Buddypress on sub domain

[Harty]

I'm using s2member pro on my top level domain, but have now installed BP on a sub domain.
I envisage access to the BP forum via a button on my top level front page.
Is there a way to restrict access to the sub domain BP forum using s2member installed on the top level?
And to send people back to the s2member sign up page should visitors happen upon the forum section directly.

Thank you.

Harty

[Cristián Lávaque]

Sorry, not that I know. s2Member doesn't work cross-blogs, its scope is within the WordPress blog it's running in, not child/parent ones.

[Harty]

Hi and thanks for your reply.
Since making my original post, I have been able to play with bbpress and buddypress on my domain that uses s2member.
I have come to the conclusion that what I really need to do is allow my existing members access to the forum using their current login, and allow new members to simply create an account via the s2member system for access to post in the forum, either bbpress or buddypress.
I could stop using s2member for this installation, but do have some pages and files I want to restrict access to.
What I your thoughts, any best practice advice?

Thank you.

[Cristián Lávaque]

If the forum is in the same blog as s2Member, you can restrict access to it using the URI restriction. That would work for existing or new members based on their access level. WP Admin -> s2Member -> Restriction Options -> URI

Does that help?

[Harty]

It does a bit.
What i am trying to avoid is people logging in as normal, and then finding they have to create a second membership to use buddypress.

There seems to be precious little info on these two plugins working together, so maybe I am missing something...

[Cristián Lávaque]

I believe that BuddyPress registration is integrated with WordPress', so if you create a user he'll be added to the WP users table. BP just changes the registration process a little, but in the user ends up in the deafult table for users in the database. But this is all on the same blog.

If you want them to use BuddyPress in a separate blog from the one they already have the account in (e.e. the parent blog), you'll need to research how to share the userbase between blogs in a multisite network, I believe there are some results about that in Google. I can't really help with that, I'm not familiar with it.

[Harty]

Hi Cristian.
Since my original posting I have abandoned the MU set up and installed BuddyPress at my current WP / S2M site.
It looks like BuddyPress and S2M recognise each other as the buddy press 'create an account' WP page is the same at S2M's [S2M was installed first - about 6 months ago].
Maybe Jason can assist or clarify, but it does look as though WP, S2M and BuddyPress all connect and work with each other.

I'll find out for sure when the site goes live again.

I know it could be argued that I have a 'BuddyPress issue', but the lines get blurred when software integrates so closely [BP/S2M].

Once I have figured everything out I'll post back for other people to read.

Cheers.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Cool. Having everything in the same blog will make things easier.

Yes, they all work together. The users are still stored in the same default tables WordPress has for them.

s2Member and BuddyPress can be integrated from WP Admin -> s2Member -> General Options -> Registration/Profile -> Integrate BuddyPress

What is the problem you're having?

[Harty]

Hi there.
All sorted now. Wp,s2m and buddypress all working well, fully integrated.
From the perspective of an intermediate user of s2m and a total newbie of buddypress, I found very little info about integrating them.
Hopefully a new video will be created to cover this off.
Thanks for your help on this.
Cheers.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Great! Thanks for the update.

Yeah, there isn't a ton of info on that yet. Please feel free to write a mini tutorial and post it here with screenshots if you want.

[Harty]

Will do cristian.

[Cristián Lávaque]