jaco44

Normally I take the high road & do not reply to inflammatory comments within a forum but being that all but one of my individual comments that you decided to break down and reply to in an inflammatory manner were dead wrong, it is only fair to others that might be interested in this topic, or considering following your advice, should be aware that although you pretend to come across as a someone very knowledgeable on these issues, you clearly are not.

Wow! There’s so much disinformation here that it’s hard to know where to begin. So let’s try starting with your direct question. While I am not part of the development team for s2Member, I think it’s pretty clear that support for PayPal Advanced won’t be coming.

You were clearly wrong as shown in my original reply with a link a supporting evidence. I concede to the sole comment that you made that seemed accurate; I likely misunderstood the fact that CC info is stored on my site with the fact it can be compromised if the security settings on site aren’t configured properly using PP Pro.. something beyond my capabilities and which is an additional expense to for a highly qualified & competent programmer to establish and maintain/update).

Well, s/he was obviously not so knowledgeable.

As if it weren’t obvious from my initial post, I am far from a “techxpert” & I stand corrected on that point of CC info stored on my site. Being that you were wrong on every other statement you made after that last one makes the PayPal rep clearly more knowledgeable than you on these issues.

“I learned from PayPal that the Pro version required various configurations made to my site such HTTPS, SSL, for security purposes.”
HTTPS and SSL are the same thing!

I never said they weren’t the same thing, I simply added a comma between them. The cost of an SSL certificate which is required for PP Pro is part of my reluctance to use it although I plan to research this issue further. The exclamation mark you added was no more needed the the ‘Ha,ha!” in your previous response.

And you will need it installed, IRRESPECTIVE of the specific plugin you use to take payment, if you don’t redirect customers off-site.

Wrong & wrong again: 1) “Accept credit cards and PayPal directly on your website. Keep customers on your site for the entire checkout process without the full burden of protecting their financial data. In addition to a merchant account and gateway in one, PayPal provides you with a secure checkout template to integrate within your website. Your customers won’t know that we’re processing their payment, making your business look more secure and professional.” Source: PayPal
2) PayPal Payments Advanced DOES NOT require an SSL certificate. Google Search

In addition to being flat-out wrong on all but one of your comments, you made a claim but provided no supporting evidence that support for PP Advanced from the S2 development team is unlikely, simply your opinion. As I showed in my previous reply, the comments from the S2 team clearly contradict what you said. While you very well might be right, & they have since decided to no longer pursue supporting PP Advanced, I simply want to hear that from THEM.

On that last jab you took at me in your previous reply, very slowly simply try reading my first and last sentence of my original question to the S2 team where I clearly asked if & when support for PP Advanced would be added. The rest of that post was simply info that thought others might be interested in knowing, with one incorrect statement regarding CC info being stored on my site.

Just to clarify: I just deleted & re-installed Subscribe2 on my local site & noticed a “Connect to ReadyGraph” banner that appeared at the top of my plugins page. That banner did have an “X”, which I was able to close. However, the banner I was referring to in the original post above is the one that appears on the top of all of the Subscribe2 settings pages as well as the page where registered users can select/de-select specific categories.

That banner is blue with an orange exclamation mark & an orange “Connect ReadyGraph” button with the message “Grow your site traffic faster: Activate…..” This is the banner that I need to get rid of as it is unacceptable for my registered users to see this when viewing their user notification settings page.

Anyone figure out how to get rid of this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, no rush on that issue. It would be a nice aesthetic & functional improvement to have the vertical floating icons not so spread out. As you’re working on the next update now & these aren’t really support issues that warrant a new thread, let me throw out my three big improvements to the plugin that will certainly garner a 5-star review plus a donation (at least from me):

1) Hide/show arrows for the floating icons (with the option to use a cookie to remember each users preference).

2)Different settings for both the color/style and which buttons to show for the floating buttons as well as those that are added to the bottom of each new post.

3) Related to the improvement above, the ability to select from ANY of the AddThis buttons vs. just the handful current listed. e.g.: I would like to add the following buttons to the bottom of each post: Print, Email, Pocket, & Google Translate. All of those buttons are available under the (+)Share button and are more suited to my individual posts vs. my entire site.

FYI- I have a few similar plugins installed on my local site but run yours on my live site. The ideas above were taken from those other plugins which I’d be glad to share with you to help assist in a little reverse engineering, should you decide to look into any of those features now or in the future.

The site is http://wp-studio.net/ . If you click “+” on the floating icons, then search “translate”, it will bring up the icon for Google Translate. Once you click that icon, the Google Translate icon will then automatically be placed on the top of the floating share icons, pushing the lowest icon off the screen (must be a cookie setting because when I revisit the page, the Google Translate icon remains on top instead of the default which was Facebook).

I made a couple of screenshots that I can email you if you are unable to replicate this for any reason. Thank you for an excellent plugin. I have given you a 5-star review (well deserved) and plan on upgrading to the pro version once I run the free version for a little while to make sure there are not any plugin conflicts on my site.