Possible Bug in 1.3.63 (Homepage constantly redirects to login page)

Hi @zuluxraydelta,

I’m currently investigating this issue. I’ll get back to you.

Regards,

Hi,

Did you mean:

1. Set Global Site Access to “Site accessible to everyone” in UM > Settings > Access
2. Go to Settings > Reading
3. Set Front page displays to “Your latest posts”
4. Log out of WordPress
5. Go to your homepage it redirects to the login page.

I tested the above and it works fine on our end. Can you please edit your home page and see if UM access settings is enabled?

Regards,

@zuluxraydelta

What I tried:
1. Ultimate Member v. 1.3.64
2. Set the site accessible to everyone
3. “Setup -> Register page -> Register (=UM default register page)”
5. Login page in Ultimate member is set to be page “Login”
7. Go to Settings > Reading -> Set “Your latest posts” as the homepage
9. Log out of WordPress

For me everything works fine! Did I miss anything?

One thing, that comes to my mind: Do you have set the custom UM site access setting “Content accessible for logged in Users” for your homepage?

@champ Camba

You are correct in thinking that was the steps.

@martnytrm

That is also correct, god knows what is wrong, if I set the Settings > Reading to a custom page, it works fine its just if its set to “Your latest posts”, I will try updating the theme to see if that fixes anything.

I don’t actually have a homepage as a physical page in WordPress, the theme basically has a front page / dash page when you select “Your latest posts”

Some other things I have tried

1. Updated to the latest theme (Still got theproblem)
2. Disabled all plugins apart from Ultimate Member (Still got the problem)

Is there anything else I can try / do?

So this issue only happens when you have latest posts selected as homepage?

@zuluxraydelta
I’ve once tried it again.

1. Use the theme Zerif Lite Version: 1.8.4.4
2. WP: “General -> Anyone can register” (just to be sure!)
3. UM 1.3.64
4. Set the site accessible to everyone
5. Redirect to alternative register page is set to UM Register Page
6. Login page in Ultimate member is set to be page “Login”
7. Go to Settings > Reading: Set to “Your latest posts” as the homepage
8. Log out of WordPress

I still can reach my front page (main domain). And everything works like I expect. I really can’t get it to not work. I’m sure we miss some little detail, but I have no more idea what it can be. I’ve seen on your site that the issue is still on :(.
Sorry.
If you have a flash of genius, please let me know. I’m very interested in it.

Greets

7. Go to Settings > Reading: Set to “Your latest posts” as the homepage

If you change this to select a page, this issue does not happen right? Only happens when you make it “Your latest posts”?

Hey @ultimate Member

Your correct in thinking, that it only happens if i
Go to Settings > Reading: Set to “Your latest posts” as the homepage

If i select a page it works fine!

Hi All,

I found the problem and the bug! I spent 6 hours digging through every line of your code to try to find why it was doing this, I didn’t find to much luck but realised it had to be to do with an access setting in Ultimate Member was stopping logged out users accessing the page.

The problem is because I had one of the posts restricted to logged in users only, so when trying to display the page “Your latest posts” because there was a post on there which was restricted to logged in users only, it wouldn’t allow you to access the entire page.

**How to re-create**
1. Set your front page in Settings > Readings to “Your latest posts”
2. Create a few random posts on your website
3. Go into one of the posts and restrict it to “Logged in members only, using the ultimate member feature.”
4. Log out of WordPress
5. Go to your front page
6. It redirects you to the login page

I’m not a PHP expert so I will allow you guys to dig into the code to find the problem! ??

@zuluxraydelta
Wow, damn staying power!!!
I did everything you said and I can confirm this issue!!!

To make it clear, this bug not only occurs on front page with this settings, it just has to be the site with your posts.

1. UM 1.3.64
2. Create a site “MySite” which is accessible to public and is marked to show your posts.
It does not matter if UM has the default access setting “site accessible to everyone” with “MySite” using this default setting OR default is “site accessible to logged in Users” and “MySite” uses specific access setting “Content accessible to everyone”.
3. Create a post “MyPost”, which will show up on “MySite” and give this post the access setting “Content accessible to Logged In Users”.
3. As logged out user, when calling “MySite” you’re redirected to your Login page, even if only one post is set “accessible to Logged In Users”.

Looking forward to a fix.

Thanks

Hi Everyone,

I’m investigating this issue following @zuluxraydelta and @martnytrm steps. I’ll get back to you.

Regards,

Hi Everyone,

Can you please try the pre-released version in the link?
https://github.com/ultimatemember/ultimatemember/releases/tag/pre-v1.3.65.3

Let me know if you’re still encountering issues.

Regards,

@champ Camba
Tested with pre-v1.3.65.4:

Issue is still not completely gone.

If you have the default access settings “Site accessible to logged in Users” it does not work properly.
To recreate:
1. Default site access “Site accessible to logged in Users”
2. Use a static front page “FrontPage”, which is “accessible to everyone”
and a post page “PostPage”, which is “accessible to everyone”, but has
one post “PrivatePost”, which is only “accessible to logged in users”.
3. “PostPage” should be accessible with a hidden “PrivatePost” for logged out users, but instead you are always redirected to the front page “FrontPage”.

So not fixed completely!

—————————————
Second thing I realised, which is not implicitly a bug, I think.
If you have the default access settings “Site accessible to everyone” it works now.
To recreate:
1. Default site access “Site accessible to everyone”
2. Use a static front page “FrontPage”, which is “accessible to everyone”
and a post page “PostPage”, which is “accessible to everyone”, but has
one post “PrivatePost”, which is only “accessible to logged in users”.
3. As logged out user you can reach the public “PostPage”, which is fine, but you are also able to see the Title of the “PrivatePost” and read its first first four lines (!!!) which is in my opinion a little bit to public. But you can’t open the article and you are redirected to the login page, which is fine.

I remembered that i had read something about it in this forum, that you always are able to see some aspects of a private post. -> Post accessible to logged in users only are still not absolutely private, because the can’t be completely hidden.
So this behaviour is wanted maybe.

Hi @martnytrm,

Thanks for letting us know. I am working on this issue.

I’ll get back to you.

Regards,