About: Ken Richman

Thank you very much for this explanation. For my application it is not a problem to simply protect the page that is displaying the tabs, as well as the pages that contain the content for the tabbed areas, and this is what I shall do.

It means that it is not possible to mix content on the one page, so that, for example, a Level 1 member can see one of the tabs but not all, whereas a Level 2 member can see more tabs. The page is either displayed or not displayed. But for me this is not a problem.

If I wanted to do this, I could use conditionals, but this is not user -friendly, and I want the owner of the site to be able to modify content without resorting to these methods, because that is too hard for them to do.

However I would love it if s2member were able to offer an alternative to simply throwing the user back to a registration page if they try to access restricted content. For instance a way of showing a polite message – “That content is restricted” and staying on the same page. Maybe this is possible and I haven’t yet found the way?

Fair enough then.
If you use the Swagger premium WordPress theme you have the option to create a page template with tabbed content areas, the content for each tab can be drawn from a different page.

Having created the template you then create a page (let’s call it the master page) and assign the template to it. So one page can display content from several, via the tabs.

Even if these pages supplying content for the tabs are protected, the content freely displays to non-registered visitors who visit the master page.

You would certainly not expect this to be the case.