Jason (Lead Developer)

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What I want to accomplish with all of this is: Have Visitors register through a S2Member Registration screen which I would like to have custom designed. I need to add some custom fields……such as Birthday / etc —–This will be a FREE Community Area and I have no use for Paypal…..but do I need to use a PROform Paypal in order to register these users??

Yes, please use one of the Free Registration Pro Forms from the PayPal Pro Forms section. You can use these with or without integrating with PayPal®. There is no payment being accepted through these Pro Forms.

See also: Video » s2Member (Free Registration On Multiple Levels?)

Issue 1: I want to keep my Current BLOG Homepage normal for just casual (non members) but when a returning member or new member are logged in I want them to see a completely separate page (I was going to just use a custom welcome page) is this recommended or the best way to do this?

It’s really up to you. You might take a look at these articles for some ideas.

See: Knowledge Base » Customizing Your Login Welcome Page
See also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals
See also: Video » s2Member (Advanced Conditionals)

Issue 2: So far when Visitors signup through S2Member they are only showing as members in S2member…doesn’t appear to pass this info along to Buddypress Members Link…….the new registered user is not found.

Sorry, I’m not sure that I understand. Feel free to elaborate until I do.

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Membership Levels provide incremental access. If you want to break free from this, please use Custom Capabilities instead. Please see: Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)

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The full string of text looks like this in the source code.
/s2member-pro/includes/classes/gateways/paypal/paypal-responses.inc.php

You must <a href="%s" rel="nofollow">login</a> to update your billing plan.

To change this text, please see: Knowledge Base » Changing Words/Phrases In s2Member®

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I’m sorry, are you referring to custom Registration/Profile Fields? If so, you are correct. Any additional custom Registration/Profile Fields that a User/Member has are included in the export file, but only if the User has them. This is a known issue for some site owners. We are working to get this corrected for a future release.

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Can you post a link to your registration form please? Is this coming from /wp-login.php?action=register ? Also, I understand that you intend to use only one Level; but which Membership Levels did you apply to the Registration/Profile Fields that you created? s2Member® supports multiple Membership Levels. If you applied Membership Level #1 to these Registration/Profile Fields, they will not display during Free Registration, because there are no Registration/Profile Fields that apply to Membership Level #0.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields

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Is this flow possible? Or is there a way to let people change their usernames once?
Another thing, when a user is logged in, his email address and username is automatically set in the forms? Is there a way to disable it?

No. I’m sorry but Username’s cannot be changed. This is a standard set by the WordPress core and s2Member® also obeys this rule. It’s possible to change it in the database of course, but that is not something that WordPress or s2Member would expect to see. Therefore, I cannot recommend this.

Also, I’m still reading about paypal pro forms. I’m still testing my site using Paypal Sandbox. Can S2member be set up using a premier? Can PayPal Pro Forms can still be used using Paypal Standard and Advanced Business Accounts?

I’m not sure that I understand this question. Premier? Sorry, please elaborate until I do. I think what you’re asking is about this. See: Knowledge Base » PayPal® Compatibility (Account Types)

Thanks for the heads up on this thread :-)

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Please set this Attribute in your Pro Form Shortcode.
accept="paypal" (removing all others)
See also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)

We don’t have any hard numbers to provide. I’m sorry. As you said, it varies greatly, and there are a number of factors to consider (i.e. the implementation, the theme being used, the product being sold, etc). Introducing new purchase options for buyers will always increase conversion rates though.

However, is there a simpler solution where we can simply protect files uploaded via the Media Library? This would be a far simpler solution for my client but I cannot find any documentation on this method. Since we are Pro customers, I figured I would inquire before I start deconstructing your source code.

Please see this page for some plugins that might help you with this.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=s2member

It’s also worth noting that s2Member® makes it possible to change this default directory if you like.

Please create this directory and file:
/wp-content/mu-plugins/s2-hacks.php
(NOTE: these are MUST USE plugins, see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins)
(See also: http://www.s2member.com/kb/hacking-s2member/)

Q1 – Is there a way to upload files to be protected into this folder – /wp-content/plugins/s2member-files from the WP dashboard, or, do they have to be ftp’d to the server ?

Please see this page for some plugins that will help you with this.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=s2member

Q2 – What is the correct way to insert this shortcode?
Neither the Visual nor Text tabs seem to work.
As in, Download the file HERE. Highlighting the word HERE, and clicking on the link icon and pasting in the shortcode won’t work.

This shortcode generates a URL only. So you would need to use the HTML tab and type the following.

<a href="&#91;&#91;s2File download="example-file.zip" /&#93;&#93;">click HERE</a>

Or, you can just create links in the Visual Editor like this.

http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/s2member-files/example-file.zip

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