Yes, I'm hoping that this will eventually replace SmartDD. And I should explain what I mean by basic delivery too.

Your customers purchase via a PayPal button/link that the plugin generates for you like SmartDD. The plugin then adds them as a member, sends them an email with their login details and displays a page with links to other pages that gives them access to their purchases.

That's what I think of as basic delivery. I believe that's the stuff that most people would want to do but aren't prepared to pay for it.

What the free version of the plugin won't do is all the clever value-added stuff such as send a message to another satellite site (that might be owned by yourself or a JV partner) that then auto-adds a new member (and sends an email out etc.). Or subscription memberships with drip-fed or planned content release and all the associated gubbins that goes with that.

And so on.

What I'm hoping is that the basic free plugin will be enough for most people, with some of them upgrading to more functionality.

-Frank

Hi David,

Yes it will be released eventually. We have the core completed, together with an API for external scripts and plugins to add and remove membership groups and users and link them to pages and posts. What we don't yet have is all the admin gubbins that will allow you to do useful stuff like accepting payments (and then put the new customers into a group that give them access to the products/pages).

There's another chunk of work for that to be done, but I've put the whole thing on hold while Affiliate Click Pal is built. The way I see it, once ACP is done, then it's just a hop and a skip to add the WP membership script support.

And… I'm now beginning to think it makes more sense to just give the WP membership plugin away as a freebie to everyone with some basic PayPal support and digital delivery.

A couple of months?

-Frank