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Hello Paul,

You can find it under Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets if I remember right.

Hope this helps. :)

Yeah their support is really bad. :(

So if I understood correctly, you are currently using PayPal Payflow as your gateway correct?

Hello Chris,

Just checking your quote from your developer, and I noticed a couple of things:

We tried your requirements with s2member plugin but they have not provided all files for customization as they have many files encrypted (s2member code) where we cant see programming code.

I’m pretty sure this is not correct, if the file is not corrupted or encrypted manually, then pretty much nothing is encrypted, since you are supposed to be able to edit this plugin freely. Could you ask them to give you the file names and locations, so that I might also check it out myself. Thanks.

S2Member says that we can not use PayPal button before login when registration time

If I understand this correctly, it means the PayPal button can’t be used before the user is registered. Please confirm that this is true. If it is, then this is very wrong, you are supposed to be able to offer PayPal buttons before the user is registered, otherwise how would they pay? Could you please confirm with your developer this is what he means?

we can use only one registration form at a time

This is correct, but only with the pro-forms, and you can’t use more than one in one page, basically you’re limited to one pro-form per page, but this is easily handled by having a page which redirects to all the pages with the pro-forms.

Again, please confirm with your developer what I asked you. :)

Glad I was able to help Sarah. :)

Excellent! Glad I was able to help (a bit). :)

Not sure you can accomplish this with s2Member, atleast not without custom coding.

What you could do is surround the widgets area with s2Member PHP conditionals, that way only logged in users can see it.

You can find an article about conditionals here: Knowledge Base » s2Member® Conditionals

Just remember the shortcode conditionals wouldn’t work.

Hope this helps. :)

Glad you found the solution Shane!

also, the coding in s2member is really good! The programmer should be very happy as he is very very skilled. it is not often you see such impeccable code anymore!

Yes he is a very good coder, although he is better now, the current s2Member’s code is actually pretty dirty under some standards, especially high performance standards. But the newer version will be much better. ;)

Hello Bruce,

I’m not sure about this myself, I’ll ask Jason for his opinion. Don’t think he’ll post here, but I’ll tell you what he tells me. ;)

Hello Sarah,

1. I would really like to re-create the drop-down login form as used on this S2 site. I have searched the forums & it seems it’s a custom installation of the Pro login widget. Can the code be shared?

This is some customized code, and we really can’t share the code, since it wouldn’t work unless you have the pro version of s2Member.

2. I really don’t want the user ever seeing the WP login screen (albeit I realise it can be customised). Therefore, does the Pro login widget allow you show login error messages within the widget, rather than redirecting to the default WP login failed page? If not, any pointers as to how I’d go about achieving this?

This isn’t quite possible, you would have to modify s2Member (specifically the widget) in order to completely replace the wp-login.php page, for this you would also need to modify the WordPress side of it if I’m not mistaken.

3. Is there a shortcode which allows an admin to hide only part of a post – e.g. Intro content here [hide]Rest of content here[/hide]. Was trying to find a list of available shortcodes but couldn’t find it!

There are, check out this article: Knowledge Base » s2Member® Conditionals

4. We need to take manual payment. My plan is to let people register for free, then have an admin upgrade them to, e.g., level 1 when payment has been taken. Is this possible?

This is possible, you would just edit the user’s role under Dashboard -› Users -› All Users -› [Username], just make sure to receive the payment first. ;)

Hope this helps. :)

Hello Maksym,

But still no access to that page, so i went to create a new user and that user did not get awarded new membership level.

The user is not logged in automatically, so once the account is created you have to actually login as the user in question.

Also, when creating the user, did you specify a role, if you did, did you specify it as “s2Member level 1” or higher?

How can i have it so if the customer is not a member or loggedin before payment it will ask to register or login?
Thank you.

That is already accomplished with the membership options page, as long as the page where the user is gonna pay is protected with a level of 0, so that the user has to register before paying, even if registering for free.

Hope this helps. :)

Hello Manish,

This currently isn’t possible with s2Member, it will be possible with the new version, but this version is currently not integrated in that way.

One way you can achieve this is using a mail service like MailChimp or Aweber, and set them up so that they send an email when their subscription is about to end.

Hope this helps. :)

Hello Manish,

Is it not possible to create a user/member from backend and assign particular membership level ?

Yes this is possible, without s2Member even, check under Dashboard -› Users -› Add New, just make sure you choose the user role you want the user to have. And under the s2Member section of the new user page fill whatever you need to fill.

Hope this helps. :)

No problem! Glad I was able to help. :)