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Alrighteethen, I’ve given up on a reg form on a custom login page.

Even simpler, from a code standpoint is a message on the login page that says “This is a private site. To join, please email the site administrator.” with a spam-proof mailto link. I can then manually sign them up. Pretty clunky, but it sounds like BP will be better at this kind of thing someday soon.

Is this creating the problem: “DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8” ??

From the Apache error log, this is the same syntax error I saw earlier when BP was trying to create tables (see earlier posts):

[suexec 11180] Chdir to /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans

[suexec 11180] Executing PHP4 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php4 /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans/index.php

WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8’ at line 14 for query 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)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8; made by dbdelta

Here is the plugin to moderate new blogs: http://wpmudev.org/project/Moderate-New-Blogs

But I don’t believe there is one to moderate new users. There is a hack for WPMU that does not work for BP because BP overrides WPMUs registration/activation process. I am working on trying to do the hack to BP… but it is not working so far.

I would like to have a private network also. I don’t want the main site to be private, but I want all the members, groups (if I use them), forums, wire activity, etc. to be private.

Regarding the blog privacy, if you set the user blogs to anything but option #1 (google-able), then the blogs don’t show up in BP “blogs” list. I think there needs to be something in the middle here — ie. no search engines can find the blogs, yet members can view the blog lists and browse the blogs.

This is exactly what I’m trying to do – create a private, members-only site that could be either invite-only or have the registrants moderated by the admin. I would think this scenario would be pretty common with many groups – companies, orgs etc.

I’ve spent the past day and a half combing this forum and others looking for the solution. FYI, I’m not a PHP programmer, but I can copy and paste code when necessary. The closest I’ve gotten is with 2 methods:

– the plugin that Trent posted that PW-protects the member pages. It does allow new registrations but it doesn’t protect the home page or the groups.

– the More-Privacy-Options plugin mentioned above, with the “Site can be viewed by registered users only..” option turned on. The problem I’m having with this one is there’s nowhere for new people to apply/register. So if you’re a non-member and you go to any page (including the registration page) you get the login screen, which doesn’t have a Register link. I’m guessing there must be a workaround for this, but haven’t been able to find it yet.

Which brings me to another problem that I’m having, which is how to invite non-members into the site. I’ve got the “Invite Friends” plugin installed and it seems to work ok, but it’s only for the administrator, which is ok for now, but eventually it would be good to be able to allow site members to invite new people in. I see this as an option in the settings, and a link in the Friends sidebar.

Using a common example, Facebook is pretty much doing all of this now. So non-members arrive at the base URL to a landing page with an intro message, where they can register for membership. Plus existing members can invite (via a link in the friends area) non-members to join up.

The WP bridge does not work with MU? It thought it did. I plan on developing that privately if it does not exist, at the very worst, a synchronization of login information.

make sure the blogs are set as public, not private.

i think Trent solution is good but maybe i think in this case doing a plugin is simplier than it :S.. for every update (if you use svn for example), you’ve to reedit the code..

adding a function in your plugin that define if current visitor is logged in ( look at is_admin() for wp and some other bp conditional tags) and define if the visitor can visit pages or not..

i think it’s possible and easy..

Personally, I have a combination in effect. I use the plugin wp-hashcash and that helps stop “robot” registrations nicely. For restriction, I personally use Dsader’s Admin Approve plugin which is wonderful as nothing is activity for blogs until the admin approves. Doesn’t help with user registration “per-se” so I also use Signup Question on my more private install as well. I just change it to a normal question with a normal answer to only get people I want registering. It can be altered to almost having an “invite” code if you give the answer to people you want to register!

Getting a bit off topic, so I will stop there.

Trent

Well, you can look at this post for a quick hack to only allow members to see anything on member profiles, groups, etc. That post has a hack that applies to the /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/ theme. The buddypress-home theme in /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/ doesn’t get the hack

You could apply it to buddypress-home theme in certain places if you don’t even want them to be able to search the blogs, groups, members, etc. but that would be a little harder to follow.

Then, on private blogs, I just use more privacy options so that private and no search engine blogs don’t show in any listings around the site. You can hack the code to actually list them in buddypress if you want, but default pattern is to not show them.

So basically, I would set the privacy for all blogs you don’t want showing and leave the main blog open. It is done with that plugin on a blog by blog basis.

Once Andy puts more of this into the core, it will be much easier, but for now we have to “hack” around a bit

Trent

Oy, just upgraded to 1.0b1 and still have the same problem with messages not working. Here’s what I did for the upgrade:

trial 1) overwrote all plugins with the latest releases (combo download), tested site — messaging didn’t work;

trial 2) deleted all mu-plugins, re-downloaded 1.0b1 (in case the d/l botched the first time), uploaded everything it in their proper locations, tested site — messaging still didn’t work.

I tested private messaging by doing the following:

trial 1) My Account >> Messages >> Compose >> write a message >> Send — pressing Send cleared all fields (Send To, Subject, Message);

trial 2) My Account >> Friends >> My Friends >> click on friend’s profile >> Send Message >> write a message >> Send — pressing Send cleared all fields again;

trial 3) do the same stuff as trial 2 but with a different friend — still the same problem.

Here’s the funny part, when I checked off “This is a notice to all users” the Send button did work. One other piece of information that might help troubleshoot this is that I have this text “(Use username – autocomplete coming soon)” next to the Send To label.

anybody having any problems with the 1.0 beta version of bp-messages? i’ve upgraded all plugins and now private messaging doesn’t work anymore. once you hit send, it redirects onto itself and nothing is stored in the “sent messages” area. auto-complete also isn’t showing up, but maybe that’s reserved for a different release.

There was a bug with blog signups where they would be private not public. This has been fixed today. That would explain your second problem. The first I’m not sure, has anyone else experienced this?

@punkky Well, I think you’ll still need to go in the existing blogs and make them public. The ‘privateness’ of your blogs is determined, from bp’s perspective in this particular case, by the Settings > Privacy toggle. I think, if I remember correctly, if this is Friday. That would be the only place.

I gotta go fix my group forums. I’m just avoiding the issue by talking on the forums. If I play around in the forums long enough my site will see the error of it’s ways and fix itself right?

I have the same problem. I just updated my Buddypress with r658 and the problem is still there.

How to make a blog to be a public blog? (remove the private attribute of a blog)

I remember reading the SVN logs about the ‘private blogs’ issue. That has been fixed. r633+ should be ok now.

i believe that this has been answered several times.

However, it is probably because those blogs are private.

Buddypress currently creates blogs as private………last check with apeatling…….it is a bug that should be resolved…….sometime.

Would this issues be address on beta version? also how do you make the members & groups private from unsigned users viewing members profile etc?

addendum:

I guess blogs is now kind of working. They still don’t show up on the “blog” page, but if I filter out “T” test blog shows up.

Also, blogs are still be created as private after BP install.

Can you post a ticket at: https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

I’ve noticed this too – I made some core changes recently that have affected some areas of messaging.

@owe, BuddyPress only works with WP Mu. If you want to use the normal WP, then you’re better off to find some plugins that will give you the functionality you want. There is an avatar plugin for WP as well as a private messaging one. There may be a friends one too, I can’t remember. Just look through the WP Codex Plugin directory.

I’m confused. That site looks like an elgg site. Is there a way to private message on here? I’d like to ask you some questions. I’m torn between WordPress MU/Buddypress and Elgg.

The only other option currently available is a plugin that makes the blog itself private. No idea how it acts with BP.

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