custom capabilites

  • Hi,

    I’m going to try and explain this as well as I can:

    I offer free ebooks and ebooks that will require paid membership. People who have free registration will be able to download the free books.

    People who have paid membership (at any level), will be able to access all the other ebooks too.

    So if I created just 2 sub directories (one for level 0, and one for level 1), would level 4 members still be able to see the books in those directories? In other words, are the levels set in the sub-directory the lowest level a member has to be?

    Also…if a level 0 member tried to access a book in the Level 1 sub-directory, what would happen? Would they get sent to the membership page to upgrade their membership?

    Any help is appreciated.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/s2member/

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  • The answer to your questions is Yes.

    Thread Starter aisha70

    (@aisha70)

    Brilliant. Thanks.

    One more question. I want to have a level where people can download, say, 10 books in a 2 day period. I don’t want the free books (in the level 0 sub directory) to count towards their downloads. I saw in the documentation this:

    count_against_user=”no”

    but I’m not sure how to put that with the link. So if my link looked liked this:

    [su_button url=”https://www.globalgrey.co.uk/?s2member_file_download=access-s2member-level0/example.pdf&s2member_skip_confirmation” background=”#ef3c2d” color=”#ffffff” size=”6″ icon=”icon: download”]Click to download PDF[/su_button]

    (I’m using a shortcode button thing)…where would I specify that I didn’t want this download counted against the members allowance?

    I don’t know what “thing” you’re using, but I’d suggest trying to add count_against_user="no" immediately before the first ]

    Thread Starter aisha70

    (@aisha70)

    It’s a shortcode for a button ??

    So the count_against_user=”no”….is that a shortcode?

    That’s my last question, and thank you very much. I see you answer a lot on the forums and it’s really nice of you to do so…really appreciated.

    Thanks, since I’m not a developer, answering other people’s questions has helped me learn a lot for my own sites.

    count_against_user="no" isn’t a free-standing shortcode, but it can be used as part of an s2Member shortcode. So I don’t know whether it will work as part of your shortcode, but it’s worth a try.

    If it doesn’t work the first time, try moving its position within the shortcode. I have found that the order of the elements within a shortcode sometimes makes a difference.

    Thread Starter aisha70

    (@aisha70)

    I’m going to try this out soon.

    And thank you again. I’m surprised you’re not a developer, you certainly know your stuff.

    Hey aisha70 did you ever come up with the format you required? I was needing to do same thing.

    Thread Starter aisha70

    (@aisha70)

    Hi,

    Not with the ‘count against user-no’ thing. I ended up putting all my free books in a folder which wasn’t S2Member protected. That way it didn’t count against their download total.

    I haven’t actually tried this, but I read the documentation as suggesting that you could create links to protected files like this:

    [s2File download="example-file.zip" count_against_user="no" /]

    Files called like that should not count towards the download limit.

    Jason has now explained the best way to do this. I know @moe Joe is on the relevant thread, but @aisha70 isn’t, so please take a look here.

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