About: Marcus Griffen

I still think there is some confusion on this. “Members” is a page that displays in the pages list. It is also the page used by Buddypress.

If I set

http://www.sitename.com/members/%%current_user_login%%/

as the url to redirect to on login, then the page “Members” (/members/) is no longer publicly available (users get redirected to the membership options page). If I set the url to redirect to to something else (the contact page, or something), then /members/ does not get locked down to the public.

What I would like to happen is:
1. Users profiles are public (which they are currently)
2. Members directory is public (which it is currently not for reasons described)
3. Users are redirected to their profile on login.

This isn’t really a “make it or break it” feature for me, just an odd behavior that I’d like to see if there is a solution to.

There are no restrictions anywhere. Just to be clear:

If I redirect users to their profiles after login (/members/username/), then any non-logged in attempt to access /members/ takes you to the membership options page. However, if I remove this and make the login redirect page something else (/somethingorother/), /members/ becomes publicly available again (does not automatically take a logged out user to the membership options page).

I’ve set up the site on my staging server and sent you the credentials in a private message. The shortcode is being called in the Join page’s template, and is:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[s2Member-PayPal-Button level="1" ccaps="" desc="Member" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="readyandwilling.marcusgriffen.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="0.01" rp="1" rt="D" rr="BN" rrt="" rra="1" image="default" success="http://readyandwilling.marcusgriffen.com/register/" output="anchor" /]'); ?>

I’m actually using a Buy Now button to offer a 1 day membership (after which it expires). The field “Fixed-Term Extensions (Auto-Extend)?” is set to yes.

What I would like to happen is that if say, there is an hour left for the membership, a member can renew and extend their membership.

My understanding was that if this “Fixed-Term Extensions (Auto-Extend)?” setting was set to yes, members could simply click the same button they signed up with in the first place to do this, extending their membership in this case from 10 minutes left to 1 day and 10 minutes left.

Again, I am not using subscriptions. Only a Buy Now button.

Please disregard this issue. I’ve checked with paypal and it seems this is an unavoidable issue with their service if you choose to allow both paypal users and guest checkouts. I’ll just have to include instructions for this on the signup page.