Bruce

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m not sure I totally understand this part:

3. ADDITIONALLY to 2. an existing Member can ADD a Sponsorship and can choose from currently 6 different schemes such as Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond and Global. The major difference between the schemes is the design, hence an individual and specific custom post type respectively a custom page form incl. custom fields and different for each sponsorship type (maybe like an individual macro???)

Could you clarify please? What is the design of the schemes?

It does sound like s2Member could help accomplish some of the things that you’re looking for, but not everything. I believe you’ll need to have a developer set up custom code to accomplish these two things:

4. Sponsorship are signed for a specifc period such as a number of month and the added custom posts visibilty should be setup accordingly.
5. Member (user) must have exclusive access to the assigned post to maintain content etc. but public status (from/to date) must be blocked (changes in case Sponsor extends its sponsorship by another payment)

We have an API available for doing this in the Dashboard. You can find it here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications

See: Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

What will happen when the trial is expired, do users need to signup again or will they be charged automatically ?

If you use the first method I mentioned, the User is demoted or deleted, based on what you have set up in your Automatic End of Term settings.

If you set up a Free Trial before your subscription (i.e. the other method), then they will start being automatically charged after the trial ends.

Also can I implement this section using S2Member Free version ?

You can implement everything here except trial on registration (or the first method I posted) with the s2Member Framework. That requires Free Registration Pro Forms, which are only available with s2Member Pro.

The pdf you clicked on uses this as it permission and does actually work if you are a s2 member level 2, however if your not and as you have found out it redirects you to the register page, this is going to cause an issue if I have to re-upload all the files in s2 member? can you look into this

I’m afraid I don’t know anything about the WP Filebase plugin. I can tell you that whatever protections you’re using on the files is not being done with s2Member. The redirect that’s being done is being done through WP Filebase. You’ll have to check the settings for that, or check with the developers on how you can change the URL it redirects to.

Sorry about that.

Sorry about the delay in response.

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.

I’m not seeing any “goto” menu on your site. I’m not sure why s2Member would be affecting this, though. I would try contacting your theme’s developer if you’re having a problem with things not working when you resize your screen.

i can’t figure out how to make it play inline in safari — changing the s2m inline file extensions to include mp4 make try and play using quicktime (and then fails). These files play in QT just fine outside of the browser

Okay so you’re using MP4 Files. I just did a lot of research on this and it looks like Safari will fail to load MP4 files on some web hosts because the servers don’t support the MP4 format. Try adding this line to your central .htaccess file and see if you can load the files then:

AddType video/mp4 .mp4

am not a dev by any means. I depend entirely on strong solid products (plugins) being developed by others. I certainly do not have knowledge on how to fix any ‘capabilities issues’ (I don’t even know what that means). I talked with the support team at my hosting service and they looked at the error log.

Sorry about the confusion here. What I meant to say was that I’m assuming that you’ve already been able to log back in, because you mentioned you had this problem in the past. As in, you do not need assistance in getting your Capabilities/Roles back on track. That is correct?

The membership plugins (whether it be s2member or another brand) are NOT playing well with BuddyPress & bbPress.

I’m not sure why this would be. I am currently running a development environment running all three of these plugins and I am not having this issue. It sound to me like maybe the row in your database that handles your roles is being wiped because of so many plugins adding/removing roles? I know bbPress adds specific capabilities to certain Roles, and s2Member adds the s2Member User Levels + bbPress Capabilities to these Roles if you have bbPress installed when you activate s2Member. Do you have the exact wording that your hosting provider gave you?

I will give you the full spectrum of plugins and themes I am using if you wish to test this for yourself (because I’d sure love to see this all work smoothly and seemlessly in the future):

Thanks. Though, you said that you tried disabling all plugins but s2Member, BuddyPress and bbPress and this still happened?

Thank you for your inquiry.

Sorry for the delay in response.

s2Member doesn’t have any direct integration that makes this possible. To accomplish this would require custom code, unfortunately. What s2Member can accomplish for you is managing your subscriptions, and providing you with the ability to restrict the ability to Post for specific Users, at a bare minimum.

Some things I’d see that you’d definitely have to have a developer set up:

Since you’re creating Posts, a developer will have to set up an API Notification handler for cancellations here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications -› Cancellation Notifications
See: Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

This API Notification Handler would have to delete/convert all of the Posts that the User set up to draft to keep them from showing up any longer.

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If you’re planning on restricting the number of times a User can post, there will need to be a system set up for restriction on that front. s2Member will only be able to restrict the ability to see the form based on User level / Custom Capabilities with Shortcode Conditionals.

See: Knowledge Base » Simple Shortcode Conditionals

If S2 does not have the functionality to auto-fill from a form to a ‘post’ , can you recommend a form builder that will do this and more importantly will work well with S2?

Sorry, I can’t think of any myself. You might check out this plugin. I haven’t personally used it, though:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-frontend/

Let us know if you have any more questions on this. :-)

Thanks for your patience.

I took a look at your site’s source code. It looks like everything with s2Member is running smoothly to me. You’re (at least now) linking to the correct file for s2Member’s JavaScript. I do see one error, though. It’s related to the file gprofiles.js

It says:

Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'on' 

I’m not sure where this is coming from, but it shouldn’t have any effect on s2Member. Do you have any specific place where this occurs?

The type of person to fix this what would there job description be ?

You’d probably want to find a PHP developer with experience with WordPress themes.

Thank you for your inquiry.

You could hook into the s2Member payment gateway-specific hooks you can find in the source files, or you could use s2Member’s API Notifications to handle this, which I would strongly recommend. You can find information on setting that up here:

Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

The API Notifications you’re looking for are these:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications -› Registration Notifications
Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications -› Payment Notifications

Let me know if you’d rather use hooks and I can dig up a few that might be useful.

Thank you for your inquiry.

The question I have though is this, does their existing recurring PayPal subscription automatically cancel if they were to upgrade to a Lifetime scheme using the update billing form?

Yes, any time a User edits their Subscription (including upgrading to a Lifetime Membership), the previous subscription their account was tied to is terminated, and the new Subscription is tied to the account. s2Member will only track one Subscription ID at a time per User.

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

And thank you for your patience.

The problem here is that you already have CloudFront distros set up, and s2Member can’t overwrite them. You’ll want to follow the instructions here to delete your current distros, then you should be able to have s2Member create new ones that should work for you :-):

http://s3browser.com/delete-cloudfront-distribution.php