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Discussion in 'Templates customization' started by shields, Feb 2, 2009.

  1. shields

    shields New Member

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    Does anyone know of amember templates which one can purchase or which are free? Thanks
  2. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    I have the revolution theme - amember versions, but they are only sold to my premium members.

    David
  3. codeispoetry

    codeispoetry aMember Pro Customer

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    Hi shields,

    Are you looking at Wordpress-style templates? If yes, you might want to give me an email codeispoetry [at] amemberincremental.com

    Lee
  4. jodarl

    jodarl New Member

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    Hi Lee,

    Can you please explain what's "Walled Garden with Pretty Permalinks". Looked at your website but I still cannot understand what it is. Sorry. Any screenshot examples of how it'll look like?
    Thanks.

    Francis
  5. miso

    miso aMember Pro Customer

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    hmm, no.

    wordpress templates that work with amember, however, that's a different story - almost any wordpress template can be integrated into amember ;)
  6. codeispoetry

    codeispoetry aMember Pro Customer

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    Hi jodarl,

    "Walled Garden" is a concept where the wordpress setup is completely protected - that means your members need to login before they can see the content in Wordpress.

    The case with "Walled Garden" is, you are unable to have pretty permalinks (e.g. www.yoursite.com/category/descriptive-title). That means, you will end up with the default links (i.e. www.yoursite.com/?p=12345).

    If you would like to have the best of both worlds, Walled Garden + pretty permalinks, then the solution is the Walled Garden plugin I have on my website.

    Hope that helps :)

    Lee
  7. miso

    miso aMember Pro Customer

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    really? how are you unable to have pretty permalinks?

    I just remember installing a wordpress under amember folder for amember users only and there was no problem with pretty permalinks at all... but then again, I guess it depends how and where you install wordpress inside amember, right?
  8. codeispoetry

    codeispoetry aMember Pro Customer

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    Hi miso,

    In WP's case, as long as you have pretty permalinks activated, you can't use aMember to protect the WP folder, and therefore can't have pretty permalinks for the WP setup.

    Lee
  9. miso

    miso aMember Pro Customer

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    right, because the .htaccess files would clash/overwrite... might even get corrupted with all the overwriting.

    but, what if you install wordpress and amember in the same folder?

    because wordpress files/folders all have "wp-" prefix and would not clash with amember files/folders, except for index.php... and what I've done in the past is remove the amember's index.php in favor of wordpress one (which is required for pretty permalinks anyway)...

    And then from there on, you drop in a wp plugin for amember, get that members-only plugin for wordpress, and voila - wordpress cannot be accessed without being logged in, and all logins/registration is done through amember ;)
  10. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    I wouldnt do this, would get very messy in there!
    It would only become a walled garden after you place the folder protection in the wordpress directory- which would now be amember too- so you would be caught in a cant login loop.

    David
  11. codeispoetry

    codeispoetry aMember Pro Customer

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    I agree with David on this - I wouldn't want to put WP and aMember in the same folder. It may not have clashes today but we wouldn't know what happens in future upgrades (files may have the same name?) or if additional features/plugins are installed.

    This also applies to other software too, like Joomla vs aMember, or some other software.

    Lee

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