I want free members to listen, paid members to download…on the same page

[rafishachar]

On my site, I have tons of hours of lectures. I want to offer them free to listen to on the site, but to download them, they need to be a member.

Is there any way to do this, so they always see the page with the lectures, but can only listen if logged in for free, and can only download if logged in as a paid member?

If so, how would you suggest me doing it? I had a programmer working on it using “download monitor”, php, etc., but didn’t get anywhere and I’m getting real frustrated. I want to do it myself – I’m not a programmer. Is there any simple way of doing this?

Here is a sample page, although I’m sure I’ll need to change something.

http://www.g-rafi-x.com/test2/

Thanks big time for your time and help

[amin007]

This should be pretty simple… use the section protection of eMember:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/how-to-protect-a-section-of-a-post-or-page-88

So basically you will have two sections in this page. The first section will have the embedded audio player that can play the audio in question (your free members will be able to listen to the audio), the 2nd section will have a simple link to download the actual audio file.

Your page structure will look like the following (The following example assumes that the membership level ID of free membership is 1 and the premium membership is 2… you will have to change those numbers to reflect the ones in your site):

[emember_protected for=1-2]

This is where you embed your audio player that plays the audio. Your free and premium members both can see this section.

[/emember_protected]



[emember_protected for=2]

This is where you place a link that lets your premium members download the audio file in question. This section is only visible to your premium members so only they can download the file.

[/emember_protected]

I hope that gives you the general idea of how to handle this type of scenario.

[rafishachar]

THanks, Amin. So to understand…

When you say two sections, you mean I have to have free links on one page and download links on another? Or Can I have, on one page,

Lecture 1……listen for free (flash audio player?)…….download (premium)

Lecture 2……listen for free (flash audio player?)…….download (premium)

Lecture 3……listen for free (flash audio player?)…….download (premium)

Lecture 4……listen for free (flash audio player?)…….download (premium)

and so on? It wouldnt’ work for me if I have to make separate pages because I have so many files and to update them would take too much time.

Please let me know what would be possible.

Thanks alot.

[rafishachar]

I tried setting it up like this:

<td>Lecture 1</td>

<td>[emember_protected for=3-7]

Audio test file[/emember_protected]

</td>

<td>[emember_protected for=3-6]download[/emember_protected]</td>

Where levels 3-6 are paid, and level 7 is free

I’m trying to test it but when I go into the “members” section, the list of members is empty. I should have 2 members listed. My manage members list is empty even though I really have a few members. Any idea why?

[Ivy]

Hi, What version of the eMember and WordPress are you using?

Also did you recently update the plugin and forget to do a deactivate/reactivate?

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