Bruce

Thank you for your inquiry.

We have a client site that they want to have completely locked down. This would essentially mean that you’d need to have a userid/pwd to view any portion of the website including home page, posts, pages, etc. What would you recommend in order to do this?

You can accomplish this using URI Restrictions. You simply need to put a forward slash (/) in the Level 0 form here:

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions

This will restrict access from everything but your Membership Options Page (where your Payment Options should be), your login page at /wp-login.php, and any processing URLs that s2Member uses (such as the IPN URL).

I had another doubt, the code I’m using for differentiation is $paypal[“mc_gross”], can I use it in Auth.net forms for sending different mails based on ‘mc_gross’, if not, what is the solution for sending different mails using Auth.net forms.

All of the variables from Authorize.Net are passed as PayPal variables and go through the central PayPal IPN Processor when a request comes in. So this variable should still work for you. That being said, I can’t tell you for sure. Sorry. The best to know for sure is to test it. I currently don’t have any way to do this myself, or I would.

I see the s2 scripts in the list yet it still is asking for full name etc even while I am logged in.

Looking at your page now, that appears to be the case now. However I had done a complete copy of your header in my previous reply and this was the case. I’m sorry for the time wasted on this as it doesn’t seem to have helped your problem.

Am I correct that the username and email fields should be already filled in and un-editable? That is not what I see.

When you view a Modification Pro Form as a non-logged-in User, you should be prompted with this message, as on the default WordPress theme:

This error is meant to be only for site admins, really. The correct way to use Modification forms is to use Shortcode Conditionals to decide when a User needs to be given the form.

I’ve been unable to reproduce this issue on any of my development environments, and neither has our development team.

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m glad to hear that you’re interested in using s2Member Pro. :-)

Am I correct that I need the paid version for the take payment at time of registration?

s2Member Pro’s Pro Forms are the only way that s2Member has to have a User sign up when they complete payment automatically. s2Member’s Buttons do allow you to have a User sign up after payment, but they must first receive an email with a registration URL.

If you want to allow your Users to register as they are paying without waiting, yes. You will need to use s2Member Pro.

Is there a way to delete the Free Access member as this is not required?

What do you mean by this? Do you want to delete Users if they cancel instead of demoting them? You can accomplish that by changing the setting in this section of your Dashboard:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior

I’m very sorry if that doesn’t answer your question. Could you clarify what exactly you hope to do if that’s wrong? Thanks.

I think I am going to have to ditch S2 as I am having too many problems managing my database and I’m tired of al the manual effort I have to put in… I am using paypal forms for all my signups but get inconsistent results; like

I’m very sorry to hear that. I’ll see if I can help you sort out some of these issues.

EOT field left blank
EOT field has subscription date showing

Paypal transaction codes often missing…

All three of these problems all (usually) are to do with an improper IPN setup, or a problem with IPN responses coming in. I’d recommend that you temporarily turn on s2Member’s Logging Routines and see if s2Member:

1. Is receiving IPN responses (i.e. the paypal-ipn.log file is being generated during transactions)

and

2. Is validating the IPN responses correctly. Make sure that s2Member is not throwing any errors when it receives data (if it is receiving data).

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® IPN Integration

expired members cannot buy new products because ‘email in use’ (NB not renewing for previous service)

Users should be logged in when they attempt to complete a transaction. You should also be giving Users that are logged in Modification Buttons/Pro Forms instead of regular Buy Now Buttons, or you should make sure that your modify attribute is set up accordingly. Could you provide an example of a Shortcode that causes this error to happen?

So from your answer, my understanding of custom capabilities and my scenario can you confirm that this is what I would need to do:

Yep, that looks right. It’s pretty simple to set up, if you want to set up your Custom Capabilities before you purchase s2Member Pro to make sure everything will fit together right, that’s just fine, too. The thing you need s2Member Pro for here is to allow Users to get these Custom Capabilities for free. :-)

Thanks for your patience.

I got word back on this from Jason. Apparently the integration for this no longer requires this profile variable. We’ve updated the Knowledge Base Article to reflect this.

See: Knowledge Base » iDevAffiliate® (s2 Commission Tracking)

So just use the URL you have without the profile variable. Let me know if that works. :-)

I notice as the page is loading that it briefly displays billing info then disappears. I am using pro form with paypal as only option in both of the fields…well see below

After taking a look at this, we have found that the issue I was reproducing was a separate problem with my local environment. The issue with your site appears to be that s2Member’s CSS/JavaScript isn’t loading on the Pages that you have your Shortcodes on.

This was hard to track down because your JavaScript and CSS does load normally on pretty much every part of your site but these pages. If I take a look at /join-here-sod-membership-25month/ on your site, your head tags look like this:

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Pontano+Sans&amp;subset=latin,latin-ext">
<style type="text/css" media="screen">...</style>
<style type="text/css">...</style>
</head>

This portion of your Page should have multiple <script> tags, where it doesn’t. It looks like your theme is missing a call to wp_head() in this template. You should get your theme’s developer to look into this.

Thanks!

Thanks. I was able to reproduce this on a test installation. I’m contacting the development team about this and I’ll get back to you ASAP.

In the meantime, you can reproduce this behavior using Shortcode Conditionals in the short term.

See: Knowledge Base » Simple Shortcode Conditionals

Thank you for your inquiry.

Sorry about the delay. We get to threads as they come in. We had to work down to yours. Sorry about that.

I need to upload training content for the following user types:

customers
reseller partners
premium reseller partners
internal staff

We don’t want to charge for any of this access. So in effect they will all be free members.
But how do I allow them to register without using Paypal?

You’re on the right track with Custom Capabilities. You’ll want to have 4 separate Custom Capabilities for these levels, as they have separate content. You can give access to these Custom Capabilities using Free Registration Pro Forms (with s2Member Pro):

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Free Registration Forms

These forms allow you to give access to specific Membership Levels, or Custom Capabilities for free, and you can also set End of Term dates for these Users, if you only want them to have temporary access to these.

Sorry, but I’m not able to log in anymore. I just tried logging in with the administrator details you sent and the site is not loading when I attempt to log in via /wp-login.php. I’m not sure why that is. Is the server undergoing maintenance?

I will try it again in a bit.

EDIT: I got in. Taking a look.

Thanks for your patience. I contacted Jason about this.

I’m seeing conflicting information from iDevAffiliate on this. The URL that they provide in this section of the Dashboard is different than the documentation PDF at iDevAffiliate. There should clearly be a Profile ID associated with this but I’m not seeing where it is myself, either. I’ll see what Jason has to say about this.