Jason (Lead Developer)

Thanks for the heads up on this thread :-)

If you’d like to truly reset Roles on your site, this plugin comes with a feature that accomplishes that for you.

Capability Manager Enhanced:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/

After resetting your Roles back to the defaults…

Go to: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Membership Levels/Labels
Click the button at the bottom of that section to re-install your s2Member Roles as well.

NOTE: Always a good idea to backup your database and file system first :-)

If you can no longer access your Dashboard at all, please see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_MySQL_Command_Line

Thanks for your inquiry. ~ We appreciate your patience :-)

That is a serialized array of First Payment Dates, as Unix Timestamps. s2Member® keeps a record of the First Payment Date and Time at each paid Membership Level.

a:3:{s:5:”level”;s:10:”1337166521″;s:6:”level1″;s:10:”1337166521″;s:6:”level2″;s:10:”1350867691″;}

Please see: Knowledge Base » Import (or Mass Update) Users -› First Payment Date(s)

array(
	'level' => '[timestamp of first payment date, regardless of level]',
	'level1' => '[timestamp of first payment date at level #1]',
	'level2' => '[timestamp of first payment date at level #2]',
	'level3' => '[timestamp of first payment date at level #3]',
	'level4' => '[timestamp of first payment date at level #4]'
)

In your example, some of these Levels are missing. That’s normal. It indicates that a particular Member has never had access at some of the higher Membership Levels.

As Eduan pointed out, you can also export your CSV file in a more readable format, so you don’t end up with a serialized array — if you prefer. This is optional of course.

I believe the underlying issue here is with a difference in the CloudFront API, with respect to streaming vs. download distros. The resource identifiers and endpoint URLs should be encoded differently, depending on whether we’re talking with a streaming distribution or a downloads distribution. We’ve found a way to correct this behavior and standardize things within s2Member®.

I’m attaching a PATCH file if you’d like to experiment. Please unzip and upload the attached file, allowing it to override your existing copy of /s2member/includes/classes/files-in.inc.php

Please specify the file name without encoding, like this:

$s2_jw_config["mp4_video_file_name"] ="video with spaces.mp4";

s2Member® will take care of the internal specifics for you.

PATCH: http://d1v41qemfjie0l.cloudfront.net/s2member/uploads/files-in.inc_.php_.zip

Thanks for reporting this important issue.

Please send us a copy of the CSV export file that you’re dealing with and we’ll review it for you. I’m not aware of any problems with this; so I’d like to see the export file so we can help diagnose the issue. Or even just a few lines would be fine. Please send that privately for me. Thanks!

See: s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Thanks for reporting this important issue.

That would lead me to believe that your Pro Form is being modified in a way that is converting this input field into a string, instead of as an array (which is the default behavior).

s2member_pro_paypal_checkout[custom_fields]

I assume this is happening during form submission, right? If so, please post a link to your Pro Form and I’ll see what help I can give you from looking at the HTML output.

If you have questions about features listed for s2Member Pro, please let us know in the Pre-Sale Questions Forum. If you’re a customer, please log into your account at s2Member.com and post in our Customer Support Forum where a Support Rep will assist you :-)

Otherwise, please post general questions in our Community Forum where others may see it. Thanks! ~ For a list of all available forums, please see: http://www.s2member.com/forums/

Thanks for your purchase :-)

Yes, unfortunately almost EVERY single wordpres plugin developer doesnt care to proper code their stuff.
I dont think I have ever had a plugin that would delete their settings and wipe their database strings when its removed..

s2Member® will do that for you :-) If Deactivation Safeguards are turned off.
See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Deactivation Safeguards

However, even with our attempt to remove everything; Users are not removed — for obvious reasons. And, since Users are not removed, neither are their Capabilities (that really is not something we should do either, in my opinion) because it could cause unexpected results.

I know what you’re saying though. Most plugins leave EVERYTHING in your DB; and you end up with a big mess of wp_options table entries that really do nothing at all. The worst part is, many of these get autoloaded by WordPress going foward, even though they mean absolutely nothing once the plugin is deleted.

I see this both as a failure on the part of plugin developers,
and also as a failure on the part of WordPress itself. It would be great if plugins had their own namespace by default, so that (at the very least) they were not creating options entries that would remain after the plugin is deactivated and deleted too. I think deleting a plugin should erase it’s tracks completely.

Thanks for your reply :-)

Yes, that would be fine.
However, please note that is_super_admin() works whether you are running in Multisite mode — or not :-)

I have hit a road block. When I click on Members Only in my nav bar, it brings up the s2member registration form, which is good for a new user. However, if someone has already registered, how do i bypass this registration form, and take them directly to the member login page?

On a default WP installation, the registration form is located here:
/wp-login.php?action=register

The default login page is located here:
/wp-login.php

As Randy mentioned, it’s the same file, but with different actions (i.e. it’s dynamic).

It actually sounds like you might have a problem with your navigation menu displaying incorrect links to Users/Members that are already logged into your site. If consulting with your theme developer does not help, you can try the “Menu Items Visibibility Plugin” (compatible with s2Member®).

You will find it in the list we have here:
Knowledge Base » Plugins/Themes (Compatibility w/ s2Member®)

Related articles for theme developers.
See also: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_login_url
See also: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_logout_url

Thanks for your reply :-)

Nothing jumping right out at me there. However, if Users have Capability issues; that will remain — even if you deactivate every plugin including s2Member (because those are part of the WP core framework). They might be added by plugins, but they will remain until they are removed in one way or another.

If you’d like to submit a Dashboard login, I will run diagnostics for you.
See: s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Thanks for your reply :-)

OK. So just to confirm the following statement please…

You need to remove MP4 from the default inline downloads box in Download Options>Inline File Extensions. As soon as you make that change S2Member will immediately begin protecting the download instead of serving it inline.

What was happening is that s2Member® was serving the file inline (but you wanted it distributed as an actual file “download”). In other words, you wanted a prompt to come up with a File Save dialog window, is that correct?

Just to point out, s2Member® will serve files either way; and either way, the file is still protected. It’s just the difference between how it’s served in a browser (i.e. inline or as an actual download).