BuddyPress.org

Ben, I took a look at something similar before. There were multiple requests for limiting the number of blogs a user could create. I came up with the only solution I could find at the time: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1328

bp relies on wpmu’s settings for blog creation. wpmu controls this in the site admin back end. Site Admin > Options > Allow New Registrations. Whatever solution to your request is has to take into that setting in wpmu. It’s basicly an on/off kinda thing. You either can or can’t. It’s not based on user role.

Disabling the registration/signup ‘gimme a blog’ option and you have people still able to create blogs after logging in. Let’s say we set that to ‘Only logged in users can create new blogs.’. It’s a start.

So, now only logged in users can create blogs. The create a blog on registration is gone. Next issue is the need to let certain roles see and use the ‘create a blog’ option.

This exists in the member theme Blogs > Create a Blog and in the admin bar under My Blogs > Create a Blog and My Account > Blogs > Create a Blog.

(Saving this while I dig thru some code…)

ok… so i have this working on my buddypress install (users only… no blogs)

it creates a new user and pulls as much information as it can

username => firstname

email => email

from there, I direct them to a custom “welcome” page where I explain they must update their profile information (some providers give ugly information)

example:

gmail does:

email => email

username => firstname

yahoo does:

email => email

username => RPX234562983746592745834578

even if the yahoo/gmail account has a first and last name with it, it never pulls it over when the BP account is created

I wish they could still “choose” the username that gets displayed so their profile doesnt become /members/RPX243523452345245645

we’re still working on this on our end…. hopefully we will get it to work successfully/cleanly… but for the most part, it does work

If you need a practice area and a live area then just create some ‘practice’ groups. You can also create two installs one for development and training and one to go live with. I’ve done that sort of thing with a new accounting system/point of sale system for a company.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to ‘clone’ the groups component. At the lowest level they both write to the same set of tables. You wouldn’t really be doing much except changing what the ‘practice’ area says on the screen to the users.

Although the discussion here is about getting it to work, I was wondering if a new feature could be added (possibly a way of getting the welcome message to work easily); could new users be sent to a specific URL on account creation/confirmation.

It would be very easy to create a set of welcome pages (example.com/welcome/getting-started) which could have custom page templates and content easily editable.

In summary – could I define a URL for the user to be sent to on account creation?

You disabled registration in the wpmu admin area: Site Admin > Options > Allow New Registrations with that option set to what?

1) Disabled

2) Enabled. Blogs and user accounts can be created.

3) Only user account can be created.

4) Only logged in users can create new blogs.

Now you have 4 new users on your site? If you choose option 2 or option 3 then people will still be able to register for accounts on your site.

Are you sure they are users or just people creating comments on your blog posts?

my pleasure..

anyway a plugin solution is much better instead of hacking the BP core

EDIT: looking forward for a solution..

customize bp-core-signup.php @ \\wp-content\\\mu-plugins\\\bp-core

-line 274

I’m sure it is in the same core WPMU file. I did have a plugin written to let you change these but that was for a few versions back and I haven’t updated yet.

I am using aMember with buddypress and muWordpress. They sell the muWordpress plugin that is needed to work with aMember. It works the way it was made, which is for subdirectories. It does not work with subdomains. So, I set it to only create a user account and then go in manually to create the blog. Not the best ideal, but it works.

You know the same thing is happening to me. I am trying to customize a theme. I know that the problem above has something to do with the problem I am having. What is happening is when an account is created you can log in, and see your blog. You can also get into the blog admin, but when you try to go to: My Account -> Profile — It says:

“You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please download the Default BuddyPress Theme and install it in /wp-content/bp-themes/”

In the BuddyPress settings the “Select theme to use for member pages:” is empty. I’ve been trying to figure out what is going on but I’m lost.

Now one thing I didn’t know if it was an issue or not was the path for the bp-themes folder is located in: /wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-themes/

The buddypress-member folder is in there. Could that be an issue? I personally did not install WP MU and Buddypress, so I wouldn’t know if it was some type of problem with installing everything.

Looks like it’s working just fine for me (I created a quick test account).

rpx plugin isn’t a widget. It’s embeded onto wp-login.php

Just tell your users to visit wp-login.php and login from there. If user has not created an account before on your site, then a new user is created.

this plugin just works fine on wpmu and buddypress. I’ve just tested with my yahoo account via openid. and it creates user account without any errors.

create a new widget that does the same

I found a solution, but I’m not a PHP programmer, It’s a hack of the code of this topic https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=5930

Let’s go only if you are using the lasted trunk:

Open the mu-plugins/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-templatetags.php – Find this code starting at line 682 end at 696

<?php printf(__("By filling out the form below, you can <strong>add a blog to your account</strong>. There is no limit to the number of blogs you can have, so create to your heart's content, but blog responsibly.", 'buddypress'), $current_user->display_name) ?>



<?php _e("If you’re not going to use a great blog domain, leave it for a new user. Now have at it!", 'buddypress') ?>



<form id="setupform" method="post" action="<?php echo $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->blogs->slug . '/create-a-blog' ?>">



<input type="hidden" name="stage" value="gimmeanotherblog" />

<?php do_action( "signup_hidden_fields" ); ?>

<?php bp_blogs_signup_blog($blogname, $blog_title, $errors); ?>



<input id="submit" type="submit" name="submit" class="submit" value="<?php _e('Create Blog &raquo;', 'buddypress') ?>" />



<?php wp_nonce_field( 'bp_blog_signup_form' ) ?>

</form>

Replace using this newbie code:

// One Blog Only HACK START

<?php $blogscheck = get_blogs_of_user($current_user->ID);

$blogarrayvalue = (get_object_vars($blogscheck[1]));

$blogsiteURL = "http://locutorpro.com.br";

if ($blogarrayvalue[siteurl] == $blogsiteURL)

{

echo "";

printf(__("By filling out the form below, you can <strong>add a blog to your account</strong>.", 'buddypress'), $current_user->display_name);

echo "

";

printf(__("If you’re not going to use a great blog domain, leave it for a new user. Now have at it!", 'buddypress'));

echo "

";

echo "<form id='setupform' method='post' action='";

echo $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->blogs->slug ;

echo "/create-a-blog'>";

echo "<input type='hidden' name='stage' value='gimmeanotherblog' />";

echo do_action( "signup_hidden_fields" );

echo bp_blogs_signup_blog($blogname, $blog_title, $errors);

echo "<input id='submit' type='submit' name='submit' class='submit' value='";

printf(__("Create Blog &raquo;"));

echo "' />

";			echo wp_nonce_field( 'bp_blog_signup_form' );

echo "</form>";

}

else

{

printf(__("Sorry, you can have 1 blog only.", 'buddypress'));

}

?>

// One Blog Only HACK END

I hope it help!

Thank you for all dev team!

Just discovered this one: after integrating bbPress, my tech guy and I first found that all of the existing blog entires an account had created no longer showed up on the profile activity streams or the site wide activity streams. The entries though were still there.

I don’t understand that part above.

New blog creation doesn’t show in activity stream.