S2Member & Download Monitor

Hello,

we’re working with s2member and Download Monitor (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/download-monitor/) on our website to allow our customers to download drivers, softwares and more.

With Download Monitor you can set up a “min. level” to allow only specific usergroups to download ordained stuff based on their user level.

Since s2member works only with “level 0”, it isn’t possible to handle the different membership levels with the Download Monitor plugin.

We currently have 4 (5) Userlevel:

1. Free 0 = Can only download a few things
2. Registered 1 = Can only download a few things more
3. Customer 2 = Can download software, drivers, etc
4. Marketing 3 = Can download nearly everthing
5. Salesperson 4 = Can download everthing

And every group can download stuff from the groups below too. Furthermore every group shall see the downloads for the groups above – excepting the stuff for the group 3 and 4.

So at this time I thought I have to use [s2If current_user_is(s2member_level?)] many many times double and triple for every download to hide this stuff or put in a link to get the user to an access denied page – thats a really bad solution.

Do you have any other Ideas how to handle that problem without “hacking” Download Monitor?

Hi Olaf.

If Download Monitor can work with WordPress roles, then you should be able to pick the s2Member roles for the user access levels, unless Download Monitor doesn’t recognize roles that aren’t default in WordPress.

Download Monitor only works with the userlevel, and since s2member works only on userlevel 0, it’ws not possible at this moment. do you have any idea how to handle the download access?

Well, you could use the template functions of S2member to show or hide the downloads.

Yeah, Jean-Michel’s idea would work. Use conditionals to show the download link or not. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals[/hilite]

The real problem with this “solution” is that the download links can be shared…