Multisite and Headway 3 theme

My main site is multisite with numerous blogs all owned by me and I’d like members to be able to access protected content on ALL blogs. Is this possible?

And I’m planning to use Headway 3 for most of my blogs as theme, do you know whether it is compatible with S2?

Thanks,

Christine

• This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by  Christine Baker.

Hi Christine,

While s2Member is compatible with WordPress Multisite Networking, the sites within a WordPress network are separate and not interconnected. That means you cannot share users, logins, or other data across the sites (including access control).

Please see the following from WordPress.org:

The sites in a multisite network are separate, very like the separate blogs at WordPress.com. They are not interconnected like things in other kinds of networks (even though plugins can create various kinds of interconnections between the sites). If you plan on creating sites that are strongly interconnected, that share data, or share users, then a multisite network might not be the best solution.

The s2Member Multisite feature allows you to offer the s2Member plugin to sub-sites, giving your sub-sites the ability to setup and use s2Member on their own. When you upgrade s2Member on the primary site, the s2Member plugin is automatically updated for all your sub-sites. However, things like access restrictions on one WP installation are not shared across WP installations (again, the WordPress Multisite feature itself isn’t designed to work like that).

There are plugins that allow you to get around these WordPress Multisite limitations, however they may or may not work with s2Member.

Regarding the Headway theme: You should have no problems using s2Member with the Headway theme, but we recommend installing and using the free version with the theme just to be sure.

Thanks!

I’ll have to try to find a plugin but am really busy and if anyone knows of one that works with s2Member, please let me know.

Christine