Installing on to live blog

Hey, Great product.

My question is as follows :

I have an existing wordpress blog with in excess of 20,000 subscribers and around 200 or so paid subscribers (paypal) via a now unsupported free membership plugin that my previous developer used.

can you provide any advice on what happens to those users accounts if i were to install s2member (either free or pro versions). Ideally i would like to maintain their integrity without impact to those users.

Thanks

Hi Tim,

s2Member uses the WordPress user-base and creates new WordPress Roles (e.g., “Level 1”, “Level 2”, etc.) that you can assign to WordPress users. When someone signs up through the s2Member plugin, they get a WordPress account with a specific role (i.e., Level).

So, if all your existing users are WordPress users, you could install the s2Member plugin and nothing would happen to them (s2Member doesn’t change or do anything to existing WordPress users). You could then migrate some or all of your users to s2Member by changing their roles, either manually by editing their profile and selecting a new role, or by using the s2Member Pro Import/Export feature and creating a CSV file with all the modified data.

If your old membership software does not store users in the WordPress user-base, then you’ll need to export those users and build a CSV file to import them into s2Member.

In either case, please see How to Migrate to s2Member Pro from Other Software for more information. If you have any other questions, please let us know.