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@tib did you have a chance to look at the problem yet? I’m having the exact same issue with a WAMP install and I’m considering a move to Linux this weekend if I can’t find a solution because nothing’s worked yet.

@alanchrishughes (“you keep talking about privacy”)

To develop a real social network you want to encourage people to share their real identity, real name, post a picture, some personal information, etc. They will happily do that provided there is some basic privacy protection in place; only members can see their profiles, only friends can see certain data, etc. The whole point of social networks is to provide an online environment where you can interact with other people online with the same amount of control and trust you have in the offline world. See Facebook and LinkedIn. Privacy/security control is fatally underdeveloped in Buddypress. That may be OK for a forum that revolves around topics, but not for a social network that is supposed to revolve around personal profiles.

I’m not the only one pointing this out…:

Individual Privacy settings for group areas
Members only?
Members only site

Just a few from the first page today…

KHK, did you read this?
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-45772

Solution at: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/custom-avatars-arent-shown-on-single-blogs-in-wpmu/

(tons of solutions via search)

on the recent topic list just a few threads down:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/members-only-site/

@alanchrishughes (“I’ve never understood the whole privacy freak out problem …”)

That has nothing whatsoever to do with what I said.

@lincme.co.uk (“Ah Peter, without visionaries such as yourself, how would we ever have got to where we are..?! Growing out of rigid definitions into new flexibility is where the virtual world is heading, like it or not. Everything you see online now will be long dead in five years, and all the concepts you hold dear buried deep. Might as well get used to it.”)

Mushy holistic talk won’t get us there. I favor modular systems with well-defined components that can work together in many different configurations. Buddypress is a kitchen-sink mess that tries to be all things to all people.

@Anom There already is a plugin for this, and it works very well. It’s called, I’m not kidding, Maintenance Mode. You can format the page it shows if the users are not logged in and it allows you to control what type of user can even log in. I limit access to Administrators only. No other users can log in until you turn it off. I don’t use it for maintenance, though. I use it to close off access to a site while it’s being built or I’m making significant appearance changes.

To get it, go into WP, go the plugins page in the dashboard, click Add New, type in maintenance mode for the search terms, and it will be the first item to show up. Nice, clean work and very reliable.

HTH -Tyler

each core component deletes notifications within the template call

for example – when viewing the my friends listing (friends_screen_my_friends) – prior to loading the template “members/single/home”

@queertoday: do you need members to be able to maintain their own, separate blog sites, or do you just want them to be able to publish posts on the main site’s blog? If they need their OWN blogs, you’ll need to set your WordPress installation to Multisite mode:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

@gezan
Last time I remember it working was 20th june, after that it completely stopped working.

@glamgrif Thanks for the links. I’ll check them out just now. I am using the default theme at the moment and was keen on the forums being mobile browser friendly.
Care to give me a link to the plugin?

Here are a couple plugins that are trying, but haven’t realized it quite yet without lots of bugs.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/tweetstream/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/facestream/

Creating these type of plugins is very difficult because you need to rely social sites that don’t play nice, keep going down and keep changing their code. But, keep a eye on them maybe one day all the bugs can be worked out.

@queertoday – what application are you moving from? You might want to see this page https://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

enjoy
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-links/

1) I’m able to register and see my newly-created profile on your website. Your users have to activate their account via email before logging in.

2) Did you setup the Buddypress forums correctly under the “Buddypress > Forums Setup” menu in the WP admin area?

3) Make sure your wp-content/uploads directory has the right permissions. Check out this article for more info:
http://samdevol.com/wordpress-troubleshooting-permissions-chmod-and-paths-oh-my/

1) Read this.

2) It sounds like you’re using regular WordPress. Your users will need to be setup with the default role of “Contributor” or higher. You can set this on the “Settings > General” page in the WordPress admin area:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_SubPanel

Then you can try installing a front-end posting plugin. Read this thread for more details:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/304606

Do you have BuddyPress activated network-wide?

If you activated BP network-wide, when you attempt to register from a subdomain, what is supposed to happen is you get redirected to BuddyPress’ register page.