Raam Dev

Hi Edward,

Thank you for your patience on this. I’ve heard back from the lead developer and he confirmed that currently s2Member is using the email mechanism to integrate with Aweber. The next big release of s2Member will use Aweber’s API instead, which includes much better support for integration.

In the meantime, you can use the following hack to send the Custom Registration Fields in the email that’s sent to Aweber for new subscriptions:

Create this file and directory: /wp-content/mu-plugins/s2-hacks.php

<?php
add_filter('ws_plugin__s2member_aweber_msg', 'my_aweber_subscribe_command_via_email', 10, 2);
function my_aweber_subscribe_command_via_email($msg, $vars = array())
{
	$user_id = $vars&#91;'user_id'&#93;;
	
	$my_custom_field_value = get_user_field ('my_custom_field_id', $user_id);
	# A Unique Field ID you configured with s2Member.
	
	$msg .= "\n".'my_custom_field_id : '. $my_custom_field_value ;
	
	return $msg;
}
?>

The default email message that is sent to AWeber looks like this. So the hack above, is just appending additional details, which you may want to parse (i.e. via your AWeber Email Parser for s2Member inside your Aweber account):

s2Member w/ PayPal Email ID
Ad Tracking: www.example.com
EMail Address: johndoe22@example.com
Buyer: John Doe
Full Name:  John Doe 
First Name:  John
Last Name: Doe
IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
User ID: 1
Login: johndoe22
Role: s2member_level1
Level: 1
CCaps: music,videos
- end.

Glad to help, Mike!

Angie,

Thank you for offering to share the code! You may want to share it over in the Unofficial Extensions/Hacks forum.

Hi Masanori,

What is the problem you’re having? Does that code not work? What happens?

Hi Campbell,

s2Member does not currently provide support for eJunkie; there is no s2Member -> eJunkie integration. However, you could certainly use s2Member to sign up members and then place eJunkie buttons on your secured pages, which would only allow members to make purchases with those eJunkie buttons.

Regarding the Membership Options Page: There are technical reasons why the Membership Options Page cannot be the same as the home page. WordPress handles the Home Page differently (even if you’re using a Static Page as the home page) and those differences make handling it internally as the membership options page very complex.

What you could do is put a bit of PHP on the home page that checks if the user is logged in and if they’re not logged in, you could redirect them to the Membership Options Page (you’d use the PHP Advanced Conditionals, Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals, and a JavaScript redirect like this one).

You could also simply create a second sales page that looks identical to the home page, and then use that as your Membership Options Page.

Hi Buck,

The “You must be logged in to reply to this topic” message is part of bbPress and is the default behavior (see this example thread on the bbPress demo site; make sure you’re logged out). If you want to change the behavior, you’ll need to modify bbPress. You may want to post on their forum for help with that.

Regarding the 404 message: I just installed bbPress on my test s2Member installation and had the same problem. However, after a bit of trial-and-error, I discovered that it wasn’t s2Member causing the problem but bbPress itself. I tried disabling s2Member and even changing my theme to the default WordPress theme (TwentyEleven). I still received the 404 message.

There are several bbPress support threads that mention the 404 problems and they are most often caused by one of two things: an incompatible theme or a strange permalinks issue. I tried changing my permalinks to something else and then changing them back to my original settings and that seemed to fix the issue for me. The 404’s were gone and when I reactivated s2Member the protected forum correctly redirected non-logged in users to the Membership Options page.

Hi Nigel,

Try adding a success= attribute to your Pro-Form shortcode to redirect the form somewhere else after submitting. See Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained) for more details.

Hi Mike,

You need to add an Initial/Trial period to your Pro-Form that equals the yearly recurring amount. So, your Initial/Trial amount would be $300, with the yearly recurring amount also at $300.

Then when you create your coupon, you want to apply the discount only to the Initial/Trial amount (50$OFF|50.00||ta-only|383). When the user applies that coupon to the Pro-Form, it will deduct $50 from the Initial/Trial amount of $300–charging them $250 the first time–and then charge them $300 every year thereafter.

Hi Mary,

Yes, you can simply bump the user’s roles to Level 2. Changing the role won’t have any affect on the PayPal subscriptions. The only effect would be what your members have access to within s2Member and since you’re going to a higher level, they will automatically have access to everything granted to Level 1, so you should be good to go.

I recommend testing an account first just to make sure everything works as expected.

Hi Pete,

Yes, you can use the s2Member Advanced Conditionals (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals). Also, see this thread for information about working with the more link.

Hi Ganaxi,

When someone purchases a Specific Post/Page, there is no username or account tied to that purchase. If someone purchases multiple Specific Post/Pages over the course of a month for example, there’s absolutely no way for s2Member to know that Person A purchased X, Y, and Z posts because there is nothing tying those separate purchases to Person A.

With a membership account, the user receives an account on your site and everything is tied to their username.

When someone purchases a Specific Page/Post, s2Member generates a unique key that gives that person access to that specific post/page for the allotted duration of time. If Person A purchases 3 different posts over the course of a month, s2Member simply generates 3 different unique keys, each time having no knowledge of how many other ‘purchases’ that user may have made… there is nothing tying that user to your site.

Hi Dehaas,

My question: Is it possible to create a button that only changes the s2membership (from level 1 to level 2) without being redirected to Paypal and having to change payment details?

Unfortunately it’s not possible to create a free upgrade from one level to another using the Pro-Forms. If you want to do that, you’ll need to implement some custom PHP code that changes the users role from s2member_level1 to s2member_level2 using the WordPress remove_role() and add_role() methods. See this link for an example of how these WordPress methods are used.

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

Hi Buck,

Have you configured Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions? If so, could you please share what URI’s you’ve restricted?