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Test Email Delivery Issues on Your Host

If thank-you email or double-opt-in email or forgot password email is NOT getting delivered even after you configure it in dap, it likely has something to do with your host settings and does not have anything to do with DAP.

NOTE: WordPress replaces double quotes with backticks (“). Pls make sure to replace all backticks (“) below with double quote otherwise the php code will break.

To test:

Upload the following php code to a file called testmail.php file to the root of your site.

<?php

$to = “yourname@yourdomain.com”; // put in your email address here to send an email to yourself

$subject = “Test mail”;

$message = “Hello! This is a test email message.”;

$from = “you@yourdomain.com”; // SET this to point to a valid sender email address

$headers = “From:” . $from;

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

echo “Mail Sent.”;

?>

NOTE:

Update the “from tag” above to point to a valid email address.
Then run the following script on your browser and see if it goes through.

http://yoursite.com/testmail.php (replace yoursite.com with the name of your site).

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Integrate Worldpay

Integration between DAP and Worldpay is IPN (instant payment notification) based and pretty straightforward.

a) Login to your Worldpay account, go to your Production/Test Installation, set the Payment Response URL to point to the DAP script on your site — http://YOURSITE.COM/dap/dap-worldpay.php (replace YOURSITE.COM with the name of your site)

b) Make sure the ‘Description‘ in Worldpay eXactly matches Product Name in DAP.

That’s it.

 

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Troubleshooting CB issues

1) If you have integrated DAP and CB using INS and receive this error message or email : [DAP] http://yoursite.com: dap-clickbank.php: Check your ClickBank secret key in DAP Config

Pls do this to resolve this error:

– Pls make sure the Secret Key is the same in both Clickbank and in DAP config area. It should be all uppercase and do not use any special characters.

– Pls set the CB INS to version 1.0. Do NOT use version 2.0.

– Make sure the product name in dap and the Product Titles in Clickbank exactly match.

2)  If you receive this error message  :  DAP Clickbank INS Error (Rejected): INS Product Name =  ‘your product name’ does not match any DAP Product Name. But REJECTING MISMATCH it because of your Config settings (Product Mismatch)

You can ignore this error if it’s not a dap product. It does not affect the CB affiliate commissions.

If you set the INS URL in CB to point to DAP, then all purchase notifications will get sent to dap.

DAP will only process the ones that are relevant to it and throw away the rest. But before it throws away unrelated purchases for non-dap products, it sends out this email to the admin as FYI that can be ignored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Troubleshooting Merge Tag Issues

If you put in the DAP merge tags like %%LOGIN_FORM%%, %%USERLINKS%%, %%USERPROFILE%% in a WordPress page but if it does not render correctly, pls do this:

1) Make sure DAP Live Links plugin is active
(check WP admin => Plugins).

2) If it is active, then create a new WP Page with ONLY this tag – %%LOGIN_FORM%%

3) Now open the WP page and see if you still see it as %%LOGIN_FORM%% or if it renders correctly.

4) If you still see it as %%LOGIN_FORM%%, then go back to WP Admin -> Plugins and temporarily de-activate all Plugins EXCEPT DAP Live Link to check if there is a plugin conflict.

5) Go back and open the WP page you created in step 3 above and see if it renders correctly

6) If it still does not work, send us your FTP info, dap and WordPress admin panel url, id/password info for troubleshooting. If it works, then re-activate Plugins one-at-a-time to see which one caused conflict.

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Merging User Accounts

User ID 111 has been created with email id ABC123@somewhere.com

Same user buys a different product using a completely new (Paypal) email id. and DAP creates User ID 999 with PayPal email XYZ789@anothersite.com

User now has 2 accounts and wants only ABC123@somewhere.com (user ID 111) to be active.

So here’s what you should do:

1. Place XYZ789@anothersite.com in the PayPal email field of User ID 111 and save.
2. Give User ID 111 access to all products that User ID 999 currently has active, with matching start and end dates.
3. Delete User ID 999 fully from the system.

If User ID 111 purchases additional products through Paypal, and her primary Paypal email id is still XYZ789@anothersite.com, then that Paypal email id will be recognized by DAP, and all purchased products will be activated under User ID 111 and no additional User IDs will be created.

However, if User ID 111 has changed their primary Paypal email id to be something else like XYZ123@yetanother.com, then the next time they make a purchase, DAP will not know it’s the same person, and will end up creating a completely new user id for the buyer. Which means, you will have to do the merge again, and replace the old Paypal email id in DAP with the new Paypal email id of the buyer.

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Optimizing Your WordPress Blog For Speed

If you want to speed up your web site, you must address the core issue, which is — your web site is getting more traffic than your web server (web hosting account) can handle.

