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Hi Rob,

The next major release of s2Member will use the AWeber API, instead of the older email-based subscription method. I do believe AWeber’s new API allows for silent transitions, but I’ll need to double-check with Jason (the lead developer) to be sure.

Jason has been hard at work on the next major release and I believe we’ll have a beta coming out soon. I don’t any information a release date, but we’ll make an announcement as soon as possible.

Hi Roland,

Thank you very much for sharing your solution! :)

Hi Jarl,

As Eduan mentioned, the sending of passwords in cleartext is a WordPress feature, not s2Member.

With s2Member Pro, our Pro-Forms feature allows you the option of having the users create their password during signup so that no passwords need to be sent via email.

Hi Arthur,

I tried that link you provided above and it asks for the login. It looks like you’ve solved this problem?

Brett,

I didn’t login or do anything on your server. In fact, I looked for your Private Contact Message but it looks like we haven’t received it. Did you submit it using a different name/email?

The “Unable to verify $_POST vars.” message in your log file shouldn’t be something to worry about IF you’ve passed all the checks with the Server Check Tool (as your screenshot earlier shows you have). So, from the logs you posted, there doesn’t appear to be anything wrong.

The emails magically working again would confirm my suspicion that this problem is related to your server sending emails. There are lots of different reasons emails from your server may be caught by outgoing servers and fail to be received on the other end. (Spam filters, servers with blacklists, network connectivity/routing issues, etc.) And it may not be all emails, but only emails with specific headers/words/addresses/etc.

In situations where a rare issue is preventing emails from going through, the problem is usually “suddenly resolved” by the email server admins somewhere in the background between you and the recipient server fixing the issue.

All I can suggest is to continue monitoring the logs and if you have the email issue again to let us know.

Hi Brian,

The best way to achieve this would be to use the s2Member Custom Capabilities feature.

If you have a separate page for each of your PDF issues, you’d give each page it’s own Custom Capability (e.g., “issue1_2012”, “issue2_2012”, etc.). That will allow you to sell individual issues to existing members using the Custom Capability Buy Now feature (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms).

Now, to give new members access to all issues for this year, you’ll need to plan ahead a little. If you release issues monthly, then you know there will be 12 issues this year. To give new members access to all issues this year, you’ll simply create a signup form that gives them access to all the Custom Capabilities for this year’s issues (i.e., issue1_2012, issue2_2012, issue3_2012, […] issue12_2012).

Then, when you release the next issue and create a page for it, you’ll give that page the corresponding Custom Capability (which users who signed up for this years issue will already have) and the users who signed up this year will automatically have access to that new issue.

To sell access to all back issues for a specific year, you’d create a signup form that assigns all the Custom Capabilities for that year’s issues (e.g., issue1_2010 […] issue12_2010).

Custom Capabilities are very powerful and if you’re not familiar with them, I suggest checking out the Custom Capabilities video to learn more.

Hi Suhaib,

The s2Member levels are cumulative, meaning higher levels automatically have access to everything granted to lower levels. You could use Level 2 for the second pricing model (although this isn’t necessary; see below) and simply add no new restrictions. Level 2 members will automatically have access to everything granted to Level 1 members.

However, since you’re just trying to offer a second pricing plan, I recommend keeping one level. You can simply create two Pro-Forms: One that charges $9.99 for 1 month and another that charges $44.99 for 6 months, both set to give access to Level 1.

You can then place the two signup forms on two different pages and then point new members to the one they want. When they sign up, they will pay and then gain access to Level 1 for the amount of time you configured when you generated your Pro-Form.

You can generate as many different Pro-Forms as you want for Level 1, each Pro-Form offering a different price and length of access. When the user signs up with that form, their account is automatically configured to reflect the form they used.

Glad to help, Michele! Let us know how it goes.

Hi Nick,

That URL says:

Type = Page (_s2member_seeking%5Btype%5D=page)

Page ID = 801 (&_s2member_seeking%5Bpage%5D=801)

Page URI = L2Z1bGwtbWVtYmVycy8 (&_s2member_seeking%5B_uri%5D=L2Z1bGwtbWVtYmVycy8%3D)

Required Type = Level (&_s2member_req%5Btype%5D=level)

Required Level = 3 (&_s2member_req%5Blevel%5D=3)

Restriction Type = Page (&_s2member_res%5Btype%5D=page)

Trying to Access = page-801 (&s2member_seeking=page-801)

Level Required = 3 (&s2member_level_req=3)

So, you said Level 2 members should be able to access that page, however something in your s2Member Restrictions configuration (judging by the info above, it’s in the Page Restrictions for Level 3) is restricting that page to Level 3, not Level 2.

Tim,

The question is, how are you determining who should be listed as the author of the post? If the user is actually the author of the post, then the WordPress get_the_author() function should do what you need.

If you’re using some other method to determine who should be listed as the author of a post (i.e., the user isn’t actually the author of the post, but you still want to list him there), then you’ll need to write your own code to figure that out and show the correct user.

Hi Michele,

There isn’t currently a way to do this through the Custom Registration/Profile Fields. However, it’s certainly possible.

To give specific users access to additional pages, you’ll want to give those extra pages specific Custom Capabilities and then assign those users the Custom Capabilities for the pages you want to give them access to. Please see this video for more on Custom Capabilities.

To automatically assign new users one or more Custom Capabilities, you simply add those Custom Capabilities to the ccaps=”” attribute in your Free Registration shortcode. When the user signs up with that Free Registration form, they’ll automatically get those Custom Capabilities and therefore have access to the pages restricted to them.

The easiest way to handle the various sign up forms (each configured to assign different Custom Capabilities) is to create separate signup pages for each form and then direct the user to the correct page. However, you can also use Dynamic Shortcode Attributes to configure one signup form differently depending on the variables you pass to it.

To process the “Registration Code” from the user, you’ll need to create a separate page (a page that comes before the actual registration form) that does the work of validating the Registration Code. If the code is valid, you can send the user to the correct Free Registration form that has been pre-configured (or gets dynamically configured) with the correct Custom Capabilities.

You should be able to follow the Offering a Free Coupon Code KB article and use the examples there to create a solution for your Registration Code scenario, as they are quite similar. However, if you’re not comfortable with PHP you may want to hire a programmer to implement this (we recommend posting a job at jobs.wordpress.net).

Hi Ivan,

s2Member loads when the WordPress framework loads. It sounds like the theme you’re using allows you to edit HTML files that are then put together before WordPress is even called, so you wouldn’t be able to use s2Member functions or constants inside those files.

This sounds like a limitation of the theme itself, but I recommend contacting the theme developer and asking them how you can use PHP to call WordPress plugins from within your template files.