Bruce

I will setup an FTP account for you.

Thanks!

I actually just did a bit of poking around from what I can do now, and I noticed that your site is redirecting from your domain (http://clubcollegelife.com/) to http://clubcollegelife.com/magazine/ when I try to access it directly.

If you use this as a root, and try to access this URL, it works fine:

http://clubcollegelife.com/magazine/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member-o.php?ws_plugin__s2member_js_w_globals=1&qcABC=1

Try changing your Site URL in your Dashboard to http://clubcollegelife.com/magazine/, since you’re redirecting to that subdirectory:

Dashboard -› Settings -› General

Thanks for your patience.

Right now when I pull up the URL you provided I’m getting the error:

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

Based on some research I’ve done it appears that this has to do with Apache rewrites or permissions. Do you mind if we take a look at your site? You can send Dashboard + FTP login details privately here:

s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Let us know when you’ve done that. Thanks!

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

And thank you for your patience over the weekend.

They go to a page where you need s2 level 2 and currently it redirects to the register page where I need it to go to
http://www.classroomsecrets.co.uk/membership-subscription-options/

according to the S2 info this should work how I want it?

I’m looking at your site and I can get s2Member to redirect to the Membership Options Page when I attempt to access your Login Welcome Page (/welcome/). So it looks like it you have it set up correctly. Do you think we could take a look? You can send a WordPress Administrator Dashboard login here:

s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Please post here when you’ve done that. Thanks!

Thank you for your inquiry.

And thank you for your patience over the weekend.

Can we, or can we not allow members to use HTML tags when filling out the multi-line text box in the edit profile page? I have been searching for hours on this. Everything I read said that that is not possible, but your site allows it!

*edit – It seems to have to do with the forum plugin you are using. It also allows for ranking and what not… What are you using?

We use a modified version of bbPress by Automattic/Matt Mullenweg (the creator of WordPress®):

See: http://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/

This is what powers this field.

You see the link you have in your sidebar widget that says “My public Profile”? How do I do that?

To add another link to the top of the links section of the login widget, you’d use this field when you set up the widget:

How do I allow my members to be able to use html on their profile fields? How do I add a “View Profile” link to my login widget? Is is possible to have a “member profile” that looks halfway decent?

You can have your Users input anything you want into the fields there. The issue that arises (as far as I’m aware of) is the way that these fields are presented. If you have a User input HTML code into their profile, you have to display this field so that the code that’s input is displayed correctly. Here at s2Member we use default bbPress Profile data to display that portion of our User’s profile, as I mentioned above.

Here is a thread that this question was also asked in:

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/allow-html-in-profile-fields/

As you can see, the User had to change the way that the Profile Fields were being displayed on his Profile Page to achieve what he was looking for. This will have to be the case for you as well. I don’t have any code to give you to help out with this, sorry. I can tell you that s2Member saves its Custom Registration/Profile Fields in the WordPress User Meta table, and you can retrieve the array of values like this:

<?php $fields = get_user_option('s2member_custom_fields', $user_id); ?>

Or, you can retrieve a specific field using the s2Member s2Get Shortcode, documented here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals

Just to clarify, s2Member provides some basic portions for creation of a “Profile Page”, but leaves this available for site owners to set up apart from s2Member. You can change all of the URLs that are displayed in the Login Widget, and if you want to set up a different Profile Page that’s fine. You can even take a look at s2Member’s shortcodes in this section of your Dashboard to make that easier:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals

I am not asking for anything new. Just give me the code please. Or refund me.

I’m afraid we can’t just provide code to achieve this. It’s a full setup that will be unique to your installation. If you’re having problems working with s2Member’s advanced portions, then I’d suggest contacting a Freelancer from a site like http://elance.com/, or http://odesk.com/ to help you set some of these features up.

Thank you!

Thank you for your inquiry.

And thank you for your patience over the weekend.

The Security Badge can take up to 24 hours to register your site as verified after you have everything set up, as s2Member will only allow a connection from your site every 24 hours. If you’ve got everything set up, reviewing this Knowledge Base article, and you still can’t get your Badge to work correctly, let me know and we’ll take a look:

Knowledge Base » s2Member® Security Badges

Thank you for your inquiry.

It sounds like s2Member should be able to handle this for you. Let me break down a few things.

This subscription fee has NOTHING to do with membership levels, hidden content, etc. This is payment for a hosted facebook business page.

