Title: S2 Membership Plugin Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # S2 Membership Plugin * [LESLEYSHR1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesleyshr1/) * (@lesleyshr1) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s2-membership-plugin/) * Hi * I have a blog with just over 58,000 members, I’ve not had much luck getting any advertising on my website, but I urgently need to make the website generate some revenue, so I have been considering the S2 membership plugin, but is it too late to use now I have members, or can I still use it and how would I do this/ Any help or advice you can give me would be very much appreciated. * Thanks * sharon * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [KTS915](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kts915/) * (@kts915) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s2-membership-plugin/#post-5469060) * It’s never too late! * You could certainly use s2member on this site. But there are many alternative options so, before I make any suggestions, it would be better to hear what sort of thing you would like to accomplish. Then I (and others) can focus on what would be most helpful to you. * Thread Starter [LESLEYSHR1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesleyshr1/) * (@lesleyshr1) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s2-membership-plugin/#post-5469185) * Hi * Thanks for your response. * I want to make money from the website and originally thought that advertising would be the answer but I’ve not got any companies to place ads on there. So as an alternative way of making money I was thinking about the S2 plugin and charging a small amount per month, with the hope more members will join and more members, obviously would make more money and they might be happy to pay a small amount. It’s really a Buddypress website, but I don’t want to alienate members by asking them to pay, or if administering the accounts and/or people wanting to end their membership made too much work for just one person, as it is just me running it, then that could be a problem. * Thanks * Sharon * [KTS915](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kts915/) * (@kts915) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s2-membership-plugin/#post-5469190) * OK. The purpose of my question was to try to work out how best to automate what you want so that it is easy to manage and profitable. * But I can’t really work out from your response how you plan to make money if you aren’t going to be charging your users. Are you saying that you only want to charge new users, or that you want to charge only for new content (so that even current users would pay for new content)? Or are you saying something else entirely? * And can we have an idea of what your site is about? That would also help to work out how to organize things. * Thread Starter [LESLEYSHR1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesleyshr1/) * (@lesleyshr1) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s2-membership-plugin/#post-5469229) * Hi * Thanks for your reply and sorry if I have been unclear. * My website, was originally intended to be a review website for disabled people to review shops, goods, services, etc with regards to accessibilty and service and so forth, but no one put anything on there so I added the Buddypress plugin and then people started joining. Now I have over 58,000 members. They chat and form groups about everything from vouchers to shopping to practical consumer tips. I would like existing as well as new members to pay a reasonable amount each per month. * I am grateful for any help you can give. * Thanks * Sharon * [KTS915](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kts915/) * (@kts915) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s2-membership-plugin/#post-5469230) * That’s a coincidence; I’m just listening to Ian Dury. * As for your site, the tricky bit is working out how to get your members to pay without immediately locking them out of everything that they are used to accessing. * I suggest something like this. First, decide which parts of your current site you are happy for the current members to access, and which parts you now want them to pay for. It will be easier to achieve this division if you can divide the content by categories, tags, or URIs. (If you do this by category, it will be much easier if you also install the WP Show IDs plugin, because that will tell you the ID number of each category). * Then decide if there’s any current content that you would like to make available for free even to new members. If not, you should turn off Open Registration ( under General Options). * If you do wish to offer some content for free, then you simply don’t need to do anything with it. * For content that you are happy for current members to view, you need to set that at level 1. Content that even current members must pay for should be set to level 2. * Next, you need to decide what will be your home page. I assume you’ll be keeping this as it currently is, but you must not put any content you wish to protect on the home page because this must be accessible by anyone, even if they are not logged in. * Then you need to decide on which page to direct members to when they log in. s2Member calls it the Welcome page, though you can actually choose any page as the Welcome page. You can have different Welcome pages for level 1 and level 2 users (and, indeed, for free users, if you choose to have them). In the box headed `Always redirect non-administrative users ...` choose Yes. * Next, you need to create what s2Member calls the Membership Options Page (MOP). You need to read the instructions (in General Options) on how to do this. But basically this is the page to which anyone who is not logged in or who is not at the right level gets redirected. You can put different messages here within shortcodes, offering users the ability to pay for access. So you’d put PayPal buttons here too. * But: a word of warning! Don’t tell s2Member what your MOP is yet. If you do, you’ll lock everyone out! * The next bit is a bit tedious. You need to use s2Member’s export feature to export your list of users to a CSV file. Make a backup copy! * Now take one copy of this file and change your members’ user role from Subscriber to s2member level 1. It will be much easier to do this in bulk using LibreOffice Calc (or MS Excel, if you must) than changing all 58,000 by hand within WordPress! * Check that you haven’t changed your own role! * Then reimport your file back into WordPress. You should now see all the members with the correct roles. * Now you should put a message on your home page that all current users should go to the Lost Password location to have a password sent to them. And now you can select your MOP, which will bring s2Member to life! * Good luck! * Thread Starter [LESLEYSHR1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesleyshr1/) * (@lesleyshr1) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s2-membership-plugin/#post-5469231) * Hi * Thanks for your help and for getting back to me so quickly. * I will give it a try, but if I get stuck I may ask for your help again, if you don’t mind. * Thanks again * Sharon Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘S2 Membership Plugin’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/s2member/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=980067) * [s2Member – Excellent for All Kinds of Memberships, Content Restriction Paywalls & Member Access Subscriptions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/s2member/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/s2member/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/s2member/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/s2member/reviews/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [LESLEYSHR1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesleyshr1/) * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s2-membership-plugin/#post-5469231) * Status: not resolved