Cristián Lávaque

Hi Rajesh,

That looks good. https://s2member.com/kb-article/s2if-simple-shortcode-conditionals/

Are you logged in or not when you check the page and don’t see that content? Check it as a visitor, not logged in, and see if shows the button.

Also, the modify attribute is not valid anymore, are you using a recent release of s2? See: WP Admin > s2Member > PayPal Buttons > Shortcode Attributes > modify

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Hi eventermom.

That’s an odd behavior…

Could you enable wordpress debugging and tell me if you see any entries in the debug.log? https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/debugging-in-wordpress/

I look forward to your update. 🙂

Thank you very much, Roger! I’m glad I could help. 😊👍

lol right, I meant it for the free ones. For paid ones I can understand being more curious beforehand.

I’ve seen sites use all kind of paid themes, and don’t have one in mind that I remember being a problem. I’ve seen the modern popular ones (e.g. Divi, Elementor) being used with s2 in different sites.

s2 uses wordpress shortcodes for lots of things, if the theme can handle those (and they do), you’ll be able to use s2’s shortcodes there.

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Thanks for confirming it and the links. I get redirected to the Membership Options Page correctly, and the variables in at the end show that the required access is level 1:

https://pomonapectin.com/order/wholesale-signup/?_s2member_vars=page..level..1..page..14709..L3VzYS13aG9sZXNhbGUv&_s2member_sig=1691620425-0d82772a15ca2ce26b23fe85caee7263

https://pomonapectin.com/order/wholesale-signup/?_s2member_vars=post..level..1..post..16312..L3Byb2R1Y3QvcG9tb25hLXBlY3Rpbi0xLWxiLWJhZy8%3D&_s2member_sig=1691620425-3b020bfd49ef945ff381f3e1485ef9bd

I don’t know how that person signed up… Maybe before the page was protected? Or do you have a signup somewhere else? maybe a forgotten tests page? Have you asked that member where she signed up from?

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I’m glad you had a backup. Well done for that and restoring it.

The procedure to remove it including its data, would be to:

1. disable s2’s Deletion Safeguards WP Admin > s2Member > General Options > Deletion Safeaguards
2. deactivate s2 from WP Admin > Plugins
3. then delete from there

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Hi Robert.

I’m sorry you’re having trouble. It sounds odd, though, because I cannot think what part of s2 would cause trouble to login to the admin area in any way. s2 doesn’t prevent dashboard access even when enabled, much less when it’s not. s2 only manages access to the front-side content.

You can simply remove it via FTP even, remove the s2 folders under /wp-content/plugins: s2member, s2member-files, s2member-logs. I’ve done this many times and there’s no problem, other than leaving s2’s data in the database.

Of course it’s fine and good practice to deactivate it first, and then delete it from the admin area, because then it can also perform the routines for that occasion, especially if you disable the deletion safeguards to remove s2’s data too. WP Admin > s2Member > General Options > Deletion Safeguards

If you deleted the folders and had trouble, maybe you deleted something else, unrelated to s2, too? You can upload s2Member folder again via FTP to the plugins directory if you want. I do doubt it’s the problem behind the dashboard access, though, but worth a try.

With error logging enabled, check the logs to see if there are any errors mentioned there, maybe it’s not so much that access is prevented, but that the dashboard area is not working properly after deleting something. https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/debugging-in-wordpress/

Do you have a backup from before the changes you made? If yes, you could restore that.

Please let me know how it goes. If I have any other ideas, I’ll reply here again.

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