Update Notice for v130617: paypal buttons

Today (June 17, 2013) the same day that your automatic update notice arrived on our admin page, site visitors reported our paypal buttons were broken.

The paypal buttons were showing as code – the shortcode that was working earlier – not as paypal buttons.

Updating both the core s2member framework and the pro add-on restored the paypal buttons.

But I wonder – is there anything about the automatic update feature that could cause the shortcode to stop working until you update?

Not really. s2Member will keep working even if it’s a previous version, there’s no check that’ll disable anything in it if it’s not the latest release.

The only thing that may happen is updating just the Framework, leaving the Pro add-on out-dated, then the Pro features won’t be there until you update it to the same version as the framework.

But that doesn’t sound like your issue, because the PayPal buttons are in the Framework, not the Pro add-on. So I’m not sure what could have caused you that problem…

Maybe an incomplete installation, perhaps the update was not successful and some of the plugin files had a problem. You can check that with this tool: Knowledge Base » s2Member® Server Scanner