Hey guys, I’m working on a client’s site, just set up a fresh install of wordpress ( ) and buddypress ( 1.6.4 )
Everything went smoothly, integrated bbpress fairly well. But, I’ve got two test accounts going – a basic user, just registered him – he’s set as a “participant” for the forums and a “subscriber” for wordpress – I’ve tried making the account a contributor, and it still gave me no dice. Then I have the admin account that was created while installing wordpress.
The admin account can follow other users, post status updates, and send out private messages. But the test users that’s currently a subscriber, can reply to private messages, or send them out, nor can he post status updates, favorite status updates, or comment on status updates or public messages.
Is this an issue that’s well known, or am I the only one experiencing it?
http://northcarolina100.com/
I’ve also run into this… it’s not clear from the debugging page if a resolution has been found though?
>>users cannot communicate with, see each other, or even know other users exist). Only the admin will have the privilege of viewing profiles or commenting on users’ blog posts.
@bg01 As I see it, you don’t even need BuddyPress especially with the configuration you posted above.
– Just create a network (go multisite)
– allow students to create own blogs or create the blogs yourself and add student/user per blog
– make all sites private (Super Admin can see anything and everything)
– post comment on each student’s blog post.
If you have any issues with your multisite installation, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
Alternatively, you can have one single WP site. Make it private, no feeds. Set access of all posts in front end and back end to Site Admin and respective post Author in custom WP theme. Only Site Admin can post comment in all posts.
If you have any issues, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting
@mercime Thanks for the assist. Close, but not quite. Apparently I was at 2MB. I’m on a private server, so no worries, upgraded via php.ini and .htaccess Change is visible in wp mediau uploader upload limit.
tested in the wp admin media uploader with a 56kb image (the same test image for all upload tests in this specific post) and all worked…until I did test on profile frontside.
I tried to upload via the buddypress profile page and here is what I got.
- 1. Was able to select an image.
- 2. When I selected ‘upload image’ I got the error below
- 3. Checked in wp-admin media library for potential image upload and none present
ERROR MESSAGE: Upload Failed! Error was: No editor could be selected.
Any thoughts?
I’d like to have a hybrid group that would be a combination of the private and public settings. It would all anyone to view content. However, membership would be restricted. This would be extra, but I’d like to restrict grou membership to only five people too, or at least have an easy way to monitor group size.
Any suggestions would be great! Thank you!
Hello WordPress Support!
Brand new to WP here. I am a private writing tutor and want to create a website where my students can have their own blog and receive my feedback on their blog posts.
There will be a set number of pre-registered users (students). Each user will have their own blog and profile. As the admin, I will be able to comment on each user’s blog post, and most importantly edit their profile. I will not have a blog myself.
But here’s the tricky part: Each user’s blog will be hidden to other users in the community (i.e. users cannot communicate with, see each other, or even know other users exist). Only the admin will have the privilege of viewing profiles or commenting on users’ blog posts.
Any suggestions on how to do this on BP?
Thanks!
Hello WordPress Support!
Brand new to WP here. I am a private writing tutor and want to create a website where my students can have their own blog and receive my feedback on their blog posts.
There will be a set number of pre-registered users (students). Each user will have their own blog and profile. As the admin, I will be able to comment on each user’s blog post, and most importantly edit their profile. I will not have a blog myself.
But here’s the tricky part: Each user’s blog will be hidden to other users in the community (i.e. users cannot communicate with, see each other, or even know other users exist). Only the admin will have the privilege of viewing profiles or commenting on users’ blog posts.
Any suggestions for plugins?
Thanks!
Thanks @bphelp
But my intent is that the “Friends” tab should not be visible to anyone except the account user (like “Settings” and “Messages” tabs are only visible to an account user).
Even if you’re friends with a user, you should not be able to see his other friends.
Complete privacy.
I would like to make the “Friends” tab a private setting. Is there any way to do that?
Hi
Can make a plugin for Buddypress so that the forum sends private messages to group users. This will then cause the notification system to pick up the message and show it in the grey WordPress/Buddypress notification bar. Your forum notification problem solved for only £15.
Let me know if you are interested and we will build it
WP – 3.5.1
Buddypress – 1.6.4
As several people have pointed out, when users select “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” all of their blog activity is hidden from the activity stream, blog list, etc. Is there a way to allow users to show this activity and blog only to logged in users?
