Membership Levels/Labels

[yammem]

Hello Anyone, Newbie here!

In setting my Membership Levels, I see that it does not allow Level 5. We need to have three different Membership categories, with all having permissions set at 5. Is there a way to make this happen with this plugin?

Thanks

[Cristián Lávaque]

What structure are you trying to achieve?

[yammem]

Found user role editor. Working with it now. Will let you know if it solves the issue.

[Cristián Lávaque]

That's good. What I mean is that you may not even need to bother with that. What is the membership structure you want to create?

You actually have 5 levels, 0 being the free one by default and 1 to 4 paid. Levels give access incrementally.

* A Member with Level 4 access, will also be able to access Levels 0, 1, 2 & 3.
* A Member with Level 3 access, will also be able to access Levels 0, 1 & 2.
* A Member with Level 2 access, will also be able to access Levels 0 & 1.
* A Member with Level 1 access, will also be able to access Level 0.
* A Subscriber with Level 0 access, will ONLY be able to access Level 0.

* WordPress® Subscribers are at Membership Level 0. If you're allowing Open Registration, Subscribers will be at Level 0 ( a Free Subscriber ). WordPress® Administrators, Editors, Authors, and Contributors have Level 4 access, with respect to s2Member. All of their other Roles/Capabilities are left untouched.

You also have availabe what are called Custom Capabilities, which may help you achieve what you want. You can learn about them here:

WP Admin -> s2Member -> API / Scripting -> Custom Capabilities
http://www.s2member.com/custom-capabilities-video/

And those two can be combined: custom capabilities for grouping and levels for incremental access.

Let me know if that helps.

[yammem]

Actually, we want to have three subscriber types with all the same capabilities to page and form creation only. I am finding various plugins that are helping the process along. The role editor allows the setting of the subscriber level to what we want them to do. Still a work in progress.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Ah, got it.

Yes, to let them do that, you do need to edit their roles.

[keefe7]

hello Cristian,

I want just 3 membership levels, not 5 as I can see, is the default in s2member. Is there a way I can remove the level 0 (free membership and also the level 4, as I want level 3 to be the highest)?

[Cristián Lávaque]

You can just not use them. Level 0 is always required for things like free accounts, demoted accounts (account still exists but user's paid access expired), or even as a check if someone is logged in, and it won't affect you if you leave it and not use it.