Raam Dev

Hi Charles,

Yes, this is possible through the use of Custom Capabilities. You can give pieces of content (i.e., posts or pages) specific Custom Capabilities and then sell those capabilities to existing users through the Capability Buy Now form (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms). Whatever Custom Capabilities the user has on their account will determine what content they’re allowed to access.

Please see the video below for more information on Custom Capabilities.

Hi Hamid,

We do not currently have a points or credits system and I don’t know of any immediate plans to add such a feature. However, if there is enough interest we will certainly consider it for a future update.

Hi Tomer,

We don’t currently have a video tutorial for setting up Clickbank, but we will consider making one.

Regarding Clickbank integration: There is a lot of documentation inside the plugin. You’ll first need to enable the Clickbank payment gateway in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Other Gateways. Then, navigate to Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ClickBank® Options and start filling in the settings in Account Details and follow the instructions in IPN Integration.

Hi Alexander,

Unfortunately s2Member is not designed to support multiple merchant accounts in the way that you described. You can only have one merchant account.

Hi Joe,

What you’re describing sounds like a shopping cart, where members add multiple things to their cart with certain items discounted if they’re already purchasing other items. s2Member was originally designed as a membership plugin using the subscription-model. However, we’ve added features to account for the needs of selling individual items or additional “capabilities” on top of memberships. We call this feature Custom Capabilities.

You can sell individual Custom Capabilities on a one-time basis, or sell them packaged together with a membership. However, if you want a shopping cart type system that discounts specific Custom Capabilities depending on which membership the user is purchasing, you’ll need to write the necessary PHP code for that customization. (All of the source code is available and we provide many hooks/filters for customization.)

How does this relate to s2Member?

Hi Pete,

This is not an s2Member thing: you’d need to modify your theme template (probably comments.php) and add target=”_new” to the anchor tag that surrounds the PHP code that outputs the users name.

Hi Samia,

You can drip content to specific Levels (S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_ACCESS_LEVEL), but if the user signed up for Level 1, then upgraded to Level 2, and then again to Level 3, there is no way to check what date the user upgraded to Level 2 or Level 3.

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for the reply. I did a bit more research and I was indeed wrong: the s2Member Custom Capabilities are in fact built upon the WordPress Capabilities. However, the documentation states that “Custom Capabilities are an extension to a feature that already exists in WordPress®”.

s2Member has extended its use of Custom Capabilities to work on a per-user basis. The WordPress use of Capabilities is limited to Roles (at least from a UI standpoint; I checked the WordPress documentation and it also makes no mention of assigning capabilities to users)

By being able to assign individual capabilities to users, s2Member allows you to effectively sell features on a one-time basis, adding and removing Custom Capabilities as necessary.

s2Member’s UI does not allow you to assign its Custom Capabilities to Roles; it expects that you will be using them on a per-user basis. That’s why when you generate a Pro-Form that includes Custom Capabilities, you need to explicitly state that you want to remove all existing Custom Capabilities from the user signing up (or upgrading) with the form before adding the new ones (if that’s actually what you want to happen).

If you click the question mark next to the Custom Capabilities box on one of the Pro-Form generators (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms), here’s what it says:

Optional. This is VERY advanced.
See: s2Member -> API Scripting -> Custom Capabilities.

*ADVANCED TIP: You can specifiy a list of Custom Capabilities that will be (Added) with this purchase. Or, you could tell s2Member to (Remove All) Custom Capabilities that may or may not already exist for a particular Member, and (Add) only the new ones that you specify. To do this, just start your list of Custom Capabilities with `-all`.

So instead of just (Adding) Custom Capabilities:
music,videos,archives,gifts

You could (Remove All) that may already exist, and then (Add) new ones:
-all,calendar,forums,tools

Or to just (Remove All) and (Add) nothing:
-all

I hope this clears things up a bit! :)

Hi Joel,

Here’s a tricky way around this:

1) Create a Custom Registration Field with the Unique ID middle_name. Set “Field Required?” to no and “Allow Profile Edits” to No (uneditable & totally invisible, both during & after registration)

2) Edit the necessary Pro-Form template in plugins/s2member-pro/includes/templates/forms/ and add the following between the First Name and Last Name sections:

<div id="s2member-pro-paypal-registration-form-middle-name-div" class="s2member-pro-paypal-form-div s2member-pro-paypal-registration-form-div s2member-pro-paypal-form-middle-name-div s2member-pro-paypal-registration-form-middle-name-div">
	<label for="s2member-pro-paypal-registration-middle-name" id="s2member-pro-paypal-registration-form-middle-name-label" class="s2member-pro-paypal-form-middle-name-label s2member-pro-paypal-registration-form-middle-name-label">
		<span>Middle Name</span><br />
		<input type="text" maxlength="100" autocomplete="off" value="" name="s2member_pro_paypal_registration[custom_fields][middle_name]" id="s2member-pro-paypal-registration-custom-reg-field-middle-name" aria-required="false" tabindex="11" class="s2member-pro-paypal-custom-reg-field-middle-name s2member-pro-paypal-registration-custom-reg-field-middle-name" />
	</label>
</div>

Now when that Pro-Form loads and the user submits their Middle Name, it will be stored in the Middle Name custom registration field.

If you want this to show up the same way when you use the [s2Member-Profile /] shortcode, please see this thread.

Hi Zoe,

That error message comes from reCAPTCHA, not s2Member. If you’re receiving that error even when you’re using valid reCAPTCHA keys, then I suspect a problem with reCAPTCHA or the communication between your server and their server.

For a little background, please see this thread where the error was originally discussed.

Regarding the redirection after payment: Looking at your Pro-Form shortcode, you’re not using the success= attribute to tell s2Member where the Thank You page is. Please try adding that attribute with the full URL to the thank you page.

Hi Marc,

Please see PayPal® IPN/PDT Services / Multiple Site Configurations.