Manni01

Yep, that’s the standard WP welcome email. s2 allows you to edit it to customize it, but it’s the standard WP welcome email, as far as I know (well, it looks just like it).

At the moment, what I do is I let WP/S2 send the email with the username/password, then S2 adds a subscriber to my MC/Aweber list (which is a different one depending on the type of membership), and then MC/Aweber sends the email specific to the kind of subscriber (after the user has confirmed as they need a double opt in).

This is also why an integration of shortcodes in s2members would be great, it would allow to send only ONE welcome email to the users, with all the info they need. Although I think we should have the option to ask for the user to confirm the email first (before sending the login info), to make sure they haven’t given a fake email address (or made a mistake typing a real one).

For me the ideal flow for free registration would be:
1) User gives username, email, etc and choses their password during registration.
2) An email is sent with a link to verify the email address
3a) If the user replies, the user is confirmed, a welcome email is sent and the user can access the website or
3b) If the user doesn’t reply, the user is deleted and the user can’t access the website.

This is what happens when joining most forums, and I find it the best balance between database integrity, security and user convenience.

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I only have free members for the moment, so haven’t tested paid membership yet.
The email sent when a new free member is created (level 0) looks exactly like the email sent by WP on a website without S2 installed, so not sure how you identify it as coming from s2, but you might be right.

I’m only suggesting MC or Aweber because they can answer your problem right now.

I would be happy too to see s2 offering shortcodes in emails and integrating Amazon SES, that would be awesome as for many a third party email list service (like aweber and mailchimp) would not be necessary (especially if some help to design email templates was provided). Hopefully that will be supported soon.

Easiest would be to use a service like aweber or MC, and add your WP/S2 members to a different list depending on the product they buy. That way you can segment your emails by product (or any other variable). Look at s2member to Mailchimp or s2member to Aweber integration in the help.

I can’t see how s2members could do this without such a service, as they don’t send the emails (and it probably wouldn’t be a good idea, unless they also add an integration with gmail or Amazon SES, which I don’t think they offer at the moment).

An integration with Amazon SES and the ability to use S2member shortcodes when sending emails from WP would sure be a great idea.

Anyone knows if this is in the roadmap?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by  Manni01.

I understand it has been merged with the standard forum recently, you might want use the customer contact form for direct support,

Hi Corey,

I have found a solution that works for me when I need to add custom feature to the button, so you might want to give it a try.

I tried using the plugin My Shortcodes (great plugin by the way, no affiliation), and if I paste the full form code into the html tab of this plugin, I can use the generated shortcode to display the button, and it appears where I want it (where I inserted the shortcode) and without any blank lines.

I suggest you read the first few pages of doc on the developpers site to make sure you get this right, but it took me a few minutes to understand how it works. The only thing to be aware of is that the element name is NOT the shortcode, the shortcode is what they call slug and which they populate with a unique ID. You can give this slug a comprehensible name, that way you can simply type the shortcode instead of using their insertion tool in the editor. Will be clearer when you try it.

I didn’t need to enable this, but there is an option when you create the shortcode to delete blank lines, you might need to use it with your theme.

Probably overkill to simply solve this annoying issue, but it’s a much easier way to create your shortcodes that having to edit s2-hacks, it keeps them in categories and makes it very easy to insert them in your pages/posts. I really like the plugin and am going to use it for other stuff.

Hope this helps, and good luck.

Yes, level zero are subscribers, because they have registered, like paid-for members.
level 1-4 is for paid for members.
What you need to check is if they have a level 0.

Edit: can you see the pages set to “require level 0 or higher” when logging in with the free subscriber?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by  Manni01.

Did you check in General Options that the setting in Open Registration had not changed?
It needs to be set to “yes, allow open registration” to allow free subscribers. If it’s set to no, then there is no level 0.

Don’t worry I understand the frustration, especially if you are under a deadline.

You might want to try something, which is to use the long php code (the form, not the shortcodes) and delete all the HTML comments (lines starting with <–). This didn't work for me, but apparently it can work in some cases.

Disabling the WPautop filter isn't a solution, unless you are prepared to enter manual new paragraphs in the rest of your site.

I tried to move the php code (for the shortcode) into s2-hacks.php and to define a new function, and the blank lines disappear but unfortunately the button is stuck at the top of the page, above everything else, instead of appearing where the shortcode is placed into the page/post, so that's not a solution unless I find out why the button doesn't appear where it should.

I hope someone else will come up with an explanation/solution for this behaviour.

Yes, look into restrictions options / unique IP address restrictions.

It’s very powerful and flexible as you can specify the number of connections and the time limit, but you might need to edit a config file to change period itself (30 days by default). All the details are in the settings.

The reason why the above is only a partial solution for some is because If I try to embed the shortcode into a snippet of php code like this:

<?php
echo do_shortcode('[s2Member-PayPal-Button etc…

using ezphp to execute it, the blank lines above the paypal button are back.

I need to do this to enable a sophisticated drip content hack, so it would be good if this was solved.

Of course this is not a problem for users who can use the generated paypal button shortcode as it is.

Did a bit more searching, and thanks to advice by Eduan in this thread (thanks Eduan!):

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/extra-white-space-around-paypal-button/

I was able to identify the cause. In my case, it’s the WPautop filter. If I disable it, the paypal button appears where it should and the blank space is gone.

Corey, I suggest you do the following:
– Install and activate the TRUEdit plugin (add/new plugin/search)
– Make a note of which filters are disabled already so you can go back to your starting point
– In the TRUEdit settings, disable the WPautop filter. If you’re lucky, the cause will be the same as mine.
– Otherwise, try to disable all filters, until you find the culprit. Make sure you refresh the page in your browser between each attempt to make sure the latest version is loaded.

If this fails too, try to select the default WP 2013 theme, and disable all the plugins (except S2member, of course) until you find a possible conflicting plugin. I had done this already and it didn’t help.

Good luck!

PS: anyone has any idea what the WPautop filter does, and if it’s ok to disable it using TRUEdit?

EDIT: found the definition here http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpautop. It looks like it’s an internal filter that deals with spaces in content and comments. Maybe the devs could have a look at the reason why this filter interferes with Paypal buttons?

EDIT2: Looking more closely into this definition, I also found this other plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpautop-control/ which theoretically gives more control over the filter. You enable or disable it by default, and then change the default option for each post. That means you can have it enabled for normal content and only disable it for the posts/pages with Paypal buttons.

EDIT3: Unfortunately, while this identifies the issue more precisely, the above isn’t a solution as when the wpautop filter is disabled for the whole site (using either TRUEdit or WPautop Control), the pages/posts with text are not readable anymore. I haven’t been able to apply the per post/per page solution offered by the wpautop control, so please could we get a solution to this issue? As mentioned above, selecting default theme and disabling all the plugins doesn’t resolve this issue, at least in my case.

Thanks!

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While I just experienced the same issue, I’m not sure you are wording it the right way to optimize your (our) chances to get an answer, so I’ll try to balance this out (I need an answer too!):)

I’m sure there is an explanation to this, otherwise the plugin wouldn’t be useful, and therefore wouldn’t be happily used by so many, including Websharks themselves (there is no huge gap before the Paypal button when you attempt to buy the pro version, which proves there must be a solution:)).

Why not give someone more knowledgeable a chance to explain to us what WE are doing wrong, instead of assuming it’s the plugin’s fault, that it’s not fixable, and declare the software “useless”?

You need to chill out and be patient:). Hopefully someone will show us the way.

In case it’s relevant, I’m using genesis with the prose theme.

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