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I haven’t tried messing around with the code for the menu bar so it’s not that but i’ve got this issue where the members login page keeps bringing up the become a member page.

I’d noticed this before I had started the code thread but thought i had done something wrong. I disabled the plugin & trashed the 2 original pages, re-enabled it & made 2 new fresh but still the same. I even tried entering the actual login url in the redirect box but nada. I named the 2 pages what I wanted, Members & Become a Member, i’ve gone over the settings for those 2 pages, even told it to allow level zero access to that so anyone can login yet it still directs to the Become a Member page

Any insight ?

Sorry, I’m a bit confused, I’m not sure I understand exactly what you’re experiencing. So your user keeps getting sent to the Membership Options page when trying to view a protected page, although he logged in? Or did I misunderstand?

Hi

There are no users yet, it’s just me trying to get this to work properly. So for all intents & purposes lets call me a user. as the guy making the site I created 2 pages & named them what I wanted “Members” and “Become a Member”. I told it to use the “Members” for the login and selected the option to allow zero level members to access it thereby making it public and saved changes. I defined the paypal info, selected “Become a Member” as my member options page, configured the buttons, pasted the button shortcode etc and again saved changes.
Opened the site in an incognito window so it wouldn’t draw up anything from cache and it looked fine, until i opened “members” and it took me to the “Become a Member” page with all it’s paypal buttons. If i select “become a member” it does in fact take me to the correct page.

Ok, so I go back to the general options page and instead of telling it to use “members” as the login page I choose the option to enter that url as a redirect, save, open again, same thing.
Ok, Let me use a different browser, same thing.

Disable the plugin, trash those pages, start all over again.
Same thing

Whats wrong with this picture ?

I think i may have stumbled upon something, if this is the actual issue you may want to look into it when you do your next update.

When I’m doing all of this troubleshooting & page making etc I’m logged in as admin. As the site creator it’s the highest level of admin there is BUT the highest level of admin is NOT the same as an smember member.
It seems the plugin recognizes me as nothing, I exist but not to the plugin because i have no smember tiered classification.

I actually created a new member, gave it smember #4 classification and only then when I clicked “members” did i rightfully go to the members page.

I see this as being somewhat problematic because if i’m admining the site i can’t simply view my work or changes i’ve made on the fly. Since this is a site I”m making for my daughter and she’s got admin rights too she can’t see her work/changes either. There’s gotta be some option to tell this plugin that admins have all rights, because if I look at the admin acct I created for my daughter I can leave her an admin or change her to a smembers #4 classification, thereby negating all her admin powers.

The 2 must coexist….like coffee & cream……ebony & ivory…..

Well……………you get the idea

I spoke too soon. I realized later that each time I’d visited the site in a different browser (safari, opera, firefox) i wasn’t logged in as anybody, I was like joe blow nobody who found the site by happenstance, and clicking “members” stil brought me to the “become a member” page

So i’m back to square one

Hi,

You said,

… and selected the option to allow zero level members to access it thereby making it public…

The s2Member Level 0 is *not* for public access… Level 0 is for free members. If you protect something to Level 0, you will still need to login to access it.

If you want something to be public, simply don’t restrict it at all.

Administrators *can* access protected content… as an administrator, you automatically have access to all the content protected by s2Member. If you’re having trouble viewing protected content, then you’re probably not logged in as an administrator.

I understand what you mean but the plugin asks you to define a login page and when viewing that pade from the dashboard it says
“This Page is your:
Login Welcome Page
( automatically guarded by s2Member )”

I was really hoping for something where anyone wether they be member or casual visitor would be taken to the login. Being that my daughter is a teen & i’ve added a forum to her site she’ll naturally have friends her own age that will want to visit the site & participare in the forum. To use the forum they have to register (this was even before I added the smember) so I was hoping it’d be visible to all people.
Because even after creating that test account yesterday and trying it on a different browser I tried it again on another one and of course clicking “members” still takes me to the signup page.

If i choose no page at all for members login (within smember) and instead have a page not smember protected and have that redirect to the wp login/reg will the plugin still work ?
Because at least then her teen friends can sign up there to access the forums but anyone else would have to sign up via the become a member page

I know there are plugin widgets that I can add in the sidebar for login & reg but i wanted to avoid the overkill

The Login Welcome Page is not the “login page”. The Login Welcome Page is the page that people are sent to after logging in. The login page is at /wp-login.php. The Membership Options Page is the page that people are sent to if they try to attempt to access a page that is protected and which they don’t have access to. It’s designed to be the page where you show the sign up form (i.e., options to obtain membership).

Ahhhhhhhhhh………………………..the sun shines through now.
I get it.

So then members page is what would be a lounge (referencing this thread here http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/menu-page-tab-segregation/ ) and I’d make that private so it wouldn’t be seen at all in the menu bar. There’d just be the “become a member” and afterward when someone had joined they’d just go directly to the login and if they were one of my daughters friends with no smember status they’d only see other different private for them only where someone with smember status would be taken to that login welcome page and view only other pages for other smembers. So there’d be no co-mingling at all.

Is my mind finally right this time ?

Yes, that sounds correct. :)