Level 0 restrictions problem

Hi:

I have assigned S2 Level “0” – which I call Registered-non-Member: it’s for people who want to register to RSVP for events. My problem is that the top black AdminBar still gives this level access to All Activities, Forums, Messages, Friends, Album. A person at Level 0 should just have access to their own Profile, their own Activities& Notifications, and their own Settings. The Community buttons in the navbar are fine: a Level 0 person can’t access them and is automatically redirected to the front page.

site is here: http://few.modernmediajapan.com/

screenshot of the adminbar in the test account is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tokyoterri/6783391854/

how do I do fix this problem?

Thanks,
Terri

Hello Terri.

I replied to your other ticket on this same topic earlier. It’s the way you created the custom fields, the values for those fields are missing, they only have labels. I explain in more detail in the other ticket.

Hi Cristián:

I took care of the registration fields problem: you were right, and now the admin sees the new signup’s accurate choices of membership level and payment.

But, when I’m logged in as this new user, who is Registered-non-Member, I can still see all of the same black Admin bar options as I do when I’m logged in as Administrator. how do I make sure that the black admin bar only shows the options available for Registered-non-Member.

How should I handle it so the restrictions work?

thanks for all your help!

best,
Terri

That’s odd.

You could check that account’s profile to confirm that it’s actually at s2Member Level 0 or Subscriber.

You could login as the user from another browser, just to make sure you’re not using your admin account by mistake.

Hi Cristián:

I always use different browsers when I test: I’m going to create another test membership and follow it through to see if the admin bar is still there.

will let you know if the problem persists.

thanks,
Terri

Okay, just tried again and the restrictions still aren’t working. here’s the screenshots.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tokyoterri/6933923645/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tokyoterri/6933923559/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tokyoterri/6933923495/

what do I need to change?

thanks,

Terri

I see.

Normally, even a free user gets that bar, but with very few options, mostly a link to his profile, but you seem to have a lot more there. Not sure if it’s being added by some other plugin you installed, or if you edited the role’s capabilities in a way that’d enable those options in the bar.

To remove the bar, you can use a plugin that does just that, although it’d not remove permissions the account has, if they’re there. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=remove+bar

If you deactivate all other plugins, log out and back as the free user, does the bar look the same? If you don’t want to deactivate the plugins for the test, try a clean install of WP in a temp dir and see what the bar looks like there for a free user, then install s2Member and notice it doesn’t add anything. If you have extra stuff in your MMJ’s bar, it’s something else in your installation putting there.

I hope that helps. :)

Hi Cristián:

I did as you said, and I still get the same thing. I’m at my wits end – I have to present the site to the client tomorrow and I have no idea what else to do to fix the problem.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tokyoterri/6808817010/

I would appreciate it if I can send you the logins and you can diagnose the problem and let me know what I need to do to fix it.

exhausted,

Terri

Hi there. Just thought I would share my observations here in this topic.

1. You’re running BuddyPress. The navigation bar at the top is controlled by BuddyPress, so options appearing in that menu will not be hidden by s2Member. However, upon clicking any of those menu items, if the section of your site that it links to, IS protected by s2Member (i.e. unavailable to the current user), a redirection to the Membership Options Page configured for s2Member should occur (e.g. it’s NOT available to the current user).

2. Let’s see a screenshot of your URI Restriction Options, which are what’s normally used to protect these areas of BuddyPress. In your URI Restriction Options for s2Member, you should have something like this:

/members/
/groups/
/blogs/
/activity/
/messages/
/profile/
/friends/
/settings/

If those are not working for you (i.e your Permalink settings don’t include a trailing slash, like they should), then you can try these instead please.

/members
/groups
/blogs
/activity
/messages
/profile
/friends
/settings

Hi Jason:

thank so much: it looks like that was the problem: I didn’t realize that I needed to add the BuddyPress uri’s now a Level 0 person can’t access anything but the front page from within the site, and I know what to tweak to allow them to access their profile.

thank you so very much!!!

best,

Terri

oops, I spoke a bit too soon: here’s the issue I’m having now: the Level 0 person can’t access their own profile, although I removed /profile/ from the URI restrictions: how do I remedy that?

thanks again.

best,
Terri

What’s the URL to his profile? Is there a string in your URI restrictions that has a match in the URL?