Thousands of legal documents

Hi,

This is a pre-sales question. Unfortunately, I do not have time to read through all of the forums and watch the videos, so let me thank you in advance for the support.

For the past 15 years, I’ve had a private document access area that is password protected through a “regular” html web site. There are a few hundred html pages that index thousands of pdf legal documents.

I want to move all of that to wordpress, so it’s responsive and readable on everyone’s iphones and other devices.

The html part is easy; and if I am understanding s2member right, I could probably move the entire directory/folder that I currently have into a directory/folder in wp-content? And then the documents will be available only to paying members?

Or alternatively, can the directory/folder that I am already using be protected with the s2member plugin? It would be on the same domain as the wordpress installation, but something like http://www.thesite.com/documents

Finally, in the directory that I am currently using before migrating over, I have numerous subfolders, based on various clients and legal cases. Do subfolders work in the protected directors within s2member?

Unless I am misreading what I’ve seen here, I think the paid version will work for what my colleagues and I need, but I thought I better check first.

Thanks again.

Are these documents confidential?

Ravi, no, but they are research materials that we don’t want the public to have for free.

The html part is easy; and if I am understanding s2member right, I could probably move the entire directory/folder that I currently have into a directory/folder in wp-content? And then the documents will be available only to paying members?

Correct: /wp-content/plugins/s2member-files/. See: Video » s2Member (File Download Options)

Or alternatively, can the directory/folder that I am already using be protected with the s2member plugin? It would be on the same domain as the wordpress installation, but something like http://www.thesite.com/documents

You could customize the directory s2Member uses for this. See: http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2729&p=8018

Finally, in the directory that I am currently using before migrating over, I have numerous subfolders, based on various clients and legal cases. Do subfolders work in the protected directors within s2member?

Yes, they do.

Unless I am misreading what I’ve seen here, I think the paid version will work for what my colleagues and I need, but I thought I better check first.

These things are possible in the free version, you may want to try that first, but it’s fine if you want to upgrade for other reasons.

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I hope that helps. :)