[wp-pro] a couple of "can Wordpress do this?" questions for the pros

[John Nasta]

Thanks for the responses. Magic Member looks like it would handle the
membership part nicely. One thing I wasn't clear about is that his premise
is that whatever amount of money you have spent on membership goes into your
account and you can spend that money on the site, so it's like the site that
pays you back. It's a good idea.

I have already told him that what he really wants is going to be very
expensive and would have to be custom but I said I would do my best to
create a demo. He says if the idea works and people join he will be more
than happy to spend more money on development. So, if anybody our there
thinks they can write this for Wordpress, please contact me.



On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I've been requested to create a directory site sort of like citysearch.com so
> that people can pick a category and then find all listings within a selected
> radius of their zip code, and display all the various locations on a map
> like Google does.
>
>
> I'm currently working on a client who have almost exactly that need, and
> WordPress 3.0 is working brilliantly for it.
>
>
> It also has to be a monthly recurring fee (that part I know there are
> plugins for) but another aspect he wants is that when you subscribe you
> create an account and you can use the money in your account to buy ads on
> the site, or have your own site within the site, etc.
>
>
> Sounds like he envisions lots of expensive custom development! :)  Still,
> what he envisions would be useful for *many* websites.
>
>
> I assume the site within the site thing can be done especially w/ the
> release of WP 3.0 although I haven't tried it yet. The trick to that one
> would be how to set up the account and deduct from it when someone uses the
> classified ads script, buys a web site, etc.
>
>
> It's all just accounting transactions.  Depends on what is used for
> membership.  MemberWing is a good one. (Full disclosure: They were a sponsor
> of our conference last month, http://www.thebusinessof.net/wordpress/
>
> -Mike
>
> On Jul 10, 2010, at 4:30 PM, John Nasta wrote:
>
> Two things that I'd like to know if anyone feels can be done with
> Wordpress. If this can be done the client will pay...
>
> I've been requested to create a directory site sort of like citysearch.comso that people can pick a category and then find all listings within a
> selected radius of their zip code, and display all the various locations on
> a map like Google does.
>
> It also has to be a monthly recurring fee (that part I know there are
> plugins for) but another aspect he wants is that when you subscribe you
> create an account and you can use the money in your account to buy ads on
> the site, or have your own site within the site, etc.
>
> I assume the site within the site thing can be done especially w/ the
> release of WP 3.0 although I haven't tried it yet. The trick to that one
> would be how to set up the account and deduct from it when someone uses the
> classified ads script, buys a web site, etc.
>
> I would like to use Wordpress because it's easy at this point for me to
> create a theme and the guy wants a back-end so that he can add and edit
> content. He has agreed to let me create a beta site without the above
> features just so he can show the idea to people but if it gets a good
> response he is going to want to add those features. I will be installing
> SimplePress, Another Wordpress Classifieds Plugin, and User Access Manager
> on the beta site.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
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