Bruce

Ok, well then it is possible to have additional fields for an upgrade form going from free level 0 to level 1 (i.e. ask for driver’s license number, date of birth, etc.)?

No, s2Member does not put the Custom Registration/Profile fields in modification forms. Only registration forms. You will need to have Users update their profile after they upgrade if you have level-specific Profile Fields that they need to fill out.

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m very sorry for the delay over the weekend.

if i make the page and make it password protected in WP, will it affect anything within S2 member area? i am thinking that S2 probably uses the WP password protection integration in some way – so i don’t want to cause any issues….

Nope, you can use the default WordPress password protection as well as s2Member protections on your site, or even on the same Post/Page. It won’t affect s2Member. :-)

Thank you for your inquiry.

Sorry for the delay over the weekend.

I’m sorry I don’t know what would be causing this. I’ll have to take a look at your installation. Could you send us a Dashboard login via Private Contact Form?

See: s2Member® » Private Contact Form

S2 should create the ability to do this in my opinion.

Thanks for your thoughts. I’ll take this as a feature request, but I can’t say that it will be possible any time soon. This should really be a core WordPress feature. Otherwise all that s2Member can do is what I mentioned above in a function that wraps it. If it’s possible to accomplish creating a function that can query your database for these Posts, then I will see if our development team can add an API function for doing this. :-)

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m sorry for the delay over the weekend.

s2Member can certainly accomplish this. You’ll want to use s2Member’s Custom Capabilities to restrict access to your content, instead of Membership Levels. The reason for this is because s2Member’s Membership Levels are incremental, so if you separate your content into Membership Levels, anyone at s2Member Level 2 will have access to content protected at s2Member Levels 1 & 0, and so on.

Custom Capabilities do not work that way. They are completely separate from Membership Levels and can be used to protect content in just about the same ways. There’s a very in-depth explanation of what Custom Capabilities are in this video:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capabilities

You can sell Custom Capabilities either through regular Payment Buttons/Forms, or separately with Capability Buy-Now Buttons/Forms:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Capability (Buy Now) Buttons

Is it safe to delete those lines, or will this impact how s2Member works on my site?

These lines disable GZIP on your server for s2Member’s file downloads. You can comment them out for now, but it may be necessary to add them back in if you ever have problems with s2Member’s file downloads.

1) when I saw the tutorial videos about the custom cap., I did not see that he is using paypal pro forms, so why did you mention them in your previous reply?

Sorry about that, this is also possible with buttons:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Capability (Buy Now) Buttons
Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)

2) When I add custom capabilities, do I still need to define level 0 and 1 in membership level and say for each page if it is requiring level 0 or 1?

You can use a Membership Level, or a Custom Capability, or a mixture of both to restrict access to your Pages. The way you do this depends on how you want to restrict your content.

3) In the field “require custom capabilities?” (see snapshot you attached), what should I put? the tag like music or video? I did not see anything about it in the tutorials.

You would put the name of your Custom Capability, like video or music, yes.

What I am trying to say is can I only use PayPal with S2 Member exclusively because of how S2 Member interacts with PayPal?

You should be able to use s2Member alongside any other program. I’m not sure what all is required for running eBay, but you will need to make sure that your Business PayPal Account at least has PayPal IPN and PDT enabled. You don’t necessarily have to set up s2Member’s URLs here, if eBay requires that you have them set to something else, because s2Member sets these on a per-transaction basis.

This is not true with Pro Forms. So if your other integrations require that you have a PayPal IPN URL set up you will only be able to Use PayPal Buttons or the other payment gateways that s2Member offers. This is a PayPal limitation.

Does that make sense?

Thank you for your inquiry.

Is there a way to accomplish this? Or a workaround?

You mentioned that you’re using using sub-directory sites. Are you doing this through WordPress Multisite, or is each site a separate installation of WordPress?

You could create Users on other WordPress subsites with WordPress Multisite, but there currently is no way to link sites that are not on a WordPress Multisite Network that’s documented. You might be able to use s2Member Pro’s Remote Operations API along with API Notifications to accomplish this, but I have not personally done this. You might want to take a look at this article if you’re interested in doing that:

Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

Here’s where the Remote Operations API is documented:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Remote Operations API

Thanks for the clarification. Sorry about the delay.

Can you not set up s2Member to send information to your invoice software on each of your installations using API Notifications? That might be simpler for you.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications -› Signup Notifications

s2Member doesn’t make it possible to change the notify_url paramter without editing the source code directly, which means that when you update s2Member, it will overwrite these changes. So I would suggest trying using the API Notifications first. If you cannot accomplish what you need to that way I can show you where to edit in the source code to change this.

Thank you for your inquiry.

To set your IPN/PDT settings, you have to make sure that your PayPal account is a Business-type account, and if you’re using PayPal Sandbox, you need to log in in sandbox.paypal.com, rather than developer.paypal.com.

You might also check out this part of PayPal’s documentation if you still can’t find it:

https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNSetup/

Thank you for your inquiry.

To achieve this, you need to use Custom Capabilities. Custom Capabilities are separate from Membership Levels, and unlike Membership Levels, they are non-incremental. You can sell Custom Capabilities through Pro Forms using the ccap attribute, or using Capability Buy-Now Forms:

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

You can restrict content using the same Form as you’d use for Membership Levels:

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capabilities

You can see this video for advanced information on Custom Capabilities:

Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)