eMember – Unprotected category still requiring login.

[Holywoods78]

We have several categories of post requiring various logins to view. However, we want all content over 30 days to be available for free viewing (no log in required – also allowing search engines to review our posts). I have this category clicked as unprotected, but it is still requiring a log in.

[Holywoods78]

I also went to each post in this category and commanded it to be unprotected, didn’t change anything. It is almost like our entire homepage is locked. I have no sitewide protection that I can see.

[Holywoods78]

In messing around for two more hours, I have discovered that if I check category protection for any category, it protects them all. I have 8-9 categories including one we want free access for anybody, so this doesn’t work.

[admin]

You have messed up the category protection a little. Many of yours posts actually have multiple categories assigned to them. So you need to be a little careful when you protect a category. I will explain why…

Lets say, you have a category called “A”. When you protect this category, then all the posts that have this category attached to it will also get protected.

Please read point #3 from here which will explain this in details:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/wp-emember-content-protection-not-working-common-mistakes

I will give you an example from your site now:

I have protected the category called business. This means any posts that have the business category should get protected.

Now, if you go to the following post that has the business category is correctly protected:

[http://www.wauseonreporter.com/triangular-processing-recycling-relocating-in-wauseon/]

However, if you go to the following post that does not belong in the business category is not protected (this is the correct behavior):

[http://www.wauseonreporter.com/dave-mealer-memorial-golf-classic-a-legacy-of-giving/]

Let me know if that makes sense.

[Author]

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