Locked out of my own site.

“Max failed logins. Please wait 30 minutes and try again.”
I’ve also tried the suggested create a directory wp-content/mu-plugins/s2hacks.php and putting in:

<?php
add_action (“ws_plugin__s2member_before_ip_restrictions_ok”, “my_function”);
function my_function ($vars = array ())
{
$vars[“__refs”][“restriction”] = false; /* Do NOT impose restrictions. */
}
?>

That did absolutely nothing, I still cannot get in my own site. Not good when you’re selling something. I wonder who else cannot get in there.

If it’s an emergency, to get back in, you can just delete the s2Member folder via FTP. If you enabled Deactivation Safeguards, this won’t cause you to lose anything. Once in, then reinstall s2Member.

I suspect you enabled Unique IP Access Restrictions. If so, my advice, as an s2Member user, is “Don’t!”

Unless you are limiting access to those with desktop computers in a fixed physical space (e.g. office), enabling that setting is bound to cause problems because you and others will probably be accessing your site from many different locations.

If you have the Pro version, I’d suggest using the Simultaneous Login Restrictions option instead.

Thank you. After redoing the above new directory/page in my files, that must have worked because I was abloe to get back in. I want to say I LOVE this plug in, it’s really amazing. Two questions though:

Unique IP Access Restrictions – where is this in the set up? and…

I am signed up as a member of my own page, but in order to see anything, I have to log in each time I visit. And to do so, I have to log in via typing my url/wp-admin – Then and only then does the page to login pop up and is able to be seen.

I would think that a login page would be visable by all making it easy for people to log in. Did I miss something on set up? I’ve read it about ten times, and it states, the membership/login is only visible to paid members. Well, how do you login if you are a paid member, and cannot see that page with the login form – to login?

To put it simply:

There is no page available for members who are not logged in (i.e. paid membership and have logged out and are coming back in) to LOG IN TO.

(the login page is automatically protected by s2)

How can I make a login page to be seen by anyone coming to the site… so that if they are a logged OUT member who wants to log back in, they can do so?

Glad you got back in! Unique IP Access Restrictions can be found under s2Member -> Restriction Options.

So far as the login page is concerned, s2Member doesn’t change anything there. It’s exactly where it is normally for WordPress.

If you want to create a more user-friendly URL or page for logging in, then you have a few options. One is to use s2Member’s login widget, which you could insert into any sidebar on any public page.

Another is to use a different plugin to add a login box on any public page (perhaps by using a shortcode in a page).

A third option is to use another plugin to customize the WordPress login; the Sideways8 Custom Login and Registration plugin, for example, will also automatically move your login page to the much more user-friendly https://www.mysite.com/login/ though you could presumably achieve the same result by means of a redirect.

Thank you. I’ve created a new page that’s public with the only way I knew at the time (lol) to login… it just has a link to mysite.com/wp-login.php will this work? Or am I messing something up? ??
Thank you so much
Sheila

You aren’t messing anything up!

It’s up to you how you want it to work. So you can do it that way, or you could just put the s2Member login widget on your home page, or whatever else you fancy.

Whew! lol thank you. And thank you for taking the time to help me. Much appreciated !!