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I found a tutorial by Spencer Forum that had step-by-step instructions that I think cleared up my issues.  I was able to change the slugs and I think things are working correctly in the forum area now.  Here is his tutorial which will hopefully benefit others:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8mh3f6Vzbo

Now I’m having problems with registration.  I opened it up so that a few of our members could register and I could test what happened.  Two of them couldn’t access their profiles and kept getting the wordpress log in page.  Spence’s video also addressed some of that and I hope that the changes I made will fix that.  But, more importantly, I have been looking for a plug-in that will allow people to apply for entry to the site.  This site is going to be a free forum for our membership organization.  The plug-ins that I have seen are for paid memberships and have a lot more weight than I want (configuration with Pay Pal, etc.).

I did install the membership plug-in which hopefully fixed the problems I had with the two members, but that doesn’t offer any kind of registration options.  I would like it to operate like private Facebook groups: apply and get let in.

I don’t know if it is Wanguard either, but from the Wanguard list of users, the ones that are having problems have a No Status under their Wanguard status and the others have a green “checked”.

But, I want to make the site private, by email invite only, too.  How did you do that, @jrcdyer?

Hi, thanks. I did think about just using private messages, but the user and admin would have to have the ability to upload pics. I would use a plugin to enable picture uploads, but is there a way to restrict posting of pictures to only designated members? I’m using S2members to handle membership restrictions/capabilities. I wonder if I can use S2members to restrict posting of pictures.

Roger. Please let me know here if you will; I may have wandered off, trying yet another solution…

Is there any reason why the older plugins that made Buddypress private haven’t been updated? It seems like such a common request. Well, here’s hoping that 1.7 will solve that problem! When is it due out?

Ben
Hey Thanks. Duh. Author page. I’m open to any advice though.
Chuck

Ben,
Thank you so much. Not part of buddy press. Interesting.

Wwhere would I go to control what is shown on that page for each member to the public.

What term would I call that page? It would be wrong to call it their profile. I want to read more about it but am unable to search properly.

Chuck

I realized that even though they are showing up as members in my user panel, they aren’t showing as members on the site – because I never approved them. So I think my friend who is not showing up as a member probably never came back and logged in so she’s in limbo – showing up as a member who registered, but until she comes back and tries to login, Private Buddypress doesn’t send the email to me to do the final approval that makes her a member on the site itself.

Thank you, I’ll try that. Another question: I have a member who shows up in the user list when I go to my Dashboard > Users. But when I go to the member section of the site they are not there. I tried re-setting her role and then setting it back in the User area but that didn’t do it. Not sure what to do. Maybe delete and have her re-register? Concerned it will happen again without my knowledge when I open for many memberships.

Another issue I’m having is that I installed Private Buddypress, which I know you said I shouldn’t since it isn’t compatible, but I can’t use BuddyPress if it isn’t private so I need the privacy. But every morning I check and there are several new members who somehow managed to register themselves as members when I have it set to need my approval. How can I avoid this? I just delete them, but when I have a lot of members, I won’t be able to manage that and pick them out so easily.

That’s exactly the plugin I’m using for it. From the start because I didn’t want to hard code.