Automating subscription-based content access between Laravel and WordPress
A dental services client used Laravel for registration and subscription payments, while its paid content lived in WordPress. The two systems were disconnected: paying for a subscription did not automatically give a customer the right WordPress account or content access.
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The integration made Laravel the source of truth for identity and subscription status. A custom WordPress plugin received registration and payment events through a REST API, created users and assigned purpose-built Free Subscriber or Paid Subscriber roles. JWT-based single sign-on connected the login experience, with a dedicated synchronization layer handling the differences between WordPress cookies and Laravel tokens.
Customers could register and pay in Laravel, then access the WordPress content their subscription unlocked without a second login or routine manual role assignment. A Laravel reconciliation command provided a recovery path for the occasional provisioning failure, so an unsuccessful sync could be corrected for an individual user.