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If you really aren’t going to be doing anything other than selling one PDF, then s2Member will be huge overkill. (And I say that as a very satisfied user.) It would be much easier to use Easy Digital Downloads which, as its name suggests, is precisely for that.

If you still decide to use s2Member (perhaps because you are thinking of doing more than just selling one PDF), you’d be much better off reorganizing your approach, so that you use s2Member’s own PayPal button, and then make the PDF file downloadable from the Login Welcome Page. (See General Options.) Note that this file should be uploaded to the folder specified in Download Options -> Basic Download Restrictions.

Whether you use EDD or s2Member, you would have no use for your HTML page at all.

The point is though, I want to use my HTML page.

Surely there would be an option to intergrate the paypal button using this plugin to verify they’ve paid?

I can’t seem to intergrate the s2members own paypal button into my HTML page as it uses PHP.

When I try and save my html page as index.php it doesn’t display the paypal button.

Both these plugins will need you to use their own buttons, because they won’t be able to communicate with PayPal otherwise. And that means those buttons will need to be on a WordPress page.

It sounds like what you really want is a SAAS, like DPD. (There are many others.) You’ll then be able to use your HTML page, but you will still need to use the service’s own PayPal button for the same reason that I have already explained.

Could I edit a wordpress page so it was just a HTML page?

You can copy and paste your HTML into a WordPress page if you use the text tab, and not the visual tab.

but it will still have the wordpress header and footer won’t it?

is it possible to get rid of those?

There isn’t a “WordPress” header and footer. It depends what theme you use as to how it all looks, including your header and footer (and, indeed, whether you have a header or footer at all). So you can change all that.

What you will not be able to change is the fact that it’s WordPress and therefore runs PHP. It will never be static HTML. As I said, if you want that, you need a SAAS.

no i’m not bothered about it being php

i just want it to be a standalone page withotut the wordpress logo or the menu bar etc etc

That’s easily doable if you know about creating a child theme. You just need to find a theme you like, create a child theme, and customize it.

If that sounds a bit daunting, then I’d recommend the Tiny Framework theme, which comes with a child theme and lots of helpful notes about customizations. And the developer is helpful too.

so what you’re saying is, my sales page would have to be the membership options page

If you use s2Member, yes. But, as I said at the beginning — and I see you got the same advice on another plugin’s forum — if all you’re planning to do is sell a PDF, then EDD really makes more sense for you.