How To Redirect WordPress Login/Logout to Amember Login Page

This thread concerns logging in and out of a Wordpress blog and integrating this process with amember login / logout.

First thing to know is that only certain pages of my blog are protected by amember. The rest is public. So, in amember-speak, my entire blog is not protected behind a folder

1) What I want to do is redirect anyone to my AMEMBER login page who tries to use the standard WORDPRESS login page. (I dont want them to see this Wordpress login page at all.)

2) When a subscriber tries to logout of my blog using those standard Wordpress logout links at the bottom of each blog post, I want two things to happen:
a. The person should logout of AMEMBER also (this does not happen now. I asked support about this.)
b. The person should be redirected to the page of my choosing - ie. my blog home page. Again, I don't want them to see the Wordpress login / logout page at all.

Not sure if this is possible. I just want to make the whole thing a seemless experience for my subscribers and avoid any multiple login page confusion.

Thanks in advance for any tips on this.

- Eric Darby

Did you find a solution for this yet? I'd like to know how to fix this too

Ok, I think I have the first part of MY problem (how to return them to the page where they came from) solved:
add these line to your .htaccess file:

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^redirect_to=(.*)
RewriteRule ^wp-login.php$ /amember/login.php?amember_redirect_url=%1 [NE,R=301,L]

Regarding your problem Eric, for #1 the following will work:

Code:

RewriteRule ^wp-login.php$ /amember/login.php [R=301,L]

Now, there's also a wp-register.php and we want them to go the signup page:

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=register$
RewriteRule ^wp-login.php$ /amember/signup.php? [R=301,L]

Ok, now for the final part: logout.

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=logout
RewriteRule ^wp-login.php$ /amember/logout.php? [R=301,L]

For everything to work correctly you NEED to put the 'plain' wp-login rewrite last! So putting it all together you'll get:

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=register$
RewriteRule ^wp-login.php$ /amember/signup.php? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=logout
RewriteRule ^wp-login.php$ /amember/logout.php? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^redirect_to=(.*)
RewriteRule ^wp-login.php$ /amember/login.php?amember_redirect_url=%1 [NE,R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^wp-login.php$ /amember/login.php [R=301,L]

Regarding your point 2b: you can set that value in
aMember Control Panel > Setup/Configuration > PHP Include > Redirect after logout
(if you can't find PHP include in the top row items, make sure you enable it in the plugin section)

Regards,
Erwin

P.S. I love to get feedback from (htaccess) gurus on how to improve the above

I'm hesitant to propose an alternative solution, because I'm such a novice at all this. But, on my wordpress site, I was able to solved this problem more simply.

All I did was change the wordpress php file that contains my footer. I located the wordpress logout link in the footer php and changed it to the amember logout link -- yoursite.com/amember/logout.php.

It works beautifully, even logs out the wordpress admin for my site, who at this time, isn't a registered amember user.

I hope that helps.

Did changing the links in the footer also result in changes of the links that are shown above the comment section? E.g. "you have to be logged on to leave a comment"?

I applied the first two parts of the code provided and got a 404 error message with this in the url field:

/www.mysite.com/members/login.php?amember_redirect_url=/my-protected-page-url/

Maybe it's because this is a couple years old?

Anyone know the current way to redirect a member from the WordPress login page to the aMember login, and then back to the WordPress page they were trying to first access (once they login)?

Thanks for any help.

I got it to work on one test site I have set up - but this brings up a question. If all logins are redirected to aMember, how do you login as admin to WordPress (without getting redirected). Maybe it's a stupid question, but I can't figure it out. Thanks for any help.

Thank you - I took suggestions and it works great on one WordPress installation.

Unfortunately, on another WordPress installation (I have 2 on same site), when trying to access site, it sends user to this url...

https://www.mysite.com/amember/login.php?amember_redirect_url=/forum/topic/test-topic/#post-5350

...which is a page with a 404 error.

I created a support ticket to try to get some help.