GetPremise Landing Pages as Membership Options Page

[foodin65]

Hello All,

I'm new here. I'm using the pro version of S2 Member on one of my clients sites: FloristOverstock.net

I am also using the plugin Premise from GetPremise.com to build a custom sales letter.

I would like to use this sales letter as my membership options page for S2Member Pro, but S2Member only allows regular pages for the membership options page and not custom post types like the ones created by the Premise plugin.

How would I get S2 Member to allow the use of custom post types for the Membership options page?

Alternatively, how would I open up that custom post type sales letter to visitors of the site? That way I could just link to it from the Member-Signup Page if I cannnot use the custom post type.

Here is my current Membership Signup page (which is an actual WordPress Page):
http://www.floristoverstock.net/membership-signup

Here is the sales letter that I've created with the premise plugin that I'd like to use as the membership options page:
http://www.floristoverstock.net/landing ... hip-signup

You'll notice that this page auto-redirects to the Membership Options page above, because I can't figure out how to make this sales page publicly available.

Thanks for all your help.

[Cristián Lávaque]

You'll notice that the redirection URL to the Membership Options Page includes these variables

s2member_seeking=post-178
s2member_level_req=1

So basically your Premise page seems to actually be a post with ID 178, and it's protected at Level 1.

You're not given the option to set it as your Membership Options Page because it's not a page but a post. And somewhere in your access restrictions you're including it (maybe the Post ones with an "all"?). WP Admin -> s2Member -> General Options -> Post Access Restrictions

Let me know if that helps.

[foodin65]

I checked all of the areas you specified and I'm not seeing anywhere that I may have turned on Post Restrictions. The landing page should be visible to visitors and it's not.

I took screenshots of all relevant areas and included them below. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Here's a screenshot of my post access restrictions page:

Post Access Restriction Page

Here's a screenshot of my Custom Post Type Landing Pages:

Landing Page List

Here's a screenshot of the actual landing page that I'd like to use or link to from my membership options page:

Actual Landing page I'd like to use for Membership options

I'd be willing to PM you Login details if you can help me get this sorted out, Cristián.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Thanks a lot for the screenshots.

As you say, it doesn't seem to be protected at Level 1, or it'd say so in the meta box on the right in the last screenshot. But the Landing Pages listing shows the s2Member icon to the right, which suggests it's protected in some way. Could you please hover over that icon and tell me what it says?

[foodin65]

It say's "Requires Membership Level 1"

How would I change that, since the actual landing page says that it's not protected?

Thanks.

[foodin65]

I can change it to Level 0, 2, 3, or 4 and the hover changes to "Requires Membership Level #", but if I set that dropdown to the blank option... then the hover goes back to "Requires Membership Level 1", which sucks, cause that means I can't let it be viewable by guests.

Thanks for your help.

[Cristián Lávaque]

That's a weird behaviour. Well, it was weird since it wasn't showing up in Level 1 restrictions while still being restricted at that level.

I'm letting Jason know about this. I'm guessing it's not exactly an s2Member bug, rather an incompatibility with Premise.

[foodin65]

Okay Thanks,

The sooner I can get a fix, the better. I'm supposed to be delivering this website to the client tomorrow.

I'll help however I can.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Got it. Then, to speed things up, since I think Jason will need to take a closer look, I think it'd be good if you sent login details (include WP's dashboard) using the contact form. http://s2member.com/contact/

I'm not sure when he'll be around, but when he is it'll be quicker if he already has that at hand to help you.

[foodin65]

I submitted the details in the form. Thanks.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Cool.

[Jason Caldwell]

Thanks guys.
Investigating now.

[Jason Caldwell]

Thanks for your patience.

In your Dashboard, under:
s2Member -> General Options > URI Restrictions, you have:

/members/*
/members ( this matches: /landing/membership-signup )
/groups/*
/groups
/blogs/
/blogs
/activity/*
/activity
/messages/*
/messages
/profile/*
/profile
/friends/*
/friends
/settings/*
/settings

If a word fragment is found anywhere in the URI, it will be protected. Wildcards and other regex patterns are not supported here, and therefore you don't need to escape special characters or anything. Using asterisks ( * ) is invalid, and will NOT match anything, as most URIs do not contain an asterisk. Your word fragments are interpreted literally.

My suggestion.

/members/
/groups/
/blogs/
/activity/
/messages/
/profile/
/friends/
/settings/

Or just rename the slug for your Landing Page, removing the /members word fragment from the equation. ( i.e /landing/signup )

How would I get S2 Member to allow the use of custom post types for the Membership options page?

Sorry, for various technical reasons, this has to be a "Page" and not a Post; even a Custom Post Type, is still a "Post", at least internally, as far as WordPress is concerned. I've seen some people using this plugin though. In other words, you could try redirecting the redirect.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sim ... redirects/

[foodin65]

Thanks so much!

Here I thought I totally messed it up and it was just a simple fix. Thanks.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Ah, thanks Jason. I didn't think about URIs at all... I guess I'll just make it routine to ask for a screenshot of all the Access Restrictions panels from now on for problems related to restrictions.

Foodin, good thing you got it ready on time.

Let us know if you need help with something else.