I’ve read through the trac below and have read @hnla other post on the issue:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4831
Instead of just Private or Public for Buddypress, can I not make it accessible only to the network while also allowing some users to keep their blog and activity public?
Here’s what I mean – three option levels for my buddypress network –
1. Public (already exists)
2. Logged in users of the network only – anyone that is a registered user of Innovate UH can gain access.
3. Private (already exists in a pseudo way)
I can provide the network with real privacy levels for their individual blogs so that’s not the issue. It’s that #2 that I really need. About half of the users at my university don’t want their activity public but do want the network to access it.
Maybe I’m overlooking something. Thanks for your help!
Best,
Nathan
I would say sure no prob unfortunately though the role I played was suggesting that when a new topic was posted a private message is sent to the members. The actual implementation was done by my developer…will see if I can get him to post a how to here.
ok, what I just figured out two is that if you do not close the boxes with radiobuttons on the register page. It actually saves your choices correctly. So actually the ‘close’ option on the register page sets it back to the default, public. Still, I would like that default to be private, or better to speak in terms of ‘loggedin’ or ‘friends’…
In case anyone else is looking for an answer and comes across this post, this may help…
We found a solution of a sort.
What you need to do is include an automatic private message send to all group members except the person posting the topic. This private message then gets hooked in to the notification system and lets the user know they have a new message.
We found a solution of a sort.
What you need to do is include an automatic private message send to all group members except the person posting the topic. This private message then gets hooked in to the notification system and lets the user know they have a new message.
Thank you so much for this, especially the conformation I’m not loosing it :p
I will try and see if I can hack the register page of my theme so it has the ‘private’ setting as a default.
Hey Hugo, yes, I have done this. But no matter if user override is set or not. At the registration page everything stays public, even if the admin forces it to private. Is this only me who has this problem? Can you keep me updated on this?
Thanks, great job @dwenaus
Hi
Could someone please tell me how I can extend the Buddypress notifications in the admin bar, to notify members of groups when a new topic is posted. Basically the same way it notifies a user of a friendship request or a private message.
I see there is a forum notification that allows a user to see topics started by the user or replies to topics by the user and even favourite topics of the user. However there is nothing to notify the user when someone else posts a topic in a forum they are a member of.
Please could someone get back to me asap.
Thanks
This is a public help forum you shouldn’t really be soliciting private help, all help here is on a volunteer basis.
Have you actually bothered to contact Continuum author yet as has been suggested once or twice now? It has been strongly suggested that it is actually a theme issue so it is down to the theme author to try and help really.
We can try and help but frankly have probably exhausted the limits to which we can.
On the duplication issue, there was another thread in which this was happening so I suspect that there is a common cause involved that is being induced by some themes – an extremely long shot but there have been occasions where members loops duplicated odd members this nearly always resolved down to Caching plugins, you shouldn’t be running any until such time as thought necessary on a production site but in case you are deactivate them.
@modemlooper I have installed the Buddypress 1.7. Before I installed it, I was having problem with sending Private Message, so I was hoping it will be resolved. However, the problem still persist. When my users and I send a Private Message, it indicate message: No data received…..Unable to load the web page because the server sent no data. Yet the user receives it. I have deactivated all my plugins except buddypress still I encounter the same problem. I change my theme to bp-default theme, yet the problem still persist. I even uploaded a non-buddypress to take advantage of the 1.7 feature but the problem still persist.
I am at my wits’ end here. Please can you help or suggest an approach for me.
Shalom
Also, how can I hide the Activity pages etc. until the user loggs in?
Read my reply in the following thread to accomplish this.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/private-community-with-public-wordpress/
@bphelp I do believe I have it now. Yes, my butchered theme that I’m learning on was sending off errors. I enabled the BP-Default Theme and we’re good. I have the BP navigation tabs going to the Sample Page.
I knew you had it right, but I didn’t understand and I didn’t know my theme was causing errors. I use this site for practicing, then I implement the changes that work back to my new site: http://www.gumpolen.com
Thanks,
Kevin
That sounds more like your theme is shooting off errors. Try activating the bp-default theme and see what happens. also make sure there is no extra lines before or after the opening and closing php tags in the bp-custom.php
did you add the code to the bp-custom.php you create in yoursite/wp-content/plugins? did you remember to add the code between opening and closing php tags and save the file? I have it working flawless on wp 3.5.1 and bp 1.7 beta 1. for example this line:
wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/register’ );
redirects to register page
you could for example change it to something like this:
wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/sample-page’ );
that would redirect to the sample page.
