Raam Dev

Hi Steph,

You’d need to modify the relevant core file in /includes/classes/gateways/ (exactly which file will depend on what you’re using to checkout; if you’re using PayPal, I recommend searching the PHP files in there).

Once you find the exact message in the code, you may be able to use this method for changing front-end messages instead of modifying the core file (note that you must find the exact message in the code, as it may be different from what you see on the web page; if you use the technique for changing front-end messages, the exact message is needed).

Hi Vincent,

Are you editing this page with the Visual editor or the HTML editor? If you have PHP code on the page, you can’t use the Visual editor — you must use the HTML editor, otherwise the code will get corrupted.

Hi,

You said,

… and selected the option to allow zero level members to access it thereby making it public…

The s2Member Level 0 is *not* for public access… Level 0 is for free members. If you protect something to Level 0, you will still need to login to access it.

If you want something to be public, simply don’t restrict it at all.

Administrators *can* access protected content… as an administrator, you automatically have access to all the content protected by s2Member. If you’re having trouble viewing protected content, then you’re probably not logged in as an administrator.

Hi Hamid,

You should be able to simply add your modified styles to your theme’s style.css file. You may need to use the !important rule.

However, if you’re trying to change that bold label to normal, you’ll want to remove the <strong> tags surrounding that text. You can do that by editing the profile template.

Hi Dean,

It sounds like a problem with your server. What happens if you move those URI restrictions back to Level 0?

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.

If that returns everything OK, then I suggest contacting your web host and asking them about the message.

Michael,

I’m not sure what you’re referring to by “Activation key routine”. Could you please explain?

Devra,

Yes, you could do that. That is not a feature of s2Member, so you’d need to handle that additional custom code yourself. If you want to offer different pages/features to different sets of free members, you should use Custom Capabilities.

By assigning different Custom Capabilities to your free users (the Free Registration form can be Dynamically Configured with these custom capabilities), you can control which free users see which pages (then you can even do things like check the Custom Capabilities upon login and redirect them to special login welcome pages).

Hi Vibeke,

The s2Member plugin uses the WordPress database to store all its settings, so as long as you do a proper move of the WordPress database, the s2Member plugin data will move over fine. Just make sure that the s2Member Deactivation Safeguards are enabled in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Deactivation Safeguards.

You may also want to look at the Moving WordPress page on the WordPress Codex for more information about moving WordPress to a new server.

You’re most welcome, Matt! Glad to hear you got it working. :)

Hi Andrew,

The s2Member Level roles are based on the WordPress Subscriber role capabilities, so s2Member users are not given any access to the WordPress back-end. The s2Member plugin also does not provide any features for managing restrictions to WordPress back-end features.

You could use a 3rd party plugin like the Role Editor plugin to manually edit the s2Member levels and give certain levels capabilities to access the WordPress back-end, but this wouldn’t be supported by us.

Thank you for the update, Rakesh!

1- Do i still have to remove the mention of the other credit cards as stated in the text above “*PayPal® Pro is NOT Absolutely Required*…..?

If you don’t remove the other credit cards, then someone might click one of those and try to checkout. Since you don’t have PayPal Pro, they will get an error. If you don’t have PayPal Pro, you should disable the credit cards to prevent confusion for your customers (since they can’t use those options on your Pro-Form anyway).

2- Can i still use the pro-form “as is” with a coupon, even if i sell a subscription with recurring payment if i dont have paypal pro but only paypal express checkout?

Yes, the Pro Coupon codes are applied by s2Member on the Pro-Form, so PayPal doesn’t even know about the coupon (PayPal just receives the final checkout amount, after the coupon was applied).

Hi Grant,

You can add the following code to wp-content/mu-plugins/s2-hacks.php to restrict access to a specific URI by Custom Capability:

<?php
// Only allows access to a specific URI if user has the corresponding Custom Capability
add_action ("wp", "my_custom_capabilities", 1);
function my_custom_capabilities() {
	$allowed = TRUE;
	
	if (fnmatch ("/members/", $_SERVER&#91;"REQUEST_URI"&#93;) && !current_user_can("access_s2member_ccap_members")) {
		$allowed = FALSE;
	}
	
	if (fnmatch ("/secret-area/", $_SERVER&#91;"REQUEST_URI"&#93;) && !current_user_can("access_s2member_ccap_james_bond")) {
		$allowed = FALSE;
	}
	
	// If any of the URIs above matched, but the user did not have the necessary ccap, redirect to Membership Options
	if (FALSE === $allowed) {
		header ("Location: " . S2MEMBER_MEMBERSHIP_OPTIONS_PAGE_URL);
		exit ();
	}
}
?>

You can add as many if-blocks as necessary to check various URIs against various Custom Capabilities.

Members can have multiple Custom Capabilities, and you can sell existing members additional Custom Capabilities using Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms.

If you want new members to automatically have certain Custom Capabilities when they sign up, you can simply add those capabilities to the Pro-Form when you generate it in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Membership Level # Forms.

Those are just examples. You would need to modify the code to suit your needs.

If you’re not comfortable with PHP, we recommend posting your job on jobs.wordpress.net.