Don't Automatically Subscribe New Users

[Bukco13]

Basically, I'm trying to use the s2Member plugin primarily as a way for users to signup for our company's newsletter rather than sign up for our blog. The reason I need to use the plugin is to restrict downloads unless a user has subscribed. The problem is that we don't want to have users automatically subscribed to the website's blog. So here's what we need to be able to do:

1) Change the text right above the Register button that says "by registering with this blog you are also agreeing to receive email notifications for new posts" and change it from blog to our company name and from new posts to newsletters.

2) Make sure that they are not subscribed to receive any new posts.

3) Remove the checkbox that is placed by integrating with Mailchimp. I tried following the advice here viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6408&p=15725&hilit=new+member+subscribe+options#p15725 by creating a /mu-plugins folder and placing the s2-hacks.php in there but the checkbox still came up (I'm treating the note above the register button with the pressing of the button to be the double opt-in)

And that should cover it. Thanks!

[Cristián Lávaque]

1) I don't remember seeing this text, could you show me a screenshot?

3) You can remove it from here: WP Admin -> s2Member -> API / List Servers -> Registration / Double Opt-In

[Bukco13]

1 and 2) See the attached screen shot, the text right about the register button.

3) Thanks for that. Guess I missed that the first time around and couldn't find that in the FAQ. Very nice feature to have that option.

Screen shot of the Register page

[Cristián Lávaque]

I don't think that's added by s2Member. From what I could find, it seems to be from another plugin named Subscribe2. Do you have that installed?

[Bukco13]

Brilliant! That was it. A previous programmer for the site I think installed that plugin and I had totally forgot about it. Didn't realize that it would integrate with s2Member like that. Thanks very much!

Do you know if in general the two plugins can play nice? If, for example, we did want to add the option to subscribe users to a certain category from our blog? Does s2Member have that kind of capability? Either way, for now this will work fine.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Glad I could help you find the problem.

s2Member doesn't add the subscription feature you mentioned. I don't have any reports of whether they do or not work together. If you try them, please report back.

[Bukco13]

Sure, will do. Thanks again!

[Cristián Lávaque]