Customer portal question

I’ve seen the video on creating private customer portals and looks easy enough. My question is, can that be done selectively? In other words, our entire site is free, but only some people will have private areas. Upon first joining, they’re in a regular common area. But after x amount of time, I want to make a special private area for them? Can that be done?

Also, is a robots.txt needed to keep bots out of the private area pages? Thanks

Hello,

You can certainly use some of the s2Member conditionals (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals) to check things like how long a member has been registered and then redirect only those people to their own private area.

Also, a robots.txt is not required to prevent search engines from finding private areas: When a robot crawls your site, s2Member will see that they don’t have access to the page and will deny access the same as it would if a non-member was trying to access that content.