Raam Dev

Hi Angela,

s2Member does not allow access to the back-end, so you shouldn’t need to redirect them away from it.

Yes, that should work. I recommend testing it to make sure.

Hi Antonio,

Could you please submit your WordPress login details on the Private Contact Form so we can take a look at this?

I’m not sure what you mean by “restricted by ccaps”. Could you please elaborate?

Hi Leah,

I have notified the account department about this and someone will be in touch shortly. Thank you for your patience.

Hi Tony,

I recommend contacting PayPal to see if there is a problem with your account. If you’re getting a “failed to obtain approval for the online transaction”, I would suspect there’s a problem with your PayPal account.

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.

Hi Jez,

s2Member uses the WordPress user base for authentication and WordPress requires a few things to create a WordPress account:

First Name
Last Name
Email Address
Username
Password

However, a few of these things can automatically be generated or disabled:

Password (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields -> Allow Custom Passwords during Registration? = No)

First and Last Name (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields -> Collect First/Last Names during Registration? = No; note that this cannot be disabled if you’re charging for membership, as the billing portion requires first/last name)

Username (this is a bit tricky, but it can be done with this hack)

So, with all that implemented you’re left with only the email address as a requirement on registration forms. However, to access protected content, users will still need to login (otherwise, how will you know who should and shouldn’t have access?) It is possible to auto-login the user after registration using this hack, and with s2Member Pro you’ll have access to the success=”” shortcode attribute which allows you to automatically redirect to a page you specify after registration, but when the user comes back, they’ll still need to login to gain access.

With s2Member Pro and the Pro-Forms, you can offer free registration for any level of membership (so you could protect your content with level 1 – 4 and then offer free access to those levels of content).

Hi Joseph,

Yes, you’ll need to use the Custom Capabilities feature to give users access to multiple groups of things.

Hi Tony,

Can you tell us what version of s2Member you’re running?

Also, can you tell us where you’re getting this error and what the full error message is?

And finally, could you take a look at this video and double-check the settings described?

Hi David,

s2Member can handle recurring subscriptions and it is designed as a membership plugin. However, it’s not designed to be a “shopping cart”, so there are no features for adding items to a “shopping cart” and then checking out.

We do have features for selling items on a one-time basis (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Specific Post/Page (Buy Now) Buttons) and the Custom Capabilities feature extends the possibilites (it has also been used to recreate shopping cart features).

All of our source code is made available as well as hundreds of s2Member hooks and filters that allow for extending and modifying features.

I highly recommend installing the free version of the plugin and taking a look at the features available. The Pro version is an add-on to the free version and it adds additional features.

Hi Aram,

What settings are configured in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Alternative View Protection?

Also, are there any restrictions in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions?

Elizabeth,

It looks like when you copied and pasted the code, the code was garbled. There are a bunch of bad characters in your pasted code. Could you try copying the code from the forum again and paste it into a plain text file (using Notepad or TextEdit) and then copy and paste it again to the s2-hacks.php file?

Hi Nordin,

This should work:

function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
if ($new_role == "s2member_level1") {
	        $site_url = get_bloginfo('wpurl');
	        $user_info = get_userdata( $user_id );
	        $to = $user_info->user_email;
	        $subject = "Ditt medlemsskap i TAN er nå aktivert!";
	        $message = "Hei " .$user_info->display_name . ", din bruker på NewUtd.no er nå blitt oppgradert til medlem.
<p>
Du kan nå logge inn på medlemssiden og lese medlemsblader, laste ned høydepunkter, delta i konkurranser og så videre.
<p>
Medlemspakken med det første medlemsbladet, plakat og medlemskort blir sendt ut i september. De to andre bladene blir gitt ut i desember og mai.
<p>
Med vennlig hilsen
NewUtd-teamet";
	        wp_mail($to, $subject, $message);
        }
}
add_action( 'set_user_role', 'user_role_update', 10, 2);