Bruce

I didn’t find any area in s2 member where i can set ” failed payments “.

The number of failed payments you allow depends on the rra attribute for your Pro Form/Button Shortcode.

From the docs
(Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)):

• rra=”2″ Reattempt failed payments? Possible values: 0 = do NOT reattempt billing when/if a recurring payment fails; 1 or higher = yes, DO reattempt billing when/if a recurring payment fails. With PayPal® Pro integration, PayPal® will retry a maximum of 2 times whenever rra=”2″; after that, a Subscription would be terminated due to Max Failed Payments having been reached. With PayPal® Pro integration, the value of this attribute also configures Max Failed Payments. So a setting of rra=”2″ means that you allow a maximum of 2 failed payments.

I’m trying to figure out how to use mailchimp to send welcome emails instead of s2member. How do I set this up?

s2Member’s integration with MailChimp doesn’t integrate the New User Email. This is sent from your server no matter what. You can customize it here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Email Configuration

1) I’ve added a few lines to the functions.php file of my theme (Dynamix) so I can Start testing the new changes, but this doesn’t work. The users can still access the pages I try to block:

I think a more reliable way of accomplishing what you need here would be to do something like this:

<?php
add_action ('init','my_custom_capabilities');
function my_custom_capabilities ()
    {
        if(has_tag('test_ccap') && !current_user_can ('access_s2member_ccap_test_ccap'))
            {
                            wp_redirect(S2MEMBER_MEMBERSHIP_OPTIONS_PAGE_URL);
                            exit();
            }
    }
&#91;/hilite&#93;

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2) Once I can make this work, since a group of current clients should be able to access this new section, how should I modify their profiles so they can access? This way?: http://screencast.com/t/vltGq5BV is that correct?
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This is correct.

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I believe I can do it by adding some code to the especific page “music” right? (if I undestood correctly a part of the video of custom capabilities) But just wanted to be sure and ask for some guide about where should I insert the code.
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You could do this, or you can wait for the redirect and redirect from your Membership Options Page to the correct page. You can use the Membership Options Page variables to do this.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Membership Options Page Variables (MOP Vars)

Thank you for your inquiry.

WordPress does not allow spaces in Usernames. s2Member takes spaces out to keep errors from occuring. If you try to create a user in WordPress’s Dashboard, you’ll see similar behavior, but WordPress will (by default) replace spaces with dashes.

Thanks for giving code line you suggest but its now giving this error:

http://screencast.com/t/SDl6yGoAy1

Sorry, one of the quotes from my reply got formatted by our system and it made it invalid. I edited the code in my reply.

you’ll want to change this line:

wp_redirect(site_url('/wp-login.php?redirect_to' . site_url())); ?>

To:

wp_redirect(site_url('/wp-login.php')); ?>

That might not fix your issue, but that’s an incorrect link somewhere. If that doesn’t work you’ll want to check your sidebar.php file.

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

Could you post a link to the place this is happening? I’ve never heard of this happening before.

and how do i do that?

That depends on your theme. I’m guessing this is something that’s built-in to your theme, or is a widget. I’d check your Widgets first and see if those buttons are created there. If they are you should be able to change the URL that way. Otherwise you’ll need to edit your theme’s files. I’d guess that those buttons are created in your sidebar.php file.

“An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file.”

It sounds like either the file got corrupted on upload, or there is a network error somewhere. Could we take a look? You can send the information here:

s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Let us know when you send that.

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

We’ll need to see your full log files to be able to tell what’s going on. Could you send us a Dashboard login so we can take a look and see what the problem is?

See: s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Thank you for the information.

I took a look at your site, and it appears that the actual link that’s in your theme is what’s causing this. This is the link:

http://marketletters.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http://marketletters.com

As you can see, it’s passing the redirect_to variable as your homepage. This will need to be taken out or changed to your Login Welcome Page to work correctly. If you use this link, it works correctly:

http://marketletters.com/wp-login.php

1) Date subscription started
2) Date of next payment

s2Member does not store this information, but you can use some of the constants from Content Dripping to find how many days the User has been subscribed, and in turn when their subscription started.

To get the date of next payment, you’ll have to use the last payment date, which s2Member does store. You can get it like this:

<?php $last_payment_date = get_user_field('s2member_last_payment_time'); ?>

When going through my settings I noticed I didn’t have a “PDT identity token” specified within s2member settings, nor did I have PDT or an auto-return URL enabled within my paypal.com “Website Payment Preferences” settings.

So, for my setup, should I still implement PDT, or is not applicable for my use?

Yes, you should still set up your PDT Identity Token even with Express Checkout. PayPal uses this token to let s2Member know the information it’s receiving when the Customer is brought back to your site can be trusted. Without this you can run into errors with Users not getting upgraded, etc..