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Hi, sorry for my bad english.

I looking for a plugin that makes buddypress a private network. I found this plugin: Secure invitations – http://wpmudev.org/project/secure-invitations. But its not work with BP.

Can anyone intagrate this plugin with BP?

If the blog is set to ‘Private’ activity will not be recorded for that blog.

Thanks, Burt and Trent, for posting this. Really, really helpful when you have to create a private social network, as I do, at a university.

Yeah, that is what I mean. If adding things like “embed” or “object” code scares you to death, you can always include something like Anarchy Media Player where you can include the javascript in the buddypress theme header and then it will parse the page for the plugin quickcode and display the media that way. That is a way some are already doing it with things like bbPress where the media plugin doesn’t exist yet.

Andy put a filter on the tags used in wire. It allows common HTML now, but with a plugin can also be used to change the allowed tags to anything you want. I am going to do this on an extremely private install, but thinking about Anarchy as well. Just haven’t had time.

Trent

I am sure dsader can fix it without much effort. I opted generally to go with the plugin I have referenced before called “Members Only” on my smallest install which is just for family. Reason I went with this plugin over dsaders was both the RSS feeds as well as the ability to have the blogs you want still being “public” in their settings, but still members only.

What that means is the main WPMU blog can be private and only accessible to logged in members. If blog 1 is public, it shows in the main sitewide feeds. If blog 2 is private to members only, I can still set it as “public access” in the privacy options, but the “members only” plugin will not allow viewing without logging in, but the blog posts will still show in the main WPMU blog widgets.

Not the best solution for larger sites, but I am assuming that when Andy has a chance to implement the privacy options into buddypress, this will be a moot issue at some point.

Just some additional thoughts.

Trent

I’ve just posted this to the WPMU forums, but it’s just as relevant here: Regarding dsader’s more privacy options plugin…

“I’m testing this plugin on a WPMU 2.7 and BuddyPress (both from SVN) installation. It can turn BuddyPress into a private social network quite simply by making the main/first blog private. However, there’s one issue I can see:

the ../activity/feed RSS feed is private when the ‘main’ blog is private.

But, member’s activity feeds i.e. ../members/josswinn/activity/feed remains public.

Any way to fix this? I appreciate that the plugin wasn’t written to support BuddyPress, but it’s so close to working well on BuddyPress that it would be good to look at this and provide a way to create truely close BuddyPress networks.

Thanks!”

I’ve since found that this is happening to me on a site installed in a sub-dir but not on an install using wildcard DNS/sub-domain. Can anyone verify this?

Great to hear bluocean!

Good for you!

That’s very reassuring that you’re using dsaders privacy plugin, too. Nice to see such a simple solution already exists to provide private BuddyPress communities while not affecting the privacy of individual’s blogs. In education, I can see this being very attractive. Hopefully Andy is aware of this for future core feature development.

I’ve not tested it extensively yet, but this plugin:

http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options

seems to allow the blocking of all users, except the registered community, from viewing anything related to buddypress.

If I set “I would like my blog to be visible only to registered users from blog community” for the main/first blog where all the buddypress features sit, then you have to login before being able to see anything except for blogs, which have their own privacy options.

Is it really this simple to create a private social networking community but allow the blog privacy to remain under the control of the blog owner? I hope so. Perhaps someone can test and verify this?

Thanks.

Good idea for new plugins..

Use a hidden group. Site admins can invite but not add without acceptance. You could write a plugin to do that though.

Lets get the general public forum working, before we get greedy. I do like the idea, but for the general good I think you could just form your own cult group, make it private and be good.

Please post any progress you make on the privatization of group forums, I would like to do something so I don’t have to maintain 2 installs of bbpress.

Thanks,

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

I thought about doing the same thing. I setup 2 instances of bbpress. One for groups and one for ‘the community’. The groups forums were hidden. I didn’t like it too much. I wanted the public groups to be public forums but read only until users joined a group. I also wanted the private and hidden groups to have hidden forums.

See this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=696

Hopefully this will make sense

I have 4 directories, which I download the svn update to, and then copy them over to the live site:

/bbpresssvn

/buddypresssvn

/wordpresssvn

/privatedevsvn

By logging into the command line, I can do this

svn up

inside each of those 4 folders and it will update them to the newest trunk release. Then I run this command (or similar for buddypress)

cp -R * ../beta

and copy the files to the dev server. So far this has worked really well.

The private dev svn is where I upload my own plugins and themes I’m doing development on. This method is extremely fast as I never have to ftp any files between the internet, my laptop and back up to the web server. It does require command line access and knowledge of svn.

Hope this helps,

Brad

http://gorgerousgamers.com/beta

I have exactly the same issue here. Don’t know why, but at my test setup (http://www.dutch-dig.com) the blog entries at http://robert.dutch-dig.com are not shown in robert’s user profile. At first the blog was set to private. I’ve changed that to public and still roberts blog is not shown.

I plan on hacking up something that doesn’t cache private blogs as well since right now wp-super-cache will cache private blogs and then show them from cache to the public. I just have an array in my wp-config.php right now for private blogs, but that isn’t a long-term solution. It would be nice to cache members and groups though.

Well, as the developer for http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/ I figured I should answer this question.

I have 2 instances running of bbpress, 1 is .com/beta/forum/ and the other is in a different location. Currently it is not safe to combine them, as private groups would be visible to all members, which is still an issue but would be harder to find these hidden forums.

The menu bar, which lists the general forum is actually as simple as uncommenting the code in the header.php file in home theme.

I’m still not sure if I should theme bbpress to match the site, or modify a copy of the groups forum tools to allow general discussion. This wouldn’t be a quick development, but would be easier down the road as the theme develops.

Thanks,

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

@burtadsit

Another alternative instead of separating WPMU & bbpress capabilities: you can assign specific user meta for each users. Say, the meta value is an array containing all forum ID that specific user belongs to. Of course you need to write some hack to the bbPress side as well. That way you can share both public & private forums in a single bbpress install.

Just an idea. I haven’t look into the code too

Do you have phpMyAdmin running? Can you go to it or whatever Database admin program that your host gives you and then run the following command on your database?

CREATE TABLE wp_user_3_activity (

id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,

item_id int(11) NOT NULL,

secondary_item_id int(11),

user_id int(11) NOT NULL,

component_name varchar(75) NOT NULL,

component_action varchar(75) NOT NULL,

date_recorded datetime NOT NULL,

is_private tinyint(1) NOT NULL,

KEY item_id (item_id),

KEY user_id (user_id),

KEY is_private (is_private),

KEY component_name (component_name)

)

See if it will actually create the tables manually?