How to avoid page conflict

The setup we’re trying to create is resulting in “Your Login Welcome Page is currently configured as your Home Page” errors. I’ve seen a post about resolving this for Membership Options page, but can’t seem to work out how to do this for the Login Welcome page. Here’s the setup we’re aiming for:

Home page is set to /welcome
The page at ‘/welcome’ is restricted, which means people who land on the home page are directed to the login page
Once logged in, they should be sent to the /welcome page, but this causes the conflict

The reason we want the home page to be /welcome is so that if people click on the site logo after they’ve logged in, they are taken to the welcome page. At the moment, we’ve had to create 2 identical Welcome pages, but telling them apart in the configuration and menu editor is impossible – it’s just luck whether we get it right and can take ages trying to remember if it should be the first or second in the list (we’re setting up a number of sites like this).

Putting the explicit site URL in the ‘special redirection’ box clears the error – but since the effect is identical to choosing the /welcome page, is this still likely to be a problem? Can you explain more about the conflict, and what implications it will have? Is it really likely to cause us problems in this scenario?

Thanks.

Hi Andy.

Putting the explicit site URL in the ‘special redirection’ box clears the error – but since the effect is identical to choosing the /welcome page, is this still likely to be a problem? Can you explain more about the conflict, and what implications it will have? Is it really likely to cause us problems in this scenario?

I think that’d be fine. I know the conflict happens if you pick from the WP pages dropdown, but entering a URL works as a redirection and there doesn’t seem to be an internal conflict with the Home page setting as far as I know.

Let me know if you do have any problems using it like that, please. I hope you have none, though. :)

Hmm – still a bit confused as to what the internal conflict is, and so how we’d know if we were suffering problems as a result. If I do pick a page and ignore the error, what are the symptoms of the conflict?

Thanks,

Andy.

I’m not sure what specific symptom it may have, but it’d be an unusual behavior from what’s expected, like what you experienced.