About: Generic Bland

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

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

Thanks for clearing that up. I’ll try to figure the code part out on my own.
Teenage daughters are apt to change their mind often. Now she wants to be a photographer, in 6 months maybe something else so not worth hiring someone over something i’ll figure out by trial & error