Cristián Lávaque
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Cool. 🙂
Yes, I’ve seen it work in the past. For example, every internet marketing product launch seems to do that: put out good content for free so the visitor feels confident about paying for the premium content.
I’m sure that with a few good Google searches you can find great internet marketing articles on that topic for free out there.
I think I see what you mean.
Well, about search engine indexing I answered above. You can use those methods (‘more’ tag or conditionals) to achieve indexing with a well SEO’ed copy, while still protecting the rest of the premium content.
About free vs trial, here’s what I think:
Trial can work well but is also problematic to deal with those that get the trial and then don’t remain or their payment fails, and how easily they could do that over and over. I’ve seen this complaint from site owners a few times, asking how to avoid it, but in the end it’s very hard to fully protect against it. You could just not care about some doing it.
The other approach, good free content and let them know there’s the premium content they can get to, seems simpler. Instead of excerpts of the premium content, they get a taste of your content’s quality through the free material they got from you. That can work well, and you could give actual excerpts of the paid content too.
Both can work very well, or not. I guess there are several factors at play, e.g.: your preference, your niche, how you implement it.
Maybe I didn’t even understand your question correctly. I hope I did and that the answer helped.
“Please contact admin if you have any questions and to request access to this page.” isn’t an s2Member message I remember. Is that what you wrote in the page you set as the Login Welcome? WP Admin -> s2Member -> General -> Login Welcome
If not, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62T5RiqOHWA
> However the user should have access the page and if he goes to main page and navigate the same page he could still access the page
I’m not sure if you’re asking why he wasn’t taken to the page directly after login, or if he couldn’t access it… Do you mean he had logged in and if he tried going to the protected page, he was wasn’t allowed to by s2Member?
Could you please explain the problem a bit more? Thanks!
No problem. Thanks for the update! I’m glad you sorted it out. 🙂
[s2Get constant="S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_LOGIN_COUNTER" /]WP Admin -> s2Member -> Scripting -> Constants
[s2Get user_field="s2member_login_counter" /]I hope that helps. 🙂
Thank you very much for the update. I told Jason about it and he should be looking into it soon.
If you could, it’d help us very much investigate this if you let us review the clean installation where you reproduced the problem. You can submit the admin credentials here: https://www.websharks-inc.com/support/?product=s2member&request_type=trouble_ticket
You can protect pages for a specific user, but then giving access through a link enabled for social networks only, no. No, not really possible with s2Member without customization, sorry. :/
You could post the job in a freelancers site like oDesk, Freelancer or Rent-a-Coder, and see if you get someone to do it.
Great. 🙂
Okay, I look forward to your update. And thanks for explaining a bit more the problem.
You could ask your webhost about the 404s, too.
Thanks very much for sharing what you found! 🙂
I’ll check with Jason if the server scanner tool checks for that. I’m pretty sure it does and warns about it when it’s missing, but I’ll confirm it. http://www.s2member.com/kb/server-scanner/
Well, if they have an EOT time set in their profiles, you could use the users exporter, edit the CSV file’s column for it, and reimport it. WP Admin -> s2Member (Pro) -> Export/Import -> Users
If they have a subscription running, though, the EOT time won’t be set before the subscription ends, and the payment gateway doesn’t let you skip/change a payment. It lets you refund one, but I don’t know if there’s any way to do it in bulk, you’ll need to ask them.
If you’re not seeing the PayPal pro-forms in your installation, you may have PayPal Pro disabled as a payment gateway. WP Admin -> s2Member -> Other Gateways
That’d show the pro-forms, and you can use them with just PayPal Express Checkout, PayPal Pro not required. I’ll see if we can improve the labels to avoid confusion.
Like David said, pro-forms come with s2Member Pro, they aren’t in the Framework. Since you mentioned the Authorize.Net ones, I assumed you have it.
I hope that helps. 🙂
Well, free registrations are Level 0 users by default. So just enable Open Registrations. WP Admin -> s2Member -> General -> Open Registrations
Then you can link to the registration page for free Level 0 users: /wp-login.php?action=register
I hope that helps. 🙂
