I had a client ask me if they could lock people out of certain pages unless they were a subscriber so it came to me today…a solution. If they are a subscriber to the blog and a feed you don’t give them access to the page unless they are logged in. They can log in unless they are subscribed.
The issue is they have user subscribed to several different blogs, hosted as separate blogs, so the trick is to see if we can consolidate
- users
- blogs
yet keep them as appearing seperate in the sense of if I end up at site 1 I may and may not care about site 2, 3, 4, etc. so they have to exist together yet seperate. The beauty of this is you get a wide swath or foot print on the web, so the web loves you or should I say google gives you some love for content. You are getting :
- constant ‘fresh’ content somewhere on your site,
- you have links to the other sites
- your site is seen as a ‘big site’
- and your other sites are seen as separate (I always mispell sep-a-rate, thank goodness for spell check) if you set up your domains correctly and they will help you in your cross links
Now the trick is:
- getting all the posts together that are currently spread out,
- get the users subscribed one place (factoring in they are using a email marketing service that has nothing to do with the blog or the site i.e. 3rd party)
I will update as to how it works.
some fun reading I will use… get user data function
