Default to Members Area log on pop up and hide sign up popup

Site URL: https://wycombeastro.org

Hi.

I'm wondering if some one can help.

I'm setting up a members area on my site, https://wycombeastro.org, and would like to just display the login pop-up form with no sign up (create) link to the Members area or to create a customer account. The reason why is that the site is for a society for paid members (paid for outside of Squarespace) and I 'm going to create their accounts manually for them to access this area from a password protected sign up page. When I use the Members Area block it always displays the sign up form in the pop-up form and has a "Sign in" link to at the bottom of the login pop-up form.

I would like it to display the login form instead as below.

I have worked out I can do this by visiting the link, https://www.wycombeastro.org/account/login

This is the same link as Squarespace creates in the main navigation and you click the "Sign In" link. However, in this pop-up there is a "Create account" link and for some weird reason if you fill the form in it creates customers accounts not member area accounts like the Members Area Block.

As I didn't want this or for visitors to sign up for members areas, I have manged to hide the navigation with this CSS

#navigation-top nav ul> :nth-child(8) {
 display: none;
  
}

However, it would be good to have the official navigation link and login pop up minus the "create account" link on it.
Any ideas how to do this?

Note, if I set my custom CSS  "display" value to "block" in  it will show the normal "Sign In" link in the main menu.

The other  issue I have is if a site visitors enter a protected members page it gives them the option to Join so I need a way to hide this. See screen shot below. I just want to show the sign up pop-up again minus the Create Account link .

I'm assuming perhaps both of these can be achieved by some custom code that can be added to the page or injected in the page or CCS. Ideally, I would like to be able to create my own custom login page that can be accessed from the main menu and displayed if a visitor tries to access a members area page when not logged on. But to do this I need know the form post url and fields names for username and password text boxes to re-create the Members login pop-up.

Many thanks in advance.

Mark

1 hour ago, markbpriv said:

I..would like to just display the login pop-up form with no sign up (create) link.

The other issue I have is if a site visitors enter a protected members page it gives them the option to Join so I need a way to hide this. 

I'm assuming perhaps both of these can be achieved by some custom code that can be added to the page or injected in the page.

Unfortunately, the current implementation of 'Member Areas' does not support the configuration that you want. It was built to encourage signups and was not built to accommodate private sites with existing memberships.

Hopefully further features will be added to allow this sort of customisation but, in the meantime, there are no options to change the behaviours or layouts that you describe, and code cannot be used to change them.

This forum is not monitored for product feature requests so you may want to raise these requests with Squarespace Customer Care. They'll document your feedback and share it with the appropriate team. You can reach out to them here.
 

Site URL: https://valverdecommons.com

In order to close sign-up to Members Area, I need to kill/remove/disable the "Join" button on the Access Denied page.

Any help would be appreciated.

This bit:

<button
          class="sqs-editable-button"
          style="margin: 33px 0 5px 0"
          onclick="joinMemberArea('5fe4c637917ad55772266131', window.location.pathname)"
      >
        Join
      </button>
      
        <br />
        <button
            style="
              display: inline-block;
              margin: 11px 0 5px 0;
              cursor: pointer;
              border: none;
              padding: 0;
              color: inherit;
              background-color: transparent;
            "
            onclick="joinMemberArea('5fe4c637917ad55772266131', window.location.pathname, true)"
        >

or another solution is a simple LogOut link in members area navigation menu.

I have the same issue. I posted here in the Forum and reported to SS.

I now have members logged in but can't log out with out revealing Join option.

Is there are way to log out of Members Area? or create a log-out link?

I have resolved this issue. For this client there was a fixed membership. Once all member have signed up, we disabled all SS join/create functions. So the issue became having access to the Account Panel and Signing out. A simple text link URL /account/login does the trick.

I have resolved this issue. If you want to know how, please reply.

The original issue is after ending membership sign up, how so members gain access to their Account Panel and Sign Out option.

@MJCarp how did you end up resolving this?

On 2/14/2021 at 5:02 AM, Aminoyo said:

@MJCarp how did you end up resolving this?

When you are ready to close membership sign-up, disable all buttons in the header and delete any member area sign up blocks. Create a new Page and put in the Members Area navigation. I titled mine "Account Panel/ Sign Out. Create a section/text block on this page. The text should explain that you are providing link to a member's account panel. Highlight text "Account Panel" and using the Link Editor choose Page and type: "/account/login". 

When a member navigates to their Account Panel, they can now sign out using the  link under their name.

I find it utterly disappointing that a simple feature like hiding the "Join" button is not supported for something like the members area feature that costs extra on top of an already premium price.

Has anyone worked out if you can set a logout action via a URL parameter? I want to give people the option to logout from a menu item.

Thanks

@MJCarp Hi, 

Can you tell me exactly how did you do to kill/remove/disable the "Join" button on the Access Denied page ? 

I need to approve every member before signing up

I have found a solution to hide the join button, which works! This is taken from https://www.squarestylist.com/blog/workarounds

<!--Squarestylist Snippet to Hide Join Button-->
<script>

var sqelem= document.querySelector('#sqs-member-access-page-root .sqs-editable-button');
sqelem.remove();

</script>
<!--END SQSTYLIST JOIN BUTTON-->

#sqs-member-access-page-root .sqs-editable-button {
display:none;
}

4 hours ago, Bliss12 said:

I have found a solution to hide the join button, which works!

I think it's important to point out that this is a 'workaround' only, as the author states in their blog post. It's not a solution because it is still possible for visitors to join for free using the default links that are built into the platform.

What we really need is for Squarespace to fix this, so that site owners can choose whether to prevent members of the public joining their Member Areas.