All sites allow search engines.
One thing about aggregation is that I read that doing it in certain ways can bog the server down thanks to loops. I’m assuming that using BP’s built in method would not cause this.
I do have this option enabled but new posts or summaries aren’t showing up in BP activities.
I supposed there might be a plugin or some code out there to auto post activities to certain sites, I’ve seen it for joomla. Have not seen this for BP yet.
And this is the most frustrating part about running a production site based on a community of now and then programmers.
For so many years, we’ve been pushing open source, Linux, low cost software, etc etc but it’s always come back to hurt us one way or another unless we programmed our own stuff.
Sorry, I meant that I do only want to show it to logged in users and for the stated reason.
BTW, is there a way to change menu positions in the code you supplied? It works perfectly but it is in the wrong position in the menu of our particular site.
>Why would you want to “hide this menu item for users who are logged in only”?
Simply because it doesn’t apply to non logged in users so might be confusing. I tend to hide menus which guests don’t need to keep things less confusing.
>There’s no hacking being done here
Well, it works perfectly so I guess I just need to keep a note to add this to the theme if it gets updated.
While we’re at this and you seem to know a lot about the menus, is there a list of other variables which can be used in this way?
Also, when a blog owner is in the Dashboard, they can see other blog owners sites/dashboard. Even though they can’t log into them, it’s confusing. I’d like to change that My Sites to one single link back to the main site. Is there a way of doing that?
Wonderful, that works perfectly. Just one thing, I’m using the IfMenu, a conditional menu. How can I hide this menu item for users who are logged in only as it does not show up in the menus under Appearance.
That doesn’t seem to hide the main site’s wp-admin login. Each time a user who owns a blog clicks on the main site item at the top left hand side, they are sent to the admin of the top site.
>You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
So I went ahead and disabled network based plugins, then reenabled them on the site that I want. It’s making sense now. You install features/functions using the network install then you either allow them as network to all blogs or you enable them only on the site that you want.
I also notice that when someone who owns a blog logs in, they see the Dashboard option of the main site. They can’t access it but is there some way of disabling that?
>You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
Wait now… maybe I should uninstall BP then re-install it on the top site, the single site which I’d like to have BP on? Then BP would be on that site, not networked yet still available to anyone who heads back to the main site?
Ok, I’m getting this now and have some new questions.
1: How can I list all of the different blogs somewhere? Not necessarily most popular but all blogs in some form of list that people can look through.
2: How can I make some of the plugins non network? There doesn’t seem to be any option for making network available or not?
3: Same as above but for widgets.
4: I see that users can access their blogs once logged in, however, the network administrator needs to set up blogs for users. Is there a way to allow users to create their own blogs after they have registered?
5: BuddyPress – I installed BP from the network admin however, all of the plugins seem to be networked again? Is this so that blog owners can have the forums which are a part of BP or something else? I was wanting to make BP available only on the main site.
PS: I realize some of these questions are WP so no requirement to respond on those and I can post them there. Just figured I’d ask 🙂
