Jason (Lead Developer)

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1. I did a test purchase with a seperate email account to upgrade from a level #3(one time fee) to a #4 (re-occurring payment billing).

I recieved notification that the payment was made but the account stayed at a level #3

I made sure to create a “paypal subscription modification” to upgrade from 3 to a 4 but nothing changed. Any advice?

Very difficult to say what happened here without seeing the log files. Please enable logging in this section of your Dashboard so you can review what is happening behind-the-scene. Feel free to submit these privately for review if you need assistance. See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Account Details -› Logging

Please use: s2Member® » Private Contact Form

# 2. When I use the content drip shortcodes made available in the API scripting

How can I make the content drip from time of upgrade instead of time of purchasing level #4?

Thanks Guys!

In this section of your Dashboard, please use the Paid Registration Time at a Specific Membership Level.
See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Content Dripping

<?php
$time = s2member_registration_time (); // ... first registration time ( free or otherwise ).
$time = s2member_paid_registration_time (); // ... first "paid" registration and/or upgrade time.
$time = s2member_paid_registration_time ("level1"); // ... first "paid" registration or upgrade time at Level#1.
$time = s2member_paid_registration_time ("level2"); // ... first "paid" registration or upgrade time at Level#2.
$time = s2member_paid_registration_time ("level3"); // ... first "paid" registration or upgrade time at Level#3.
$time = s2member_paid_registration_time ("level4"); // ... first "paid" registration or upgrade time at Level#4.
?>

See also: Knowledge Base » Plugins/Themes (Compatibility w/ s2Member®)

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Please see: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/thousands-of-s2m-transients-in-wp-database/#post-35210

Thanks for the heads up on this thread :-)

Based on the log entries posted earlier, I suspect in at least one case reported here, the issue is installation-specific (i.e. configuration). Please be sure that you have updated your PayPal PDT Identity Key after going live.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® PDT Integration

For anyone else having trouble with this, please take a look at your s2Member® log files to ensure there are no errors being reported. If you have errors like ($_POST vars cannot be verified), please double-check your entire integration with PayPal. Errors upon returning from checkout are often associated with an invalid custom="" Shortcode Attribute, or with your PayPal PDT Identity Key (both of which are likely to change upon going live with a website).

[s2Member-PayPal-Button custom="www.yourdomain.com" ... /]

See also: Knowledge Base » Don't Mix www, — and Without!
See also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)

Thanks for reporting this important issue.

Yes, this is a bug. I’m having this updated for the next maintenance release. Until then, if you’d like to correct it ahead of time, please download the attached file. Unzip and upload the /players/ directory, allowing all files to override your existing copies inside: /s2member/includes/templates/players/

http://d1v41qemfjie0l.cloudfront.net/s2member/uploads/players.zip

Thanks for the follow-up :-)

Excellent! Thanks for sharing.

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No, this feature is not yet available in s2Member® alone. We recommend integrating s2Member® together with BuddyPress if you’d like to add social networking functionality. See: Knowledge Base » Plugins/Themes (Compatibility w/ s2Member®)

Thanks for the follow-up :-)

CSS selector for the Pro Login Widget provided by s2Member® Pro.

div.ws-plugin--s2member-pro-login-widget
	{
		width: 300px;
	}

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If you would like to use a custom success URL, please be sure to pass it through s2Member®, because s2Member® MUST process the Auto-Return data from PayPal first.

We recommend using the Shortcode Attribute success="http://..."

Or, if you’re dealing with a PayPal-generated Button, please use:

return=http://www.mysite.com/?s2member_paypal_return=1&s2member_paypal_return_success=http://...

A second concern I have is that I’m using jquery to create the paypal buttons, so I want to avoid all php in the buttons code. I haven’t included the hidden fields “invoice”, “on0″ / “on1″ and “os0″ / “os1″ – is that a problem? I understand s2member will still track users when the attempt to login.

Please see: Knowledge Base » Using Buttons Generated @ PayPal.com

To answer this question, no. It’s not a problem for new customers, only for existing customers that need to upgrade, that’s when s2Member needs those additional data fields. I recommend ALWAYS adding them if at all possible. If you would like to fill those values via JavaScript, please use this JavaScript function and variables included with s2Member®.

S2MEMBER_VALUE_FOR_PP_INV_GEN(); // Returns a string with a unique Invoice number.

JavaScript Variables for the others please.

S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_VALUE_FOR_PP_ON0
S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_VALUE_FOR_PP_OS0

S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_VALUE_FOR_PP_ON1
S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_VALUE_FOR_PP_OS1

See also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› PHP/API Constants

Gee can I add affiliate links to all the name dropping?

Yes, that’s fine. As long as you’re not advertising explicitly in these forums.

So the upgrade form (s2member Pro Form) will create there reoccurring account (monthly or yearly) to make one post. But I don’t want them to get access to the GForm after they use it once right after paying.

s2Member® does not come with any functionality that would accomplish this for you out-of-the-box. s2Member’s Specific Post/Page Access can expire content after just a few minutes if you like, but it’s still not the same as what you’re describing.

I recommend that you add a custom field dynamically, whenever a new post is created by this plugin. For instance, you might have something like this.

<?php
if($_POST&#91;'new_post_data'&#93;) // Or whatever...
{
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	update_user_option($user_id, 'gravity_form_posted', 'yes');
}
?>

Now, in your Post where you make the Gravitiy Form available, wrap that with something like this.

<?php if(get_user_option('gravity_form_posted') === 'yes'){ ?>
	Display message (you cannot post again...)
<?php } else {  ?>
	Display the form and allow them to post.
<?php } ?>

That’s about as far as I can go on custom coding. I’ll be happy to provide you with more leads on where to find certain things, or to share ideas with you. Please see: s2Member® » Support Policy » Within Scope for some clarification on this. Thanks!

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

I’m sorry, s2Member® does not come with that functionality built-in. You would need some custom code together with an installation of s2Member® for all of that to work as expected.

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

See also: Knowledge Base » Importing Existing Subscriptions