Network mode 'global' membership options page?

[anointed]

During s2members setup I actually HAVE TO select a page for the members options page via the dropdown page selector.

Request:
Instead of forcing me to choose a page via the dropdown, let me input the link manually to a members options page.

Reason:
I am using WP multisite network in a sub-directory setup.
I want to create ONE members option page on my primary root blog that is used by all the sites on the network.

That way if someone visits a sub-site (root.com/sub-site/) and if that site is protected, they will be sent to (root.com/members-options-page.php), and not (root.com/sub-site/members-options-page.php)

The way s2members is setup right now, I would have to create separate members-options-page files on every single network site that I want to protect. That just makes no sense at all.

**Alternately**
Why not allow me to use a 'modal box' to input the members-options-page login fields?
That way if a person visits a protected page, they can login on that page via the modal.

That would allow the user to remain on the page they are on after login instead of having to leave the page to login and then manually return to where they were at.

[Raam Dev]

anointed,

Thank you very much for suggesting these features. I will pass on this feature request to our lead developer.

[tripleaaadelay]

I would love to see this feature.

Anointed, one thing that helps is to redirect your subdomain membership options pages and welcome page to the main site's by using a redirect plugin. Hope this helps. Check my other posts bc I'm about to post a problem I'm having related to what you're trying to do.

[anointed]

@tripleaaaintokyo
thanks for the tip. I fully understand the concept of redirecting the users subdomain membership options pages to the primary site. That is not a problem.

The problem is that each site has independent setups, so if a person registers and pays on the primary site and becomes user level 1, the subdomain site is not aware of this and it has no effect.

Scenario:
User is redirected from sub-domain site to primary site options page.
User purchases membership and becomes user level 1.
User goes back to sub-domain site and logs in.

ERROR: sub-domain site does not recognize that the user purchased a product on primary site so user is blocked acccess on sub-domain site.

See the problem?

*I could be missing something here, but I did run a number of tests all day on Christmas, and every single test failed because the sites are not 'talking' to each other sharing permissions etc.

[tripleaaadelay]

ahhh
I'm not sure about sub-domains, I installed on sub folders, but using sub folders one login is working for all installs of WP. I think sub-directories should be doing the same. Hopefully the staff can chime in. Good luck!

[anointed]

I meant to say subfolders not subdomains, but yeah, hopefully they'll chime in with a solution

[tripleaaadelay]

anointed, maybe you can try this... send all sub-folder join links to the primary link and install this plugin so when someone joins, they automatically are added to the sub-folder sites...
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mul ... anagement/

[Raam Dev]

A quick update on this: WordPress multisite networks are not designed to be interconnected. This is not a feature supported by WordPress itself. The blogs do not share data.

You can see more information on WordPress.org: Create a Network:

Do you really need a network?

The sites in a multisite network are separate, very like the separate blogs at WordPress.com. They are not interconnected like things in other kinds of networks (even though plugins can create various kinds of interconnections between the sites). If you plan on creating sites that are strongly interconnected, that share data, or share users, then a multisite network might not be the best solution.

[tripleaaadelay]

Hmmm I just realized what anointed was talking about and it looks like both him and I are in the same boat with this problem. Thanks for the insight Raam. I tried the plugin I mentioned myself and it doesn't support multiple member roles, so it's a no go if you have a more than one level of membership.

I had thought that s2Member was applying roles to all multisites, but it's not the case. Is this something that could be added? It seems the plugin mentioned above gets us half way there.

Looks like my only options are to stop using multisite or find a programmer.

anointed, what are you going to do?

[sdpotts]

I'm in the same boat...not sure what to do...

[tripleaaadelay]

sdpotts FYI,

Here are the options I've found so far..

1. Only offer one membership role and use this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mul ... anagement/

2. Get someone to customize the above mentioned plugin so it works with multiple roles

3. Don't use multi-site (This is the option I've decided on. I realized what I was doing with multi-site could just as easily be accomplished using "custom post types" in one installation of Wordpress.

4. Ask really nicely to primothemes staff to come up with a solution.

At the very least I would hope primothemes could mention this on the front end before people pay for the plugin.

[sdpotts]

Thanks tripleaaaintokyo,
I have been playing with that plugin a little and also found someone who made all user roles match up by creating a function to only check the user roles for the main site. Would that work you think?

[tripleaaadelay]

That might work... your idea is to add that guys function to the plugin I mentioned?