I cannot get anything to work!

I’ve installed and configured the free version and I cannot get anything to work at all. I have no clue what I’m doing wrong. The URL is http://www.itsaboutfood.com.

I read that this will work, even if the default WP settings for not allowing registrations is checked, however this is not the case. I’ve also read that you can use any WP login widget, however this is not working either.

If you click on the login widget to create an account, shouldn’t S2Member be taking me to the Membership options page? Instead it’s taking me to the WP login page, where it says that user registrations are not allowed.

Also, if I’m not logged in, and I go to the Newsletter Archives page, which is partially protected, and I click on a download which is restricted, I get an error message, instead of it taking me to the Membership Options page.

The only thing that works is clicking the Paypal button from the Membership Options page.

Can someone please help me figure out what the heck I’m doing here? I would really appreciate it. Thank you!

Okay, I figured out the download issue!

Hello Theresa,

I read that this will work, even if the default WP settings for not allowing registrations is checked, however this is not the case. I’ve also read that you can use any WP login widget, however this is not working either.

If you need to, you can deactivate free registration under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Open Registration.

If you click on the login widget to create an account, shouldn’t S2Member be taking me to the Membership options page? Instead it’s taking me to the WP login page, where it says that user registrations are not allowed.

If you don’t have the pro version of s2Member, then you can’t offer a login widget. What login widget are you using for this?

– Eduan

I know I read somewhere that you can use a standard wordpress login widget with this. Right now I’m using one called Sidebar Login and then I’ve added a text widget below that for registration, and directing people towards the Membership Options page.
The free registration is deactivated in S2Member, because membership is only required to access certain restricted content. People do not have to log in at all to view most of the content.
If I log out, then try to log in with the widget, it does log me in, so will it do this for non-admin people as well, once they’ve registered through the membership options page?
I’m thinking now that maybe I have enough work arounds that this should function properly.

Question though…..if the free version doesn’t offer any type of log in, how the heck are people supposed to log in? This makes no sense to me.

Hello Theresa,

Most themes have a login dropdown at the top of the page, or atleast a link to the http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-login?action=register.

The link I gave you above is the link used for registration.

Hope this helps. :)

Yes, that much is clear, but when you click on that link, the log in screen says “Registration is not allowed on this site”, or something to that effect, because I do not allow free registration.

Besides, isn’t the plugin supposed to direct people to the Membership Options page so they pay first?

The only way to get rid of that is to allow free registration through the plugin, but I do not want to have free users, only paid users to access specific restricted content.

As good as the plugin documentation is in so many areas, this area is lacking terribly. No where does it tell you how to direct people to the membership options page. The only way people can get there is to try to go somewhere that is restricted. This is why I have created a text link in the sidebar. That’s the only way I could think of to do it, but I want to know how the plugin is set up to do it, so I can do it properly.

Hello Theresa,

I misunderstood a little.

The login page people will use is located under http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-login.

A user without access would be redirected to the membership options page, yes, and there they will/should find a button which would allow them to pay for access, but if you don’t have the pro version of s2Member or another working login widget plugin, they would have to login to that link I gave you above.

Hope this helps. :)

So, in other words, there is no way for people to go to the registration page, without me actually hand coding a link to that page?

Would it be possible for you to point me to the place in the documentation where it discusses this please? I cannot find anything about it and I would like to read all the ins and outs of this.

So, in other words, there is no way for people to go to the registration page, without me actually hand coding a link to that page?

Yes and no. If your theme already has it, then yes, if your theme doesn’t have something as simple as that, then no.

And I’m sorry, I seemed to forget about the login widgets, s2Member does work with a recommended one:
Knowledge Base » s2Member® Login Widgets

Would it be possible for you to point me to the place in the documentation where it discusses this please? I cannot find anything about it and I would like to read all the ins and outs of this.

I’m afraid everything about login would require code. :/
You could use the following WordPress function, but it would require you to have some minor coding knowledge:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_login_form

Also, if you do use this, make sure you have a plugin like PHP Execution installed.

Hope this helps. :)

I can code it, that’s not the problem, I just prefer to not have to reinvent the wheel. Thanks for the link to the widgets, can you recommend to someone that they put that in the Quick Start for a future revision? That’s kind of a key thing right there.