Raam Dev

Gary,

s2Member is a WordPress plugin and does not currently create its own database or tables. It works alongside WordPress. So, your question is really one about WordPress itself and not the s2Member plugin.

The s2Member Multisite feature allows you to offer the s2Member plugin to sub-sites, giving your sub-sites the ability to setup and use s2Member on their own. When you upgrade s2Member on the primary site, the s2Member plugin is automatically updated for all your sub-sites.

s2Member scalability is directly related to the scalability of WordPress itself and the resources necessary will depend on the number of WordPress blogs you’re running. We have customers using s2Member with thousands of users and hundreds of sub-blogs.

For specific questions about multi-site databases with WordPress, I recommend posting a question on the WordPress.org Support Forums.

Hi Jim,

If you’re using s2Member Pro-Forms with PayPal Pro to accept credit cards on your site, then you should be protecting the Pro-Forms page with SSL so that credit cards submitted to PayPal are sent securely via SSL. If you’re not using PayPal Pro to accept credit cards on your site, then you don’t need to protect your page with SSL since s2Member will redirect the purchaser to a secure URL on PayPal to complete the checkout.

I suggest trying to access your Membership Options Page via SSL by manually changing the URL to https://, instead of appending the ?s2-ssl=yes to the URL. If you still have the redirect problem, try the same thing with a different (public) page on your site. Can you access any URLs on your site using SSL? If not, then it sounds like you might have a problem with the SSL configuration on your server (in which case I suggest contacting your web host).

Hi Adam,

You are correct that there is no built-in account approval process in s2Member. If you wish to manually approve accounts, we recommend assigning all users to Level 1, paid or otherwise, and then manually approving them by editing their account and changing their level to a higher level (e.g., Level 2). The action of changing their account to Level 2 effectively “approves” the account. All of your content would be protected to Level 2 or higher, so that new members don’t have access until you approve their account.

You can also try using a plugin like WP Approve User. Since s2Member uses the WordPress user base and authentication system, it should work. However, we make no guarantees. The best way to find out if it works is to try it. :)

Hi Jeroen,

To disable the WP Admin Bar, add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter(‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’);

To manually set the login/logout link, you can simply change the code to something like this:

<?php if(is_user_logged_in()) { ?>
                <a href="http://example.com/logout-url-goes-here/">Logout</a> of your account
<?php } else { ?>
                <b><?php _e(' You have not yet registered to our club?', 'theme1392');?></b> <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/join-the-battlefield-knights/"><?php _e('Register', 'theme1392');?></a> <span><?php _e('or', 'theme1392');?></span> <a href="http://example.com/login-url-goes-here">Log in</a>
<?php } ?>
                

Hi Frank,

If you want to offer your purchaser a login, you cannot use the Specific Page/Post But Now buttons; you must use a Level access button/form (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Membership Level # Forms). If you wish to sell individual items, you can do that by assigning each post/page a specific Custom Capability and then include that Custom Capability in the signup forms when you create them.

Once someone has purchased something from you, they’ll need to login to make additional purchases. You’ll create a second page for logged in members that lists additional products and use Capability ( Buy Now ) forms (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms) to sell existing members additional products. When a logged in member purchases an additional Custom Capability, that Custom Capability is added to their account, thereby giving them access to whatever content has been tagged with that ccap.

See the video below for more information on Custom Capabilities:

Hi Mitch,

Ross is correct: The URL is being generated to give your purchaser access to either a specific post/page or access to the registration page after signup (assuming you’re not using Pro-Forms).

Hi Rebecca,

Can you show us the code you added? If I can see that, I’ll have a better idea what you’re trying to do.

Hi Eran,

When you removed the distros over at CF, did you clear out all the fields in s2Member for the integration and save that, before adding a new integration? s2Member shouldn’t be confused about distros already existing if the integration fields are empty, but I’d try clearing out the integration first and starting from zero.

As a last restort test, you could always try installing another copy of WordPress in a sub-directory, installing s2Member, and then try configuring CloudFront again.

Hi Zoe,

Have you tried the suggestions in the following KB article? Knowledge Base » Resolving Problems with File Downloads

Hi Mark,

s2Member integrates with MailChimp and AWeber to provide email services. There are various notification emails that s2Member sends out, but its email features are limited to those.

Your best option for automating signup + email list subscription is to use a Pro-Form with a List Server configured to subscribe that new user to a specific email list. Please see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers.

Hello,

This is not a phish. The TinyURL is generated by s2Member. If you wish to use a different URL shortening service, you can change that setting at Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› URL Shortening Service.

Sacha,

Have you updated your IPN URL in PayPal with the new URL? To the best of my knowledge, PayPal will begin sending new IPN messages for existing subscriptions to the new IPN URL if you update PayPal with it. I could not find any documentation that stated this was not the case. If you know of some, could you link me to it?

PayPal express checkouts i have seen does also say:

Don’t have a PayPal account?
Pay with your debit or credit card as a PayPal guest

IF you are a pro user who is using express…shouldn’t it work like that here?

If you’re using s2Member Pro-Forms with a PayPal Express account that also allows buyers to pay without a PayPal account, it works the same way from s2Member’s perspective. The user clicks the Checkout with PayPal button on the s2Member Pro-Form and gets redirected to PayPal. Once on PayPal, the user can either login with the PayPal account or click the “Don’t have a PayPal account?” button to pay with a credit card on PayPal’s website. (If you have PayPal Pro instead of PayPal Express, the user can pay with a credit card on your site.)

I talked with PayPal and they say that the s2member plugin needs to pass a variable to Paypal API of

solutiontype=”Sole”

In order to enable the guest checkout option and not force the customer to create an account.

s2member, please fix this! I have a developer copy of s2member and haven’t been able to accept credit cards for 3 months now because of this.

Matthew, what type of PayPal account do you have? Also, are you using the s2Member Pro-Forms or the PayPal buttons? I have personally had no problem checking out via PayPal using s2Member and then being able to choose “Don’t have a PayPal account?”. I’ll send a message to the lead developer to see if he can offer any insight.

I found that s2member doesn’t confirm billing info and also the CVV field isn’t checked as I entered a fake one and was able to use my card no problem. That’s why I switched to only accept=”paypal” but it doesn’t give the option for guest checkout even if I enter “accept-via-paypal” with different options like visa, mastercard, etc.

Confirming billing info and CVV only works if you’re using PayPal Pro. If you’re not using PayPal Pro, you shouldn’t be showing the credit card options on the Pro-Forms. Please see the note below from 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.