Nigel

OK I have worked an approach which is a little cumbersome and if you can suggest another way which is more effecient I would certainly appreciate it.

I use your shortcode conditionals in the English version of the post:
[s2If !current_user_can(access_s2member_level0)]
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[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
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Nothing, obviously in the other pages. But this is all manual and rather a pain… !

Mny thx.

Still… it works! That’s something.

Thanks yes working onthe rest of it but frankly I’ve got 7secs of S2 member loading in 2 different places… by far the largest component and would shave 75% of the site’s load time. I’ve implemented one part of the mu css load so will let you know if this works. I do think this needs some attention? Still… a great plugin!

Yes, I appreciate this response but it doesn’t exactly reflect my experience. For whatever reason, maybe there are lots, I lost my category protections…

Wordpress 3.3.2

By updating the framework I initially lost all the additional levels. I then upgraded the module and regained all the levels. But all the levels kicked in the names of the levels was lost and the category protection I had set up was also lost. I wonder if this is because although I had 10 levels I was effectively only using 6 of them?

OK so it was a stupid error on my part – I was taking the module for PayPalPro without really considering that we needed to be subscribed to this service – is there not some way you can invalidate the shortcode if the parameters haven’t been completed – many other types of service do this e.g ZenCart? In part because normally Express Checkout permits cc purchases just not on site. Thanks.

Yeah I rather agree but it’s easier than setting up two sites… anyway worked it out I think but not yet implemented. The way to go is to use Custom Capabilities but not so much for the translations but the main English part of the site. That way all translated material is free and all English material requires payment…

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="2" ccaps="" desc="$5.99 USD / Yearly ( recurring charge, for ongoing access )" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="mysite.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="5.99" rp="1" rt="Y" rr="1" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /]

Looking at this I can see that the ‘accept’ includes cards I wouldn’t normally allow but not sure that’s anything to do with it.

Contacted PayPal and finally – after 3-4 tries got this out of them:

You are receiving that error because in that cases your Website is using the Direct Payment API. In other, successful transactions, your Websitre is using our Express Checkout API.The Direct Payment API is specially designed to process Credit cards directly on your site without redirecting the customer to paypal. This API is part of our Payments Pro package which is currently not enabled on your account. You will need to sign up for this add on product first, before you can use this API. You can do that here:

https://www.paypal-business.co.uk/process-online-payments-with-paypal/index.htm

Once you signed up and you are approved for Pro, your Direct PAyment API will work. If you don’t want Pro, you will need to disablke that API in your shop and only use the Express Checkout API.

This must be something s2 Member is doing? I can’t find any way to turn this off.

OK found a log…cam I email it to you? Where? Thanks.

I hope you saw my other post on this? Does logging require special permissions on the folder?

Thanks – looking at first part for the time being and yes it’s method=”get”.

All works perfectly. This is very useful so many thanks for your input. It’s complicated keeping track of the pages though esp. if one has more than one coupon! One could write a plugin just for that.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by  Nigel.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by  Nigel.

Thanks for your considered reply.

I did watch the video and I did follow the instructions. I uploaded an xml into the s2member-files directory but I couldn’t open it. It gave me the option to key in the username and password (good) but when I did it just repeated the option e.g. it didn’t log one through so I never even got to try the automatic method eg usrname:psswd@mysite.com/s2member-files/file.xml. Something was blocking the log-in – I tried using different users which had rights of access.

I’m not really sure one gains very much over just doing it manually as I’ve described since setting up the directory doesn’t take much work. The unfortunate thing with both systems is that one has to recreate the xml file every time and it is not created dynamically. I had hoped that I would dupe all the posts I wanted for the Kindle using a different membership level and access would be made available on the fly but that doesn’t work either. So, once one is stuck with recreating a feed it doesn’t make much difference whether one uses the S2 system or a specially created directory. The latter has one major advantage – one doesn’t have to spend time trying to make it work – it does! Thanks again.