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claims of working with any theme

@fpats I’ve seen reports where there are themes from themeforest which have failed the easiest route to BP Theme Compatibility enjoyed by almost all WordPress themes. Many possibilities to theme failure. Let’s take a look at what could be causing the failure in your theme and find the best alternative route provided by BP Theme Compat to make it work.

Start a new topic here with your theme name and Theme Compat as title. Copy the source code of your theme’s page.php file, post the code in pastebin.com and post the generated pastebin URI in your topic. BP Theme Compat has alternative methods of making it work, here alone or with the theme author’s participation.

@xprt007 so basically when you say latest WP 3.5.1, BP 1.7 and now bbPress 2.3, right? If your group is set to Private then the Group Forum created via https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/ should be private as well. So the question is, how did you set up your forum for that group?

Couldn’t you make the To field a hidden input with a value of ‘admin’ with a conditional to check if the user is a member (and not the admin themself)?

e.g in compose.php change the text input to something like:

if ( !is_super_admin() ) {
input type=”hidden” name=”send-to-input” value=”admin”

} else {
input type=”text” name=”send-to-input”
}

Hello @mvpimedia ,

I see there is a ‘Send a Reply’ box bebeath every message received and the receiver can easily type a reply here and send it. To send a reply the receiver do not need to visit ‘/messages/compose/’ which is restricted by S2member.

At my website I have successfully achieved this solution. I have kept composing messages for myself (admin) only. All my users can reply back to me and cannot message each other.

The problem that I’m facing is a little strange, the receiver does successfully reply to my message however as soon as this happens the user finds himself logged out!

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Follow this post
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-make-buddypress-1-6-a-private-community/

have you tried any of the ideas in https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-make-buddypress-1-6-a-private-community/ ?

BuddyPress 1.7 does work with most themes providing they have standard wordpress template structures. There really is no way I see for BP to be compatible with every template scheme out there. There is plenty of free themes on wordpress.org that work fine with BP.

Done, thanks.
Yes it’s the theme as private community works with default BP.

Not really sure how that helps me though. I’ve gone through 6-7 premium themes now trying to get BP to work how it should and 3 of those are since BP1.7 was launched with it’s claims of working with any theme (it blatantly doesn’t).

I think i’m just going to give up with it before i have a breakdown to be honest.

@fpats
Okay but if its the theme and you invest a lot of time testing plugins and none of them work because of the theme then your back at square one. I suggest activating the bp-default theme, then activating the private community plugin, then log out and click the nav links to see if the problem persists. It only takes maybe 2 minutes to check.

Very possibly but i’m not skilled enough to check, i have limited experience in all this so have to rely on plugins.

It’s this theme > maestro

I’ll keep trying anyway, there’s membership/role plugins i can try i guess.

@fpats
Have you considered maybe its your theme overriding the functions of both these plugins? What theme are you using?

Neither work i’m afraid, not for us anyway.

I’ve activated private community but can still access BP when not logged in.
I’ve activated private buddypress but no tab is added to our settings page so it can’t be configured.

Someone please shoot me.

thanks anyway, i’ll keep trying.

Here goes another plugin that does exactly what you want.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-buddypress/

Not seen that before @bphelp thanks!
Looks like i’m now staying up another hour.

@fpats
Have you tried this plugin yet?
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp

If you are going to resurect such an ancient page I would like to note that the upgrades to buddypress.org have messed up the code in my original post:
`
/*
Plugin Name: Walled Garden
Plugin URI: http://www.example.com/
Description: A brief description of the Plugin.
Version: 0.1
Author: http://www.example.com/
Author URI: http://www.example.com/
License: A “Slug” license name e.g. GPL2
*/

function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;

// if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || bp_is_page( BP_FORUMS_SLUG ) || bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) )

if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || bp_is_page( BP_FORUMS_SLUG ) )
return;

if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )

bp_core_redirect( bp_get_signup_page() );
}

add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘sh_walled_garden’ );

function bp_remove_feeds() {
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_personal_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_friends_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_my_groups_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_mentions_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_actions’, ‘bp_activity_action_favorites_feed’, 3 );
remove_action( ‘groups_action_group_feed’, ‘groups_action_group_feed’, 3 );
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘bp_remove_feeds’);
`

` false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ‘bp_dtheme_main_nav’ ) );`

`if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ” ) );
} else
wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘secondary-menu’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ” ) );
}`

Opening and closing php ( where appropriate ) tags have been removed due to buddypress.org’s issues with those tags….

Still works for me with bp v 1.7 using ‘legacy forums’.

Looks like the perfect plugin but as usual on our BP installation, this doesn’t work.
Have installed it but there’s no tab added to our settings panel so it can’t be configured 🙁

I’m not sure what i’ve done but FFS, the gods must really hate us.

sorry

https://gist.github.com/shanebp/5391229

@shanebp,

Your link is not working anymore