So what I need is an easy way in a form to collect customer information and save them as a member, allow that new customer to pay a signup fee AND a monthly subscription fee starting the second month and the last thing I need is a way to track which members are making their payments, which members are cancelling their subscriptios, which member’s paypal accounts or credit cards have become invalid, etc.

It sounds to me like you’re looking to use s2Member to just keep User information and keep track of their subscriptions. s2Member’s fully capable of being used that way, and if you need advanced integrations with code you can use s2Member’s API Notifications to do that:

Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

The only thing I will say on this is that s2Member does not store credit card / PayPal login information, so you’re not going to be able to track the validity of a User’s PayPal account or credit card. You’ll only know if something went wrong on the User’s side if their payments fail.

Other than that, you should be okay here.

I’d like to create a form on my site where an initial signup is paid and at the same time, a monthly subscription fee is approved by the new customer, all using paypal pro. I will not be charging the monthly subscription fee until the SECOND month.

You can do this with a trial period + amount with Pro Forms. You’d want to set up a trial period of 1 month at the price of your inital signup amount, then a regular recurring amount for your monthly subscription amount. You can find information on the different attributes of the Pro Forms when you install s2Member Pro here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)

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

Sorry about the delay in response.

I just wanted to be sure of what is the URL to my protected file? In the exemple above I used “/mybucketname/myfile.webm” but don’t seems to work…

You’d use the URL structure you can find here in your Dashboard at the top of the section:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Basic Download Restrictions

s2Member will use this link to connect to Amazon.

Alternatively, you can use the linkage here the same way:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Advanced Mod-Rewrite Linkage

That’s ok. Will it still be able to stream from my protected bucket though?

You can use s2Member’s URLs with JW Player’s HTML5 player, too. So yes, as long as you use the correct URL you should be able to play .webm files by using that player instead.

You might check out this page on info for that:

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/22644/using-the-html5-video-tag/

Thank you for your inquiry.

Hi: If I buy the $129 Unlimited Site Lic (for sub-sites that I only own etc) and then later decide to offer sites for other people can I easily just pay the difference to upgrade to the Multisite Blog Farm Network lic. (pay additional $160) which would be to total between the two of $289 later?

Yes, you can upgrade to Multiste Blog Farm Network license later for the portion of the price you haven’t already paid.

Also, do you have any discount codes that are currently running at all (i.e. 50%-75% off etc) by any promotions you have out there at all?

I believe we do currently have a 15% off coupon available. You can use SUMMER15-A:2023 during checkout until 07/05/2013 for that discount. :-)

s2member requires the user to type their credit card expiration date as mm/yyyy.

My client wants to have 2 separate select fields instead.

The only way to accomplish this would be to first use the information provided to change the Pro Form to split this into two fields:

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

After that’s done, you’ll have to set up some JavaScript to append these two fields to make this work with s2Member. I’ll warn you that this won’t be very easily to work with because s2Member isn’t really equipped to deal with this kind of change. I suppose if you add an onsubmit event to the Pro Form, you could catch the values and change them to match the correct format before the form is submitted. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Thanks for your patience.

The problem here is that you’re not using WordPress to generate your homepage. You have a custom index.html file doing that. Here’s a screenshot of the problem file listed via FTP:

Because you’re handling it this way, WordPress is not loading when someone accesses the frontend of you site (at least your homepage), and that’s causing issues with s2Member. This will also prevent IPN and PDT data from reaching s2Member when you set up Payment gateways.

What you’ll need to do is have a developer take the code you have in this index.html file and move it into your theme’s home.php file, and add the standard WordPress actions as well so that your site will load WordPress. You will also need to delete the current file.

Now my question is how can I create custom variable in s2member for each user, where I would be able to fetch and store Zoho users unique IDs ?

You could create a completely private Custom Registration/Profile Field that you would use to hold this value. If you set it up right, the field will never be seen by your User, but you will be able to access it in the API Notifications area with replacement codes.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields

When you have to set this value via PHP, you’ll want to get the User’s array of custom fields. This is stored in a User Meta field called s2member_custom_fields. You can get it like this:

get_user_option('s2member_custom_fields', $user_id);

See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_option

Then, after you change the value of the field by changing the array value, you’ll save the array like this:

update_user_option ($user_id, 's2member_custom_fields', $fields);

See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_user_option

Will that work for you?