Raam Dev

Hi Matteo,

Yes, you can run it on your local server with no problem. You can upload the plugin via FTP (see s2Member® » Pro » Install/Upgrade Instructions).

After you install it locally, please see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Localhost WAMP/MAMP Developers.

Thanks for the update, Buck!

Hi Simon,

You can use URI restrictions to block specific URLs: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions.

Hi Marc,

All the information you need for using PayPal Express with s2Member Pro can be found in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Quick Start Guide:

*PayPal® Pro is NOT Absolutely Required* s2Member is very flexible. It is now possible to integrate Pro Forms without a PayPal® Pro account, whereby the enhanced Form Shortcodes that s2Member provides can be integrated ONLY with PayPal® Express Checkout. In other words, if you get declined for PayPal® Pro service, you can still use s2Member Pro Forms. Ask PayPal® to activate Express Checkout for you. ( it’s free ). Once Express Checkout is enabled, you will have access to your PayPal® API Credentials. Log into your PayPal® account, and navigate to Profile -> API Access (or Request API Credentials). You’ll choose ( Request API Signature ). Now … here is the tricky part; whenever you generate a Pro Form Shortcode with s2Member, be sure to change accept=”paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo” to just accept=”paypal”; thereby excluding the on-site credit card processing functionality; which is available only with PayPal® Pro.

Hi Aaron,

It would appear that you’ve corrupted the PHP file that you edited. Could you please start with a fresh copy of that file (you can get it from the s2member-pro.zip file that you downloaded) and make your edits again?

You must open and save the PHP file as plain-text. I recommend using an editor such a TextWrangler on the Mac or Notepad++ on Windows.

Hello,

This is partially achievable using Custom Capabilities. Each post could be assigned a Custom Capability and “Granting Access” would involve a bit of PHP code that adds that Custom Capability to their account (if this was a paid upgrade, you could use Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Capability (Buy Now) Buttons).

The part that’s not easily achievable with the current features is checking the “Gained Access” time. s2Member has a Paid Registration time (time since first payment), and Days Since Registration, but there’s no way to see “Time Since Custom Capability was Granted”.

All of the s2Member source code is available and there are many hooks and filters to make customizations to the plugin. A PHP programmer could create a table for Custom Capabilities that lists users, capabilities, and the dates the capabilities were granted. You’d then check that table when dripping content.

Hi Ricky,

Two questions:

1) Did you make sure that the Payment Form you’re redirecting to after free registration is a Billing Modification form (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms) and *not* a regular Level form? You *must* use the Billing Modification form for s2Member to recognize the logged in user and upgrade their account after purchase.

2) Can you confirm the user is being automatically logged in after free registration? If the user isn’t logged in after registering, any signups will be treated as new users.

Hi William,

s2Member currently only supports one payment gateway per user. You can configure different users with different payment gateways, but a single user cannot have multiple payment gateway associations.

If you want to import users from another program, you may want to check out Knowledge Base » How to Migrate to s2Member Pro from Other Software.

Hi Joy,

s2Member Pro adds support for defining coupon codes that can be used to create discounts at checkout.

Hi Kevin,

The orange submit button is not being added by s2Member.

On the PayPal Pro forms, there are two possible buttons that you will see s2Member create: the yellow PayPal Checkout button (shown when the user selects the ‘PayPal’ billing method) and a “Submit Form” button (shown when the user selects any of the other billing methods).

If you try selecting the Visa billing method, for example, you’ll see that s2Member’s ‘Submit Form’ button appears next to your orange submit button.

If you modified the Pro-Form templates and added a submit button, then that’s probably where it’s coming from. Otherwise, I’m really not sure. Perhaps your theme or another plugin is manually adding that button in there.

Mark,

That’s really strange. I haven’t seen that before. Could you try deactivating and reactivating the s2Member plugin? (Make sure that deactivation safeguards are enabled first: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Deactivation Safeguards.)

Hi Teresa,

Can you confirm that your members are set to use “s2Member Level 0” role and not one of the WordPress roles (e.g., Subscriber, Editor, etc.). If you restrict pages to Level 0, then members *must* have an s2Member Level 0 role or higher.

If you are using s2Member Level 0 for your users, can you tell me what happens when you remove all page restrictions (clear the fields so they’re empty)?

Hi Hari,

Thank you for posting the solution!