Redirect to Welcome page not working.

So, I have created a welcome page and set that as my login welcome page. But, when users login, to goes to the admin dashboard every time. Even if I change the welcome page to some other page arbitrarily. I can’t seem to fix this. Has anyone seen this before and have any ideas on where I should look to fix. It worked at some point, but recently stopped working.

What variables are set to direct users post login in what files or functions?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Hi Kirk,

Are you sure the user you’re testing with is assigned an s2Member Level?

Also, under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Member Profile Modifications, what is Redirect Members away from the Default Profile Panel? currently set to?

yup. I have defined some different user roles using the User Role Editor plugin. My user has one of those roles but in the capabilities assigned to that role, she is a s2member level 2 which is the highest assigned s2membership capability in my site.

The member profile modifications option is set to yes which as I understand it is supposed to protect my wp-admin area, correct? I totally want that behavior. I don’t want users using the wp-admin area for profile modification. But I am not getting that behavior. Instead, that is the first place my users are ending up upon login :-(

BTW, I further confirmed that it is s@member that is causing this issue for me. I deactivated the plugin, logged in, and I was directed to sites main page. I reactivated and was sent to the back end wp-admin again.

Should I totally scrap my s2member installation (deactivate and uninstall) and redo?

So deactivated, uninstalled, and used the setting that does not save configuration options. I also manually wiped out the s2member directories. Tested my login, and of course it went to the front page as expected.

When I reinstalled s2member from scratch, I now have the problem again (even without adding in any settings) that my user login goes immediately to the wp-admin profile area. Need help please. This is making s2member unusable for me.

I don get an unusual error in the profile admin window;

RSS Error: A feed could not be found at http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?scoring=d&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss&partner=wordpress&q=link:http://www.mysite.com/

Kirk,

This problem is likely related to the way you edited the roles using the User Role Editor plugin. You may need to start with a fresh WordPress installation to restore the roles you modified. Manually modifying the role capabilities is not recommended by s2Member as it may cause s2Member to behave in unexpected ways. If you give an s2Member Level role a capability that s2Member has not allowed by default, then the s2Member user may suddenly be able to access the admin panel.

I have a similar problem. The login redirect is not working and I did not customise the roles of the default wordpress installation. Any ideas on how I can resolve this please?

Yeah, the role customization is not the reason. My roles were created before I added S2member. And when I change my test user role to a traditional subscriber, a role with pretty much no privalages, the subscriber still ends up in admin section.

Again, this has made S2member unusable for me because it is primarily responsible for exposing the back end of my site. :-(

There may be a plugin interaction, so I am going through and getting my site down to bare bones. If I find something, I will post. Roderick, what plugins do you have installed? Maybe we can tag team and evaluate our plugins to see if we share plugins that may have bad interactions.

My plugins;

1. bbpress
2. BP WordPress Security
3. BP Profile Search
4. Buddypress
5. BuddyPress Activity Plus
6. BP Email subscription
7. BP Pending Activations
8. BP xprofiles ACL
9. CD BP Avatar Bubble
10. Fast Secure Contact Form
11. Jetpack by WordPress
12. Q and A
13. s2member Framework and Pro
14. SI Captcha Anti-Spam
15. User Role Editor
16. WordPress Importer
17. WP Roles at Registration
18. WP.Smush.it

BY the way, S2member started off working for me, then it started dumping users into the admin section at login.

Have you watched this video? Video » s2Member (Login Welcome Page Conflicts?)

The redirection on login may be altered by the theme or another plugin. If you had the same theme when this wasn’t a problem, then it must be one of the other plugins. Test deactivating them one by one and trying the login again after each to see if the problem went away. You can use two browsers, one for the changes and the other for the tests.

I hope that helps. :)