Bruce

Thank you for your inquiry.

We don’t directly integrate with SAML, but I’ve seen Users with SAML installed with s2Member with no issues. I’m sorry that I can’t provide any further information.

I have followed the step-by-step procedure (that’s why the videos worked on their first day). I think perhaps something expired (signature ID or whatever it is, I’m not sure with the term) and that’s causing the error to appear. I could provide access to the frontend as well as admin backend if necessary.

Can you post the code / shortcode that you’re using on this page?

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

Does taking out the data-target attribute fix the issue? s2Member should always show download confirmation unless specified otherwise.

Thank you for your inquiry.

You could use the Remote Operations API, seen here, or use WordPress’s wp_create_user() function.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Remote Operations API
See Also: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_create_user

Thank you for your inquiry. We appreciate your patience. :-)

1) I will be offering a one-off registration payment of £50, and yearly subscription of £100 to become a member.

That’s fine. You’ll want to use a trial amount of 150 euros and a trial period of 1 year. After the trial is over, the regular subscription will start at 100 euros.

2) A member will be able to book events on the site (using event espresso) and a non-member will be able to see the event page, but not be able to book, and will be prompted to join)

I’m not familiar with Event Espresso, but I don’t see this being an issue. You may need to resort to blocking access to the event page if you’re not familiar with some PHP code, but s2Member definitely has enough options available for you to restrict access to this.

3) There will be a membership form with custom fields, and I need the member data it to be easily exported to excel

s2Member Pro provides support for exportation, and s2Member has Custom Registration/Profile Fields built in.

5) If a member cancels, their details should remain on the system, but they shouldn’t be able to log in.

You can have a User demoted to Subscriber role. But they will still be able to log in. They will, however, not be able to access anything protected at s2Member Level 1. This is to keep Users from registering multiple accounts.

6) If they want to leave membership, and comeback, then there should be a way to renew their membership easily, without having to pay the joining fee again.

You can use s2Member’s Shortcode Conditionals to decide what form s2Member will show a User. If the User is logged in, or s2Member Level 0, they might see the form that allows them to skip the 50 euro fee.

See: Knowledge Base » Simple Shortcode Conditionals

7) As its a new venture, want to be able to experiment with the pricing (we will probably change the subsription price over the 1st 6 months, till its right) If a member joins and pays the 1st year at the test price, is there a way to correct the price for his next installment?

You can have Users cancel their subscription, and have them sign up for the subscription at the new level, but you can’t edit the User’s subscription. Sorry.

8) Also want to be able to offer a special offer for the rest of 2013 – no joining fee – just a subscription. In 2014, all NEW members will have to pay the joining fee

That’s fine. Just change your Pro Form to reflect these changes when you’re ready.

This is what the code looks like after parsed in Chrome’s code inspector. Any ideas at all?

I’ve seen this before with some ThemeForest themes. It’s a bug that we’re working to get resolved. It’s injecting an HTML break (<br />) into s2Member’s Shortcodes. You can stop this from happening by wrapping the shortcode with [raw] tags.

Is there any chance you can tell us which log files you need and where they are located?

Sure. You can download your logs here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Log Files (Debug)

I’ll also note that all of s2Member’s classes are available to be manually overwritten, as they check to see if a class of the same name has bee created already. So you could copy a class, and move it over to a Must-Use Plugin file, and it will overwrite the current PHP Class that s2Member would’ve loaded otherwise. This keeps customization clean. :-)

Thank you for your inquiry.

s2Member does not provide a way to query posts, but WordPress does.

See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

s2Member saves the required Custom Capabilities in the meta key s2member_ccaps_req. You’ll need to query a serialized array value to get the correct value. Alternatively, you could query a number (or all) of your Posts, and use this s2Member function to tell if they are protect by s2Member:

is_post_protected_by_s2member()

I’m very sorry for the delay, this thread was buried over the weekend.

1) What are my options in basic link protection from non-members?
2) Can I use the remote download function where the logged-in users don’t need to fill in their user name and password each time they download?
3) Would it just be easier to put all of my libsyn download links on a restricted page to avoid having to restrict access to the downloads individually?
4) Or how would you go about protecting such download links with Libsyn?

At this time you can really only use s2Member’s /s2member-files/ folder or Amazon S3 / Cloudfront integration without custom code being put into your I’ll add Libsyn to our list of requests as a possible alternative in the future. In your current situation, I would recommend either moving your files to the /s2member-files/ directory, or using your idea on #3 to send Users to downloads. Note that these links could (probably) still be shared, as they won’t be protected by s2Member.

Using the Remote Auth option would make it easier to integrate Libsyn with s2Member, but would still require custom code.

WordPress does a Cron Job a bit differently than your hosting company might be used to. You shouldn’t have any problems with that once you find a solution for your other problem.

If you’d really like to read up on WordPress’s Cron Jobs work, you can find information on it here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Category:WP-Cron_Functions

That’s a codex, so it may be a bit overwhelming if you’re not used to working with code. You may want to check out this article, instead.

http://wp.tutsplus.com/articles/insights-into-wp-cron-an-introduction-to-scheduling-tasks-in-wordpress/

Seems like all the server “settings” are right (perhaps)..but maybe something at a higher level??

Yes, it’s not something that’s a setting. Having fopen and cUrl ON is not the problem here. The problem is that your server is blocking connections through these methods to the same domain. It’s something that’s done at a higher level than PHP. That error in the Server Scanner is checking to see if the site can connect to itself, and it’s failing. That’s why it’s throwing that error, not because it’s not enabled.

Sorry I can see how that would be confusing.