This is what I want to get.
http://www.adultsitecms.com/home

Yes, to protect your content. With MagicMembers alone, your content is still wide open for people to download, hotlink, whatever. What MagicMembers does is it lets you set up complex rules for which links Wordpress will show.

Just don't get MagicMembers for the purpose of integrating billing. There are ways to do that which are literally a thousand times simpler. If you want to do a bunch of other weird stuff, MagicMembers might make sense.

i recently wrote a paysite CMS on WP. i used the follow plugins.

add from server - so i can use ftp upload and access files outside of the web root
custom upload dir - goes along with the above... also allows me to store/manage videos outside of the apache webroot, and inside of the lighttpd webroot. as i used mod_secdownload and lighttpd for simple content security and delivery.
diamond multisite widgets - i use it as a simple way to clone posts to multiple sites on the network,. usually disabled.
front end users - to keep most users out of the wordpress part of things
gravity forms - easy to leave out, just used for form management and to store tickets and contact requests
members - used for member member flow.. attempted, active, expired, declined. this way we can treat them all differently in templates
NextGen Gallery - manages photos, after about 100k photos it tends to get kinda wonky though
post views - simple plugin to count post views
post ratings - simple post rating plugin, low on bloat.
raw html - i hate WPs formatting
relation post types - used to tie "models" to "updates"
types - used to create custom post types
wordpress MU domain mapping - domain mapping plugin.
wp-paginate - easy to manage pagination on custom page/post types
wp favorite posts - for members to manage favorites.

i also wrote a bit of custom code for allow biller integration. billers are actually quite easy, zombaio managing members in wordpress is 21 lines of php.

total cost $0. took about a day and half to write and get working. however a custom template is mandatory.

That is my plan to do...

mod_secdownload looks interesting, thanks for that tip. I found this for nginx too, maybe there's still more.
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpSecureDownload

I'd love to add this feature for my members. Would it work with strongbox?

yes it would.

Using Wordpress for a paysite would be like using a cardboard box as a safe and putting it next to a pool on a windy day.

Mutt if you don't have the funds don't open a paysite.

Your content should be the most precious thing in the world to you. Protect it and your girls with your life.

Mutt you intrigue and annoy the hell out of me.

i need wp members area setup, somebody show me a working example, preferrably with free plugins etc

+1 we did exactly the same approach, our sites avidolz.com and mycuteasian.com have one WP install (tour and member). The use of cache system (w3-total-cache) is mandatory on huge traffic sites!

see sig. both of my sites are wp.

I'm looking at their VOD offering, ClickcastX, then integrating that later on.
I believe both work with Strongbox too.

If you've used it, would love to hear your experience.

To confirm what Why said, yes. Any and plugins work fine with Strongbox. Wordpress tells the plugin what the username is. The plugins don't know or care that earlier Strongbox told Wordpress what the user name is.

The only exception would be certain plugins which themselves do authentication (log in). If the plugin logs people in based on, say, a VBulletin database, it would be expecting to handle log in and if improperly coded might not respect the fact that they have already logged in via Strongbox. Even in those cases, there are two simple solutions. Either a) simply set Strongbox to authenticate against vbulletin database, making the other plugin unnecessary, or b) fix the other plugin to check to see if they are already logged in.

does anybody know who's behind the company that does AdultSiteCMS and XClickCast?

Be careful with them. I bought it with confidence because they listed many companies and software that was compatible with AdultSiteCMS. They said that Strongbox was one of their 'partners'.

We installed it and every link in the members area broke. We asked them to fix it and they turned Strongbox off. The links worked again. After lots of emailing back and forth (and delays in responding to emails) they agreed that the current version wasn't compatible with Strongbox.

I didn't like lots of other things from a design perspective. It felt like a dumbed down version of Elevated X in terms of features and design. The standard template was ugly and you'd need to hire a designer if you wanted to change it.

It didn't feel like Wordpress at all. You couldn't even install widgets in the side bar in the version I tried.

The current version might be much better. But I'd still be very wary.

Research different WP premium themes and WP frameworks. You'll be able to read TONS of reviews instead of a handful for AdultSiteCMS

Thanks! Installed it last night and it works perfectly:)

Shit, thanks for the warning :(