So here are a few ways in which you can speed up your web site:

• The easiest thing you can do is to revisit all of your plugins that you have enabled and see if you still need all of them. Remember that every single additional plugin running on your site, adds some overhead to (basically, “slows down”) your web site or blog. So use only as few plugins as you absolutely must. With so many cool plugins freely available for WordPress, it is very easy to get carried away, and install tens of plugins, most of them adding very little value, but sometimes causing the most overhead in terms of server resources. So keep only a bare minimum of other plugins (some social plugins are a real pain – making calls to third-party web sites to get their information from).
• Using a “cache” plugin for speeding up your site is like putting band-aid on a gaping wound. It’s only a temporary fix, and not a real long-term solution, but every bit helps. We recommend WP Super Cache, and be sure to whitelist all of your member pages from getting cached.
• Make sure you are always using the latest version of WordPress, or at worst, one version behind the very latest and greatest (you definitely want to be sure first that there are no conflicts with other critical plugins that you’re using on your site).
• Make sure you update all of the plugins and themes you’re using to their individual latest versions (get rid of every single plugin and theme that you’re not using).
• If you are hosting on a shared (a.k.a “cheap”) web host paying just a few dollars a month for hosting, then your web site is basically competing for server resources (like memory and bandwidth and database access) with possibly tens (or even hundreds) of other web sites on that same server (many may not belong to you, but to others with whom you are sharing the server – and hence the name “shared hosting”). Search for the keywords “digg effect” or “slashdot effect” on Google, and you’ll see how many WordPress sites crash when a link to the site appears among the top results in popular social sites like Digg.com, Reddit.com or Slashdot.com.If your traffic levels have outgrown your server, then the best thing you can do is to upgrade to a bigger server, or get a Virtual Private Server, or even get a dedicated host, depending on your budget. See our recommended web hosts list.

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The “Smart Login” Process

DAP has a very powerful, flexible and easy-to-use log in flow for your users and members.

• Log in from a dedicated log in page, or
• Log in from the login form on the side-bar (login/logout widget), or
• Log in through the log in form shown on “Sorry, you don’t have access to this content. Please log in first…” kind of error messages.

And we call it the Smart Login, because the login process will work differently under different conditions, all designed to make the user-experience for your member more smooth and consistent with general login standards around the web.

So let’s see the various possible login locations in DAP.

But first, it is important to note that DAP has two main types of logins.

Primary Login

This is where it is considered a “generic” login by your member. For eg., a member came to your web site, and then just generally wants to log in to the member’s area – so they have no “context” – it’s NOT as if they were trying to view a specific page or post, got challenged with a login form, and then logged-in from there. That makes this a “Primary Login“.

Examples of this are…

a) Dedicated Login Page: You have a dedicated login page, like http://YourSite.com/login/ – which is what you’ve entered in to “Setup > Config > Login URL“. The body of this page has the DAP merge tag for the login form, which is %%LOGIN_FORM%%

b) Login/Logout Widget on any page of your web site. This is also considered a primary login. The reasoning here is that if they’re logging in through a sidebar widget, it means that they just want to log in to the member’s area, so it is considered primary login.

Secondary Login

This is a login action that HAS “context”. Say, a member landed deep into your site (not the home page, not the dedicated login page) and were challenged by the “In Page Error Message” that says something like “Sorry, you must log in before you can view this content” and are presented with a login form right on that very same page. They were trying to read something before they were asked to log in first – which means, they must be returned to the same page they were trying to view BEFORE they were asked to login. So that makes this a “Secondary Login“.

Examples of this are…

a) Any custom “Error Page”, where you have inserted the DAP merge tag for the login form, %%LOGIN_FORM%%.

b) DAP’s “In-Page Error Message” which says “Sorry, this is private content – you must log in first before you can view this”.

c) Log in form showing up on a page when “Sneak-Peek” is enabled.

 

Redirection Rules

Based on whether it’s a Primary Login or a Secondary Login, your member will be redirected to a different location.

1) If it is a Primary Login action, then…

a) They’re taken to the “Post-Login URL” if set at a Product-level AND they have access to just one Product.
b) They’re taken to the GLOBAL “Post Login URL” (under Setup > Config) if you have NOT set anything at a Product-level, OR if they have access to more than one Product.

This scenario is the only one where the Post-Login URL is ever used (whether it’s the Product-level or Global-level).

1) If it is a Secondary Login action, then…

They’re always redirected back to the same page they were on (or were trying to access) before they were challenged to log in first to view the content.

Bottom-line:

Primary Login is predictable, and you (the DAP Admin) control where they go right after they login.

Secondary Login depends on “context”, and they’re taken back to whatever page they were on, before they logged in.

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Troubleshooting Weird-Looking Text

Problem

I just upgraded to DAP 4.x. The login page when clicked after successful login shows the message
[MSG_ALREADY_LOGGEDIN_1 MSG_ALREADY_LOGGEDIN_2]

Solution

Did you previously customize the dap/inc/language/english.php and save it as dap/inc/language/custom.php? (you have done this for internationalization, or for customizing DAP’s messages).

