Well, one thing you could do is hide the content after a certain point if they aren’t logged in, and instead show a login box. Or optionally display an excerpt for those not logged in, and the content for those who are.
For example:
<?php if(is_user_logged_in()): ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php else: ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<b>Please log in to view the rest of this article</b>
<ul id="page-login">
<li>
<form action="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-login.php" method="post"> <p>
<label for="log">
<input type="text" name="log" id="log" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars(stripslashes($user_login), 1) ?>" size="22" /> Username</label><br />
<label for="pwd"><input type="password" name="pwd" id="pwd" size="22" /> Password</label><br />
<label for="rememberme"><input name="rememberme" id="rememberme" type="checkbox" checked="checked" value="forever" /> Remember me</label><br />
<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="https://www.pagetoredirectto.com" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Login" class="button" /> </p> </form>
</li>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-register.php">Register</a></li>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword">Recover password</a></li>
</ul></div>
<? endif; ?>
That checks if the user is logged in. If so it shows the content. Otherwise it shows the excerpt and a log in box. The only thing you’d have to change there is this line: <input type=”hidden” name=”redirect_to” value=”https://www.pagetoredirectto.com” /> I can’t remember how to tell it to redirect to the same page they were on when logging in, rather than taking them to the dashboard.
Hope that helps!
