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I’m not 100% what you need, but you can rename the default field “Name” to something else on the wp-admin -> BuddyPress -> General Settings screen (“Full Name field name”).

Just have: No can’t create a blog from the initial registration page, but yes can create a blog once signed in which is pretty telling really. You do not have a clean install at work here it is a modified one, remove any and ALL mods made, any plugins that might be messing things up, add the admin bar back in while testing, in fact do not hide the admin bar as it’s still creating mal-formed markup using the admin option to hide it which I thought had been fixed after I raised the issue/ticket; what version of BP are you running?

Please remove my sign up.

Sounds to me like most of your requirements could be met with WP Multisite plus a few selected plugins and themes.
– P2 allows for front-end posting
– https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-privacy-options/ expands WP’s default privacy options to allow blog admins to hide their blogs from everyone but themselves
– Forums could be accomplished with bbPress or a forum-specific WP plugin

Depending on what you need out of “blogs”, you might also be able to repurpose BuddyPress groups to do something similar. For instance:
– Each member is the sole member of a private/hidden group, and uses BP activity to “blog”. Since this happens through BP, there is no WP Dashboard involved.
– Likewise with Notes
– Depending on what you want with “Link List”, that can be pretty easily done with an additional profile field.
– Forums would of course be built in, in the form of non-private groups that the user could join.

How to decide? If you don’t need the rich functionality of blogs (post revision history, out of the box multimedia support, etc), then actually giving each user two WP blogs might be too much overhead. In that case, BP would be a good choice. The functionality that you’d need is all already there; your work would be limited to customizing and configuring the interface.

did you check in general settings Hide admin bar for logged out users?: it should No

when you installed buddypress sliding login panel you had to put this code define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, true );
in wp-config.php to hide the buddypress admin bar just take it out and deactivate buddypress sliding login panel.

In my installation, the Adminbar isn´t displayed on the login page. This is a function of WordPress … You could hide it for example with CSS.

.You could also try my plugin (he says with shameless self-promoting grin).

See this post for the latest beta version: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/forum/topic/updated-the-beta/
Here are the user configuration options available in the admin panel under “Settings” > “BP-WP-Navbar”
– Hide or display the main theme navigation
– Hide or display the site name in your new adminbar
– Hide or display the Login and Signup links in the adminbar
– Hide or display the “Visit Random” menu
– Select whether to display top-level WordPress pages horizontally or in a dropdown menu
– Define the label for the dropdown in WordPress 2.x
– If you’re running WP3.x, the plugin will fetch whatever custom menu labels you assign and display them in the admin bar along with all child pages in dropdowns
– Define the label for the Buddypress directory dropdown (default = “Community”)
– Define the font, font-weight and font-style for all menu items
– Define ALL colors: navbar background, main and sub menu item backgrounds, border, text and hover colors too
– Set the overall width of the navbar and of sub-menus
– Set the height of all menu items
– Adjust margins where required
– Reposition your fancy new custom navbar anywhere you like, relative to your theme so it scrolls with your pages

If you add categories to your custom menus in WP3.x, the plugin will pick them up and display them in whichever menus they are assigned to. Give it a whirl.

@jenyus

Here comes some shameless self-promotion! Try the beta-version of my plugin: Add-All-Nav-Links-To-BP-Adminbar. You can add all your main navigation items to the bp-adminbar, hide your theme’s main nav, then customize your new adminbar just about any way you like, including repositioning the whole thing anywhere on your pages. Here’s a screenshot of the backend admin panel: http://i33.tinypic.com/2nvea8j.jpg

You can download from my site here:
http://nowrecovery.com/downloads/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar2.1beta.zip

The current release is available here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/

If you try it, please let me know what you think in the plugin’s forum

@Chris O’Brien I just visited your website looks like you have siad yes to “Hide admin bar for logged out users?:” in buddypress general settings if you change that No than you will see signup links in admin bar.

log in admin and its under media click on it than click on links

@circlereader

Yup, that plugin will allow you to have all nav links show in the adminbar. Then, simply hide the navbar and reposition the adminbar using the css rules provided in bp-wp-navbar.css. Voilà: instant single navbar with all the Buddypress goodness!

Enjoy

@jonnylons, are you looking for something that lets users write blog posts for their sites? Somebody pointed me to a few good front-end blog post plugins. If that’s what you’re looking for, say the word, and I’ll dig ’em up.

