Cristián Lávaque

Well, s2Member has the Pro Login widget that you can also add to your pages using PHP, as explained here: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Pro Login Widget (via PHP)[/hilite]

But how you edit your theme to add that code, that’s outside the scope of our plugin support. That’s customizing your site, and your theme developer would be a better person to ask that to. s2Member® » Support Policy » Outside Scope

When you say “top nav bar”, are you talking about the Admin Bar? If so, you’ll have better luck finding a tutorial about it searching for admin bar instead of nav bar.

Hi Eric.

No, s2Member doesnt’ manage access to the admin area, and posting is done on the admin side.

Now, if you have a plugin that lets you post from the front end of the site, then you could protect the page where that form is, with the URI restriction. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions[/hilite]

But having the capability to post, would also allow them to the admin side, if I’m not mistaken.

I was talking with Jason about this a moment ago and he explained to me why the Email Log plugin is not logging s2Member’s Signup Confirmation email:

I just took a quick look at the source code for this plugin. I see this line.

add_action( 'init', 'EmailLog' );

That’s using the default hook priority of 10, which is far too late to pick up on IPN events. So nothing will be recorded by this plugin whenever s2 is handling post processing of a transaction.

add_action("init", "c_ws_plugin__s2member_paypal_notify::paypal_notify", 4);

We are at hook priority 4, which is before the email logger is attached. They should modify that plugin to this:

add_action( 'init', 'EmailLog', 1);

This one will do the trick:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-log/

Could you remove the Email Log plugin and add the WP Mail Log instead, please, and try the test purchase again? Thanks!

By the way, s2Member already supports MailChimp Interest Groups, although not in all of the ways you described. You can see an example shown below the level fields in the MailChimp panel. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers -› MailChimp®[/hilite]

Hi Brian.

I don’t think it’d affect BuddyPress. The users are still WordPress users, s2Member doesn’t change this, so BuddyPress can work normally.

The only interaction between s2Member and BuddyPress regarding users would be the custom profile fields each adds. BuddyPress has its own, which don’t integrate with s2Member’s pro-forms; s2Member has its own that that can be integrated with BuddyPress to a certain extent. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields -> BuddyPress[/hilite]

I’d suggest that you create a test installation of wordpress, install BuddyPress and the plugins you have now, create a couple of users, then test out the migration to s2Member there. That way, any trouble that comes up will not affect your live site. And when you do work on the live one, remember to create good backups of everything so you can get it back up if anything goes wrong.

You don’t seem to need to migrate users, but just in case, here’s an article about that. Knowledge Base » How to Migrate to s2Member Pro from Other Software

I hope that helps. :)

Hi Chris.

You’d have to do some customization.

s2Member will let you give the user a different Level role or custom capability (ccap) when they purchase.

With these you can control what pages he has access to. For a personal page, you could give each user a unique ccap and protect his page with it. Or have a single page and change the content dynamically based on the user viewing it.

For your application to know what access he has, you’ll need to integrate it to WordPress and check his role or capabilities. Knowledge Base » Remote User Status (Custom API)

I hope that helps. :)

Hi Andre.

s2Member adds an EOT time field in the user profile, which you can edit manually to add a date. This time can also be populated on import when you use the s2Member Pro user import tool. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Import/Export -› User/Member Importation[/hilite]

When that time is populated, s2Member won’t touch it even if the user is tied to a payment gateway subscription and it gets cancelled. So make sure you only populate that time when you don’t expect the payment gateway to have a say on that anymore.

Since these users you’ll import won’t be tied to a PayPal subscription, it’s fine, and you have to manage this manually because there’s nothing else to do it.

I hope that helps. :)

Rachelle, I see what you mean. I guess the best solution in this case would be to give them access to each week’s content as they pay it… You’ll need to do some customization to achieve it, but it’s not impossible.

