Cristián Lávaque

I can provide code and links, but would prefer to do so in a private venue as this site is not ready to launch (but is overdue.)

You can use the contact form. Let me know here when you sent it, so I look for it. s2Member® » Private Contact Form

We had to remove the javascript inclusion on the checkout page (very long and painful story,) is it related to this in any way?

You mean s2Member’s JavaScript? That’d be a problem, the pro-form needs it to function.

On submit returns to the checkout page, with no content, nothing.

You mean you get a blank page? What response do you get from the server? I ask because another site owner is currently getting 414s due to his server having a low limit for the URI length, causing him to get a blank page after checkout.

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By the way, make sure you have logging enabled during your testing, so we can see in the logs what the entries say. They’re very helpful to diagnose what’s causing some problems. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Log Files (Debug) -› Logging Configuration[/hilite]

And also try this, please: Knowledge Base » s2Member® Server Scanner

Where? in the root? In the WP-content/theme/MyTheme folder?
I tried both and it didn’t work…

In the directory where you have wp-config.php. Knowledge Base » s2Member® Server Scanner

but when I login to root.com/blog/wp-content it now takes me to the original installation

Did you mean to say /blog/wp-login.php?

Well, installing a second WP in the same site shouldn’t be a problem… http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs

However, they did suggest something they found (I guess on your forum), and I changed the mo-page-in.inc so that it wouldn’t parse the same variables. It’s working, but I guess I can’t have Membership Options page variables with this “hack”.

I think I know what hack that is, one I suggested some months ago to someone that didn’t want the MOP vars in the URL. If you don’t use the vars in your Membership Options page, that’s not an issue.

The 414, though, may be affecting your transaction too, as I said earlier. Look at how long the URL you mention having trouble with is: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/s2member-not-recording-the-purchase/#lead-topic-46159

The paypal “return link” isn’t working, this is the url it sends me to, but it is broken and I don’t know if this has to do with the problem.

s2Member Pro had its additional payment gateways added before PayPal Advanced became available, if I’m not mistaken.

When Advanced was requested, we had already started development of the new s2Member. Jason didn’t want to delay its development adding it to the current s2Member. Adding a new payment gateway has several complications that are time consuming to get completely right. It’d help if PayPal were standard in the way its services work, but they’re very different from each other, so it’s a completely new integration for each one.

We plan to support PayPal Advanced in the new s2Member. We don’t have a release date for it yet, though, so I can’t tell you to wait for it to start your site. That’s why I say that if you need to receive payments on your site for s2Member, PayPal Pro would be the option available.

WordPress profiles aren’t public, and s2Member doesn’t change that. BuddyPress, for example, has a users directory and public profiles. Do you have BuddyPress in your installation?

If that’s not the case, then how exactly does his name show up in Google? Could you send me an example search term for Google and a link to the page that shows up in the results with this user? Let me know when you sent it. s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Do you have [hilite mono]WP_DEBUG[/hilite] enabled? That throws several notices with s2Member, although no error that’d stop it from working properly. If you disable debugging you won’t get those notices. http://codex.wordpress.org/WP_DEBUG

We’re taking care of all the notices in the new s2Member being developed, so that won’t be an inconvenience in the future.

Also, I’m getting some weird character bugginess (see image below).

I don’t know what that’s about… Do you get it with new users too? Could you create a new test one to see if the same happens there? I haven’t seen this before.

Maybe it’s a character encoding thing in WP or the database?

Or try the tips in this article: Knowledge Base » Common Troubleshooting Tips

That’s fine too. Your condition instead of checking if he has all or module1 to show content, checks if he has neither to not show it.

Chris, I’m pretty sure you can use the same AWS account with different buckets for each s2Member installation. I haven’t tried it myself, but it wouldn’t be hard for you to test it.

Jason got back to us regarding this:

This can happen when the following occurs:

An IP Restriction limit is exceeded, and a security breach occurs.

The user receives the 503 error.

Then the security breach times out after about 1 hour (by default).

s2Members says there is no security breach in the Dashboard for this User’s account (which is correct).

Now the user comes back to the site and tries to log into the site with yet another new IP address. The security breach is automatically recreated; and will automatically expire again after about 1 hour.

This creates a scenario where a site owner is not seeing the actual security breach in the Dashboard (because it keeps timing out before they see it); even though it really does exist (in some respects); because the User is “on the edge” and if they attempt to log into the site with an IP address they’ve not used in the past, the breach continues to come back over and over again.

Solution: Increase MAX IPs that you allow.

We’ll try to improve the message when that’s the case to avoid this confusion in the future.

Hmm… I’d probably try having a conditional in the template, checking the post’s time.

Maybe something like this:

[hilite pre_code]
get_post_time('U', true) < strtotime('-6 months') [/hilite] http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_time
http://php.net/strtotime

Hi Nikolas.

but how do I set it so that if a person chooses the 3 payment option, they are only billed for those three payments (one a month) and then the billing STOPS?

For that you’d use the [hilite mono]rrt[/hilite] attribute in the shortcode. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes -> rrt[/hilite]

or is that against forum policy to seek out someone here for any custom work?

No, we have no problem with that, but not many may see it. What you could try is posting the job in a freelancers website like jobs.wordpress.net, elance.com, odesk.com or freelancer.com. :)

PayPal Advanced is not supported by s2Member yet, only Standard, Express Checkout and Pro. If he wants to receive payments on his site, he’ll need PayPal Pro.

These articles may be helpful too:
Knowledge Base » PayPal® Services / A Quick Comparison
Knowledge Base » PayPal Pro, PayFlow, DPRP, Express Checkout