Ideas to create custom member content automatically

  • amhinson

    (@amhinson)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    I run a percussion instruction membership website. For each student, I give them a personalized “practice sheet” on the website that is updated automatically based on what exercise/tempo they mark as complete. Currently, here is how I am achieving this:

    – I have a master Google Sheets document that contains all of the exercises and formulas that create the “practice sheet” on a different sheet, and there is also a Google Form attached to it for submission.
    – When a member signs up through Paid Membership Pro, I have the “User Pages” add-on to create a page just for that user with some generic content.
    – I then go in and create a new Google Sheet/Form from the master and then embed their unique form and practice sheet onto their user page so that they can submit the exercise/tempo and it will automatically show on the practice sheet on the same page once it is submitted.

    Obviously this is not a sustainable practice if I want the website to grow.
    I’m just looking for some general ideas of how I could use the database in WordPress instead of Google Sheets, and also how I could create just one page that all members would go to and it would only show their information. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Aubrey Portwood

    (@aubreypwd)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    The part that confuses me is, “I then go in and create a new Google Sheet/Form from the master and then embed their unique form and practice sheet onto their user page so that they can submit the exercise/tempo”

    If this form is unique to them, you’ll have to create this form every time anyways correct? I’ve worked with a farmer who does a similar thing where each farmer he works with gets a custom form for submitting data unique to their form and he has personally found Gravity Forms to be a better solution.

    What does the user see once they submit their form? What is on this practice page? Because if you need the user to see the entries, Gravity Forms may not be the best route.

    If the form is unique to the user only in that the form is the SAME but only that user can submit to it, there may be a way to hook into Paid Membership Pro/User Pages that can embed a Gravity Form on their page with a hidden field called “user” with the logged in user pre-populated. This way the same forum is submitted, but a different user is set for each submission each time, if that makes sense.

    Gravity Forms, however, as I mentioned, does not allow the user to see the entries, just submit an entry.

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