My ghost site is intended to support our club. We need to have three levels of signed up members to the ghost site with a hierarchy of access to posts. The levels would be 1. Club members. 2. trusted signed up visitors. 3. Other registered visitors and of course 4. public - i.e. not signed up at all. Access to posts will be level 1 get access to all posts, going down to level 4 who gets access the least number of posts. I presume that I can achieve this hierarchy of access by having tiers, however I do not want to charge club members or registered visitors, and would start them up by signing up and me setting their tier level manually. Can I do this, it appears that tiers can only be allocated by having it done by paid sign ups?
I have solved this by having three hierarchical membership levels (bronze, silver and gold) and giving complimentary memberships to the various members who qualify.
Wytham, how do you give the membershops out? Can you add them to people who have already signed up for free?
Yes. Just select the member you want on the members page. Go down to Subscriptions and then add a complimentary subscription. I set the duration to “forever” so they don’t get asked to buy or renew the subscription. In Tiers on the settings page you can create the tiers and you will have to put a price on them (I put $1/month) and then 10,000 days free!