A) If you answered “NO”, then simply delete the file dap/inc/language/custom.php from your server.

B) If you answered “YES”, then then there are new messages in dap/inc/language/english.php that you need to copy over to dap/inc/language/custom.php

 

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Secure RSS Feeds

Once you protect a post in DAP, you can …

a) Make it completely disappear from your feed except for authorized users who have valid access to the post and are using a member-specific RSS feed URL

-OR-

b) You can show a “Summary” of every post, by turning on sneak-peek and making sure you have inserted the “<!–more–>” tag entered into each of your posts.

Troubleshooting RSS Feeds

If your blog post is showing in its entirety in your feed, then….

1) You may not have protected the post in DAP at all, so it’s an unprotected post, which will (and should) show up in your feed

-OR-

2) You have turned on Sneak-Peek and haven’t inserted the WordPress “more” tag (<!–more–>) into each of your posts. If you turn on Sneak-peek, then you must insert more tags into all posts. Also, if you have turned on Sneak-Peek, then you must also do this…

Go to “Settings > Reading” in WP admin, then set “For each article in a feed, show” to “Summary“.

If it is set to “Full text”, then it will show the full text in the feed, which is not what you want.

 

Custom RSS Feed Links For Members

Starting DAP v4.2, each of your members can now get their own unique RSS feed link that they can use with a feed reader (like Google Reader, FeedBlitz, iTunes, etc) to get a custom RSS feed with content that they’re eligible to view.

To give each of your members their own unique RSS Feed URL, just insert the following line of code into the top of the “Member Links” or “My Content” type page, or wherever you want your users to see their personalized RSS feed link…

If your blog is in the root…

http://YourSite.com/feed/?key=%%ACTIVATION_KEY%%

If your blog is in a sub-folder (say “/blog”)…

http://YourSite.com/blog/feed/?key=%%ACTIVATION_KEY%%

 

The text %%ACTIVATION_KEY%% in the above URL will be replaced with their own custom key, like…

http://YourSite.comcom/feed/?key=123456789

They can then copy that link, enter that into any feed reader, and it will show content specific to their account.

Custom Feed Link Security

Another useful feature we’ve added, is that the custom feed link also does IP count validation. So if they share  the feed link with others, then after “X” unique IP login attempts (where “X” is configurable by you, the DAP Admin, in Setup > Config), their account will automatically get locked out.

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DAP Shopping Cart Overview

The DAP built-in shopping cart has a lot of great updates in DAP 4.2.

What does the shopping cart offer?

=> Coupon support
=> Add Custom Fields to Your Order/checkout Form

=> Support for Order/Checkout Form customization at product level. For ex – Show “Coupon Code”, Show “How did you hear about us?”, Show “Comments”, CART header/footer html, Show “Ship-To Address on Checkout”, Show “Terms And Conditions”, Request “Phone” on Checkout?, Request “Address2” on Checkout? etc

=> FULLY integrated with WordPress so your order/checkout page will carry the look&feel of your wordpress theme.
=> Multiple cart items support – (you can now use ADD-TO-CART button to allow buyers the option to add multiple items before they finalize purchase)
=> Unlimited Upsells

What you need in order to use the DAP Shopping Cart:

1. You need an Authorize.net merchant account or Paypal Payments PRO account
2. If you want to sell subscription-based products, then you also need Automated Recurring Billing (ARB) enabled in your Authorize.net account.
3. You must have SSL (secure server) enabled on your web site. Ask your web host to enable SSL/HTTPs for your site.

What it looks like when its implemented on your site:

WordPress version (cart appears within your WP page)

1) Buy Now
2) Add-to-cart

NON-WordPress version (stand-alone cart page)

1) Buy Now
2) Add-to-cart

Setting Up The Cart

=> Create the product that you want to sell in DAP Admin => Products / Levels => Manage Products Page

=> Customize the cart/order page in DAP Admin => Payment Processing => Cart Options Page

=> Generate the Primary Buy Button in DAP Admin => Payment Processing => Generate Buy Button Page

NOTE: If you do not want to offer upsells, just set the ‘Payment Success Page’ to point to the final landing page. Otherwise point it to the next upsell page in the flow.

=> If you want the checkout and checkout confirmation pages to have the look&feel of your wordpress theme, then create the following wordpress pages and use the URL of these pages in the button generation page above:

– A WordPress page with the merge tag %%DAPCART%% (this is the page where Credit Card and other info is collected from the user).

– A WordPress page with the merge tag %%DAPCARTSUMMARY%% (this is the page where users can see the items added to their cart.. just applies to add-to-cart button).

=> Generate the Upsell/No Thanks Button in DAP Admin => Payment Processing => Generate Buy Button Page

If you want to offer more upsells, just point the ‘Payment Success Page’ to the next upsell page in the flow.