Can I protect one one page?

Hi Guys,

I have downloaded the S2Members free software, watched about 90% of the videos and it seems to be very powerful, but it may be overkill for what I want to do. I want my website to be free except for the resources page. I want visitors to register before they download. Essentially I want a squeeze page so I can collect email address so I can send them my monthly newsletter.

Can I protect just one page with S2Members? What I would like to have happen is visitors can browse any page but when then land on the resources page the first time, I want them to provide their email address and first and last name. When they come back, I want the page to recognize that they have already registered and not ask them to sign in. Is that possible or do I need a different plugin?

Thanks,

Andy

Protecting one page is totally possible. You would just have to require a Level 0 to view it, otherwise, the visitor would be sent to the Membership option page that you can configure as you wish. You can also use conditionals so if the user is not logged in (meaning not registered), you can post a little message like “If you already registered, please log in to access the content of this page. Otherwise, click here to register” and you can send them to the registration page.

There is no way the plugin can know if the not-logged-in visitor has already registered or not, so a message like that will let them know that they should visit your site logged in, to access those resources.

Hope it helps.

Hi Andy,

You said,

When they come back, I want the page to recognize that they have already registered and not ask them to sign in.

As cassel explained, there is no way for a website to know who you are without logging in, or at least storing a cookie on your computer (and that’s not very secure, as anyone can steal the cookie). You can certainly show a message to the user informing them that they must login to access the page, but there really isn’t any sensible way to “recognize they have already registered”.