Bruce

Hi Charles,

Sorry for the delay on my response

For site owners new to WordPress and s2memberPro, this is very frustrating. It seems like a simple setting, but it’s nowhere to be found.

Is there a learning resource anywhere that can help new site owners (such as me) easily learn where to look for settings such as that, and also learn how the whole structural interrelation between WP, the theme, and then a plugin like s2Member all works together and which settings take precedence over others (and concepts like that)?

I totally understand what you mean. s2Member has become way more than it was originally going to be, and we are constantly expanding the documentation and information within the Dashboard and on s2Member.com to encompass it’s new features. The best way to get information regarding different components would be from within these areas:

• In the WordPress Dashboard, especially within s2Member->Quick-Start Guide
• Within the s2Member Knowledge Base (we’re slowing filling this in with more useful information, and ‘hacks’ for s2Member’s CSS, and the framework itself. We will be filling in A LOT more posts very soon.
• s2Member’s Videos, there are lots of them that go in-depth to different parts of s2Member’s framework.
• Within the forums (there’s a search bar at the top right that you can use keywords in to find what you might need.

The font color for the fields on my Login / Registration screen is too light (grey text on white background). I’d like to make it black (seems simple enough). But in the s2member Login / Registration Design settings, the only font color setting is “Color of Text on top of your Background:”. Nothing about color of text in fields. So I search around my theme settings – nothing there.

This particular part of the registration/login page is controlled by WordPress, but you can override it within the text box under s2Member->General Options->Login/Registration Design->Login/Registration Footer Design (optional) with something like this:

<style>
.login label {
color: #000000 !important; /* This turns the text black (hex code #000000) */
}
</style>

Let me know if you have any problems with that.

Hi Charles,

After some testing I’ve found that this functionality is not possible directly within s2Member. A small portion of code outside of s2Member is necessary due to the way WordPress & s2Member use CSS with the forms.

However, with the way s2Member allows classes to be added to forms, it is still possible.You can check out the edited post above for information on how you might be able to do it with some help from a developer.

Thanks & sorry for the inconvenience

Hi Charles,

You should be able to do this with CSS within the form edit lightbox (near the bottom).

EDIT: This particular functionality is not capable through the CSS editing capabilities within s2Member. Instead, you will need to add a CSS class through s2Member’s popup/lightbox within s2Member->General Options->Registration/Profile Fields & Options->Add New Field(Or Edit Field), and work with the CSS within your Theme to get this to work.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by  Bruce.

Hi Bruce,

I have a member whose ISP uses dynamic IP addresses. How do we get around this?

Dynamic IPs are always bothersome when you’re dealing with IP restrictions. It really comes down to a choice: support dynamic IPs and leave your site vulnerable to account sharing, or just support Static IPs (which is what most people are doing) and force users to either have a static IP, or use a proxy server. Most site owners opt for the latter as it protects their site without bothering the most users, and users that do have this problem usually know why, as they most likely have had issues with other sites as well.

It could be possible to do some tricks with PHP Cookies mixed with IPs, but it could still be very unreliable, which is why s2Member does not support it.

Hi Roman,

Thanks for the follow-up

I have been modifying PHP files having to do with the buddypress profile and how the fileds are displayed(when viewing someone’s profile) but nothing else. As far as changing the buddypress page, no I did not change anything. After this happened I tried creating a new registration page, but the same problem occurred.

Would you mind reverting the PHP file to the default BuddyPress file, just for testing purposes? s2Member hooks into some of the processes within BuddyPress’s profile framework to add custom forms. It is possible one of the filters/hooks has been compromised in some way.

If that does not work, could you check into how your Options are set within s2Member->General Options->Registration/Profile Fields & Options? Most of the options do not affect BuddyPress, but Custom Registration Fields might be causing problems with something in your setup. If you have anything selected under Integrate Custom Registration/Profile Fields with BuddyPress? (near the bottom), please uncheck it to test.

Let me know how that goes, if you’re still having problems it’s possible we may need to check into your specific WordPress installation. You can send us Dashboard details in our Private Contact Form. If you need to use this form, would you mind attaching the file that you have edited with the message?

Thanks.

Hi Roman,

Also, in s2member (in General Options > Registration/Profile fields & Options) when I click on the registration page link to view it, I get redirected to the homepage. The link also points to wp-login.php, and not the registration page that is set in buddypress. I have no idea what is the problem.

Trying to access this page directly leads to the same problem(empty page). Please help!

BuddyPress blocks access to the registration page when you’re logged in. Can you try logging out and accessing it again?

