aliyevanv

Yes – user roles will require manual tweaking on my part, but Multisite User Management plugin does most of the job. So I’m happy.

@ipstenu, thanks for responding! Actually I found a solution. I’m using S2members and Multisite User Management plugins. It’s not perfect, but together they do 95% of what I need. Unless the number of my paid users grows significantly (wouldn’t that be nice!? :)), the rest is manageable.
I’ve been using WP for over 5 years now, but multisite is a new thing for me.
Thanks!

@kts915
“you can accomplish all that you are looking for if you read the Login Welcome Page instructions, including the replacement codes.”

I’m confused. Are you saying there is a replacement code on the Login Welcome page instructions that does that? I’ve looked through all listed there, but none seems to fit. If you could direct me to it, I would be forever your grateful fan! 🙂

In the meantime, I’m going to try the solution offered by Raam Dev on github (and further explained by yourself) and see where it takes me.

P.S. I really like S2, it doest almost everything I need out of the box, except social logins (which I solved) and this user redirection issue. So I agree it’s a great and powerful thing. That’s why I don’t want to change – other plugins don’t offer half of what I need.

BTW, are you on the plugin development team? If social logins and easy user redirection were available on paid version, I’d buy it for any money! (within reason :)) Thanks!

@kts915, let me give you a VERY typical scenario of how this works for me. I have articles that are public and pdf downloads that are available only to subscribers. Let’s say I wrote an article about abc and offer a download linked from that page related to abc. A visitor comes from Google who stumbled upon my article, and they click download and are asked to subscribe first. Right now, after they subscribe they are taken right back to the page with the download link – now they can download it, they are happy. When I use S2, they are taken to some login welcome page, and there is no way for them to easily find that article with that download again without searching all over my website.

Unfortunately, my plugin doesn’t allow paid subscribers, so I have to find alternatives.

Welshdemon has a different scenario with a forum. People stumble upon a discussion thread they are interested in, but can’t comment unless they are logged in. After they login they have to go on a wild goose chase trying to locate that discussion thread on the forum again.

I don’t know why it’s so difficult for you to appreciate the importance of this functionality. It really is critical for some websites.

@kts915, thank you very much for your help and suggestions!

“But that IS a Login Welcome page!!”

Yes, it is a login welcome page, but I ONLY want people to be redirected there if login page is their first point of access to my website, e.g. they typed login’s page url directly into their browser. 99% of the time that doesn’t happen. In fact, I can’t think of an instance when it does. They are usually already on my website somewhere, reading something, trying to access something, and then pressing “login”/”register” if they can’t access what they want.

“There has to be somewhere that a member gets sent when logging in.” – yes, and for my website it has to be a protected page that users were trying to access before logging in.

“You seem to have got caught up in the label, instead of the substance.”

No, I’m not caught up in the label. It’s a very important substance, and I need it to work.

I do appreciate all your help and valuable suggestions!

@welshdemon,
I can’t see WordPress admin bar on your website. My users can’t see wordpress admin bar on my website, unless they are already logged in. (well, actually, they can’t see it at all, because I deactivated it.)
What I can see on your website is a dark blue menu bar with “e-mail” “password” “sign in” and “join now” button just below the ad. There is no “my website” link on the top left.