Cristián Lávaque

You can disable free registrations from here: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Open Registration[/hilite]

Then registrations would only happen after they pay. You can have them pay first using a button (e.g. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Membership Level # Buttons[/hilite]) or pro-form (e.g. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Membership Level # Forms[/hilite].

Then you’d protect those individual content pages using custom capabilities, and sell the user the custom capability he needs to view each specific page. See: Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)

I hope that helps. :)

Could you try resetting s2Member’s settings for Amazon using this hack? Knowledge Base » Reset the Amazon S3/CloudFront integration

After doing that, reconfigure your S3 integration here: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Amazon® S3/CDN Storage[/hilite]

I hope that helps! :)

Jason left me a note earlier saying he’d investigate your problem, but hasn’t left an update since then. I’ll let you know as soon as I have an answer from him. :)

Hi Catalina. I’m very sorry I missed your post until now.

One year ago I installed s2member and it works well ~ THANK YOU !!!

For my one year anniversary of having a basic membership site I decided to upgrade to s2member-pro.

Great! I’m very glad to see you’re enjoying s2Member. :)

What happens is when I upload the s2member-pro it is uploaded onto a FILE MANAGER database that is hosted via yahoo for the main part of my website http://www.catalinasangels.com. I cannot seem to get the uploaded s2member-pro onto the blog site/WordPress/plugins. I don’t know how to do that.

Hmm… I’m not familiar with Yahoo! Site Solutions, but it should be possible for you to upload files to where you want them in your site. What did Yahoo! say regarding upload to the plugins directory?

If you send me your site’s info, I can take a look at this to try sorting it out: s2Member® » Private Contact Form

The Membership Options Page is what we call that page that the restriction redirects people to when they don’t have the access for the protected content they tried to open.

It doesn’t have to have a registration form or payment options or anything in particular, it’ll have whatever you put there. It can be a simple “Sorry, you can’t access that page” message with nothing else if that’s what you prefer.

What do you want someone to see if he tries to open a page you protected? That’s what you’d put in the Membership Options Page.

Does that help? :)

They’re separate sentences, but I see how you could get confused with the way it’s written. I’ll ask Jason to improve it so it can’t be mistaken.

If the user chooses to pay with PayPal, he’ll be taken to PayPal, this is imposed by PayPal, not us, there’s no way for us around it. You can ask PayPal if you can have a customer pay through PayPal Express Checkout without leaving your site. :/

Great! Thanks for the update. :)

Jason replied with a hack you can use, that’ll help you keep the custom value for the user when demoted.

Create this dir/file: /wp-content/mu-plugins/s2-hacks.php
See Knowledge Base » Hacking s2Member® Via Hooks/Filters

[hilite pre_code]

When using pro-forms, yes. If you want to use PayPal buttons, then you have PayPal Standard. PayPal Standard will also require the person to login to his PayPal account if he’ll pay a subscription, because a subscription profile will be created.

If you want to not require the user to login, then there’s an upgrade for PayPal Standard called Enhanced Recurring Payments. Knowledge Base » PayPal® Services / A Quick Comparison

When I test the subscription the user does not upgrade from “0″ Subscriber to S2Member Level 1 and I cannot access the confirmation page.

Okay, so the problem is that the user pays but is not upgraded to Level 1 with ccap “coaching”?

If it’s an existing user upgrading his account, you need to make sure he’s logged in to it when he loads the page with the upgrade button/pro-form.

Or are these new signups?

First after watching the videos on Custom Capability Packages, which is how I want to set up my site, I’m confused as to whether I need to change the functions.php file or simply check the box on the page as listed in the *New notes, or both.

The code is only needed if you need a customized restriction that is not supported by the default one. Adding the ccap to metabox for the page should be enough. By the way, if you add a level and ccap, then both will be required to have acces, not one or the other.

You mean users are not being transitioned or removed? Have you seen the settings here? [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers -› Automate Unsubscribes/Opt-Outs[/hilite]

Let me know if that helps.

Now S2Members won’t automatically update new members on to my site after they sign up using CCbills.

When you say “now”, you mean it was working the first days? Or do you mean that they pay and then it doesn’t show in their account?

Are these existing accounts upgrading? If so, they have to be logged in to the account when loading the page with the ccBill button created with s2Member’s shortcode for it.

If new signups, do they accept cookies from your site, or are they using the signup link they get in the Signup Confirmation email? [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ccBill® Options -› Signup Confirmation Email[/hilite]

Have you done test purchases yourself to see that this works before selling to your customers? You can do 1 cent purchases for your tests, if ccBill allows it.

Also, please keep logging enabled during the testing phase, so we get more information. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Log Files (Debug) -› Logging Configuration[/hilite]

You’re welcome! I’m glad I could help you. :)