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This should be possible with custom programming, but that kind of customization is outside the scope of the s2Member support policy.

s2Member uses the WordPress login dialog, so please see Customizing the Login Form on the WordPress Codex for any special modifications. If you need to hire a programmer to make this customization, we recommending posting your job on jobs.wordpress.net.

Hi Tony,

What email(s) are you referring to? There are various ways to change emails depending on the email.

Hi Francois,

You can simply restrict your content to Level 1 or higher. If you do that, Level 0 users will not be able to access the Level 1 or higher content. Then you can use Advanced PHP conditionals (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals) to check if the user visiting the Membership Options Page is a Level 0 user. If they are Level 0, you can show them a message that offers an upgrade.

When members are automatically downgraded and they try to access protected content, they will be redirected to the Membership Options Page and that’s where they will see the upgrade message.

Please use the Private Contact Form.

Hi Vicky,

As far as I know it is working. It could be there is a problem routing email to your provider. Have you checked your spam folder?

Hi Brian,

Yes, a PHP programmer familiar with WordPress should definitely be able to implement that for you.

Hi Dave,

No, this is not currently possible. The s2Member PayPal Pro-Forms use the PayPal configuration in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options and only one PayPal account can be configured there.

Hi François,

There are no UI options for restricting Custom Post Types within s2Member, however if your URLs contain the Custom Post Type (e.g., /trainings/) then yes, you can use URI Access Restrictions to protect those Custom Post Types.

On my personal site, I use Custom Post Types and I’m using s2Member’s Advanced PHP Conditionals (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals) within my theme files for the Custom Post Types.

I have a Custom Post Type called Journal and the theme file archive-journal.php is used to display the archive for the Journal posts; I use s2Member’s PHP conditionals in there to check if the visitor has access.

1.) Are you familiar with a pop up for wordpress that – as a new member clicks on our “join now” button, a pop up will show our terms and conditions with an accept or decline button then forwards them to the appropriate page based on their action, like forwarding them to the ccbill credit card form? I am looking at Simple pop up and or MOWPOP…will these do what I have explained, if not are you aware of one that will do this function and recommend it, without having to hire a programmer?

This will require some custom programming to get it working the way you want, with or without a plugin. So you’ll need someone who has some programming experience to implement it for you.

2.)Using s2member, I cannot use ccbill user management. They do not collect the username and password when s2member is being utilized. I confirmed with CCBill that this is the case. When I initially signed on to CCBill I wanted to use their user management because of the flexibility with handling the member info and was not told that I could not. Being a 2 person team and heavily involved in the marketing side as well, in driving traffic to our site, this would have been very beneficial. Not being familiar with the capabilities of s2member in creating another step for the new customer, I hope that this it is just as flexible and automatic…ya? have you guys found this to be a reason for new subs to get frustrated then click off the sign up with an extra account creation step? Ok so one more step for the subscriber to become a member.

s2Member CCBill integration does not use the CCBill user management, as s2Member has its own user management: User Management needs to be turned off in your ccBill® account. s2Member’s integration with ccBill® does NOT require ccBill® to manage Usernames/Passwords. Instead, s2Member needs to be given exclusive permission to handle this for you.

There won’t be two account steps for your customer if you’re using s2Member. There will only be one step (the s2Member account creation). Please see the *Important* note under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ccBill® Options -› Account Details for more information.

Can you confirm each item in s2member/Pro that I need to make sure is ‘turned on’ so that ccbill will “ack back” so to speak, with the new sub form to tell s2member to send the welcome or denial email? Then will the new member receive their welcome email and the instructions to setup the uname and password? Then I can call CCBill back and make sure that their “do not collect uname and pwd” option is selected on my ccbill ccount. Side issue attached to this change…

Please see all the in-line instructions in the following sections and fill in all the details requested there to complete your CCBill integration:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ccBill® Options -› Account Details
Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ccBill® Options -› DataLink Integration
Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ccBill® Options -› Approval/Denial URLs
Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ccBill® Options -› Background Post Integration

You’ll also want to make sure the signup email is configured as you want:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ccBill® Options -› Signup Confirmation Email

If you’re also using AWeber or MailChimp integration, you’ll need to make sure that’s configured in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers.

now because we are using s2member, we cannot set up a ‘dummy user’ in ccbill to validate that all our postings are going out as expected after they have become a new and approved member .
3.) Can I create a dummy user in s2member or Pro that as I send out future posts with new content, I can validate that it was received to the best of my knowledge and that it possibly will find our members?

Yes, you can simply create an account within WordPress and select the s2Member Level that you want. If you customers also have Custom Capabilities assigned to them, you can add those manually to the test account as well. Please see Pre Sale FAQs » Can I create new Membership accounts manually with s2Member?

4.) Can I copy and paste archive data from one wordpress site to another,ie our blog site etfprofittriggers.com has an active archive and I want to copy it to our new membership site – tradingwithoutdoubt.com.

Copying WordPress data from one site to another is possible yes. You’ll find plenty of info online about how to do this, but you may also want to post your question on the WordPress.org Support Forums.

A.) can I make the blog posting archive on our new site lag one month behind our members only area archive? Is it possible to have 2 archives?

Yes, this will require setting up new WordPress templates. This is outside the scope of s2Member support (please see support policy), but the WordPress.org Support Forums and the WordPress Codex should be able to help you do this.

Are you suggesting to put mo-page-in.inc.php in wp-content/plugins/ ?

If anything goes here it will need writing up and registering as a plugin.

Yes, if the wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory does not exist, please create it. Then follow Cristian’s instructions with copying the file to that directory and modifying the file as he described.

Hi Moshe, Brian,

I was just as surprised as you when I saw Moshe’s name and realized who it was. What a small world. :)

I’m working here for s2Member doing technical support for the plugin, but we don’t offer any custom programming services. I’m also not doing any programming freelance work at this time. If you need help implementing the PHP code, we recommend posting a job on jobs.wordpress.net.

Any programmer should be able to implement the PHP code that Eduan pointed you to and if they have any questions, we’ll be happy to answer them.

How do I set the membership levels for our monthy vs quarterly membership offering? Then apply the page numbers to these levels of the content for free vs paid members? is that how it is done in content separation?

If you’re offerring a monthly and quarterly content, I recommend using Custom Capabilities and creating a ‘monthly’ and ‘quarterly’ Custom Capability, then using those to restrict your content.

When you create your payment forms, you’ll add the ‘monthly’ or ‘quarterly’ custom capability to the form when you generate it (that way whoever signs up with the Monthly payment form will have the ‘monthly’ custom capability, and those who sign up with the quarterly form will have the ‘quarterly’ custom capability).

Hi Ryan,

That is strange. Are you running any caching plugins? Have you tried disabling those?

Also please download this Server Check Tool, upload the PHP file to your WordPress directory, and then load the URL to the file in your browser. It will run a bunch of tests to determine if there’s anything amiss on the server-side.