Force Registration before viewing content?

I was wondering if someone could help me. I am building a membership site that I would like to force the user to register before even viewing any contents of the site (minus the register page/Login page). I currently am using the free version of the S2Member plugin. I would like to avoid .htaccess modification

I would also like to know if there is a feature where I can allow a user to view some of the content on the page, but lock down a video and replace the video with text that says something like, “to view the rest of the contents on this page, please click the link and register. Can that be done in the free version of this plugin or even at all?

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello Robert,

You can achieve this blocking the content with URI restrictions, simply use a “/” without the quotes. You can find URI restrictions under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions.

Also, you might be interested in s2Member conditionals, here’s an article about them: Knowledge Base » s2Member® Conditionals

Hope this helps. :)

Eduan, Thank you so much! this worked for me.

Excellent! Glad I was able to help. :)

Okay one more question that pertains to this subject. Say I wanted to use one of these shortcodes on a custom home page using php. Could you point me in the right direction of doing this? Your elp, again, will be greatly appreciated.

You can check under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals which allows you to do conditionals inside code, since shortcodes won’t work inside code.

Is this what you needed?

Perfect! You’ve been a great help!

Excellent! Glad I was able to help. :)