HTML Link Instead of Form/Button for Paypal Subscribe

[Raam Dev]

I'd like to create an HTML subscription link that works with s2Member instead of using a <form> or WordPress shortcode. Is this possible?

I want to do something like this:

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<a href="<subscribe link">Subscribe to my Journal - $5/month</a>

[Bruce C]

Creating an link with <a> would not be possible, since s2member passes hidden variables in through the form, which cannot be passed in a link. However, you could create something similar by pointing to an image that doesn't exist and changing the alt="" in the form.

[Raam Dev]

I fell asleep last night thinking about this problem and I realized that I could use JavaScript to achieve what I wanted: First, I hide the submit button using CSS, then I submit the form using JavaScript by adding onClick to the link HTML.

However, before I can do any of that, I need to give the s2Member form a name. Both the shortcode-generated form and the HTML provided by the button generator don't have a form a name.

How to Create an HTML link that submits Subscribe buttons

Update: As Cristián points out below, this can be achieved using the output="url" shortcode option (read more here: WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Button -> Shortcode Attributes).

By changing the output option to 'url', the shortcode will return a raw URL that we can then use in an anchor tag to create a link:

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<a href="[s2Member-PayPal-Button level="1" ccaps="" desc="Raam's Journal ($5/month)" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="raamdev.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="5.00" rp="1" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="1" image="default" output="url" /]">Subscribe to the Journal ($5/month)</a>

When the post is published, that code turns into a link that allows my reader to subscribe to my journal:

[Cristián Lávaque]

Raam, have you tried using the anchor or URL output for the shortcode? WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Button -> Shortcode Attributes -> output

[Raam Dev]

Raam, have you tried using the anchor or URL output for the shortcode? WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Button -> Shortcode Attributes -> output

Cristián, the URL output option is exactly what I was looking for -- thanks! I'll update my original post with the 'correct' solution to prevent confusion for others.

Cheers!

[Cristián Lávaque]

Cool! Glad I could help.