Athenian Social Users Core
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Athenian Social Users Core acts as the shared social identity foundation for Athenian WordPress experiences with profiles, person records, follows, messaging, uploads, and monetization hooks. It helps teams connect customer, creator, contributor, and community identity across commerce, media, and marketplace workflows while keeping data, permissions, and automation aligned with the broader Athenian Platform Ecosystem.
Athenian Social Users Core is the shared social identity and interaction layer for Athenian-powered WordPress and WooCommerce platforms. It expands standard WordPress user accounts into a structured foundation for canonical person records, social profiles, creator metadata, follow relationships, private messages, alerts, user uploads, premium media pricing, media unlocks, WooCommerce account surfaces, and REST API access.
Instead of forcing each plugin to manage its own profile fields, messaging system, creator records, upload handling, media permissions, or customer identity logic, ASU Core provides one reusable social identity model. It maps WordPress users to canonical ath_person records that can represent customers, creators, members, vendors, technicians, staff, service providers, students, or other platform participants.
The plugin is designed for creator marketplaces, member communities, service-provider directories, social commerce experiences, customer portals, and headless or app-based frontends. It supports profile editing, avatar and cover uploads, creator discovery, follows, direct messaging, notifications, locked media, credit-based unlocks, person scoring, geolocation, WooCommerce customer sync, account dashboard cards, and extensible REST endpoints.
For the broader Athenian ecosystem, Athenian Social Users Core acts as the identity, relationship, communication, and media-access foundation that other modules can build on. It creates a consistent platform layer for people, profiles, trust, messages, alerts, credits, payouts, creator content, and future marketplace features without rebuilding the same user systems in every plugin.
How Athenian Social Users Core fits the Athenian Platform
Platform role: Athenian Social Users Core is a focused capability in the Cart, Checkout & Customer Service and Vendor, Marketplace & Multi-Party Commerce layer. Its primary scope covers Creator & Affiliate Marketplaces and Order Self-Service & Support while remaining composable with the other modules an implementation actually requires.
Connected scope: Athenian Social Users Core is designed to work inside a WordPress and WooCommerce operating environment where storefront, customer, order, identity, payment, fulfillment, automation, and reporting context can remain connected across relevant modules instead of being trapped in isolated add-ons.
From module to operating platform: Athenian Brands organizes the ecosystem in four connected layers: Platform Kernel and Platform Core foundations; focused capability plugins; implementation and integration services; and operating brands such as PrintGhost.ai, Athenian Marketplace, Athenian Academy, and Athenian Unÿa that apply the same patterns to real business workflows.
Social Identity
Turn WordPress Users Into Structured Platform People
Athenian Social Users Core creates canonical Person records that connect
WordPress users, WooCommerce customers, creator profiles, contact data,
addresses, geolocation, and extensible platform metadata.
| Identity Layer | Platform Value |
|---|---|
| Person Records | Map users to reusable ath_person records for cross-plugin identity. |
| Profile Fields | Manage display name, bio, location, website, social links, avatar, and cover image. |
| Creator Metadata | Support creator flags, creator taglines, discovery surfaces, and future monetization workflows. |
| Woo Sync | Mirror customer contact, billing, shipping, and address data into structured Person records. |
- Create one shared identity model for customers, creators, members, vendors, staff, and providers.
- Use the custom People editor for richer admin identity management.
- Expose profile and person data through shortcodes, WooCommerce account pages, and REST endpoints.
- Extend Person metadata with custom fields, tabs, panels, and platform-specific integrations.
Community Tools
Add Social Graph, Messaging, Notifications, and Account Access
ASU Core gives Athenian sites reusable social interaction services for follows,
private messages, alerts, unread counts, dashboard cards, account endpoints,
and shortcode-driven frontend experiences.
User-to-user follow relationships for creators, members, providers, and communities
Private threads, message history, read tracking, privacy rules, and rate limits
Notification records with source, type, severity, entity, URL, and unread status
| Surface | How It Helps |
|---|---|
| Shortcodes | Render profile, dashboard, inbox, alerts, notifications, and creator grid interfaces. |
| Woo Account | Add social profile, messages, notifications, and dashboard cards to customer accounts. |
| Privacy Rules | Control messaging access by all users, followers, no one, replies, or custom context filters. |
| Header Counts | Expose unread alert and message counts for theme or dashboard integrations. |
- Use dedicated database tables for follows, threads, messages, and alerts.
- Support creator marketplaces, member communities, service directories, and social commerce.
- Give users a richer account experience without sending them into wp-admin.
- Let downstream plugins add marketplace-specific messaging and alert context.
Platform APIs
Power Creator Media, Credit Unlocks, Scoring, and Headless Access
ASU Core includes media ownership, locked content, credit-aware unlock tracking,
person scoring, geolocation hooks, payout and credit provider integrations,
and a stable REST namespace for frontend and app-based experiences.
| Platform Layer | Operational Value |
|---|---|
| Media Access | Track media ownership, locked state, credit price, unlock history, and guarded access. |
| Credits & Payouts | Integrate with Athenian credit providers and OwlPay-style payout account snapshots. |
| Person Score | Store trust, risk, payment readiness, score summaries, and WooCommerce event-based evidence. |
| REST API | Expose profiles, people, follows, messages, alerts, uploads, media, and unlock workflows. |
Reusable social infrastructure:
ASU Core gives Athenian plugins one identity, communication, media,
scoring, credit, and API foundation so creator, community, marketplace,
and commerce modules can build on shared platform behavior.
- Support paid creator galleries, premium downloads, and credit-based media unlocks.
- Use filters for credit balances, credit spending, transfers, media access, and creator content gates.
- Refresh trust and payment-readiness scores from WooCommerce order lifecycle events.
- Provide app, headless, shortcode, and dashboard consumers with stable
/asu/v1REST routes.