Over the next few weeks I’m working on a complete new structure to this site all based on the new functionality in 1.2. The new design on this site (on internal pages) is basically a stop over until that is completed.
Groups are broken / useless / pointless on this site until that is done.
Groups are different, they show the activity for a group. If I post a message in the group it’s activity for that group, so it shows on the group activity stream. That’s why there is a box to post.
If there was a post box on every user’s page, where does that post go? It can’t go on that user’s activity stream because that stream is the activity for that user. If I post, that’s my activity, not theirs. That would be totally confusing.
The activity stream is not the wire. It’s an activity stream, it shows activity for a specific object (user/group). If you want the free-for-all wire functionality then you’ll need to install the back compat plugin, or see if someone is interested in remaking it as a plugin for 1.2.
To be fair, the Twitter and Facebook generation are all of about 3 years apart. If you can’t adapt quickly the internet is not going to be a very fun place for you.
I would say privacy is probably the most complex feature to implement – as far away from simple as you can get.
If you want to just close off your site to users who are not logged in, then there are plenty of plugins you can use. Or you can just use the following code in your plugins directory, smartypants:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: BuddyPress Lockdown
Plugin URI: https://buddypress.org/
Description: Lock down your BuddyPress site if a user is not logged in.
Author: Andy Peatling
Version: 1.0
Author URI: https://buddypress.org/
Site Wide Only: true
*/
You need to create a custom page template, then add the members or groups loop to that page. You can the only show specific groups. Right now there are no categories or tags, so you will have to specify.
Create a new page in the WordPress backend. Then go to the “Settings > Reading” and select that page as the front page. You may want to create another “Blog” page and set that as the posts page.