Or, now that I look more closely at the link @footybible offered, sweet. And he mentioned the front-end approach already. I have no current need of this solution myself, as I’m not running multisite, but I am definitely bookmarking that guide in case it comes up in the future….

So, sounds like it just depends on how much control your users need and how much time you want to invest in setting that up.

@jonnylons I had a similar goal to you. I ended up instead creating a highly customised, edited backend. Whether you are interested in doing this completely or maybe just checking out some of the things I learnt, you may want to check out my guide to the matter here:

http://buddydress.com/forums/topic/customising-the-user-backend-and-default-blog-format-tutorial

@pcwriter and @Beck_B thanks! I am trying to find a way to add something to the adminbar of Buddypress that would allow members, when logged in, to write for their sites. At the same time, I don’t want the backend of sites exposed to members who are not writing for that site. Can’t seem to find a simple solution. Maybe these work.

@hnla Well now, great progress!

I remember writing at some point that it’s often the most obvious that escapes me… Turns out I hadn’t “actually” selected any files to upload to subversion… I was just going through the motions and clicking buttons (doh!). The first version of the plugin is up and I just updated it with a whole bunch of cool new stuff. Code here: http://pastebin.com/Qquwe9pH

Thanks to your examples, I created 3 new custom configuration options: in addition to hide/show the main nav, users can now choose to hide/show the site name/logo, the Login/Signup links, and the Visit Random dropdown. I’ve also completely revamped the readme with a detailed FAQ, and added a fully commented stylesheet with the rules I use for my site to help get folks started on customizing their new admin/navbar.

Thanks a whole bunch for your invaluable help and instruction on this project! I can now say I’ve popped my plugin cherry!

Now we just have to wait for subversion to update………

Good spot, that’s why second eyes are vital, also the $hideMainNav doesn’t need to be globally scoped as the function sits outside pages() and the variable is already in the main page scope so no global required for it.
Not sure how the process works for uploading plugins but would guess it hasn’t been approved yet?

If I have a minute I’ll add the config variable for ‘Community’ link then you can run things through their paces when your back.

new adjustments:
typo corrected;

http://pastebin.com/TA4vGHT5

Config section created at top of file – labels all set from that point by user

Hide main nav links function created to add embedded styles via add_action dependent on user setting $hideMainNav = true

Hiding the main nave through CSS isn’t really the best option as it leaves the markup there, it would be better to remove altogether you may want to change default to true(hide)

This is somewhat of a stopgap solution to user parameters.

As always check over thoroughly for any other typos I may have missed

@pcwriter

I’ve had to do a fairly extensive rewrite on the function for a number of reasons:

1/ There was a significant degree of malfomed ul child nesting which prevents drop down aspects working correctly primarily I’ve removed the opening and closing UL elements as they are not required and cause issues.

2/ Not sure how the wp_list_pages was intended to work but with the parameter ‘title_li’ declared as empty you correctly remove the wrapping elements but would need to add UL elements manually wrapping the function call for the dropdown to function correctly.

3/ Added back in the wp_nav_menu function calls but wrapped them in a check to see if WP 3.0 is running i.e are the new menu available if not hide altogether.

Also added a reverse check to remove the wp_list_pages function if using the new menus as there is little point in both and the new menu system serves better.

4/ Changed region and menu top link names to ‘pages’ but this area is a fundamental issue as it cant be known what the user sets as menu names, ideally one shouldn’t hard code values but retrieve them from the admin menu area, but this proves far too hard to work out (asked a question on WP support but haven’t had a reply and I don’t expect one – sadly there is little codex documentation of any depth on the new menus.)

This issue applies to the wp_list_pages as well as you can’t really pass any values for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ as these values can’t be known so you ought to remove those values you have hardcoded (I have left them in).

If I can get some guidance on how to fetch values from the menu backend view such as menu names then it will be possible to make the menus far more effective but have spent quite a while trawling through the core WP files for nav-menu and it’s not obvious and too time consuming.

I have copied the revised code to this pastebin page, give it a check over, but don’t assume I have things all correct, run it as plugin copy 2

http://pastebin.com/trUDaPEP

There’s also WP Hide Dashboard: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hide-dashboard/

@jonnylons

Don’t know about the post, but here’s the plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/