Ronnie

Hi Brian.

You can see my setup here: http://www.sofshop.dk/wpBackup.pdf
Compare my settings to yours, and see how it works out for you :)

You can see how I set up my CRON in the top to the right.

Yes, you are absolutely correct. And unfortunately there are users of S2member who forgets to safeguard their settings when they upgrade, to much distress and flaming here ;) – expecting S2member can magically restore lost database entries that were deleted. And backups is a city in russia for them as well.

Data will fail, so my advise is always – PLAN for it, and do backups of what you cannot lose to data/hardware failure.
Everything that would take you 2-3 tops hours to restore is worth backing up – as well as custom coded php.

I can recommend using the plugin: backWPup – it works like a charm.
I do backups of everything every 2nd hour during work hours, and every 4th hour during evening/night time, and I have set it to retain the last 24 backups, so I always have a day and a half backups ready to deploy, with auto removal the oldest when the 25th backup is being made.
This plugin automates the process with cron, lets you select what to backup, even custom root dirs as well (e.g. /var/www/*), it auto halts the mysql/sql databases when it grabs a snapshot and much more.
It will backup to FTP, Amazon, Dropbox, NAS, even email.. It is really well thought of this plugin, and really really easy to use. Its the sort of plugin you install, set up, and forget about – untill you need it. And when you DO need it, youre happy you had it!

Im not the creator of it, but it is a really nice plugin that hos MORE then 1 time saved my butt! :)

the whole code after */ :)

After the last */

you could add something like this:

function my_login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ){
    //is there a user to check?
    if( is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
        //check for admins
        if( in_array( "administrator", $user->roles ) ) {
            // redirect them to the default place
            return $redirect_to;
        } else {
            return home_url();
        }
    }
}
add_filter( 'login_redirect', create_function( '$url,$query,$user', 'return "www.google.com";' ), 10, 3 );

This will make all who is member of the Administrator group go to the Dashboard, and everyone else is sent to google.com _after_ they log in.

Of course, you would change that with the URL of the page you want them to go to..
If this does not work, delete it again from your functions.php

–EDIT

Nonetheless, your S2member ->General Options ->Member Login Page should work for all logins with the execption like jason said.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by  Ronnie.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by  Ronnie.

Youre welcome :)

Jason, or anyone else for that matter cant sort out lost/overwritten SQL data..
Maybe you could check your SQL data via phpmyadmin or something, and go see if your old settings are in fact still there?

Hey, Im not the one not reading the HOW-To’s and disregarding the warnings..
Im not gonna start a flame war with you, but I hardly suspect that the staff here at S2member can magically restore your sql and settings out of thin air.

Good luck.

No, if I have to use your terminology, youre complaining that its the dealers fault you didnt drive carefully and crashed..

Its sad, true. But you really should proceed with backups before doing anything like this.
Dataloss is to be expected, so plan for it. If your data is not important, dont back up, but if it is, back it up!

With that being said, you should ALWAYS backup before you upgrade anything, not just s2member!