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Food & Community Platform
Custom membership and access control for food community platform.
A pair of connected food community platforms in Thailand, bringing together restaurant reviews, food guides, and event listings, needed a membership system that could gate premium content, manage subscriber tiers, and handle access control across both platforms — all within their existing WordPress infrastructure.
The existing setup had no paywall capability. All content was public, and there was no mechanism to offer exclusive content to paying members or manage different access levels.
Membership architecture built on WordPress with custom access control logic:
Payment and billing handles the subscription lifecycle:
Member dashboard gives subscribers control over their account:
The membership system launched smoothly and gave both platforms a revenue stream beyond advertising. Premium content sign-ups exceeded initial projections in the first quarter, and the cross-platform single-membership approach simplified the user experience while increasing the perceived value of subscribing.