[Ben]

Sorry – just to clarify, I was getting the Zend_Session_Exception error as first flagged by @gregfielding

[Ben]

I was also getting this error message. I had Twitconnect installed in my plugins. I tried deactivating Twitconnect and hey presto! Buddystream works fine. Either I’m lucky or there was a conflict there. Hope this helps!

[Ben]

I think @pcwriter‘s code is the way to go – it’s just a question of putting it in the right files according to what you want to block. EG I wanted to block access to member profiles if user is not logged in, but I wanted them to see all the rest of the content on my site. So I copied the following files to my child theme:

members – single – home.php
members – single – member-header.php

Then in home.php I added the “is user logged in” check as shown highlighted here: http://pastebin.com/EyhRuwCq

This stopped the main profile content from appearing if the user is not logged in. You could stop there, but I wanted to remove extra data from the profile header and leave a message to the un-logged in user. So in header-message.php I added the log-in check as highlighted here: http://pastebin.com/mpxbkcCe

This cuts out all content in the header apart from the gravatar, the member name and a polite message. You can see it here: http://www.thebookboard.com/members/bookboard/

I’m not a coder, so I make no guarantees that this will work in all circumstances, but it works for me. Hope it helps others

[Ben]

I’d really like to see an answer to this too. I’m trying to put togther a site where updates coule be quite long (reviews etc) and it would be great to just show the first 100 words or so then have a read more link.

Any thoughts out there?