Protecting the archives page…

I want the Posts which show up on my homepage to be viewable for free by anyone registered. I want the Users to have to subscribe should they want to view any Posts further back, which would show up on the Archive page. I’d like the same thing for Search Archives too.

I see Search listed in the Alternative views section, but I don’t want to change my structure until I can protect all Archive views. I tried using the URI option, but it didn’t work.

Have you tried using the php conditionals in your archives.php theme file around the loop content?

Something like….

<?php
if(current_user_can('access_s2member_level1')){
	/*loop content here*/
}
else {
	echo 'You do not currently have access to this page. Please register.... blah blah blah';
}
?>

I just did that from memory so excuse any errors… lol.

NOTE: if you don’t have an archive.php you could do the same thing your index or other template page, but you’ll need to check more info about the content to make sure it’s archived posts.

Hope that helps,
Dave

I did, but I wanted to see if there was something else that would allow them to see the Post titles but not access the Posts’ content.

Could I wrap the links in that conditional? Meaning, if they’re not subscribers, they just see the title without it being linked.

I’m having a hard time locating where it should go on the archive.php file.