do you have a logout redirect specified on forum – components – login and registration??

Ah ha – I knew it had to be something simple.

BUT this presents me with a quandary – how can I have my writers (authors and contributors) as well as editors/admins NOT have to redirect to the forum on login/out…….we really only want forum users (who have no WP role in the backend) to be redirected to the forum if they login or out.

Is that possible?

Or can I change those settings in such a way as to tell it to use the current page? Sort of like I’m doing above the the $pageURL variable?

we dont make a difference between wp roles and logout redirects.. you would need some custom code to hook into that process…

we do offer sp admins and mods the option to bypass the logout redirect… so that would be option if you could make them mods..

Ok thanks, I appreciate the direction.

I plan to tackle this even though I’m not a coder, although I can usually understand other people’s code and figure out how to modify it (granted it generally takes me hours of research and a few more hours of testing to get things correct, LOL).

SO I looked through the documentation here on the API actions and filters, and I found a filter (hook?) named sph_logout_redirect, which I assume I need to write the code for and put it in my forum child theme’s functions file, yes?

And I’m guessing it would be something very similar to what I have above, except instead of using 

add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘restrict_admin’, 1 );

I would do something like add_action( ‘sph_logout_redirect’, ‘restrict_admin’, 1 );

Is that on the right track?

I can take a longer look later but I think that should be what you need. It is run at the end of our logout redirect routine…
It is probably an area we could improve upon as well…

yes, that is the right track…  you will need to see what kind of user you have and adjust the redirect how you like based on that specific user… you can get at user info with the globals $spThisuser or $current_user

Thanks!  I’ll let you know how it turns out, hoping to get to that this weekend. 🙂

please do…

Well sorry  this has taken so long…….I’ve been trying a lot of things and I get close, BUT no cigar.

What happens is that on logout, both WP and SP take the user to the login page, and while that’s an improvement over before (they were getting redirected to the forum home page), it’s still not what I want – I want them to stay on whatever page they are on when they click ‘log out’…..so if they’re in the forum they stay on that page, or if they’re on the site they stay where they are.

Here’s my code:

`
// Restrict access to back-end to Admins, Editors, & Authors only, redirects other users to whatever page they were on
function restrict_admin()
{
$pageURL = ‘http://’;
$pageURL .= $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’];
$pageURL .= $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’];

if ( ! current_user_can( ‘publish_posts’ ) && ‘/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php’ != $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] ) {
wp_redirect( $pageURL );
exit;
}
}
add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘restrict_admin’, 1 );
add_action( ‘sph_logout_redirect’, ‘restrict_admin’, 1 );
`

Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?

not sure what you are trying to do on the admin side, but for front end users, you are using the hook wrong…  its a filter, not an action…

not sure about using those server globals – easily spoofed… but assuming you have what you want there, something like:

// Restrict access to back-end to Admins, Editors, & Authors only, redirects other users to whatever page they were on
function restrict_admin($redirect) { 
    if (!current_user_can('publish_posts') && '/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php' != $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) {
        $pageURL = 'http://';
        $pageURL.= $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
        $pageURL.= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

        $redirect = $pageURL;
    }
    return $redirect;
}
add_filter('sph_logout_redirect', 'restrict_admin');

not sure what you admin init hook was doing..not sure its needed on logout…  if you logout from wp admin, where would you want to go?  certainly not to page you were on – you wouldnt have access…  seems like the standard sp logout redirect would be fine…

but try that for users on front end…

Well I tried the code above and wound up removing all the code because it just isn’t working as I’d like, and now without any logout redirect code at all it still redirects logged out users to the community (forum home page).

I’ve checked all my SP settings (Global Settings in particular) and there is no directive to send logged out users to the forum home page – is it possible that WP is just holding onto a default redirect/logout redirect URL?

Here’s what I’m trying to do:

1. For any site visitor on our Forum, logging in or out should keep them at the forum. So the current behavior is actually *correct* for forum users;

2. For WP users that are Contributors (and Authors although we have no Author level users and don’t plan to), I’m trying to create a front-end system only – no back end access at all.  SO they have some custom pages that lets them pitch ideas, write posts, and update their profile – that’s all they can do, and all from the front-end.  If they logout they get to stay on the page they were on, but they can’t actually *do* anything (the forms that let them submit an idea or write a post or modify their profile do not show up if they aren’t logged in).

3.  Only Editors and Admin users can access the back-end.

I’m not quite there with all of it yet, but the whole logout-redirect-to-forum has stumped me…..I don’t want people sent there unless that’s where they started.

well, I took a more detailed look at what  you are doing (vice helping with hooks and php) and what you have wont work – as  you found out…  you wont be able to use the server global variables…. this is because its too late…  the logout has already taken effect and you were directed to wp-login.php…  and no you are just filtering the redirect of where you will be sent when done…

what you really want is the page that referred you there… so something like:

// Restrict access to back-end to Admins, Editors, & Authors only, redirects other users to whatever page they were on
function restrict_admin($redirect) {
    if (!current_user_can('publish_posts') && '/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php' != $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) {
        $redirect = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
    }
    return $redirect;
}
add_filter('sph_logout_redirect', 'restrict_admin');

please note, this would be to handle case #2…  case #1 should continue doing what you want.. but did not explicitly check your “IF” statement logic…

Yaay!  That works perfectly.

My priorities #1 and #2 now work exactly as needed – if they are on the forum, logging in or out keeps them at the forum, and if they are on the website, logging in or out keeps them on the website.

Thank you Mr. Papa, I deeply appreciate your help!

You are welcome.. Glad to help.  Thanks for the update.