How to return to page user subscribed from?

Hi
I am giving S2 a serious look over before I go live. Am very very impressed, but stuck on one UI thing that really matters.

I would like members to see an article on my website, click on it, be able to subscribe AND return to the original page they were looking at. However I cannot work out how to do this. They always get to the “Welcome page”.

I don’t want the user to think, “That is a great article”, subscribe, land on an entirely different page and then have to work out how to navigate back to the article they first found.

I want them to find an article, say that is great, register for free and return so they can download the article, with the minimal of hassle. (Of course i have loads of posts, pages and PDF downloads that this applies to).

Solutions and Ideas please?

So far I have been looking for one or two solutions:

Preferably…
a) a way to subscribe simply by popping up the registration page as a pop-up window, which closes when they are registered (but I can’t find a way to do that).

or an alternative…
b) Somehow fing an API or shortcut that re-points the user back at the page from which they first subscribed, (which would perhaps be embedded in teh “Welcome page”). But again I can’t find out how to do that.

But have found neither. So am stuck. Please help…..

Thanks in advance

Phil

Are you doing paid subscriptions, free subscriptions or both?

Dave

Hi David,

I am doing free membership. In essence I want to lock down content so people only download my PDFs/videos and some wordpress pages and posts IF they give me their email and details first.

Later I would like to (possibly) offer paid members , but certainly paying for specific product. More likely, pay for specific products.

I am curious how this alters your answer.

Thanks,

Phil

If the modal registration form is not something that will work, then you will have to custom code your return to the page using a hook in the s2member processing.

If you are selling memberships, you will need to send that page_id through the paypal system instead of just through the registration system, so it’s a slightly different process depending on how you need to use it.

I’ll check on the modal option and get back with you. Otherwise, the only way I can think to do it is to hook into the registration processing routines to redirect to the page they were on.

Dave

I don’t think a registration page modal will work because it doesn’t send the form processing through ajax.

However, I was thinking. There is no reason why you can’t just open the registration form in a new window or even a pop-up. That way they can keep the article open and also register.

The only reason I could see that this wouldn’t work would be if you are only giving them partial access to the article and you want them to have full access to the article they were reading after they register.

If that is the case, I think you will have to go the custom hook redirection (which means you may have to also have them log in after registering so the system will know they should have access to the info.

Hope that helps,

Dave

Thanks David. I get the impression that your thinking evolved as you wrote the post (It happens to me also).

My plan was to put the “tempter/taster” as text next to the pdf and only allow access to the PDF is they were registered/logged-in. So it should be relatively straight forward.

So, I think you are saying (in the latter paragraph) I could, in this circumstance, open the form in a (new window or) pop-up, or a modal-form. That is great.

(Now I just need to know how!)

However, what is your concern in the first sentence that I could not do a modal-form “because it does not send the form though ajax”?

I quite like the idea of a modal form. Does your thought still stand? What is the problem?

Thanks

Phil