s2Member® Updates

Unable to Verify $_POST Vars Error

Cristián — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:43:19 +0000

There are two main things to try to fix this error: Server Scanner This script will help spot some known server issues that would cause you this error. Knowledge Base » s2Member® Server Scanner Follow the instructions in that article to spot these issues, and follow the advice given to solve each until you get an all-green. PayPal PDT That ...

Admin pages not looking or working right

Cristián — Fri, 03 May 2013 05:35:55 +0000

The s2Member admin pages use CSS and JavaScript to look and work properly. If there’s something wrong with them, it’s very likely that something is preventing the styles or scripts from working or even loading. There are three main things that we’ve seen cause this: Theme The theme you’re using may be causing trouble and you can test this simply ...

PCI Compliance (Simplified)

Jason (Lead Developer) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:24:07 +0000

What does it mean to become PCI Compliant? The short version (simplified) It means you’ve paid a security scanning company (such as McAfee® Secure or TrustGuard®) to scan your server routinely; and that you address any security vulnerabilities that your security scans reveal. It also means that you are filing PCI Compliance Reports (normally with assistance provided by these companies) ...

Unexpected Downtime (April 26th 2013)

Jason (Lead Developer) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:00:23 +0000

Friends and Associates, Regarding: UNPLANNED DOWNTIME @ s2Member.com The cloud server hosting s2Member.com suffered some unexpected downtime on the afternoon of Friday April 26th between approx. 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm EST time. We are VERY sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you. This outage took a rather long time to recover from (much longer than we would ...

Levels without incremental access

Cristián — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:05:48 +0000

We're sometimes asked how it'd be possible to use levels but not give incremental access to the content. Normally, a user would get access to content restricted at his level or below. You may want to sell Level 2 but not have that user accessing Level 1 content. Custom capabilities would be better than levels in these situations. http://www.s2member.com/videos/A2C07377CF60025E/ That ...

PayPal Pro, PayFlow, DPRP, Express Checkout

Cristián — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:14:19 +0000

There has been some confusion with PayPal's services, so I'm writing this quick article to help understand them better. PayFlow Pro is not supported by s2Member Pro. s2Member Pro supports PayPal Pro, which may be using the PayPal Pro API or the PayFlow API. The latter version is called PayPal Pro PayFlow Edition. Knowledge Base » PayPal® Services / A ...

Amazon S3 and CloudFront link expiration

Cristián — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:02:31 +0000

S3 s2Member tells S3 to expire the link after 24 hours automatically. In most cases, the download begins and ends after a single request, so 24 hours is more than enough time for a customer to connect to the file and begin downloading the file. It won't matter how long it takes them to download the file, as long as ...

Reset the Amazon S3/CloudFront integration

Cristián — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:57:39 +0000

If you'd like to perform a full reset of everything s2Member stores for a previous Amazon S3/CloudFront integration, please follow these instructions. Create this directory and file: /wp-content/mu-plugins/s2hacks.php (This is a must-use plugin, see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins) Now visit this page in your browser: http://yoursite.com/?reset_aws=yes Then delete the s2hacks.php file and reconfigure Amazon S3/CloudFront.

ClickBank buttons outside the site with s2Member

Cristián — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:19:59 +0000

There may be times when you need to have the ClickBank order button in a site other than the one where you have s2Member protecting the content. In those cases the button shortcode will not work, and using a regular ClickBank button won't integrate with s2Member to grant access to the content after checkout. s2Member now uses digitally signed URLs ...

Free user review/approval process

Cristián — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:41:33 +0000

We’re often asked how new user registrations could be reviewed before they get access to the site’s content when the registrations are open to anyone. WordPress doesn’t have an account activation process, but it’s possible with s2Member to do something that may be just as useful. Instead of having your content protected at Level 0 for registered users, which is ...