Blog page not blocked

I started this thread just before the move to the new site (looks good by the way) but wasn’t able to continue it.

I cannot seem to block my blog page. I have a WP CMS site which includes a blog among many pages. I am able to block pages as desired but for the life of me, I cannt block the blog. I have tried restricting the page under the Page Access Restrictions, by entering “all” under Post Access Restrictions and by selecting the restricted level inside the page admin area under Page Level Restrictions.

I would appreciate any guidance anyone can give me. Thanks,

Hi Thomas!

Let me see if I understand, the blog is part of the same WP installation that you have installed s2Member in, is that right? Or do you have the blog in a separate WP installation? Are you using multisite?

That is correct. The blog is part of the same WP installation where s2Members is installed. I am not running a multisite installation.

Got ya, thanks.

Well, the Page restriction won’t do anything to the blog, because that doesn’t use pages. You can use the Post, Category, Tag restrictions, even the URI restriction depending on your permalink structure. [hilite path]WP Admin -> s2Member -> Restriction Options[/hilite]

Does that help?

Restricting the URI took care of it – not sure why the “all” in posts did not. Thanks for your help.

Great! Thanks for the update. :)

So you used all in the Post restriction and it didn’t restrict the posts? At what level did you apply that restriction and what level was the account you tested with at? If you use the admin account, you’ll be shown all content. If it was restricted at Level 0, any free account will have access.

This video is helpful to understand some content restriction problems:

[video playlist="F267E93C7B467D64" width="663" height="400" start="0" show_etag="yes" /]

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by  Cristián Lávaque.
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I restricted access using “all” at the highest level (5 for me) then I logged out and accessed the blog entries as anyone in the general public would and had no problem seeing the blog entries. I don’t understand why this doesn’t work but I’m moving on to other issues as you’ve directed me to the URI option which works fine. Thanks.

I did watch the video and that explains my issue with “all”. I have set the blog as the default in the WP settings and yet it is protected so it is confusing s2Member. Thanks.

Great, thanks for following up with this. We appreciate that.
~ Please let us know if you have any further trouble.

I did watch the video and that explains my issue with “all”. I have set the blog as the default in the WP settings and yet it is protected so it is confusing s2Member. Thanks.

Could you explain a bit more what the confusion was exactly? So we can try to improve this in the future to make it easier to understand.

Thanks!