Bruce

Bruce, logging is now enabled and the most recent payment via PayPal is non-recurring. Plus the member was not upgraded from Free to Paid. Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks.

Taking a look now.

I can confirm that this is coming in the next maintenance release of s2Member. :-)

Thanks for the reply. You stated that “This isn’t something we’re looking to bring into the current release of s2Member, sorry.”

In an earlier post, Eduan stated “BTW the next generation of s2Member will have this fixed I believe.”

We are currently in the middle of a full rewrite of s2Member that will work totally differently than the current release. The release date of said rewrite has been pushed back many times due to many things, the biggest being the changes with PayPal’s APIs and other changes we’ve had to make to the current release of s2Member to keep it going correctly.

We do not have a release date for this.

This is what Eduan was referencing in his reply. The “current release” of s2Member is the one that you have download that we are still releasing maintenance releases with, but refraining from adding too many new features as we are trying to focus our development on the “next major version” of s2Member.

Thank you for your inquiry.

Sorry for the delay. We missed this topic over the weekend.

After researching a bit more, I may have a solution, and I’d love some feedback. Here’s my current plan…

Yes that sounds like it would work for you.

As for restricting access to your categories based on Custom Capabilities, you might use s2Member’s Advanced PHP Conditionals with the WordPress is_category() function. With this you can create a Must-Use Plugin that can restrict your Categories based on Custom Capabilities. As an example, here’s an example that would restrict access to any Post / the Archive Page for a Category with an ID of 9:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-show-ids/

I want to mention that it sounds like your theme’s developer just skipped the step that allows developers to customize the custom fields easily when they set up this part of the theme. I would say that if you contacted them they would probably add this in, as it is something that’s relied on by several plugins that hook into the BuddyPress registration system.

As for the redirect from the standard BuddyPress registration page to the theme’s custom one, you’ll need to ask the BuddyPress forums about that.

See: http://buddypress.org/support/

Thank you for your inquiry.

At first, I set this up using the “Modification Notifications” in API/Notification. However, I quickly realized that the modification notification fires in all modification scenarios, not just when the account becomes a paying account. That is a problem, because I don’t want to issue a commission for an already paying customer. Just for the customers that upgrade from a free account to a Level 2 or 3 account.

You can’t accomplish this with s2Member’s API Notifications. You’ll have to use this hook to accomplish this:

ws_plugin__s2member_during_paypal_notify_during_before_subscr_modify

See: Knowledge Base » Hacking s2Member® Via Hooks/Filters

/s2member/includes/classes/paypal-notify-in-subscr-modify-w-level.inc.php

At the point that this hook is fired, s2Member is right about to upgrade the User based on the Subscription details. Here you can grab the current User object that s2Member has, and see if they are s2Member level 0 now. If they are, then you can do the process that you want to. Here’s some example code:

<?php
add_action('ws_plugin__s2member_during_paypal_notify_during_before_subscr_modify', 's2hack_on_modify_level0');
function s2hack_on_modify_level0($vars = array()) {
	extract($vars);
	
	if(user_is($user->ID, 'subscriber') { // If the User is a subscriber at this point, then that means they're being upgraded from level 0.
		// We do our processing here
	}
}

Thank you for your inquiry.

I am using the default fields in my registration page (Username, First Name, Last Name, Password, Display Name) but how can I group those fields together in their own section in the built in s2member myprofile page?

You’ll have to either use this filter to accomplish this (which would take some advanced Regex I believe. I would recommend against it), or edit the Profile Form directly.

ws_plugin__s2member_sc_profile

s2Member allows you to override classes manually, so you can copy this file, and stick it into a Must-Use Plugin, then edit it to work with what you want:

/s2member/includes/classes/sc-profile-in.inc.php

3. What prevents one bad PAYING USER (or group) from buying all our products, downloading them, then launching his own business inside China, spamming 100 million people, charging a dollar for all our products, then he closes his business after 7 days pocketing millions of dollars and now all our products appear free all over the China web, and probably other countries too? We have a team of designers and linguists who put a lot of effort and time into developing beautiful products and we’d like to launch in China, but … cautiously! Thank you!

First I want to mention that no matter how you’re serving your files (inline or not) the User is still downloading the file. The only difference between the two methods is that inline sends some specific headers to the browser to tell it that it’s possible to download the file inline, making it simpler for Users to view the file.

This can be demonstrated with an inline link to an .mp3 file. Even if the file is served inline, you can simply right-click the link and Save Link As… in your browser.

As for the links being available for a period of time after the download:

This has to do with Amazon’s Signed URLS. s2Member goes over what these are in this section of your Dashboard (click to see full image):

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Amazon® S3/CloudFront CDN Storage

The bottom line here is that (as far as I know) there is no way to totally securely share your files. However you do it, Users still download the file to view it and it can be accessed in it’s raw format. Your best defense against what you’re looking for are things like well-written Terms and Conditions. Protecting your work legally is very important any time you’re providing content to Users on the internet.

I hope that clarifies things. Let us know if you have any further questions. :-)

Thank you for your inquiry.

I am having issues understanding how I can create an upgrade form with additional fields to be filled out that needs to be manually reviewed and approved…it is NOT a “Buy Now” function and automatic approval.

s2Member doesn’t have this kind of form available. The only way to achieve this would be to have a developer set up a form to collect the information from your Users and to either automatically or manually upgrade the User and their profile after they submit the form. Sorry about that. You might check out one of the Contact Form plugins for creating that.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-plugin/

My best practice question is: Is this overkill? Do I need to use the HTTPS plug-in, or does s2Member have setting that handle encryption. The client is especially concerned about passwords being encrypted as they are passed across the ‘net.

s2Member allows you to set Posts and Pages to load in HTTPS mode with an SSL certificate using a custom Post value. However this does not affect things like log in forms, or any processes that are not done on a Post/Page. I’m not personally experienced with the HTTPs Plugin you mentioned, but I know that I have seen this used in conjunction with s2Member in the past.

If you just want to secure your checkout forms, then I would say that s2Member alone should be enough. Otherwise, you can leave the current plugin installed. It shouldn’t hurt anything. :-)

Thank you for your inquiry.

Sorry for the delay.

1. I’m having trouble not being redirected to the /registration page that buddypress has it’s template form.

What do you mean by this? The only time you should be redirected to this page is if you try to access /wp-login.php?action=register. This is something that BuddyPress does, not s2Member. Is that not working?

2. I removed all the buddypress profile fields, and I’m trying to set them up through S2 member but I’m being unsucessful and don’t fully understand how they work

Which part of the fields do you not understand? Could you expand on this please? Thanks!

I’ve followed this process and it’s working a treat.

Cool. Let us know if you have any more problems.

And thanks for your purchase. :-)

Thanks very much for the kudos! :-)