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It’s **supposed to be** click “activate” in your profile, and then click “Add to favorites” on each post you want notifications on. But, nothing seems to happen when I try adding to favorites 8(
If you install WP in a subdirectory, then your URL will be mysite.com/blog or whatever subdirectory you place it in. If you are comfortable with that ides, then it’s ok to install WP in a subdirectory; and when the time comes to switch sites, do a 301 redirect to the new WP site.
If you want WP in the root directory, there are a couple of ways to go…
1. Setup WP in a subdirectory and then move it to root when ready. Only recommended for new setups. You first setup the minimal number of pages and posts you need; and then transfer the site to the root directory. The reason for having “just enough” setup is that there are some things that have to be adjusted in MySql whenever you move WP. See this…
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
2. Setup your WP site on a USB stick, using XAMPP. When the time comes to convert, upload the USB version of your WP site to your server. Less things to change, but it’s like running with scissors. You’ll **will** have problems with license keys having to be reactivated after the move.
3. I haven’t tried it yet, but you might get away with it… Move your static site into a subdirectory and then put WP in the root. Use a combination of 301 redirects and a WP plugin similar to Quick Page/Post Redirect to shunt traffic to the old site:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin
Personally, my vote is for #2, because I can do whatever I want to WP without worrying about my production system. Also, you can always hand the USB stick over to a more qualified person, who you only have to pay for transferring the contents of the stick and making the final adjustments.
I think, that because eStore records the squeeze page form data in the customer database, it is not inconsistent to pass the form information on to PDF Stamper. Particularly, in the situation I just described.
In any case, if you don’t think it’s worth doing for the main code; I’d like to get your thoughts on how I might approach the problem myself. I’ll be deliberately high level, so as to prevent others from trying to run with scissors
Modify wp_eStore1.php so that when performing an eStore_free_download, instead of using eStore_includes2.php to generate the link, it uses code similar to that found in eStore_manual_gateway.php to create pseudo $payment_data that can be passed to the link generator in eStore_post_payment_processing_helper.php
Thoughts on this approach?
Okay. Maybe I should explain what I’m trying to do…
I have a post, and at the end, a conditional content display. If the user does not have a certain membership level they see a “Buy Now” button. If they are of a certain membership level, they see a “Free Download” button,” because they are entitled to it as part of their membership.
I would like to have the downloaded file stamped, regardless of if they paid for it or not; because it is licensed material.
Is there some kind of API for PDF Stamper I can use, in which I can pass along the e-mail address of the paid user?
P.S. before deleting the entries from the “Managed Stamped Files” database, I think you should test to ensure the unlink() was successful. Otherwise, in case of failed unlink() like in this situation, the database and the directory will be out of sync.
Sigh, you’re still going to have to code an abolute path to/from URL conversion function…
When trying to delete files under “Manage Stamped Files,” I get:
Warning: unlink() [function.unlink]: http does not allow unlinking in /home/content/44/477758054/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-pdf-stamper/manage_stamped_files_page.php on line 0
I figure it’s because it’s trying to unlink files based on their URL.
Well, now that I know to to tippy-toe around these issues, I can at least move forward; and you get a wee-bit more space in order to properly fix PDF Stamper, LOL.
As for the original problem with the fssek() I kind of suspect that it can only be recreated on a clean installation, that has never had PDF Stamper installed.
Now this is getting weird…
After I got it to work, using absolute paths for everything; manual stamping is suddenly working with URLs.
Perhaps there is some kind of uninitialized database or variable situation going on here? Wil do some more testing and will report back…
Just “for the fun of it,” I replaced the URL of the source file I was trying to manually stamp, with the absolute path and got yet another error:
Warning: fopen(url-of-output-file-goes-here) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP wrapper does not support writeable connections in /home/content/45/4753628054/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-pdf-stamper/lib/fpdf/fpdf.php on line 0
I then changed the “Destination Directory of Stamped Files” to the absolute path of the output directory. Note, the default was a URL path.
Now, manual stamping works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so now I’m going to see if I can make this work with eStore. I don’t mind if I have to use the absolute path of the “stamped file directory,” but I’d sure hate having to change the eStore file URLs into absolute paths.
Perhaps, since we now know how to workaround the issue, you could maybe code some kind of function that would convert URL to & from absolute paths?
It’s been awhile since I last used Outlook, but there are 2 things that come to mind…
I seem to remember that Outlook had some kind of security setting to disable links. The other thing I remember is that Outlook had the ability to force all messages into plain text mode, thereby not presenting the user with links that can be clicked on or any other rich text.
I’d like to confirm that in the first file there were 4 places; and in the second file, there were 7 places; that said changes had to take place.
The “target URL” refers to the directory in which you are trying to fool the user into thinking the files are being downloaded from. So, if you want the user to think that the download files are in yoursite.com/downloads you follow the instructions and copy those 4 files there, edit download.php as required, and set the download validation script field in the eStore settings.
In the screen shot you refer to, is the URL wrapped onto a second line, and only the first line is hyperlinked? If so, Outlook did that. Shortening the link, as described should fix most of the problems.
The other thing of course, is to edit the e-mail message with some detailed suggestions on how to handle special cases. Here is what I use in my “Buyer email body” message…
Dear {first_name} {last_name}
Thank you for requesting, or purchasing, a digital product download from my website.
{product_details}
***** IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS — PLEASE READ BEFORE DOWNLOADING *****
You use the following encrypted link(s) to begin the download process:
{product_link}
1. Encrypted download links expire 24 hours, from the time this e-mail message is sent.
2. Please ensure that your Internet connection is reliable. Download links expire after four (4) attempts.
3. Do not use any fancy download programs. They may not work, because the link(s) first point to a script that must first process your download request.
4. If you are reading this message from your Internet browser, do a “right click” on each download link and then “left click” on the “Save Link As…” or “Save Target As…” menu options, to begin the download process.
5. Alternatively, you can copy and paste the download link(s) into the address bar of your Internet browser.
Thank You,
Hope this helps
Since you said they use MSIE, I’ll take a guess that they are using some kind of web mail interface to read the message. Some web mail systems are not very good with line wrapping very long links. That’s why the link looks “cut off.”
There are 2 things you can do.
1. Customize the download instructions for the e-mail, suggesting that they can also copy and paste the link into the address bar of their browser.
2. Customize the URL of the download validation script, in order to make the download links “shorter,” per these instructions:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-customize-the-encrypted-download-url-224
***** UPDATE *****
eStore now supports URL shortening.
