WordPress Simple Membership After Login Redirect add-on helps you set up a redirect login page for your members.
Last Updated: October 11, 2019
Latest News: Added more information.
The following instructions shows you how to set up an after login redirect landing page for your members. This is important if you want to create a special page for your members based on their membership level.
Requirements
WordPress Simple Membership After Login Redirect Steps
Note: In Simple Membership version 3.2.5, a new feature was added to enable redirection to the last page after login (where they clicked the login link).
Step 1 ) Go to WP Membership -> Add-ons to install Simple Membership After Login Redirection add-0n and make sure you activate the add-on. See image below.
Step 2 ) Go to WP Membership -> Membership Levels and check to make sure the add-0n is added to all your members level’s. See image below.
Step 3 ) Create a new page, post or simply add the URL of the page you want the members to be redirected too. I created a new page and named it Free Membership Page. I made sure I protected the page and only allowed the members corresponding to this page. In this example only the Free Level members can have access to this page.
- Yes, Protect this content
- Free Level
Step 4 ) The following image shows you the URL path of the page added to After Login Redirection Page field. Make sure you click on Edit Membership Level button to save your changes.
When the members that belong to the Membership Level log’s in, they will be redirected to the URL page you added to the level. In this example I added the following URL, http://localhost/wordpress361/free-members-page/.
Step 5 ) If you want your members to return to the same page they landed on after they click on the login link, then make sure you enable the following Enable Redirect to Last Page. This can be located under WP Membership -> Login Redirection -> Enable Redirect to Last Page. See image below.
The login redirect addon LOOKS for the special login link that the core plugin creates. It then replaces that login link with an extra parameter. If you use the custom messages addon to override the standard protection message of the plugin then the login addon can’t add the extra parameter. This is one of those features where you need to pick one (You can’t get both).
Troubleshooting Information
Issue 1 ) Some have reported the following problem. When a user logs in and it is set to redirect to the previous page, the URL they are sent to excludes the ‘punctuation’ e.g. httpswww.mysite.org.ukmember-list. The “punctuation” has been converted to https%253A%252F%252Fwww.mysite.org.uk%252Fmember-list%252F. The %figures are then ignored in the redirect so “punctuation is removed”.
Solution: (Solution provided by Admin in the forum) Something specific to this site is causing the URL to be broken. The addon uses the following sanitation function on the URL to make sure the URL is safe.
esc_url_raw
This is a WordPress function that you are suppose to use on a URL to make sure it can’t be used to create a security hole. So if your URL has weird/strange characters that is not suppose to be present in a URL then its not going to work. That sanitization function of WordPress will remove the invalid characters to make the URL safe. If this is the case, you will need to edit the URL and make it a valid URL that passes the sanitization check.
Issue 2 ) If you run into issues using this plugin/addon, you might like to read the following solution Back to page after login posted in the support forum.
FAQ
Q1: I am also using Simple Membership Custom Message addon. How do I fix the redirect problem issue?
Answer: The redirection to the last page ONLY triggers if you click on the “Login” link from the protected content message that is shown inside a protected post/page. If you also have the following addon Simple Membership Custom Message installed and you alter the default message, the redirect to the last post will not get triggered and will not work. However you can try the following solution someone shared in the support forum.
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Hi
I’ve installed the plugin WordPress Simple Membership After Login Redirect add-on and I can’t see anything on the side panel to follow the steps. There’s nothing that says ‘membership’. I’ve checked to make sure the plugin is istalled and it is. Do you know why possibly I can’t see anything?
Thankyou
Hi Beck, as I mentioned in the support forum I suspect a conflict with a plugin or maybe even your theme. Since you also mentioned that you are logging in as an admin. Hopefully we can find the conflict soon.
Kind regards