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hi Folks. I need S2 to be integrated with simple forums. just simple. person registers and subscribes, then given a certain user level in the forums (which are on a different blog, same network). is this possible, easy? probable?

Yes it is possible as long as you customize it correctly.
I'm not sure if it's easy as I have never done it but I think it's hard as you need to know your way around Wordpress and HTML. Though maybe it's easier than I think .

Well, s2Member in a multisite network, will not work across the blogs in it. Each blog will have a separate instance of s2Member, independent of the others. So you can't have an access restriction from one blog to work on another one.

actually, you can. I have a multisite installationa and I control all access to materials through a single blog. all a user has to do is login to the current site to have the appropriate permissions replied

ask me how I do it. haha

lol nice.

Had to do some customization?

actually, you can. I have a multisite installationa and I control all access to materials through a single blog. all a user has to do is login to the current site to have the appropriate permissions replied

ask me how I do it. haha

OK, I´m asking! This is what I need. We are making a course website, multisite WP and instead of having all the different courses on one site we want to have each course on a subdomain, accessible as a additional purchase (using Custom Capabilities) independent of membership level and for one level all those courses included. Problem is to handle users across the network so they don´t have to re-register or re-log in to access those sub-domains they have the right to view.

They will have no rights to create their own blogs so the blogfram solution is not applicable and also doesn´t handle users across the network if I understand correctly.

What´s the (stable!) workaround for this?

Been testing so far 4 plug-ins with no good result

s1r0n wrote:actually, you can. I have a multisite installationa and I control all access to materials through a single blog. all a user has to do is login to the current site to have the appropriate permissions replied

ask me how I do it. haha

Great you found a solution, but what is the point of your post?

the point of my post was to ask if if was possible to integrate s2 wit simpleforums. the point of the other post was to say I know a way to control access to content. i don't have a solution to the simpleforums problem.

Hi s1r0n,

If what you refer to as "simple forums" is Simple:Press, then I have had some success on development, and according to This post: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14128#p34054 other people too.

So if you have manage to integrate the membership across the multisite install, there should not be any problem assigning roles to access levels in Simple:press then...

It looks to me it would help if you provide more information on what you have accomplished and what exact forum you want to integrate.

And yes, I would also love to know too how you accomplished the multisite installation with access control from only one blog.

s1r0n-

I've been struggling with the same problem as helenwlee...created a paid fishing club site for students, with each chapter having it's own subdomain. I need the kids to be able to have the same access on the subdomain that they do after registering and paying on the main site through s2m.

Please help!!!

-Thomas