When a customer pays for membership on my site(in PayPal) and clicks the registration link on the page they are autoforwarded to from paypal, for some reason they are redirected to an empty registration page(the header, body and footer show up but there is no fields to be filled in).

It sounds like it may be an issue with the page set up within BuddyPress. Have you changed the slug of the page your register form is on, or changed the page from within BuddyPress?

Hope we can get your problem solved quickly.

Hi Tim!

It sounds like you’re looking for s2Member’s Custom Return URLs On Success. This is controlled in the success="" Shortcode Attribute within the s2Member Pro Forms.

For example, if you would like to return users to:

http://yoursite.com/thanks-for-registering/

You can change your success attribute to success="/thanks-for-registering/".

You can learn more about how to use and extend this functionality within your WordPress Dashboard under s2Member -> PayPal® Pro Forms -> Custom Return URLs Upon Success

Let me know if that helps!

Hi Mark!

You can set up Billing Modification Pro Forms to re-up the subscription from within your Membership Options Page (using conditionals to only show the form to users that are at s2Member Level 0), which users that lose access can use.

You can find these Pro Forms under s2Member -> PayPal® Pro-Forms -> PayPal® Pro Billing Modification Forms.

Will that work?

Hi Mark!

Does this mean I need 3 separate sign up pages? Is it possible to have a single sign up page where a user can select between the 3 options?

Unfortunately, this is not possible in the conventional sense. s2Member does not support multiple Pro Forms within a single page because various Pro Forms use the same HTML form IDs, which can cause issues when the form submits. We recommend that you link the various Pro Form pages from within the Membership Options Page as well. You can see a live example of this at http://www.s2member.com/prices/.

It could also be possible to use an AJAX routine within the page, or an HTML form to change the page based on PHP $_GET variables. For both of these you will need a coder adept in jQuery/PHP (respectively), and you’ll end up with a rather cluttered page within the WordPress® Dashboard.

Therefore, we suggest separate pages linked within the Membership Options Page, as seen on s2Member.com.

I hope that answers your question!

Hi Zoe,

If you really need a solution for credit cards, I would suggest trying one of the other payment gateways s2Member offers. Unfortunately, credit card processing is only available with PayPal Pro, and there is no other way to accomplish it with PayPal.

Sorry for the inconvenience,

-Bruce

Thanks for the follow up.

Ah, I understand now. You can still use recurring payments without PayPal Pro, however your customers will need to have/create a PayPal account to checkout, and you cannot accept credit cards without PayPal Pro.

I hope that makes sense,

-Bruce

Hi Jeoffrey, thank-you for your inquiry!

ASP is not usually a language that comes up because WordPress itself uses PHP, however according to this page this should work:

In order to work something with this, you should be using the forms within s2Member -> API / Notifications. You will notice that these forms use URLs to pass data to other places, and will not accept code such as you have above. Therefore, you will need to set up your ASP file to handle PHP $_GET variables.

Therefore, the correct way to set this up would be to put something to this effect in your Payment Notifications within API / Notifications.

http://www.yoursite.com/AddCredit.aspx/?revenue=%%amount%%&customerId=%%payer_email%%&uniqueId=%%subscr_id%%

Notice that you must use %%amount%% instead of %%initial%% within Payment Notifications.

Within your ASP file, you can use code to this effect to grab these values:


<%
revenue= Request.querystring("revenue")
customerId= Request.querystring("customerId")
uniqueId=Request.querystring("uniqueId")

'continue your query here
%>


Also, something you may want to keep in mind here,

Because you’re passing variables from one server to another, it could be possible to exploit this process. Be especially careful if you’re giving away services based on this routine. s2Member uses security features in it’s IPN / PDT from PayPal and it’s other payment gateways to verify the information it’s given by $_POSTing the data back to the site. You may need to do something similar in this situation if you’re worried about the validity of the payments that are given to this URL.

The easiest way to do this would be to post the data to another ASP/PHP file on the server you have s2Member installed on and make sure that the arguments given to your ASP file are correct.

I have replaced your URL with ‘mywebsite.com’ to help keep others from knowing your direct link.

I hope all of that makes sense, and if you have any further questions on this subject, feel free to ask in this topic. I will try to help you out as best as possible.

Also, if you would rather $_POST the data, or have it be more secure through a POST routine, you can hack into the IPN process and either use fopen() or cUrl to POST data to your ASP page. You can find info on hacking s2Member’s processes here: http://www.s2member.com/kb/hacking-s2member/

Let me know how it goes.

Best Regards,

-Bruce

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by  Bruce.