Raam Dev

Hi Cheryl,

There are a large number of possible reasons the code might not be working. There are no obvious bugs that stand out to me, but it could be that wp_mail() isn’t sending the email for some reason.

To debug this issue, I recommend that you start by ruling things out. Instead of sending an email with all that data, try writing some code that just writes the data to a log file. Then check if the log file contains the data you’re expecting after a successful signup.

Next, you can try creating a PHP file that sends an email using pre-filled data to see if you can actually get it to send the email.

Actually, as I was writing that previous sentence, I realized that you’re using the wp_mail() function, which is a WordPress function. However, you’re not loading the WordPress framework in your signup-notifer.php file. If you don’t load WordPress, you won’t have access to the wp_mail() function. So, instead of using wp_mail() you might try using the PHP mail() function.

Finally, there are a few helpful plugins mentioned in Troubleshooting Email Delivery Problems that you may want to install.

Hi Danie,

I’m not sure how you’re expecting to use s2Member here. The s2Member plugin is designed to restrict access to WordPress Posts and Pages. If you have a MySQL database for each user and you want to display graphs using data in that database, all of that would take place outside the s2Member plugin.

Hi Arnegger,

The first login date is not something that’s captured by s2Member or WordPress, however you could write a hack that records the first login date somewhere and then read that value from within your Content Dripping conditionals. See this thread for more ideas on how you can capture the login date.

I’ve double-checked that I am using testing/sandbox credentials on my site and I am still receiving this error. Any help?

Try deleting all the settings in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Account Details and Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® IPN Integration, saving, and then re-adding the Sandbox details.

Also, I wondered if it is possible for s2members on my site (paid) to cancel their membership and be dropped down to a subscriber/free level without receiving a refund? My site has a no-refund policy, but people can cancel their membership or downgrade to a free membership at any time.

The s2Member cancellation forms (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Cancellation Forms) do not provide refunds, so you can use those. Also, what happens when a user cancels will be determined by your configuration in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior. If you want users to be demoted to Free Subscriber, you can specify that in there.

Hi Laurie,

When you import a CSV file into MailChimp, you will be asked to identify what columns contain the Email Address, First name, Last Name, etc. You can simply delete/ignore all the other fields that are not applicable to MailChimp.

Hi Richard,

Please see my replies below:

1. Are there particular settings or things specific to s2member that I should take care of to ensure s2member doesn’t make my site slow?

No, the default settings are optimal.

2. If I deactivate the plugin to test the speed of the site with the plugin deactivated, will that mean I’ll have to respecify s2member settings when I reactivate it? After it’s reactivated will members’ accounts work ok?

As long as Deactivation Safeguards are enabled (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Deactivation Safeguards), you can disable s2Member and then re-enable it with no loss of settings.

3. Anybody have observations on s2member or other wordpress membership site plugins and their affect on site speed?

I looked at your site and it loaded very quickly. I tried several pages and all of them loaded within 1 second. If it’s really taking 9 to 10 seconds for you, then I suspect it’s a problem with your computer or your internet connection.

Hi Alissa,

That’s correct. You should import the s2Member options after installing s2Member, between steps 2 and 3 above.

Hi Miles,

There is not currently any feature for displaying a list of pages the user has access to, however, as you mentioned, you can achieve that with the IF THEN ELSE logic, creating a single page that checks what the user has access to and then displays links to those things.

If you wanted to do this dynamically, you could certainly write some PHP code that loops through all the WordPress pages on your site, checking the required Custom Capability and then checking if the user has access to it, showing a link to the page if they do have access. However, this code is something that you’d need to write and maintain, as it’s not part of s2Member.

We will keep that in mind. Thank you.

Hi Joshua,

Sorry, no updates at this time. We won’t know more until the next major version of s2Member is released and at this time I don’t have a date for when that will be.

Hi Traci,

Please see my replies below:

1) How can I use the first person’s name as a shortcode in pages/posts?

You can do that with the s2Member PHP/API Constants (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› PHP/API Constants):

[s2Get constant="S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_FIRST_NAME" /]

2) Should drip content membership areas be setup on pages or posts?

That all depends on what content you’re dripping. If you’re dripping posts, then you’ll want to set it up on posts. Otherwise, you’ll want to use pages. Pages are designed for more static content while Posts are designed for stuff that you want to be displayed in chronological order, like a series of blog posts or news articles.

Usually when you’re dripping content, it’s static content that you write once and then put up somewhere, so Pages make more sense. Then you can use the Content Dripping features of s2Member (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Content Dripping) to only give access to those pages after specific amounts of time.

3) Will these pages or posts show up as links automatically on the welcome/login page or should I add the links manually?

You will need to build these links manually. If you’re dripping content then you can use the same content dripping conditionals on your welcome/login page to only show the links when the user has access to them.

For example:

<?php if(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS >= 30){ ?>
    Link to Page the user has access to after 30 days
<?php } ?>

<?php if(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS >= 60){ ?>
    Link to Page the user has access to after 60 days
<?php } ?>

<?php if(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS >= 90){ ?>
    Link to Page the user has access to after 90 days
<?php } ?>

Hello,

s2Member’s Remote Operations API (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Remote Operations API) only supports creating new users. However, if you’re just trying to add Custom Capabilities to existing users, you can use the built-in WordPress functions to write some code that will achieve that. Please see this thread for more information on adding Custom Capabilities via PHP.