A few questions before upgrading

Hi,

we have installed the free plugin on our existing site (not yet launched), and started to play with the settings to check of this is what we are after before upgrading to Pro. In that process, we have a few questions we hope to get answered:

1) We have noticed that registered/payed members have access/uses the control panel (top-bar for accessing, and the custom profile setting page for editing details). Is it possible to set up the plugin so that the members will never interact with those? Similar to http://www.s2member.com/profile/ and http://www.s2member.com/account/ here on these pages…

2) Is it possible to give the members each their own page/URL for their profiles? E.g http://www.s2member.com/profile/member1, http://www.s2member.com/profile/member2 etc…?

3) Is it possible to customize the PayPal buttons to fit the webpage better? They do not really match our background color too well.

4) Is it possible to have members to upload x amounts of documents as part of their profile (for admins to review and verify)?

The plugin looks promising, so we are looking forward to discover more of its features

• This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by  kvitso.

Hello,

1) We have noticed that registered/payed members have access/uses the control panel (top-bar for accessing, and the custom profile setting page for editing details). Is it possible to set up the plugin so that the members will never interact with those? Similar to http://www.s2member.com/profile/ and http://www.s2member.com/account/ here on these pages…

Yes, this is possible. Please see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Member Profile Modifications -> Redirect Members away from the Default Profile Panel?. Also, if you want to disable the admin bar at the top entirely, please seethis thread.

2) Is it possible to give the members each their own page/URL for their profiles? E.g http://www.s2member.com/profile/member1, http://www.s2member.com/profile/member2 etc…?

Yes, please see this video.

3) Is it possible to customize the PayPal buttons to fit the webpage better? They do not really match our background color too well.

If you’re using the PayPal buttons, you can simply output those buttons as links and then create your own buttons that link to the PayPal links. To output an s2Member-generated PayPal button as a link, you’ll need to change the output= attribute. Please see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained) for more details.

4) Is it possible to have members to upload x amounts of documents as part of their profile (for admins to review and verify)?

s2Member does not currently provide a file-upload feature. You’d need to find a 3rd-party plugin that integrates with your setup to provide this functionality.

Thanks for the replies.

Regarding #2: Manually creating a page per member, setting up the custom capabilities and linking them together will be alot of work with a site with 1000s of members. We were looking for something that automated this. Is it so that s2members does not allow us that kind of feature?

An update after some research: Can the BuddyPress plugin for WordPress be used for this, together with s2members? Are they compatible with eachother? Does it matter which order they are installed in, or is there any other precautions that needs to be taken?

Hello,

Yes, s2Member and BuddyPress are compatible. It doesn’t matter which you install first. Please see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions for more information on integration with BuddyPress.