How do I create a link to the login/sign up page?

Hi @danvanmoll,

So a solution for you would be to create a button that would link to a page on your site, which can be the "Members" page that is installed with Members area and the Blog. You just need to make sure that the members' area page settings are set to "Members Only" permission, this way, if they try to access the page, they would get the message - login to connect with members.

This can work for any page if that page's setting permission is set to "members only":

Hope this helps!

@Rafal Zacharevič Thanks a ton, that really helps!

@Johann M Kjartansson Got you :) Thank you very much for elaborating. We are working on a solution for this case, stay tuned!

@Johann M Kjartansson Hi! I'm happy to tell you that we've just released an option to give your writers a limited access to your dashboard! :)

On your dashboard, click on Settings -> Roles & Permissions -> Add Contributor.

Enter the email address of your writer and select the "Blog Writer" role form the list. And that's it, your writer will get a limited access to the blog manager (they will be able to see only the blog manager, and only their posts).

@Maya Ekron Hey, this was very helpful. I still think a link or a hidden gatway/button to the blog post page would be very nice. The layout of the blog post page you access directly from the website is so much cleaner and easier to understand. The page seems to have an URL https://www.hza.no/single-post/create-post but it can only be accessed by clicking the "Create Post" button from the blog page. And as you maybe remember, I do not want this "Sign up/Login" user clutter visible on the page at all.

Hi there,

I found this thread because I have a related issue. You said that "The login page will pop up the moment a visitor who is not a member will try to like or leave a comment." However, on my site that is true for the Like button, but not for the Comments link. When someone clicks on the comments link under a blog post, it immediately scrolls back up to the top of the page instead of opening the Login window. Presumably, this is to point them to the Login button at the top but it's not obvious, just makes it confusing. It's a real bad UX. I can't seem to find anyway to change that. It should go to the login screen. Any ideas why it's working this way and how I could fix it?

Thanks.

@Robert Caldera Hey, could you share with us your site address? it shouldn't be like that.

Thanks!

@Maya Ekron Sure. It's www.futureshiftconsulting.com. However, I contacted support and they told me that it was happening because I was using the "Full Post" layout option for my blog and in that mode they said it's not possible to leave or display comments. Putting aside the fact that that still seems odd to me, I changed my blog to the Postcard layout option. However, in this option when someone clicks on a post and scrolls to the bottom of the text there is no longer any link that says "Write a comment" for them to click on to bring them to the login page. Instead, you have to hope that they see the "Log in to leave a comment" link at the very bottom of the page, but it's not that obvious. The link is below the Recent Posts area and unless they had scrolled to the very bottom of the page to read the post they won't see it.

Shouldn't the "Log in to leave a comment" link be right where the comments section normally is? This seems like very poor UX to me. It shouldn't be difficult to see how to leave comments. I have asked a follow up question to the support people to see if it's possible to move the Log in link higher, above the Recent Posts, but I doubt that's possible. This should be improved.