Level 0 registration w/out PayPal

I’ve seen this question a few times in the forum but it seems people always say they’ve figured it out…and don’t bother posting the solution!

Simple blog, blocking all content unless registered. For now, I want everyone to be Level 0, free. Since there is no cost I would like to skip the PayPal screen and go directly to registration.

I created the beginner’s Membership Options page but can’t figure out how to do this. I can’t figure out how to do it with Registration Before Checkout (if that’s the way to do it) which says to make “a PayPal® Button available to Free Subscribers at Level #0” but I don’t see that option. Also could not quite figure out the code that tricks s2 by telling it the PayPal fields without actually going through PayPal.

I just want login fields to show up on the Membership Options page and allow people to register. What obvious thing am I missing? If I wanted payment I’d be able to figure this out but I feel like I’ve read through the entire site without a complete step-by-step answer.

Thanks!

I have also registered here to find an answer to mcnb’s question. Doesn’t seem to be an easily findable solution.

If you just want to have anyone register for level 0, simply allow “Open Registration” in your s2member settings. Any one who registers without going through a paypal payment is automatically set up as a level 0 user.

The registration form is the standard WP registration form found at: yoursite.com/wp-login.php?action=register

Now, if you want the membership options page to be the actual registration form, that’s not a native function of the free version of s2member. So you could add a link from your membership options page to your registration form, or you could add a small hack to s2member via their hook system to circumvent the redirection if a user clicks on a non-public page.

You could add this to your functions.php file in your theme or in a new file like s2hacks.php in the directory wp-content/mu-plugins/s2hacks.php

<?php
function dw_redirect($vars = array()){
	wp_redirect(site_url('/wp-login.php?action=register')); //This redirects to the login page.
	exit();
}

add_action("ws_plugin__s2member_before_wp_redirect_w_mop_vars","dw_redirect"); //Adds the function to the hook.
add_action("ws_plugin__s2member_before_wp_redirect_wo_mop_vars","dw_redirect"); //Adds the function to the hook.
?>

Hope that helps or points you in the right direction.

Dave

David, if I had the paid (Pro) version is there a simpler way to add the registration for to the “Members option page”?

Thanks