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1. Sure. If you want the complaints to be private, just set up a contact form. If you want complaints to be public or semi-private set up Group and/or Sitewide forums.

2. You need the Domain Mapping plugin. Then you need either:
– https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/ OR
– http://buddydev.com/buddypress/introducing-buddypress-multi-network-plugin-create-multiple-separate-social-networks-on-a-single-buddypress-install/
You’d have to ask plugin devs whether either or both are compatible with Domain Mapping plugin though I haven’t heard issues with either so far.

3. In either multinetwork plugins above, there are ways and means to do what you need – some coding required.

4. Yes, using either of the multinetwork plugin above, you do keep those components separate.

5. Yes, I posted both in #2

6. No, the networks do not have to use the same theme at all.

7. No limit to number of networks. One can only be limited by server and coding skills.

Isn’t this what happens / is supposed to happen when you make the group a private group at [Group name/Admin/Settings – on the front of the site accessible if you are logged in as site administrator/group administrator?

” This is a private group
Only users who request membership and are accepted can join the group.
This group will be listed in the groups directory and in search results.
Group content and activity will only be visible to members of the group.”

Or if you’re multisite, a private blog for a specific group https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

@hkcharlie The Walled Garden is just a child theme I used privately and I decided to let others use it because it was a good starting point for a private community and its based on the BP Default 100%. If you look at some of the code in BP FriendPress you will see some of the same functions that was in that child theme. You will want to comment out the same code because it will cause issues by re-declaring. The area in both the child theme and plugin is well commented so it should be easy for you to locate the part you need to comment out.

hi @farandhigh,

with this code, you can create a private community, just logged members, can access to buddypress page.


/**
* Privacy
* @return [type] [description]
*/
function restrict_access(){
global $bp, $bp_unfiltered_uri;

Do you have any ‘privacy’ plugins or something like a redirect_to_forum() function in your bp-custom.php file such as in https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/too-many-redirects-in-chrome-404-in-ff-when-trying-to-accees-group-ater-update/ ?

If so try disabling it / them as they may need updating / replacing *

You could create a different menu for logged in users?

See the bottom of the following post for more info:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-do-i-make-buddypress-1-6-a-private-community/#post-136021

@obsidianmarketing 2 WP instances or 1 Multisite installation == it all depends on what kind of website you are running.

Example 1: I have 2 WP instances for an organization where the main site, http://www.example.com deals mostly with organization blog/news plus around 700 pages of general information. The subsite community.example.com is the private BP site on a second database.
Example 2: For another installation, it’s multisite and the information generated in the main site is from the user blogs.

== Since I already have WP installed on my sub-domain do I need to uninstall it on the sub-domain first? If so does that just mean that I will delete the folder that was created with the name of the sub-domain in the public_html folder? ==

Before you make any major changes to your installation, backup DB and server folders. If you believe that your organization will be better served with a multisite installation, then deactivate BuddyPress and create a network (make multisite) on example.com. Then you might want to import DB of subsite into DB of main site if you already have added a lot of information. In certain cases, you only need to import the XML export from your WP install in subsite.example.com

For more assistance should you go the multisite route, please go to https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

Not possible out of the box. You’d have to write the functionality yourself, or hire someone to figure it out for you.