Levels, renew and coupon…

Hello!

We are migrating from vBulletin + WP + aMember to WP + bbPress + s2Member. So far we’ve migrated everything, but we need to understand how to configure s2Member to manage the members as we have been doing in the past years.

Problem #1:

We have 2 old membership prices that we have offered with lifetime renewal, which means that they don’t pay the recent price in renewals. In aMember, the specific membership was expired, but saved. In s2Member the user goes to level #0 and nothing is saved so he can renew in the old price.

How can we do that? Through coupons? Is is possible to configure permanent and reusable coupons (no expiration) so we can just send them the right coupon for future renewals? They can be used more than once?

Problem #2:

We have different content (forums, subforums, topics, posts and pages) for men and for women. Men are not supposed to find content for women. And women are not supposed to find content for men. So the s2Member Level system (which is hierarchical) does not help for this restriction by type.

How can we use custom capabilities to restrict new topics created in the women area, for example, without doing it one by one. Is it possible to do? Is there a sample code for that?

Hi Gustavo.

How can we do that? Through coupons? Is is possible to configure permanent and reusable coupons (no expiration) so we can just send them the right coupon for future renewals? They can be used more than once?

Right, you can have coupons that don’t expire. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Pro Coupon Codes[/hilite]

I’d like to clarify something: coupons can only give a discount, either a percentage or a set amount off the regular price. You can’t specify the price, you need to calculate the discount required to get the amount you want to charge.

We have different content (forums, subforums, topics, posts and pages) for men and for women. Men are not supposed to find content for women. And women are not supposed to find content for men. So the s2Member Level system (which is hierarchical) does not help for this restriction by type.

How can we use custom capabilities to restrict new topics created in the women area, for example, without doing it one by one. Is it possible to do? Is there a sample code for that?

No, custom capabilities haven’t been used to protect content in bbPress yet. You could probably do it with some hacking, but I can’t help with that since I have no experience with bbPress.

What you could do, though, is use the levels, which do work to restrict access to bbPress, but customize them so they don’t give incremental access. You’d need to edit the s2Member Level roles to remove the capabilities that give access to lower levels.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/
Knowledge Base » Locking s2Member Roles/Capabilities

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I hope that helps. :)

Thanks for the reply! :)

More one thing:

In my WP + bbPress + s2Member.

Only the first topic not showing. All posts and topics have level4 access and all member have level5 access.

Hi Gustavo,

Could you please tell us how you’re restricting the bbPress topics?

Also, could you please clarify:

Only the first topic not showing.

Is only the first topic showing, or is only the first topic not showing?