I don’t want a landing page for visitors, I want normal visitors to see all of the usual pages & posts on the public part of the site. This is happening fine. What I want is for them to arrive on a nice page if they search for something that is on a hidden private part of the site. I am using Private Buddypress to hide members area (private profiles, forums etc) from the main marketing pages of the site ( WP pages and posts). The Private Buddypress plugin annoyingly redirects to the standard WP login screen (as you can see in the code from that plugin posted in my original Q). I do not like this, because it gives no explanantion to the user why they searched for something and arrived at a login screen. This is why I want to redirect to my custom 404 page, which I have modified to say that the item they are looking for is not found, or it is only visible to logged in members. What I want to know is how EXACTLY to modify the above code to get the redirect to point to the 404 page.
The login screen is not helpful, and in fact it’s offputting/confusing because you have to be a member of our photo club to be allowed into the community – so we don’t accept public registrations. Showing a login screen makes it seem like people should be able to register somehow, when they can’t.
@intimez – Just checked Private Messages for Friends Only and the plugin still works fine on BP 1.2.6.
BP 1.2.6 made some changes to the way buttons are rendered.
If you modified the member header in your child theme, you’ll need to look at the changes made to /members/single/member-header.php and apply them.
I’m afraid so.
But if my memory doesn’t betray me, I think it’s a different part of the private messaging system that’s showing the wrong time now.
In order…
-Depends what you mean, but this is a built in featured to BP
-This is pretty much a requirement for BP. Although, you can choose how big or small you want the profiles to be
-Groups in BP should satisfy this. You can make them public, hidden or private.
-This is a widget in the default BP theme
-Just turn it on in the BP settings
-There are a couple picture plugins. One that’s paid that’s pretty good from BuddyDev.com Another one that’s getting really close called BP Media. They have a version available now, but it’s basic. In a month? or so it will have even more features.
-These can just be added to your theme anywhere that you think would be good.
So, pretty much everything but the pictures is available by default with BP. The pictures need the plugin.
“activity private” – was just a general thought if you’d added a plugin or other custom code.
As I said before, without detailed info about your configuration, and your theme – it’s going to be difficult for anyone to help you on this one.
Does it only affect one user, or more than one?
Can you simulate it on one machine / browser – i.e. try activity for 2 users – do they both work?
The theme hasn’t changed in months, but the person’s activity does not seem to appear on the sitewide stream. No privacy plugins – or blockage of engines. Dumb question- how do you make your activity private?
Cheers
It’s highly unlikely that it’s a bug in the activity stream – hundreds / thousands of sites run the BuddyPress activity stream without problem.
It’s almost certainly something wrong in your bespoke theme / bp-custom.php file.
Have you changed the theme since the second person carried out their activity? Does it show in the main site activity stream? Have you installed some privacy plugins, or has the member specified that their activity is private? Is the site hidden from search engines?
It’s impossible to provide much more help without a lot more information about your site configuration and the details of your theme code.
Sorry, posted topic twice. One topic should probably be deleted. @hnla @r-a-y
Right, its private.
I have to login as admin, and then go to My Account, My Groups, then I see the link to the Students group, click that I then I can finally click the Forum link. I also can use the WP main menu Groups link, and find the Students group. Our members are lazy, they want to hit the main page, one click and they are in the forum (assuming they are logged in).
I tried the link you provided above and it keeps redirecting me to what I belive is the WP general blog/comment diaglogue. The buddypress install went OK as I can tell. In the WP admin backend I still have the msg:
“BuddyPress is ready. You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress compatible theme to take advantage of all of the features. We’ve bundled a default theme, but you can always install some other compatible themes or upgrade your existing WordPress theme.”
Even though I activated the default BP template several times. Possibly something to do with the issue here?
@DJPaul, where do I need to post a question like this to get a response?
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I have moved the invitations onto their own page, so it’s not part of the event creation process anymore. After an event has been created the event admin is forwarded to the invitations page. If the event is public anybody can invite their friends. If it’s private only the admin. Same if the event is attached to a group and the status of that group is either hidden or private.
Our shop is finished now and I haven’t actually noticed any related problems when I moved from 1.2.5.2 to 1.2.6. It should be fine running it on either version, so the plugin will be available by tomorrow evening.
