Cristián Lávaque

I asked Jason about using [hilite mono]c_ws_plugin__s2member_list_servers::process_list_servers[/hilite] and if all arguments were required to make it work, including password. Here’s his reply:

Yes, a site owner could certainly use this through a hack if they like.

All arguments are required, but you’re right, the plain text password is nearly impossible. That can be spoofed with something like “xxx”, just so it has a value. s2Member only passes that along to AWeber in a few special cases, and it’s NOT anything real important. I’ts fine 99.9% of the time to just spoof that.

If a site owner uses this hack…
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Only then will s2Member actually need the plain text password. In all other cases, just spoof it with the encrypted version, or just use “xxx”.

s2Member is still using AWeber’s email parser, but Jason is working on the API integration.

You’d need to apply your customizations again if you made them to the source files instead of using a plugin. You could do a diff of the original file for that version you have, and make a note of the changes, so you apply them again after the update. It shouldn’t be too hard, but if you create a hack in the must-use plugins dir, you won’t have to worry about updates after that.

Not sure if your version already has the improvements to edit the new user email, if not, you may want to give it a look: Knowledge Base » Editing the New User Email Notification with s2Member®

About the emails problem, I don’t know why it could be, but Raam wrote a good article on fixing email problems that should help: Knowledge Base » Troubleshooting Email Delivery Problems

Peter, try this constant S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_LOGIN.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› PHP/API Constants[/hilite]

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[[s2Get constant="S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_LOGIN" /]]
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No, you can use PayPal buttons in the free version too.

MailChimp lets you have up to 2000 subscribers free in one of their plans.
http://mailchimp.com/pricing/free/

With MailChimp’s Forever Free plan, you can send 12,000 emails a month to a list of up to 2,000 subscribers, but there are a few features that are only available to users with paid accounts.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by  Cristián Lávaque.

OK. Let me see if I understand:

– User has to pay $1
– You review the user
– If OK, pays more

Like they are paying $1 to have their application reviewed, is that it?

If you don’t want them to create an account, the option s2Member has the Specific Post/Page access, which will send the person an email with the link to the protected page.

The other options s2Member has would sell him access that requires them to register an account.

If you don’t want anything to do with access, then just create a button over at PayPal, doesn’t need to be integrated with s2Member, but if you need the s2Member pro-form, then the above are the options.

Couldn’t you have something to say in the page they bought with Specific Post/Page access? Couldn’t they be invited to create an account after payment?

Here’s an idea to sell accounts somewhere else, based on what you said:

Create a bunch of accounts using the importation tool. Use random strings for the usernames and passwords, and unique emails with your domain name, so you get them in your catchall account. http://google.com/search?q=email+catch-all+account

When you sell the account, what you’ll give them is the username and password and ask them to edit their email address as soon as possible or they won’t be able to recover access to the account if they lose the password.

Actually, use the Login Offers feature so that the first login takes him to the Profile page to update his email [hilite mono]1:http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/profile.php/hilite and add the EOT time with a hack in the must-use plugins dir.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› One-Time Offers (Upon Login)[/hilite]

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Or something like that.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by  Cristián Lávaque.

Excellent. :)

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$cfields = get_user_option('wp_s2member_custom_fields', $vars['user_id']);
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will give you all the custom fields that have a value for the user, not just budget and wtgoal. You can add more of those to the array to be merged. Is that what you meant?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by  Cristián Lávaque.

Hi Anne-Marie.

Could you show me where the s2Member documentation/directions say to use Subscriptions Password Management? I don’t remember that.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® PDT/Auto-Return Integration[/hilite]

When you create/edit the profile field, set “Allow Profile Edits” to: Yes (editable after registration / invisible during registration)“.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite]

I hope it helps. :)

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by  Cristián Lávaque.

Hi Ryan.

That’s a great question. The current s2Member doesn’t have that, so you’d need to customize it with a hack. s2Member’s codex can be found here:
http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/list_servers/c_ws_plugin__s2member_list_servers/

I hope that helps!

Oh, but those fields are for the payment, not to create an account. And if they don’t give you the email address, you’ll have nowhere to send the access link for the restricted page.