login screen??  Thats not a login screen, but a group view page… the user (or guest) attempting to access the page does not have permission to view any of the forums on your site, so you get the message…

Like most, if not all, display elements, the stats information is controlled by your sp theme with template functions displaying the different elements… if you want to change, move around, or remove any elements, just remove the template function that displays them…

in this case, since the stats are by default shown on all pages, it will be in your sp theme spFoot.php template…  just remove the elements (or all) that you dont want…

as always, we recommend you create your own sp theme and not edit the sp provided ones to keep from losing changes on updates…

So, perhaps I am using the incorrect link to get people to login? Could you direct me to the where in the documentation this is explained? I am using the standard theme with no modifications. From your answer it appears I have gone down the wrong fork in the implementation road!

All I want is a place (could be a standalone page, a sidebar widget or??) so that people only see the login fields and then are taken to the forum itself.

Thanks

logging in (and out) is a function of wp…  the standard login link for wp is http://yoursite.com/wp-login.php…

in the forum, we have optionally pulled that wp login form into an inline forum, but its still wp doing the logging in, for ease of use… and by default, the button and form appears on every forum page in the sp header… however, if you need users to login before they can view any forum page, you probably want to use the standard wp login page or add in a wp plugin that will give you a login form in the sidebar – there are many dozens of these…  and just remove the login button from the forum (delete the template function from the spHead.php template file)…

Thanks! I will give your suggestions a try.

np. glad to help.  come on back if you have any questions on it…

sorry to be so dense here . . . but the wp-login brings people to the wp-dashboard. How do I get it to point to the forum page? People won’t know what to do if they are in the wp-admin dashboard.

Is this covered int he documentation? I couldn’t find anything but could have overlooked it.

Thanks.

well, that is how wp works.. they send users to the admin…

but couple things you can do as we have provided some functionality to change that…

in the forum admin, at forum – components – login and registration, do you have a log in link redirecting to the forum?  it may not work depending on redirects from the page, but just want to check…

secondly, on forum – options – global settings, you can turn on the block admin feature to keep your users from getting to the wp admin… once on, you can also set a redirect to the forum main page…

I am not very familiar with editing templates list spfooter.php. Is there a way to just “deactivate” that file easily so no statistical data for the forum is displayed to my members. I just want them to ffocus on the content of the posts, not the new member, most posts, etc…

Thanks

you could remove the include of the spFoot.php template file from the other template files, but thats much more work…

here is how to create your own theme:  http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-theme/

once you have  your own theme, just edit the your-theme/template-files/spFoot.php file and remove the stuff you dont want…

well, I have made a total hash out of this! I tried the global settings process to block wp-admin and redirect However things went south from there. I now have a loop that keeps asking for my wp-login credentials . . . Neither an admin or a user can get to the forum . . . except by putting in the URL of a sub page (a sub-forum or post).

Here is the scenario:

I click on the main navigation link for the forum (link: mysite.com/forum/) and it brings up the wpr login. You enter your name and password and you get the wp-dashboard. If I click on the “go to forum” link, I am back at the wordpress login!

If I activate the block user access to the WP admin page and select redirect to user’s profile page, I (as admin) am stuck in the login loop, but users get to their profile page. Unfortunately, they can’t get to the top level forum page or they need to login again and are back in the loop.

I realize this is a long shot . . . but do you have any idea how to get out of this loop?

I will have to deal with the ability to directly access (and bypass login) a sub page later . . . first is to get access back for all my members! (and me!)

I think I have the problem narrowed down to the redirects in the Login/Registration section . . . it is gettin glate and I am too tired to think clearly. I will give it a go again in the morning.

Mr Papa said
well, that is how wp works.. they send users to the admin…

but couple things you can do as we have provided some functionality to change that…

in the forum admin, at forum – components – login and registration, do you have a log in link redirecting to the forum?  it may not work depending on redirects from the page, but just want to check…

secondly, on forum – options – global settings, you can turn on the block admin feature to keep your users from getting to the wp admin… once on, you can also set a redirect to the forum main page…

I think I may have conflicting settings here. Do these work together (the components /login/registration settings and the options/global settings) or is it that I need to choose one or the other? I have tried removing the login/regi redirects . . . but I am still stuck and cannot access the forum anymore.

the settings do not work together… well, lol, let me clarify… they dont interfere with each other per se…

the components one will redirect at time of login (or logout) if the redirect argument is on the login url…  the options one only redirects if you load the wp admin panel…  so if the components login redirect is encountered, its before you reach the wp admin pages so the latter is never invoked…

not sure how you would get a circular issue…  are you sure everything is consistent in terms of use of www or not?  www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com are typically two different login domains… so you may be logged in on one but not the other…

also, no caching plugins right?

do you have a link?  and a screenshot of the components and options panels might be useful…

I attached 2 screen shots (the components registration settings and the Options global settings). Of course these have been changing as I tried everything I could think of . . . but this is what they are right now.

I won’t change anything else in order to give you a chance to see it as it is. also, I did have superCashe activated, but from your previous message I have deactivated it.

The site is: www.unstoppablebrand.com

the forum is www.unstoppablebrand.com/forum/

a login for a test user is:

username: tester

PW = He1l0w1P

I would appreciate any help you can provide. I need to get this resolved quickly. Usually I love solving this technical issues, but right now I am slammed with deadlines and don’t have the time to puzzle this one out. Next stop is to ask for a recommendation for a SimplePress programmer who can deal with this.