About: Nigel

I changed the php plugin to yours but don’t think it makes any difference.

This works:

<?php if (current_user_can("access_s2member_level1")){ ?>
Content for Level+</p>
<?php } else if (current_user_is("s2member_level0")){ ?>
Content for Level 0
<?php } else { ?>
Public content
<?php } ?>

Adding in anything else – e.g.

<?php } else if (current_user_can('access_s2member_level1')) { if (S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS < 90) {?>

simply produces a blank post and so does combining drip content with a level within one php command. Something wrong here with s2. And, I don’t think it likes working up the scale eg you can’t start with a lower level and work upwards to restrict content one has to work down.

Would be nice to include content dripping in shortcodes – do you know when this might be? What is wrong with the above? I’ve tried it again and when one is logged in at min level one can see the whole article.

Maybe this is something to do with the sequence of commands?What are the advantages of shortcode over php or vice versa?

For whatever reason this isn’t working for me. When I’m not logged in I can see all of it..!

<?php if(is_user_not_logged_in()) && (current_user_can("access_s2member_level == 0")) { ?>
public copy here
<?php } else if (current_user_can('access_s2member_level1') && S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS > 90) { ?>
protected copy - but all users can see this copy
<?php } ?>

I also tried :

<?php if(is_user_not_logged_in()) ?> ie without the level '0'

but this didn’t work either.

Maybe it won’t work in this sequence and doesn’t like the first ‘if’?? Can I use a combination of php and shortcode? Is there a disadvantage to this?

e.g.

[s2If !is_user_logged_in()]some public content[/s2If]
<?php if(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS >= 90){ ?>
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
Protected content
[/s2If]
<?php } ?>

Shortcodes (but without the drip content element) worked fine. e.g.

[s2If !is_user_logged_in()]
some public content
[/s2If]
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
protected content
[/s2If]

What do you think?

Now for the complicated part…

Having taken away the protection for the post as such, but limited the content which can be viewed one ends up with a truncated post e.g title + excerpt. However, there is nothing to tell the reader why the post has been cut short nor any kind of button to subscribe…. so one has to go on with more short codes etc.
e.g.

[s2If !is_user_logged_in()]
some public content plus link to Subscription page
[/s2If]
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
restated excerpt above - because otherwise logged in member won't see it - and protected content
[/s2If]

OK, so no customer support on this one.

I have seen this post: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/protected-content-and-seo/ but the answers aren’t exactly helpful. In fact, the basic conclusions are wrong. Of course, one doesn’t want protected site content to be read (without fulfilling any obligations which exist e.g. payment) but it is completely wrong to suggest that one doesn’t want a search engine to index that page – on the contrary, it is essential.

Apart from s2 support who are ignoring me does anyone have any ideas or similar experiences and suggestions?

Would you mind if I gave you a specific example of what I am talking about? Also, please check my profile for the site url.

case study: This is the link to the page I am discussing below (which is protected by s2): http://preview.tinyurl.com/8c9gvqv.

The article is protected to Level 3 – there is no other protection on this post (eg no category or tag restriction). It has one category = ‘Feature’ and several tags = ‘anthropomorphism, Bartoshuk, Bourdieu, choice, health, Horney, Issue 2, personality theory, Peynaud, psychology, Sperry, taste’. If you check Google (e.g. site:mywebsite.com) it shows up ONCE but only under the general category of ‘Feature’ – there is no individual entry for this post.

If you Google ‘Personality and wine’ it eventually appears on page 5 of the results with one tag indexation under the tag ‘personality theory’.

Now, I am using SEO (Yoast) and the article shows the following:
Your focus keyword was found in:
Article Heading: Yes (1)
Page title: Yes (1)
Page URL: No (this isn’t right as you can see)
Content: Yes (2)
Meta description: Yes (1)

So:
1. why isn’t it showing up in Google as a post in its own right?
2. does this illustrate that every title also needs to written into the tag?
3. a basic flaw in S2 because every article needs to have its own indexation by the search engines and not just appear in a category or tag archive.
4. what is the point of using SEO plugin on a protected post?
5. How can this situation be improved?

Thx.

I have viewed the helpful video s2Member (Content Restriction Trouble?). I think I made an error in restricting some content via category ids because this was a simpler way to edit a large number of posts – it meant after all I did not have to use the s2 drop down for each post. I hadn’t appreciated that this would completely restrict all content for these posts including search engines etc.

However, I still have an issue which I would be grateful if you could explain. If s2 is protecting the permalink of the post how does a search engine obtain the detail required to index the post and what is the permalink it gives to the post so that someone who searches for an article can find it on the site if only in an archive view, for example? Thanks for the clarification.

Yes, yoast. Do you understand the problem?

Pages protected by S2 are not indexed by Google!! Pages protected by S2 do not give a reader a chance by title and excerpt only to see what content may be on a page.

In an ideal world s2 would only protect the content which is actually in the content box. Search engines and potential readers would be able to access the posts using titles and excerpts. Otherwise, Search engines won’t index the site at all so there is no way for anyone to know what is on the site and there is also no way to lure people into subscribing. Obviously one can set up manual conditionals etc on every post but this is hugely time consuming and is not easy to manage. Best would be if there was a global setting to permit what I have described above.

Surely it is a major issue for any S2 member user that search engines are not indexing key articles?

First. It’s not a question of explaining these when they make the purchase because everyone forgets. So they need to be reminded.

An annual membership is what is says but a premium gives them additional articles which are not part of the annual subscription because the articles are more complex and require an interest level/familiarity with the subject over and above the normal reader. e.g. an article about widgets is available to the annual subscriber but an article on the widget market in China is only available to premium subscribers.

The subscriptions to these two levels are catered for in a dual way: by making a choice at the beginning to subscribe to one service and then another and also by way of upgrade – e.g. converting one level of subscription to another. They are both subscriptions.

< > ye.

Tried deactivating S2 but that wasn’t the problem. Deactivated most of my plugins but couldn’t find the solution. Installed another plugin – custom roles 4 author and that fixed it. Thx

Please see above – surely it is clear from what I have already written???!!