Possible to send sale to subfolder install? Multi-site?

[adriarichards]

Hey s2member folks!

I've been happily using the PRO VERSION of s2member for a few months now which I purchased in January and it's fantastic compared to some, ahem *unnamed* membership plugins for Wordpress I've purchased.

My question is the following:

I tried putting pro forms on my main website that had been generated from the subdomain site. This didn't work. The reason would be to maintain a uniform checkout experience.

The sites are:
http://freshworkshops.com
http://freshworkshops.com/members

I decided to separate my main product site which focuses on marketing the membership from the actual site for three reasons:

• I change the primary site more often in terms of theme design
• Security separating mebership/SSL/registrations from main domain
• Performance as more members join

I first had the membership site on a subdomain but moved it to a subfolder in February.


Thoughts & ideas?

This week I thought about installing both sites into the same db (with or without multi-site activated) maybe this workflow could be successful.

Thanks!
Adria

[adriarichards]

I'm still waiting for a reply.

Disappointed to see 10+ questions after mine replied to even though I've paid for the Pro version and followed the forum rule of helping others before posting a question of my own http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1100

Hoping to hear back on this.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Hi Adria.

I read your post earlier, but I didn't get what the question was, so I thought I'd give it a second look later, which I'm doing now.

Let me see if I got it right: you have a separate blog for the membership under /members/ to have more independence between the two blogs: design freedom in the primary one, performance from members won't affect the other (how if they're on the same server?) and separating SSL used in members from primary blog.

I think that what you're trying to do is fine, but I'm not sure what you're having trouble with, if you are. Could you explain? I'm sorry I missed it, I'm a bit tired.

[adriarichards]

Cristián,

Thanks for the reply!

Goal = have people purchase memberships and products from the primary domain but run the membership site from the subfolder install.

(For performance, I mean in terms of the number of plugins and size of the database from content and users).

The problem I seemed to have was that I couldn't use forms generated from the subfolder install but place them on the main domain with the purpose being the main feature promoted with a s2member Pro plugin - Pro forms allow for a seamless checkout experience.

The form would be there but the account wouldn't be created in the subfolder install.

I'm asking if a multi-site license or installing them into the same DB with different prefixes would make this work.

Thanks!

[Cristián Lávaque]

Oooh OK. That makes it much clearer. Thanks for explaining it.

Multisite wouldn't help you because the child blog would have a new instance of s2Member with its own scope, not the same one as the parent one, and would also have some reduced functionality.

If you want to use buttons, you can generate them in the members blog and use them in either one, as long as the PayPal settings have the URLs pointing to the members blog. I'm pretty sure that'd work, why don't you try it?

The same may be true with pro-forms. Well, if you're using pro-forms you could just have the registration form in the members blog, why would that be a problem? It's the same website, the user would see the registration page being at /members/register for example, that seems fine.

Let me know if that helps.