public site with private blog page

Hi, I’ve been trying member plugin after member plugin without getting the settings parameters my client needs. Now I’m trying s2member.

I just installed, and set only ONE page to zero level restriction. The only page we need to be private now is the blog page. The home page and many other pages with static and weekly info need to be public.

However, when I logged in again, s2member required me to sign in to access both the dashboard and the home page.

This is not what I want.

Can anyone tell me how to: let only the blog page (where the various blog post titles — with or without excerpts — are listed) be invisible to the public, BUT basically the rest of the site be public??

Un-activating until I receive an answer here.

And thank you so much for your help, in advance!

Hello Anet,

Do the settings under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Alternative View Protection help you in any way?

– Eduan

Thanks for replying, Eduan. No, I don’t think that would address my need. It’s not the feeds we are worried about, it’s just that the blog page needs a menu link in the public site. Yet I can’t make that page private if the site is public.

I’ve put my question on the wp forums as it seems to be something with how wp handles the blog posts page by default, overriding when I set that page to private, no matter which member plugin I use.

In the meantime, I’m going to try a different angle. I’ll put the member area in a duplicate nested site, and restrict access to the whole member area site, linking to it from a link on the original public site.

Thanks!

You mean set the page’s status as “Private” instead of “Public”?

Or make it private to the unregistered member, albeit redirect him to the membership options page?

– Eduan