About: Ryan Kitko

In looking around at other posts on this topic, I followed their advice and tried:
1) changing themes to the twenty-eleven theme.
2) Disabling all but the s2member plugin.

Neither of these worked, so I don’t see how this could be the result of interference with the shortcode parsing. And as I said in the original post, I have not changed anything or updated the theme or other plugins recently.

I checked the API log (paypal-api.log). Bots seem to hit the button all the time (?) though they never complete a transaction, so the last “success” in the log was Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:40:05 am UTC:

LOG ENTRY: Thu Mar 14th, 2013 @ precisely 8:40 am UTC
PHP v5.2.17 :: WordPress® v3.5.1 :: s2Member® v130221
Memory 38.44 MB :: Real Memory 38.75 MB :: Peak Memory 38.55 MB :: Real Peak Memory 38.75 MB
www.nasarracenia.org/join/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)

The first error was Thu Mar 14, 2013 6:19:59 pm UTC:

-------- Output string/vars: ( Thu Mar 14, 2013 6:19:59 pm UTC ) --------

array (
  '__error' => 'Error. Please contact Support for assistance.',
)

There is nothing different between these two attempts not even a day apart. All of the button parameters remained the same and the website did not change, nor did our paypal settings. Hence my complete and utter confusion.

Anyone have a guess or another possible solution I could try?

I see the cause of my confusion. I started adding other members who will also be admins first to test the system. Under an admin profile, the EOT time isn\’t necessary, so it doesn\’t show up! Mystery solved.

Interesting, I thought s2member would send an e-mail to the user. The members of my site aren\’t using it for content, but to support us as a non-profit. I don\’t think many of them will be logging in very often, so I\’d much prefer when the user reaches EOT time for the system to send an e-mail reminding them of the subscription. I wonder if there\’s a way to customize that.

Cheers.

David,
Thanks for taking a moment to suggest a solution. Unfortunately, I don\’t see the Automatic EOT Time option. Under the s2member settings in a user profile, I have:
Paid Subscr. Gateway: (paypal)
Paid Subscr. ID:
Custom Value:
Registration IP:
Custom Capabilities:
Reset IP Restrictions:
Administrative Notes:

And that\’s it. I went through the paid process with a test user name and the only differences are that my profile has values for Paid Subscr. ID, custom value (our website address), and registration IP. I do, however, see the Automatic EOT Behavior options in s2member >> Paypal Options.

I\’m using the free install of s2member to try it out. Could the EOT time manual setting for each user be a feature only functional in the Pro install?

Thanks again for your thoughts!