (as well as a few others) and I think I may be trying to do something a little out of the normal. What I really need is a bit of a hybrid of Membership and Storefront capabilities. I imagine having a number of “Products”, and people should be able to buy any mix of products. In that sense, it is very much like a storefront. But the content is not downloadable, it is streaming videos, so access control is important. Most of the Membership/Access Control plugins seem to be about hierarchical membership levels and mostly recurring billing. I want mix and match access zones, and one time billing for each zone independently. And ideally each “member” would have a dynamic page listing the groups, or rather products, that they have access to.
So, getting back to Woo Commerce Groups, my understanding after a quick read is that it supports an unlimited number of groups, but that any one user can only be a member of one group. Am I misunderstanding that? I hope I am wrong, because the ability to make group membership purchasable as a Woo Commerce product is idea. The Membership addins seem to focus on a Signup page, and ideally each product would have a landing page with a promo video available to all, and a link for purchase, after which that user would see a list of links to the various chapters in the course, each as a Page with multiple videos.Also, I am now thinking long term I would like to be able to have groups in groups. I.e. I might have a group that can access my Revit Training course, and then I have a company that buys a sight license, and I would need a user account for each me member of the staff, who are then members of the Company group, and the company group is a member of the Revit Training group.
In any case, I suspect I need to just install both on my test server and play a bit.
Thanks!
Gordon
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