You could sell the subscription, but manage the access to the content with custom capabilities. Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)

Then, use the content dripping approach explained here: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Content Dripping[/hilite]

But instead of showing the content in the drip, give the user the new week’s custom capability. Knowledge Base » Changing Roles/Capabilities via PHP

Before giving the new ccap, check that the user still is paying the subscription. If your EOT behavior demotes the user to level 0, checking that he’s not at level 0 would indicate he hasn’t been demoted yet. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals[/hilite]

Also adjust the EOT Behavior so it doesn’t remove ccaps. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior -> Membership EOTs also Remove all Custom Capabilities[/hilite]

The EOT will happen when the subscription payments stop, whether he cancelled or finished paying all the weeks, so you need to adjust that setting.

I hope that helps. :)

I had to ask Jason because these columns were added recently when I was away. Here’s the documentation that explains the custom fields order: http://www.s2member.com/kb/importing-updating-users/#custom-registration-profile-fields

They have to be sorted alphabetically by ID for the import to work. So my suggestion about rearranging them is not correct, since the import won’t be right. Sorry about that.

Your Custom Registration/Profile Field values should be listed in alphabetical order, based on your Custom Registration/Profile Field IDs (i.e. values listed in the order of your alphabetized Custom Registration/Profile IDs). This is based on the Custom Registration/Profile Field IDs you’ve configured with s2Member®. See: [hilite path]s2Member -> General Options -> Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite].

We’ll keep improving this tool and I made a note of your question, added it to our features requests list. :)

I mean posts in the category changes, and I can’t expect a user who has already paid for the category content to pay for it again.

Correct. Then you shouldn’t use the Specific Post/Page Access restriction, because the link cannot be updated. That restriction uses post IDs, not category IDs. I explained it because you mentioned “specific page/post” and I thought you meant the restriction.

As for the solution on how to automatically create category restriction, can you be a little more specific please?

I’m sorry, I haven’t done it yet so I’m not familiar with the code required. And I’m quite busy at the moment, so I don’t have the time to dedicate figuring it out myself. :/

I’m sorry, I thought I was answering correctly the question I quoted.

Regarding Amazon URL expiration, here’s a hack to change the time: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/cloudfront-and-rtmp-streaming-jw/#post-6608

Unix time stamp is the right format for updating EOT, right?

Right, I forgot the strtotime in my example. Very sorry about that…

But when I add the conditionals for different levels, it doesn’t work. Can’t I use
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else if (current_user_is("s2member_level2")) {some code to add EOT}
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That condition looks fine, just make sure that the account you’re testing with has that role. It works for the other level roles, right?

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$date = date('Y') . '-12-31'; //get current year and adds -12-31
$expire_on = strtotime ( '+1 year' , strtotime ( $date ) ) ; //add one year to current year
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You could also do:

Perhaps you should ask support HOW you can protect videos with file fallback

I don’t think that’s possible with Amazon. This is something Jason told me some time ago:

Content Type, Disposition & Inline Files: An IMPORTANT issue. The query string parameter [hilite mono]&s2member_file_inline=yes[/hilite] does NOTHING for files served via Amazon® CloudFront. s2Member has NO control over the [hilite mono]Content-Type[/hilite] and/or [hilite mono]Content-Disposition[/hilite] headers for a file being served through Amazon® CloudFront, and CloudFront servers do NOT automatically determine the MIME type for the objects they serve. Therefore, when you upload a file to your Amazon® S3 Bucket, you should set its Content-Type header. That is, you MUST configure headers yourself ( such as [hilite mono]Content-Type: video/webm[/hilite], or [hilite mono]Content-Disposition: inline|attachment[/hilite] ) that you want Amazon® CloudFront to send for a particular file. It’s quite easy. You do this by setting [hilite path]Properties -> Metadata[/hilite] ( i.e. headers ) on a per-file basis, from inside your Amazon® S3 Management Console. In short, when you upload a file to your Amazon® S3 Bucket, if you want that file to be served a certain way, be sure to configure its [hilite path]Properties -> Metadata[/hilite] accordingly.