[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I decided to keep the logo. Never mind.

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I removed all cookies and tried again. Worked perfectly!

Thanks, guys!

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

@Burtadsit

Yes, I do see all of those tables. What does that mean?

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I went into blogs.dir and there were no avatars there. So I went to my old blogs.dir and found the avatars were all there. I copies the directories to the new location and all the avatars (thumbnails and all) are working.

Phew! Thanks for your suggestions, guys.

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Not to be dense, but I’ve been to the backend of the site already logged in as admin–is there someplace specific to go?

Maybe it’s so obvious I don’t see it.

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

@Burtadsit

Thanks for this information. I haven’t yet upgraded my tables to RC2 and don’t really know what to do. The rest of the install is complete and working fine.

Any tips or pointers you could give me would be appreciated.

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks, Jeff. Is there a way for me to restore the information?

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Hi Jeff,

Which permissions are you referring to?

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks, guys! Just what the doctor ordered.

I’m on the case *tips hat slightly*

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Oh, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for.

Trent, thank you sooo much!

But where do I put the plugin, and is there a specific name it should be?

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Yes, JJJ, I should DEFINITELY have included you!

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

@John,

You are hitting it out of the park today!! Thanks so much for all of your help. A real value-add for me.

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

*smacking keyboard on forehead*

Of course that’s it! Thanks, John. I don’t know why I drew a blank there.

Oops!

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

If you setup new blog users to be Authors, they only have limited access to the dashboard and can’t see the themes. They can still add posts, media, and a few other things. Just enough for what most of them will need.

An added bonus is that the “switch theme” option is removed from the cascading menu viewable in the user’s profile.

Hope this helps!

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I am looking for exactly the same information.

Is there a way to setup default widgets for blogs using the buddypress-home?

Any code snippets are welcome!

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Okay, now I’ve added Gogoplata’s step:

in wp-includeswpmu-functions.php change this:

add_user_to_blog(‘1’, $user_id, ‘subscriber’);

to this:

add_user_to_blog(‘1’, $user_id, ‘author’);

this, combined with Andy’s code did the trick! many thanks!

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

@Andy, I went ahead an put the code snippet into wpmu-functions and it sets up new users as subscribers to the main blog! But for the new blog they are still administrators. Is there more code to change that to the Author function, or did I not properly change the code you provided?

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks, Andy! Not sure where I should put it…wpmu-functions.php, maybe? And does it matter where within the document it goes (does it need to be before or after anything special?

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I’m trying to understand what to do regarding this default user role issue.

I want all new users to have a Subscriber role for the main/site blog.

For new users setting up blogs, I want them to have an Author role.

Does anyone know exactly how I can do this?

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

@Burtadsit I’ve finished one site, but haven’t launched it yet: http://cloudwomen.com

Have another on the way soon, I hope!

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I’m using WPMU 2.7; BP RC-1.

What’s happening is that when I enter the restrictions, and create a new user/blog, they can still see all the things I tried to restrict. It’s like the restrictions are optional and not binding.

And I really want to use the plugin!

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Another cool favicon generator:

http://www.favicon.cc/

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I setup the plugin; it doesn’t work, unfortunately.

Anyone else have any other ideas?

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

@Toly, thanks for your suggestion. I am already running PHP5.

[@jfcarter Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Is there a way to force a login to view the member directory?

Also, is there a mechanism to force a theme for all new user blogs? Even though I’ve disabled the default theme in the Site Admin panel, all new user blogs still have it.