I am a newbie so hope I can get some help. I am sure this can be done as I have seen it on another website, but I am not sure how to do this. I have a magazine and would like to sell online access to archived issues of the magazine. There are over 40 years’ worth of the magazine, so I am envisioning a welcome page that would give anyone access to the current year online magazine. It would say hello (user name) enjoy the 2016 editions of the magazine below. Click here to see past years’ issues: Then If someone wanted to see past years of the magazine I would like them to be able to buy each magazine individually or the entire year of the magazine. would like this page to have all the content for that year. So for example have a page for 1980 and have the content for all the issues with an About the issue tab, View the issue online tab and when you click the view the issue online you have a purchase now link to paypal. When you purchase on pay pal you come back to “your” page and can see your purchase. How can I make it to where I have all the pages created with the magazines, but the users can always see what they have purchased? I have been to this page, http://s2member.com/kb-article/customizing-your-login-welcome-page/
But I can’t figure out how to do the set up where a person would see “their” content. Sorry in advance for not understanding a lot about this, so I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Also – all members are free members, they pay for the content and there is no download of content, only online viewing.
Custom page with content
@vlambert: That sounds really interesting, Victoria!
There are several ways that this could be done, but you evidently have a specific design in mind, so could you point us to where you’ve seen this done before, please? That way, the advice you get will be much more likely to produce the result you want.
Also, I understand that all content must be read online with no downloads, but is your content in PDF, HTML, or some other format? If it’s in PDF format, are you looking for a flipping book effect or just a regular PDF? If it’s in HTML or another format, how long is each issue?
I sent an email also - but here is the information again. Thank you so much for offering to help! The magazines are on Issuu and they are set to be private, my thought was once a person purchases the right to view the magazine online (flip book – works for a tablet also) they would have the link that is embedded to the unlisted magazine. I do not want to let them have access to a PDF or download. I can give you the account log in and the website that I saw this done at – I purchased a magazine so I could see how they are doing their magazines sales. I am not a competing magazine (as we are a livestock magazine) and I even emailed them and sent them a facebook message to see if I could get more information about this. Here is the website and you have to visit the member section
If you want I could give you access to my member login information via email
On the email I sent to you a sent a few screen shots.
@vlambert, I am somewhat familiar with Issuu. (By the way, I’m not sure to whom you sent an email, but I doubt it was to me.)
I think your best bet would be to achieve this with a ton of shortcodes. It will take a while, but it will work!
For the tabbing function, you could use a free plugin like Tabsy. There’s also a paid (but inexpensive) add-on that helps you create the necessary shortcodes.
Then create a page for each magazine you want to sell, and write your blurb for the About tab.
For the View tab, you would paste in the relevant Issuu code, but put that within some s2Member shortcodes, which use ccaps, as explained here: https://s2member.com/kb-article/levels-wo-incremental-access/
So for January 1990’s magazine, you could create a ccap of (say) jan90. Then do something like this:
[s2If current_user_can('access_s2member_ccap_jan90')] Issuu code for the issue from January 1990 [else] This issue is available for purchase [s2member shortcode for purchasing the ccap jan90 by using a Capability (Buy Now) button or form] [/s2If]
Sometimes the [else] syntax can be finnicky, so you could try this instead:
[s2If current_user_can('access_s2member_ccap_jan90')] Issuu code for the issue from January 1990 [/s2If] [s2If !current_user_can('access_s2member_ccap_jan90')] This issue is available for purchase [s2member shortcode for purchasing the ccap jan90 by using a Capability (Buy Now) button or form] [/s2If]
By the way, if you want to see how another web page is made, you can just right-click somewhere on the page and select View Page Source. It can be quite revealing, especially if (as with the site you mentioned) it’s using WordPress too!
Thank you so much - I will work on this tomorrow - I was out of the country for a few days working…