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How do I determine the home page address for my WP Install?

Okay, I am making progress, and much of that comes from help from WPMU folk. Thanks.

I am using the Membership plugin to establish my groups. I have two – vistors and board. I also have set up URL groups and set up rules.

So far, so good but …

Here is my predicament:

I want the Board members membership group to arrive at a page showing the latest posts and pages and forums, with sidebars visible and populated, but I want that page and all the linked pages to be invisible to visitors.

When I set the theme to show a static page as the front end, and I have the sidebars populated, a visitor will see the titles of the sidebars.

Can I make the theme function such that visitors land on a home page that shows only PROTECTED CONTENT and no sidebar or linking information, while the Board members land on a home page that SHOWS the links and sidebars?

Thanks for reading all the way down. Blessings to you.

Steve

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:20:22
  • Jack Kitterhing
    • Code Norris

    Hi there Steve,

    I hope you are well today and thank you for your question. Based on logged in membership level you want to send people to different home pages correct? What about using 1 page with some code and thus blocking certain parts of the page off, if they haven’t got the correct access level.subscription, would that work for you?

    Thank you!

    Kind Regards

    Jack.

  • ODM
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Thanks Jack. It sounds like I may be trying to do something beyond my skill level. I understand the words you said but have no idea how to implement them.

    Your re-statement of the question is correct: When a person from Level 1 logs in, they go to the home page for Level 1 and see all its contents. When someone from Level 2 logs in, they go to a different page or they go to the same page but some parts of the page are blocked from their view.

    If the person qualifies to see content, they see all. If the person does not qualify,m they see only limited.

    Let me try stating the question another way: Can I set up a landing page that is essentially BLANK? It would have only limited content. May it would say “RESTRICTED. ACCESS FOR MEMBERS ONLY”. There would be a log-in spot on that page. The page would not show any lists or dropdown menus or page names. The only way to get past that page would be to have a registered user name and password.

    Thanks for your help, Jack. Or anyone else who can advise.

    Kind Regards,

    Steve

  • Jack Kitterhing
    • Code Norris

    Hi there Steve,

    I hope you are well today and sorry for the extreme delay here.

    It sounds like setting up a blank page with restricted content and a login box would be best, you can add a page, put on that restricted content (just the words), then place a login box on it, there are some very good login boxes that are simple with easy to use shortcodes let me know if you need any suggestions on that.

    Then go to reading > settings > set static page and choose the page you just created :slight_smile:

    Thank you!

    Kind Regards

    Jack.