Bruce

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

I’m unable to diagnose your issue from this log file. Could you send us Dashboard and FTP Login details via Private Contact Form so we can see the rest of your log files and run test transactions?

See: s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Thank-you.

Thanks Bruce, got the concept. Can you advice some good banner system which allows single BP users to submit their banners? Thanks

I don’t have one to personally recommend, but I found this one after a quick search:

http://codecanyon.net/item/banner-manager-pro/2561323

so the license is linked to whatever is listed under the account profile? sounds good. thanks

Right.

What versions of s2Member and WordPress are you running?

Do you have logging enabled?

added the fields as you said

http://www.meekgreyhounds.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=register

but it was on the page we wanted them displayed
http://www.meekgreyhounds.co.uk/join-us/

Your fields appear to be working correctly for me.

adding fields to the registration form?

how difficult is it?

This is fairly simple. You can add Custom Registration/Profile Fields here:

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

I realise that the correct way to extend memberships is via modification buttons, rather than via “Buy Now” buttons, but I’ve always used the latter and would be reluctant to change this unless there was a good reason to do so. Do you know if there’s any potential disadvantage to using Buy Now buttons to extend memberships?

s2Member defaults Pro Forms to allow for this to work, for the sole purpose of keeping Users from having problems.

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

modify=”0″ Modification directive. Only valid w/ Membership Level Access. Possible values: 0 = allows Customers to modify their current Subscription or sign up for a new one, 1 = allows Customers to only modify their current Subscription. When modify=”1″, s2Member will force a Customer to be logged-in before they can fill out the Form (very handy). This is slightly different than PayPal® “Button” Codes; there is no “2” option for “Forms”; only 0 & 1 are valid values.

The modify attribute defaults to 0, so using regular Buy Now forms to have Users re-up their subscription works. There’s no disadvantage here, but the “correct” way to accomplish this would be to use Billing Modification Forms.

– Can I also use my own payment solutions or will I be allowed to use the built-in s2member payment solutions only?

s2Member provides the tools to integrate another payment gateway with PayPal IPN w/ Proxy Key. This allows you to process an IPN response from an alternative Payment Gateway, and send data to s2Member for s2Member to use the same way it would as if it had gotten the information from PayPal. The only difference here is that s2Member validates the information with PayPal normally. If you pass your special Proxy Key, s2Member will validate the information it receives with this Proxy Key, and skip the normal validation.

Find info on this here: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® IPN Integration -› IPN w/ Proxy Key

– Will it be possible for a tier party (Sliiing) to add active members to the s2member database?

It is possible to add/remove/modify members remotely with s2Member. You can find information on doing so here:

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

Could the path be defined in s2memberhacks.php?

We took a look at the code, and s2Member uses TEMPLATEPATH to get the correct directory to look for its templates. We’re making note of this and are going to find a way to also search a child theme directory as well.

A custom template file can live outside of the theme directory, and be placed inside: /wp-content/my-template.php. However, this will ONLY work if you call the template by name using the template=”my-template.php” Shortcode Attribute for s2Member Pro Forms.

It is also possible to do something like this in your Shortcode:
/wp-content/themes/my-theme/template.php

So you could use the template attribute to get the correct template from your child theme that way.

Thanks for the follow-up.

code never displayed

so i mean add the first code from here http://www.s2member.com/faqs/#s2-faqs-stop-loading-css

I’m sorry, I don’t know what you mean by this. Are you saying that the code in the code block on the FAQs page isn’t loading for you? Could you provide a screenshot?

I can confirm that the code sample provided in this FAQ does work as intended on a clean installation of WordPress running a default WordPress theme. See below.

Without the hack:

With the hack:

Thank you for your inquiry.

What would be best is if it’s possible to add the payments for banner to their s2member Level >= 1 monthly/yearly/etc bill. Do you think something is possible in some way?

Unfortunately I can’t think of any way that you would use s2Member to handle this. s2Member currently does not support the ability to track multiple subscriptions at a time, so any upgrade that a User does will be put in with their subscription to your site. This is probably not what you’d want.

I’d recommend creating a completely separate process for paying for running your banners. s2Member passes the correct IPN URL in every transaction, so you can change your PayPal IPN URL for your new process, and s2Member should work just fine.

Thanks for the follow-up.

“Are you currently signing up Users with a Subscription with Your Members? If so, what Payment Gateway is this set up with?”
I am using a sign up form for a subscription via Your Members plugin. This form then leads to CCBill for payment… I will install s2member free version to test the import options..

The s2Member Framework (or the “free version”) does not support CCBill, or Import/Export or Users. These are features of s2Member Pro.

Features

Regarding Sliiing, it not only manages my affiliates, it also has bunch of other payment options – http://sliiing.com/solutions.html and I would like to know whether you think that these might be integrated with s2member like a back up option if ccbill fails to bill the user? I would probably ask Marco from Sliiing to program the script for me…

I’m unsure how Sliiing could back you up in this way, but I suppose if it is possible, you could possible manage this.

See: Pre Sale FAQs » Can I add support for other payment gateways?
See Also: Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

I have read about the “Specific page/post access restriction” and I would like to know whether this works even with CCBill payment gateway? Can I sell specific posts? Would it work also only with section of the posts? For example I have a post, where text is available for free but the video is hidden using private tags and would be revealed either to members only or only upon payment. Can I use the specific post access restriction in this setup?

Yes, CCBill does fully support Specific Post/Page Access. However, in the case that you’d like Users to be able to only see part of a Post, and pay to see the rest, I’d recommend using Custom Capabilities. You can restrict content with Custom Capabilities via Shortcode Conditionals with s2Member, without blocking access to a Post entirely (which is what s2Member does).

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capabilities
See Also: Knowledge Base » Simple Shortcode Conditionals

I have seen somebody commenting about s2member blocking video content and recommending only Amazon s3. I would like to offer videos for download to my members. They can either download the videos or stream them in their browser. Would s2member allow this?

Yes, s2Member provides both file downloads, and streaming through JWPlayer. You can find the info on this in your Dashboard here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options

My last questions is about Cloudflare and cache plugins – can I use them in any way so that they wouldn’t cause conflict with s2member?

I’ve never heard of any problems with s2Member and Cloudflare. However, I do know that Object caching with caching plugins such as W3 Total Cache can cause problems with s2Member. We recommend Quick Cache, which was made by WebSharks, Inc. (the creators of s2Member), and offers full compatibility with s2Member.

See: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-cache/

Thank-you for your thoughts.

There is a follow-up in progress in the original thread here:

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/translation-front-end/#post-45706