Bruce

Thank you for your inquiry. I’m very sorry about the delay in response.

The problem you’re running into is a design flaw with s2Member we are looking to fix in the next major release of s2Member, which is a rewrite we’re hoping to have ready sometime soon.

Currently the only place I know of to point you to attempting to make this possible through code is the thread you already linked to. I can’t say I know everything that’s happening here but I can tell you that the syntax of the fields has NOT changed since then, and if the code worked then it should work now as well.

I can also tell you that the code you’re using is going to drastically slow down your search queries, because it’s picking up values from the usermeta database table as well as the user database table, and it’s use REGEX to find the value of the custom field with the slug country_code.

If the code is not working for you, I’d first make sure that the slug for the field you’re attempting to order by is in fact country_code. That looks like the best place to start looking for the error.

I’m am very sorry for the delay in response. Thanks very much for your patience with me.

Well, we are using the custom capabilities field for something as well. Is there another field that we can use as a kind of storage field to store a member’s previous level?

You could store this value in a WordPress User Meta value, as shown here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_user_meta

OR, you could store the value in a completely private s2Member custom field, but this would take a lot more work, because s2Member stores all of these values in an array in one of it’s own User Meta rows.

I would suggest using the WordPress User Meta field.

I’m very sorry for the delay in response. Thank you very much for your patience with us.

I’m sorry I didn’t grasp the fact that all of your Custom Capabilities were free until just now. That’s my fault. The correct answer in this case is that if you want your Users to be able to upgrade (for free), you’ll have to use some custom PHP code. We have documentation on how you can do that in this article:

Knowledge Base » Changing Roles/Capabilities via PHP

So if you want to allow a User that has access to Custom Capability music to Custom Capability video, you would create a form that would allow certain Users to trigger this code to fire for them:

<?php
global $current_user;
$current_user->add_cap('access_s2member_ccap_video');

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I’m sorry for how hard this is accomplish. I’m going to talk to Jason (Lead Developer) and attempt to get the ability for free upgrades possible with s2Member Pro, as the Modification version of Free Registration Pro Forms ASAP.

Thanks for your understanding.

Hi. I haven’t solved email problem yet. please reply.

I’m very sorry for the delay in response. Thanks for your patience.

You can send your log files here:

s2Member® » Private Contact Form

I’m sending you the details so please take a look…

I’m very sorry for the delay in response. I’m taking a look now. I’ll update this thread when I’m done.

Thanks for your patience over the weekend.

Sorry about the delay in response.

I see what you’re talking about now. However I have no idea how s2Member could possibly be affecting your theme’s behavior for this.

That being said if you’re having trouble with this, try turning off s2Member’s CSS and see if that helps:

http://www.s2member.com/faqs/#s2-faqs-stop-loading-css

Otherwise I’m not sure what you could do. s2Member is not overwriting any of your JavaScript and I’m not seeing any errors pop up when you click that Goto.. button.

This is apparently an incompatibility between s2Member and your theme, which we can’t debug according to our Support Policy. See: s2Member® » Support Policy

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I started with the Theme Developer and we tracked the issue to S2Member within an hour. I explained twice how to find the menu with “Goto…” on it but here is a picture to help you

I’m sorry for the frustration. I was just under the impression that this was a problem directly related to your first first post’s explanation of this problem:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden) http://clubcollegelife.com/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member-o.php?ws_plugin__s2member_js_w_globals=1&qcABC=1
Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method ‘on’

This is actually a totally different problem than you first described. I did not understand the problem until your post here, which is actually describing a totally different issue:

I never actually see an error message pop up. The only thing that happens is the pull down menu just does not work when you resize the web browser to a small size to get the “Goto…” Menu. Click on it and no pull down menu shows.

Sorry about the delay in response. Thanks for your patience over the weekend.

I just went over your list of requirements, and while s2Member could be used as a core for the functionality you’re looking for (as far as registration and your “donations” go), it would require a lot of custom code to hook s2Member into all of the other functionality you’re looking for.

To explain the idea in simple terms, you mentioned that you’re looking for a “Rule Editor”. What s2Member can do is create some of the triggers for these rules with regards to registrations and payments. A developer will need to set up all of the “rules” you have in mind, however.

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To explain this better, s2Member could work in conjunction with custom code that you have a developer write with its API Notifications for Signups and Payments.

See: Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

With this you can have s2Member handle your User registrations, restrictions, and payments. However, you’ll still need to have a developer set up many more things to get your site working around s2Member.

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I would recommend posting these requirements on a site such as http://elance.com/, http://odesk.com/, or http://jobs.wordpress.net/.

Thanks for your patience over the weekend.

I can’t say I know how you could get this information through PayPal. I am not personally experienced with everything about taxes an accountant would need, but I was under the impression that knowing where the Customer was from was not a requisite. You should be able to tell how much tax a Customer was charged by just subtracting your base amount from the amount charged. Why exactly are you needing to see the User’s Province/State?

I just can’t find the area in paypal to find this is keeping track of who is paying taxes and who isn’t and where for

You should be able to tell if a User is paying taxes based on how much their transaction was for, correct?

Yes, I have looked at those links. As I said this was working fairly well for 2 years and just quit working.

Have you installed any caching plugins recently?

If you can’t figure out the issue, send us a Dashboard Login via Private Contact Form and we’ll take a look at your logs.

See: s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Thank you for your inquiry.

Can you think of how we can do this?

Are you using Custom Capabilities as well as Member Levels? If not, when you upgrade your Users level, you might consider also setting a Custom Capability such as user_reached_level4 for each of your levels. You can keep s2Member from taking away Custom Capabilities in the Automatic EOT Behavior section of your Dashboard:

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

See: Knowledge Base » Changing Roles/Capabilities via PHP

Now if a User is demoted at level 4, you can show them a different form to sign back up than if they hadn’t ever signed up before using Shortcode Conditionals:

Knowledge Base » Simple Shortcode Conditionals

Would that work?

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

I’ll talk to Jason about perhaps adding another option in the next major version of s2Member. I can’t say that this capability will be added “soon”, however. If you absolutely need this functionality now, you could have a developer integrate something like this by altering the Pro Forms templates.

See: Pre Sale FAQs » Is it possible to modify s2Member® Pro Form templates?

Thank you for your inquiry.

PayPal works in Germany:

https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/

I believe Authorize.Net can also be used in Germany.

However we don’t have any integrations with payment gateways specifically meant for use in Germany. You can find a list of payment gateways we support here:

Pre Sale FAQs » What payment gateways does s2Member® support?

Sorry about that.