How to hide the home page for none-members?

Hi,

I have the S2member pro version and I want to block the homepage for none-members. I haven’t figured out how to do this yet.

On my homepage, the newest posts/articles show up in the same way as on a standard blog and the posts’ page are hidden for none-members, but not the homepage itself so the none-members can read the posts from the homepage.

**UPDATE** I FIXED IT!

But now the problem is that non-members only see a empty homepage and not being redirected to the Membership Option Page. Can anyone please help me with this?

But it’s a great plugin! I’ve enjoyed it very much so far!

Thanks,

Jimmy

• This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by  Jimmy Bredesen.
• This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by  Jimmy Bredesen.

Hello Jimmy,

Well one way you can do this, that I can think of, is using s2Member conditionals, find an article about them here:
Knowledge Base » s2Member® Conditionals

So you would do the following (this is pseudo-code):

(if user can't access your content)
	do JavaScript redirect to membership options page
(if user can access your content)
	show content

That’s a good starting point. :)

BTW, here’s the JavaScript redirect you would use:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.location = "http://www.yourwebsite.com/url/to/membership-options-page"
</script>

Hope this helps. :)

Hi Jimmy.

**UPDATE** I FIXED IT!

But now the problem is that non-members only see a empty homepage and not being redirected to the Membership Option Page. Can anyone please help me with this?

Glad you fixed it. Did you use the Alternative View protection? [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Alternative View Protection[/hilite]

If you want part of your post to show in the homepage, you can use the WordPress “more” tag, then the post will be shown up to that with a link to go to the actual post, which is protected and will send the person to the Membership Options page.

But it’s a great plugin! I’ve enjoyed it very much so far!

Thanks for the kudos! :)

Hi,

I’d be interested on this, more specifically on this:

(if user can't access your content)
	do JavaScript redirect to membership options page
(if user can access your content)
	show content

Any easy way to implement that?

Another quick question: even though I was able to to hide my posts on the homepage using that alternative view protection, some stuff still show up on my navbar, more specifically categories.

So I’ve tried restristring access to all categories but now what it will do it will show scattered posts in my menu navbar that were previously inside that catregory that is now restricted.

Solutions?

Well I guess I liked that first solution as I was planning to have something like Kajabi where if you go to a page not-logged in, it jsut redirect you to a simple page asking you to login.

How could I install something like that and where should I place that code?

Thanks!

I’d be interested on this, more specifically on this:

(if user can’t access your content)
do JavaScript redirect to membership options page
(if user can access your content)
show content
Any easy way to implement that?

Yes, like this:

[s2If !current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
	<script type="text/javascript">
	<!--
	window.location = "http://example.com/";
	//-->
	</script>
[/s2If]

[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
    Some content for Members who are logged in with an s2Member Level >= 1.
[/s2If]

Thanks mate! That helps!

And what is the best place to insert that code so all pages got it?

I use Catalyst theme so it’s quite easy to use hooks to insert that code where I wont.

I suppose it should be right after the tag, but I’m not sure. Perhaps inside the tag?

Thanks again!

You’d need to insert that code into the WordPress Post/Page itself. If you want to edit your theme files so that this applies to all posts/pages, you won’t be able to use the shortcode conditionals in my example above. Instead, you should use their PHP equivalents in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals.

Where exactly you insert the code will depend on your WordPress theme. Every theme is slightly different and I’m not familiar with the Catalyst theme.

Coolio! No worries, I get it now

Yeah Catalyst is great, it has a ton of hooks I can use to insert that shortcode to all post/pages easily

Thanks again!