About: Kirk P.

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.

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.

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 :-(