Members only pages

I’m new to this stuff. Done lots of Dreamweaver development work and trying to switch to WordPress. Learning but get confused quickly. I’m trying to use S2Member to simply make pages on a website which are intended just for our members. I almost have it but can’t figure out how to have the login form show up. It did for a bit earlier today and i did something that made it disappear.
A question: Is S2Member a good tool for this purpose? We’re not selling anything. Is there a better plugin?

The site is http://www.novichoralaires.org.

Thanks to anyone who will get me pointed on the right path.
Dick Bayerl

Well, the user will be taken to the Membership Options page when he tries to open content he doesn’t have access to. In that page you could tell the person to login or register to view that content, and link to the login or registration form. Video » s2Member Quick Start

If what you want is to have a login form in that page, instead of linking to wp-login.php, then you could use the s2Member Pro login widget. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Pro Login Widget (via PHP)[/hilite]

I hope that helps. :)

Thanks. The problem is the S2 login widget allows the user to change the profile. I don’t want that. I want to assign a user name of “ncmember” for all to use with a common pw. Is it possible to eliminate the profile change? The other problem that comes to mind is that I don’t want the login widget there for all visitors. Just when a member needs access to the private pages. And how nice if it could be used other than as a widget. Like on a static page.

Dick

You can use it in a WP page instead of as a regular widget. You need to use a bit of PHP, as described in the documentation: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Pro Login Widget (via PHP)[/hilite]

You can not show the link to the profile there. From the documentation: http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/api_functions/package-functions/#src_doc_s2member_pro_login_widget%28%29

[hilite mono]"my_account_url" => "%%automatic%%"[/hilite] Full URL of your own, or use %%automatic%% for the Login Welcome Page. Leave empty to not show this at all.
[hilite mono]"my_profile_url" => "%%automatic%%"[/hilite] Full URL of your own, or use %%automatic%% for a JavaScript popup. Leave empty to not show this at all.

See also this setting: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Member Profile Modifications[/hilite]