Membership Plugin Compatibility?

I am using s2member, and that seems to work well with GD.
I am still to implement a few changes which are just done from the WP admin, and I do not use all the functionalities of s2member, but these are my findings so far:

• GD does not come with a profile page, but s2member comes with a profile page, where all users including GD users can change their password. I just need to link to it from somewhere.
• As far as I gather, GD will provide a “change password” function sometime, which I assume might be integrated with their “my favorites” page which is a page like this: mysite.com/author/username/?geodir_dashbord
• From what I understand (which might not be much), integrating GD with any other plugin that has its own registration function, would need some backend coding (outside my league). A GD plugin could be written to integrate either iMember360 or s2member using info at https://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/api_functions/package-summary/ for example;
• or either iMember360 or s2member can write a plugin to integrate with GD, or of course anybody else clever enough could have a go 🙂

For the time being, I am working my way around it by providing links and explanations to users.

Thanks for that info, Paolo.
From my limited knowledge, here are a few additional points:

• Membership registration plugins use different custom roles for the membership levels.
• Membership registration pages usually want more info from users than GD; Name etc
• I guess that GD uses the author role or something similar.
• So all it needs maybe is for the registration and login links to go to the membership plugin pages, and for the GD author role to be able to be assigned to one of the lower membership levels.
• More than basic coding is not my forte, but I’d be happy to work with Vikas to get something working on my test site, whenever he is ready for it.

Hi Bobby
I think all the developers are very busy trying to get the main stuff running optimal.
In the meantime, I have got everything to work with s2member without changing any of the plugin coding (that usually gives too much trouble in the future).

I have removed all the links to the GD login/register pages
I use the http://wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-login/ plugin as a replacement for the GD login widget, this allows users to interact direct with s2member instead of GD
s2member has a profile page, for which I set up a special template and then added
<?php dynamic_sidebar(‘geodir_author_right_sidebar’);?>
to the sidebar of the profile page, so that is how I integrated the My favorites and My events etc
I have removed the GD “add listing” from the main menu, and replaced it with a link to the profile page; this sends users to s2member and will have to login first
From their profile page, they then have all the GD links like add, edit, favorites etc.
I don’t know whether this can work with other membership plugins but I guess there might be a simple solution; you got to think outside the box.

It looks like iMember has heaps of shortcodes ready, which you could use to replace the GD login widgets. But we can always just be patient 🙂

Without being able to have a play and look at your files, I don’t really know.
But every theme uses PHP pages, and you can find them at WP admin > appearance > editor. I would think that once you create a Ultimatum template, that is where it goes.
Using a widget, you still would need a separate template for your profile page, or the widget will be on your other pages too?
You should be able to use http://wordpress.org/plugins/php-code-widget/ but exactly how might require a bit of experimentation …

PS: I am no expert but have learned a fair bit over the years mainly from fixing my own mistakes, advice given at your own peril 🙂

what is the solution here Vikas?

I was under the impression that we had a function to override login and registration page if needed.

Please follow up.

Thx

Hello, I’ve the same problem.
How a user with editor roe can access to the native dashboard of wordpress ??
It’s a real problem for my customer who needs to access other sections… How can I solve this please ?
Thanks in advance for your anwer.