Great, thanks for this.
I’m just going through them now. Quick question: I can’t seem to located mu-plugins… I’m obviously missing something :-/
Right, so based on this, I think I’m best setting up the paypal pro form as the only place on the frontend that a user can ‘register’ for the service. After completing the form and completing payment, I would them to be sent through a couple of pages I’ll set up before landing in the ‘edit profile’ page, for them to conclude in updating their profile. It seems I’ll be able to set this up by using the paypal form shortcode as you suggest. Great.
So if this is the case, I would then basically just like to remove access to wp-login.php, which your above suggestion should hopefully resolve. /wp-login.php?action=register’ which actually I’ve sorted (although I can’t remember how), but it auto redirects the user to the /register page. And the /wp-login.php?action=lostpassword page, which I actually don’t mind too much unless there is an easy way to bring that into the main site.
So my problems right now then are the following.
1. the /register page is currently the buddypress and themes custom page which currently populates strangely and shows both ‘profile fields’ and s2’s profile fields, would need to be the paypal pro form. So I suppose i’m after complete turning off registration through buddypress? to free up this page for the pro form?
2. I need to understand where and how I would create all the profile fields for the users to show in their edit profile section, and understand how I would select a which ones are to show up in the pro form… which then auto updates their profile.
Urgh, I hope all this makes sense… I really am kinda going round in circles with this and feel like I’ve probably got lost… :-/
thanks for the help