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Forgot to mention – this renders as a simple “subscribe to our mailing list” form with an email field and a “subscribe” button. I created it with the “Create Form Embed Code” section of the MailChimp site.

I’m uncertain how difficult it would be for you to to auto-generate the subscribe URL given a user’s MailChimp credentials – i found it easy to just pull it from MailChimp’s generated form code.

Another option would be to allow users to paste in the full form code from MailChimp, which would allow any level of complexity. (I think this would be taking it too far)

Most of the time, I just use a simple “add your email and press the button” form.

–Thanks for the great work!

Hi cconoly, thanks, I look forward to trying out the update. I’ve shown the plugin to my associates and they are impressed with its small visual footprint and ease of use ??

Regarding the mailchimp, here is the code for the “super slim” form provided by mailchimp. Mailchimp forms can get much more complex, but this would probably be a good starting point for many people. I’ve replaced my form-specific URL with a “_SUBSCRIPTION_URL_” placeholder:

<!-- Begin MailChimp Signup Form -->
<link href="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/embedcode/slim-081711.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
	#mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; }
</style>
<div id="mc_embed_signup">
<form action="_SUBSCRIPTION_URL_" method="post" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="validate" target="_blank" novalidate>
	<label for="mce-EMAIL">Subscribe to our mailing list</label>
	<input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="email" id="mce-EMAIL" placeholder="email address" required>
	<div class="clear"><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="button"></div>
</form>
</div>
<!--End mc_embed_signup-->

We encountered this problem as well. Clearing the IP restrictions log did the trick. Here’s where I found an explanation of the problem and the fix:

The Members List plugin is unrelated to S2Member. I mentioned it as one option to generate a member directory.

There are different ways to accomplish what you have in mind. If this were my project I would add a custom profile field in S2Member for building category, and then create template pages for a list of businesses in a category, and for a single business detail.

To answer your subject question, yes, we use s2member and are very satisfied with it. We’ve found the community support to be very good in responding.

Regarding your second question — you describe adding members to your site, and then ask about listing businesses in different categories….

If by “businesses” you mean posts, and categories are actually wordpress categories, then the typical WordPress category.php and single.php theme pages address this.

If by “businesses” you mean S2members, and by categories you mean member levels (?), then it sounds like you’re describing a member directory.

I don’t know if s2member provides a directory system as part of its built-in functionality, but we’ve been able to implement this ourselves by creating a page to list members, and another one to list a single member’s details.

Member directory functionality is also possible by adding a member directory plugin. I’m about to consider “Members List” for our project as it looks promising.

annekegleijm,

I’ve been using s2member to accomplish something similar to what you describe. Here’s what I did:

– Used S2Member to define the different levels (in our case, a free-level-0, plus “bronze”, “silver”, and “gold” levels (1,2,3)

– Add custom registration fields (phone, address, etc), but made them optional. When a member registers, they may or may not enter the information – and we ignore it for the free level.

– Created a “members area” page that is itself blank, but serves as a parent to the others

– Created an “edit my profile” page in the members area and protected it for levels 1 and up. So free members can’t enter their address at this point. (If free or non members try to access this page directly, they are routed to the “membership levels” page by the plugin)

– Create a “membership levels” page that shows the members’ current level, and buttons to upgrade to a higher level.

– Created a forum using BBPress, and limited it to levels 1 and above.

– Implemented FaceBook connect to allow members to join easily

So now anyone can visit the site, and can create free membership easily using their facebook credentials. — or they purchase a paid membership immediately if they choose. Free members can upgrade at any time.

PAID members are directed to the members area upon login. They also see a “go to members area” button anywhere else on the site. The members area contains documents, news, forum, etc…anything that’s private the the general public.

This arrangement works well for us! Best of luck.

That did the trick – thanks!

Sorry, figured it out myself.

The second question, about the username and email, was some of the the settings that I’d overlooked. I spent all that time on the FAQ page and missed the settings. Doh.

I think the first problem, the 404, may be occurring because IE isn’t remembering my htaccess password for the site.

Since I’m here, I want to say that I’m loving this plugin – nice job.

svetskigigacar, that message shows up when a plugin or theme file outputs a character (any character, even a space) before the session variables are initialized.

Not all scripts/plugins/themes use session variables, which is probably why you haven’t seen this before. Easy Nivo Slider uses two session variables to pass data to the editor popup window – it’s how the plugin knows what’s what.

I don’t *think* my plugin is generating the error-causing space, but the use of session variables is what’s setting the warning. A few options:
1. You could try disabling other plugins to see if the warning goes away. if turning off a plugin removes the warning, then that plugin is generating the whitespace. I’ve found this problem is often caused by the simplest of things – having an extra space or line after the ?> at the end of a php file.
2. You could turn off the editor part of the plugin. this would be a manual edit of the code to just deactivate the shortcode generator – basically give the plugin a lobotomy. The shortcode would then have to be entered manually, but the warning would go away.
3. I modify the plugin to not use session variables. This would be the best solution, but time constraints make this hard for me right now.
Sorry I cannot say, “click this and it will be fixed:.

yiotta,
Which type of slider are you using? It may be that the type you are using isn’t processing the number=xx parameter correctly, or that the other sliders are not available – knowing which type of slider will help to pinpoint the problem.

Version 2.0, which I’m testing now, allows you to sort the images/posts/etc that are selected based on date, name, etc. Hope to have it available soon.

Me too ?? Glad you are finding the plugin useful.

Hi poliquinp,

I’m going on memory here, but I believe it’s::

[nivo post_type="page" orderby='menu_order' order='ASC']

The orderby value can be menu_order, rand, id, title. By default it’s the publish date (newest pages first)

The ‘order’ value can be ASC or DESC.

The orderby and order options are planned as part of the Visual Editor plugin in the next release. It’s already part of the shortcode processor now, because I was planning to add it.

Seems like I need to get on that next release…

Ah, sorry, I missed the distinction.

Yes, you can link to pages also. Just add
post_type="page"
to the shortcode.

So, for example:
[nivo post_type="page"]

Then the pages that have featured images will get added to the slider. Note that the title of the image itself is used for the caption (not the page title).

I think this will be a good addition to the next release – I’ll add it to the Visual Editor plugin so it appears as an option and gets added to the shortcode automatically.

This is possible with the “Featured Images Slider”.

On the settings page for the plugin, select the tab for the slider size you’re creating (first, second, widget), and mark the “Linking” checkbox.

The when a slider is created from the feature images for different posts, each image will link to that post.

Absolutely, just add number=## to the shortcode.

So [nivo source="nextgen" gallery=1]
would become [nivo source="nextgen" gallery=1 number=20]

To specify all pictures in a gallery, use number=all

This parameter works for all three gallery types, and will be part of the shortcode generator in the next release.