Cristián Lávaque

Hi Arthur.

Is s2member compatable with wpengine hosting? I just migrated there and everything seems fine accept for new 2032 errors and dont have permission warning…

Are there any setting that have to be changed at WPengine or s2member setting that need modification?

I don’t know about WP Engine, whether it works fine with s2Member or not. You can try this server check tool to see if it reports any problems: http://www.s2member.com/r/server-check-tool/

BTW if someone doesn’t have access it would be cool if there could be an option to send them instead to the Membership Options page like when a member page is clicked. The error message in the player can be confusing to non computer literate users… must say the message is a little cryptic and tiny.

Do you mean the protected files? They do take you to the Membership Options page. If you’re opening with a player, though, the player will be sent to the page and since it’s not a media file, it’d give an error. You may want to look at how to customize the player’s errors. Or just show the player to those with enough access, wrapping it with a conditional. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals[/hilite]

I hope that helps. :)

Just got your email. Thanks for the info.

I found the problem, you had a space in the folder’s name: s2 member-pro instead of s2member-pro.

I removed the space and now s2Member Pro is active in your WP admin. :)

Hi Joe.

s2Member doesn’t have this feature, but you could customize it a bit to achieve something that works for you.

s2Member Pro has the free registration pro-form, which lets people register for free at higher levels than Level 0. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Free Registration Forms[/hilite]

You can also give users custom capabilities, which may be useful if you want to show content based on the code the person used. Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)

The shortcode for the form can be adjusted with some PHP, so you can vary the form’s attributes using variables in the URL of the page where pro-form is, for example. http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1604

You can have, for example:
http://example.com/register?code=abc123

Or you can have a separate registration page for each code:
http://example.com/abc123

Would that work for you?

What do you need to do with this code the person enters? Show him certain content? Or track who used a certain code?

I see, I understand now better what you’re trying to do.

You can give capabilities to a user directly, instead of a role. So you could edit this user to have the Author capabilities, independent of the role he has. The User Role Editor I linked to earlier lets you do this. After you activate the plugin, go to the Users list and when you hover the user, you’ll see a “capabilities” link. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/

No, it wouldn’t be giving Author capabilities to everybody, because you’d do this with one of the s2Member Level roles that you didn’t give everybody, you’d only give to this person you want to author posts.

If everyone in your site has Level 1, then edit Level 2 to have the Author capabilities and give that role to this person. The rest of the users at Level 1 won’t be touched by this change.

You mean if he stops paying and should be demoted? If it’s just one user, you could manage it manually, I guess. Otherwise, I’d look at how to make one of the s2Member roles behave like the Author one and just give it to that user.

That’s great, Adam! :)

If you don’t use PayPal at all and haven’t configured the integration for it, the free registration form may give a warning about this.

Just enter fake credentials and the warning will go away, but remember to update it with real ones if you start using PayPal services. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Account Details[/hilite] ;)

Hi Frank.

What do you mean? Are you using an s2Member shortcode there? or do you mean translating the theme’s template for that page?

Awesome. Good luck! I hope everything goes great. :)

No, that information is for the gateway to process the payment, and is not stored by s2Member in the profile. If you want those fields in the profile, then you need to create them: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite].

The user will need to fill those too for them to be in the profile, unless you create a hack that populates them at the same time the user fills out the information for the payment (“use same address” thing you see in shopping carts for billing and shipping addresses).

That sounds like a good way to do it. I’m glad you sorted it out. :)

The only thing I wish is that I could create a different email confirmation to the registered user for these special Webinars.

How are they registering for these webinars? In your site with another plugin or somewhere else with a service you got for the webinars (e.g. GoToWebinar)?

JoAnn, I just sent you an email answering all the questions you had made in your posts, including the one about this person with the IP problem. I sent it by email and removed your your posts from the forum because you mentioned in one that you didn’t want that in any forum.

About that person’s IP problem, he either shared the login info with people from those cities and told you he didn’t, or they’re all made by him while travelling, or he’s using a proxy service that makes his connections look as if coming from other computers. Internet connections do go via several servers along the way, but only the IP of the actual device the person is using is the one counted.

You can reset his IP restriction from his profile so he can access the site again, if you want. And you can change his password from his profile too and send it to him, although it wouldn’t prevent him from sharing it, but it’d prevent the previous one from working for others if they had it.

I hope that helps. :)