About: Ron Cross

Hey Cristian,

Still trying to get the free level set up properly. Here’s what’s happening;

I have all my blog articles to post on a page on my site called “blog”; They’re not set to show on the front page.

1. When I set post restrictions to “All” my Blog Page gives a 404 error. What I’m trying to do is have that page show snippets of all the articles (I have installed the auto-more tag plugin) and then prompt the reader to join when they click to read the rest of the article. Instead, nothing comes up at all. I’m using the “all” command under post restrictions.

2. I also tried using category restrictions. I only have two that posts fall under. I entered both those categories under the category restrictions tab. Same thing, I get a “page not found” error when I click on the blog page.

3. I have links to blogs posted on my fan page also, so I tried clicking on one of those. I was sent straight to the membership options page from there.

But basically any way I add post restrictions causes my blog page to come up as “not found”. In wordpress I have my error page settings set to show random blogs on the page. Those blogs show only the title, none of the content. When I click on one of the titles I’m sent to the membership options page.

I’m assuming that just logging out of my wordpress site will allow me to test it as a new visitor would, correct? Tell me what I’m doing wrong here.
To summarize, I’d like my page to show normally to all un-registered visiters. When they click on the Blog page I’d like them to be able to see all the post titles and the first few lines of content. I have the more tags set up and in place.
When they click the more tag that’s when I want them to be sent to the membership options page. I can’t figure out the proper restrictions to make this happen.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by  Ron Cross.

Hey Cristian,

I set up the aweber integtration last night. I’ll have to try testing it again though. I wasn’t clear from the instructions how to do it. I used the information from the instructions. It seemed to imply that I was supposed to copy and paste the sample e-mail in there.

As far as Aweber goes, you can set up rules to automatically unsubscribe someone from one list when a certain event happens. For example, if the capability is there in S2, I can set aweber up to automatically unsubscribe a free member from the current list when they subscribe to the level 1 list. All I need to know is whether or not I can set up the integration so members scribe to a different list at different levels.

Also, I don’t see the more tag. Where do I find it?

No, they can have access to all the articles. I have a video e-course that has 5 lessons. I want to drip that once a week. I’ve been delivering the course and the posts via auto-responder for almost a year. I actually posted another thread earlier today about all that. If you don’t mind maybe we should just close this thread and continue the conversation there.

Well rather than do that Christian, let me tell you what I’m trying to do. I have S2 installed on my blog. What I’d like to do is set up a Free level where members have to register to see my blogs. However I still want the blogs to show on the site as they do now, with the title, the picture and the first few lines of text.

They’ll all so get a 5 lesson video course, drip-feed. I’ve downloaded a plugin to handle the drip-feeding. When I put my restrictions in for level 0, I put in the actual ID numbers to the pages where each video is posted, and then I used the “all” tag for posts.

The videos are hosted with Amazon S3. I have input my security keys in the spaces provided but I left all the download information blank.