Restrict all – except a few pages

I’ve seen this being discussed on older threads but none with a quite satisfying solution.

I want my entire member forum (buddypress) to be restricted to logged in users only, except a few pages and perhaps one category where I can give logged out visitors information about the organisation and some news updates etc.

Since mostly all pages and posts will be restricted it would be a hassle to type in all of the page, post and category ID’s in the restriction field. But if I write all it’s only the membership options page that’s visible and I want a few more pages and a category.

(A really great feature would be a white-list of pages to not restrict when using “all”)

I found this solution on the forum but since I’m not very good at coding I didn’t understand where in the code to put it. Can anyone give me some more information on this?

Raam from support rep wrote the following:

In that case I recommend removing all from your Page Restrictions and then editing your theme’s page.php file and modifying it so that it checks if the current visitor is logged in OR if the current page matches the page ID that everyone should see. For example:

Code to display page for logged in members OR to anyone if the page id = 532 OR to anyone if the page id = 253

If user is not logged in AND the page id is not 532 or 253, then redirect somewhere else:

<!--
window.location = "http://example.com/membership-options-page/";
//-->

Hello Aleksander,

Check my answer to your other post:
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/create-an-exception-of-an-uri-restriction/#post-29793

I believe this is supposed to be inserted in your theme’s page.php file, not sure how that file would look since I haven’t worked with any themes. Could it be possible that you post your current theme’s page.php file?

– Eduan

Fantastic!

I’m quite new to s2 member. Just begun to dive into the many possibilities =)

How often do they release new versions?

Here is the code in my themes page.php file. It wasn’t much :P

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="main">

		<?php do_action( 'bp_before_blog_page' ) ?>

		<?php load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/loop.php' ) ?>

		<?php do_action( 'bp_after_blog_page' ) ?>

	</div><!-- #main -->

<?php if( ! isset( $_GET['w-iframe'] ) ) get_sidebar('page'); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Try this, see if it achieves what you want, or what Raam meant:

<?php if (S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_IS_LOGGED_IN || get_the_ID() == 532 || get_the_ID() == 253) { ?>
	<?php get_header(); ?>

		<div id="main">
			<?php do_action('bp_before_blog_page') ?>
			<?php load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/loop.php') ?>
			<?php do_action('bp_after_blog_page') ?>
		</div><!-- #main -->

	<?php if (!isset($_GET['w-iframe'])) get_sidebar('page'); ?>

	<?php get_footer(); ?>
<?php } else { ?>
	<!-- If user is not logged in AND the page id is not 532 or 253, then redirect somewhere else: -->
	<script type="text/javascript">
	<!--
	window.location = "http://example.com/membership-options-page/";
	//-->
	</script>
<?php } ?>

– Eduan

Fantastic! That did the trick =)

Thank you very much :D

No problem, glad I was able to help. :)