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I’ll have a look. It works on my local system. Anyways, I have added a page where users can invite their friends if the event is public and it’s not attached to a hidden or private group. It’s not been tested very well, so it’d be great if you want to give it a go
We cant get to your group forum because it’s private.
You groups forum link should be
http://gwspacesociety.org/wordpress/groups/students/forum/
If you can’t get to that link then you have a problem.
Marc R – What you want to do with groups would be pretty hard to do, given the way that public/private groups currently work in BP. There *might* be a way to do it using only hooks and filters (which would essentially switch the status back and forth from public to private depending on what is needed in the particular situation), but probably you would have to essentially reproduce the entire groups component and change the way that the core component code works, ie so that it’s like a private group except with publically-viewable content.
It’s a good idea for a future enhancement to BP, though. The current public/private/hidden distinction for groups probably shouldn’t be so reliant on hardcoding in BP core.
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I’ve just added support to the plugin to restrict the number of attendees per event. I’ve uploaded the latest dev version to the testsite (http://buddyvents.jobboardr.com). Please note that there will probably still be some bugs in the restrict-attendee and group (support for hidden/private/public) functionality. I will fix anything I find tomorrow (sunday) and the plugin release will go ahead this monday!
looks like the group is private – so buddypress will redirect back to the main page (if someone is not a member)
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@svenl77
The events calendar is now fully compatible with private/hidden groups. To see a public event for a private/hidden group the loggedin user needs to be a member of that group. If the event is private the user needs to be a group member and be invited to the event for the event to show up.
That was the easy bit. Now I’ll have to do the same thing for the loop 
I’ll have a look at restricting registration to a certain number of people over the weekend as well.
@Dwenaus Yeah, I’m in it for the social networking. I think I actually tried job-manager yesterday, but it didn’t seem to play nice with Buddypress. I’m guessing some plugins for WordPress will work with BuddyPress, but not all…or?
I just tried Jobboardr. The CV part seems great, but I can’t figure out how to create job posts (is it disabled or am I going blind? ). Also, I tried to create a group (thinking jobs might be dependent on groups), but a got an error message saying “Please fill in all required fields.” when pressing “Next Step” on the privacy settings page (public/private/hidden group).
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@svenl77
The plugin still needs some work to properly check for hidden and private groups. I’ll have to do some fancy db querying to get there, but it’s in the works
The plugin as it is now is ready for release, but our online shop needs another 2 days, so the release date now is this monday (11. Oct.). I’ll have the group stuff properly sorted by then.
Restricting the attendees is a good idea, so I’ll put that on the roadmap. Right now it’s not possible
@Travel-Junkie, looks like a great plugin.
I have some question:
I need the possibility to attach an event with a group.
If the group is a private hidden group, the events attached to this group should be visible only to the group members.
Does the group events work also with hidden groups? and will the hidden event be visible for group members in the event calender view?
Also I need the possibility, to restrict an event to n attenders. So if for example max attenders == 3, after the 3 attender, the registration need to be closed.
I would be grateful if you could answer me my questions thanks ;-Sven
It’s a kind of mix between private and public groups
Thank you pcwriter,
I took some time to write down what I clearly want so it changed a bit. In fact, the custom profile filters would be useful for what I wanna do. But there is something harder.
I’d like to have a “group type 1” for “Labels” and a “group type 2” for “Agencies”. So the users can create the appropriate group (Type 1 for labels, Type 2 for agencies). The group thing would be pretty much like a regular group, but it would be called “Label” if Type 1 and “Agency” if Type 2.
I want both group types to be viewable by every user, but to be part of it, the group’s creator needs to accept your membership. Kind of mix between BuddyPress’s Private and Public groups.
The group creator can also manage group’s status inside the group (That wouldn’t be called group anymore, it’d be named label or agency) so he can accept his teammates as “Label Managers” when needed. Other group’s members would be the signed artists of the label, or managed artists of the agency.
That’s about it for now. That’s the basic stuff I wanna do.
So is it a possible thing with BuddyPress, or I should go and program an entire php system without WP and BP?
Thanks a lot !! Hope I can do it here!
No, cause private group does :
Group content and activity will only be visible to members of the group.
I want it to be visible to everyone, but the member needs to be approved to be known as “In” the group
