Am I using S2MemberPro the right way?!?!

My objective is to use WordPress and ultimately S2MemberPro to create a component of our website as a membership only resource. I paid for, and installed S2MemberPro, but I am now wondering if I’ve got this whole concept confused??

I ran a simple test on one of my pages and added the free membership form. After creating a test account, I ultimately found that I was able to navigate into the dashboard of my very own WordPress site?! Not what I was intending.

What I am trying to do is to create a section of our site, that achieves the following items:
1. Allows for both free and paid membership options, and ultimately varies the access to pages accordingly
2. Allows for in site shopping cart and check out
3. Allows for recurring billing

All of this I believe is being achieved…

What I don’t want is this membership access to provide people with access to my WordPress website controls what so ever. This is meant for public access to extra content, manuals, articles and resources as a paid subscription for our site.

Have I misunderstood S2MemberPro entirely or am I doing something wrong whereby people completing the form are able to access my WordPress back end?

Thank you.

Aaron

Aaron, is it possible that you are using your admin account? the admin account will automatically send you to the admin dashboard when you log in. Maybe you can create another account with a different email address that you can use to test “actual” non-admin members?

I usually work with two separate browsers, with two different accounts. That way, i can work on the dashboard with my admin account and still see what a non-logged in or other ‘regular’ member would see.