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Travel_junkies code redirects logged out users to the main sign up page which is what I thought you were asking for, it can easily be configured to allow main directory pages to be viewed, but nothing deeper, or I guess to redirect to another page of choice, it’s not a plugin per se it’s the core function and would run from a file such as bp-custom.php it could be turned into a plugin quite easily though as a plugin at basic level is simply a convenient on/off switch. If ‘Redirects’ works for then that’s fine, iot’s not one I’ve run across before.

@hnla, thanks for helping! This plugin doesn’t provide the function of redirecting to a welcom page for outsiders, but following the path, I found another plugin “Redirects” which allow for pointing a target page for outsider users. Many thanks!

Jenny a search of the forum turns up this thread, (always worth a quick search to see what’s been covered )

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/being-re-directed-to-your-profile-page-after-login/

Give the plugin listed in the last post a go and see if it works for you, and just acknowledge back whether it worked for you

Jenny that’s what Travel_junkies code does (at least the first part of your request); have you tried it? Are you having specific issues with it?

@Travel-Junkie, I’m totally new to this but I want a page to show signup page for outsidders and show user’s bp-profile page for logged in users. How to do this, please?

@nuprn1, reviving this old thread. I’m going to have to give that a try (digging around in your code, that is) and get back to you….. (Also, thank you for making something to actually use the forum tags!)

Oops, I should’ve just bumped this thread. Naughty Beck.

Have a read through this post with particular reference to travel_junkies code which you should be able to modify to prevent access to certain pages/areas if user not registered/loggedout

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616

I have a problem with the mail-from plugin- it fixed the email confirmation problem but now whenever someone sends a Private Message it comes “from” the address set by the mail-from (which in our case is my email address- now I am getting all kinds of replies to people’s private messages because they hit Reply without noticing where it was going- this would not happen before because it came from no-reply @domainname.com

I have a problem with the mail-from plugin- whenever someone sends a Private Message it comes from the address set by the mail-from (which in our case is my address- now I am getting replies to people’s private messages because they hit Reply without noticing where it was going- this would not happen before because it came from no-reply @domainname.com

@meetsos, if you haven’t solved the problem yet:
I believe you should be able to create a functions.php file in the Randy Candy theme. (Or go one better and create your own child theme based on Randy Candy, so you can benefit from published updates without losing your modifications.)

@travel-junkie Method worked for me with 2.9.2, I just upgraded to 3.0.1 and now is not working. anyone experiencing the same?

Hi,
I modified my functions.php as @Travel-Junkie said. It works perfectly on my WP 3.0.1. but I want to go a little further.
I want the member home page only to be visible for the admin and for the registered member, not the others members of the BP.
for exemple, the http://mysite.com/members/angora/ should be visible only for the logged in user named angora
I’ve heard about bp_is_home, but no idea how to deal with…
Any idea would be helpfull ; thanks in advance

@jmarino:
Well, there’s a plugin to restrict group creation. I’d start there: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/

In the settings, you can auto-demote group creators to mods, so that’s good for what you mention. You can also separately determine who can make a public, private or hidden group. It doesn’t have a setting to restrict somebody who meets the threshold from creating more than one group, though. You’d have to work around that. Also, it has settings like minimum number of days as a member (of your BP site in general) before qualifying to create a group, but nothing built in that’d handle maximum number of days as a mod and then demote automatically.

Honestly? You’re looking for very specific and limited functionality. Since you already plan to manually add any additional mods, I’d consider just getting the necessary info from the user when s/he signs up for VIP membership, manually creating the group in the first place (use the Restrict plugin to keep anybody but a site admin from being able to do so), inviting the VIP member to join, and then setting him/her (and any friends) as mod.

As for the 1 year demotion, I’d just use a good calendar and set up an electronic reminder.

Low tech and not very automated, but that really seems like the route you’ll end up needing to go, unless you (or someone else) wants to create a fair bit of custom code–something you probably won’t find people offering to do for free.

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Not to be a total downer, but I’m having a bit of trouble imagining what enticement mod status would offer. Maybe I just haven’t toyed with it enough to see its utility in managing forums, but it doesn’t seem to provide much control over the group, at least…

I was going to do the remove thing, too–so thank you all for the tips–but then I decided I might as well just hide the admin bar from logged out users, as that was my bigger concern with the random visit.anyway. (I don’t think it’ll be especially useful, and our groups are mainly private, but I don’t have any other plans for the top right portion of the screen, so…might as well leave it for now.)

@intimez – good info – thanks.

I also came across this code: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/removing-members-ability-invite-others-to-a-group/#post-48304

Which promises to hide the “invite friend” links (haven’t had success yet…)–

Or you can create a child theme that removes the links from your template… Though really, I agree the system should be more set up like this:

Public — anything goes
Private — only mods and admins can INVITE (not just approve)
Hidden — same as private – only others can’t see

Cheers

@amahesh Set the group to private group and it will require approval first before become member

I’m building a private community network in the company I work for. I could really use some settings in Buddypress where I can order the members alphabetic by there real Last names.

I found that BP Ajax Chat was causing my the messages in BP not to work…………now can anyone tell us how to get both to work…so close to being a great thing

Link to site doesn’t help a great deal as your groups are both ‘Private’ so can’t see anything.

Try setting up a fresh test group as ‘public’ and enabling forum on it and see if that works and allows topics to be created and listed.

How do I redirect to the wordpress login page and not the buddypress registration page? I want to create all the user accounts myself and prevent random people registering for my site. Thanks!