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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.

I’m digging up the log files, paths, etc., but meanwhile I wonder if it is an issue of missing database tables/fields per Trent’s post. I don’t see bp_groups, bp_group_groupmeta, etc. Here’s the full list of all the tables I have on the database:

wp_1_comments

wp_1_links

wp_1_options

wp_1_postmeta

wp_1_posts

wp_1_terms

wp_1_term_relationships

wp_1_term_taxonomy

wp_2_comments

wp_2_links

wp_2_options

wp_2_postmeta

wp_2_posts

wp_2_terms

wp_2_term_relationships

wp_2_term_taxonomy

wp_3_comments

wp_3_links

wp_3_options

wp_3_postmeta

wp_3_posts

wp_3_terms

wp_3_term_relationships

wp_3_term_taxonomy

wp_4_comments

wp_4_links

wp_4_options

wp_4_postmeta

wp_4_posts

wp_4_terms

wp_4_term_relationships

wp_4_term_taxonomy

wp_5_comments

wp_5_links

wp_5_options

wp_5_postmeta

wp_5_posts

wp_5_terms

wp_5_term_relationships

wp_5_term_taxonomy

wp_blogs

wp_blog_versions

wp_registration_log

wp_signups

wp_site

wp_sitecategories

wp_sitemeta

wp_usermeta

wp_users

Again, thanks.

…David

P.S. The WP mu install seemed flawless before I installed the BP Combo Pack (1.0b1).

There is only an option to turn off the adminbar for logged out users. Yes/No for them. Otherwise it’s Yes for everywhere in mu. The adminbar gets generated at every page load in mu. You could disable it completely by default someplace in code and then in the pages that you want it to appear on, enable it before the wp_head() call that your theme makes in header.php

bp registers its need for attention by the calls:

add_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’ );

add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘bp_core_add_css’ );

You could un-register these calls someplace like functions.php in your theme to turn off the adminbar globally:

remove_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’ );

remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘bp_core_add_css’ );

Then in your theme, on the specific pages you want to show the adminbar register the adminbar again before the call to wp_head():

add_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’ );

add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘bp_core_add_css’ );

In your theme you’ll have to add some logic in header.php to detect what page is being displayed and make the event registration calls.

So, in functions.php un-register the calls and in header.php before wp_head() re-register them. They’ll get turned off again when functions.php loads the next time and the sequence starts again.

the standard MU compatible reCaptcha plugin works like a charm

Any normal WPMU plugin that actually ties into the signup process would work. I haven’t looked in awhile, but I am thinking it was probably found at http://wpmudev.org/plugins/ or from a search on WPMU support forums. Hopefully Andy will see the thread and tell us what plugin he used!

Trent

There is a WPMU plugin, which asks the user to agree to terms of service on first login (not during registration): http://wpmu.org/terms/

I have added a Terms of Service page to my site. Then I added this statement/question (required) to the Basic Profile: “I agree to the Network Guidelines”. There are two radio buttons (yes and no) and “Network Guidelines” is linked to the page which details them.

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

bp just relies on the mu registration and login stuff wardeh. It adds a few fields by hooking some wp things to add extra profile info but it relies on the settings in site admin > options for ‘allow new registrations’. Thems the standard options in mu. Anything else is a mod or plugin.

If it works for mu (the moderation plugin you found) then it works for mu/bp. Any mu or wp plugin should work for ya. Unless there is some bizarre conflict with bp which I haven’t run into yet.

bp is just another mu plugin like all the rest. Well, more wildly cool and useful than all the rest, but it’s still YAMP. (Yet Another Mu Plugin)

Is their a way to make the “administrator” user created in bbpress invisible? I know it will basically disappear after a couple of registrations, but it will still show up on member searches.

In WPMU site-admin options did you set new registrations to only blogs only which would require you to be logged in and hense stops the ability to create a user account?

Trent

This is a great source for plugins.

http://wpmudev.org/plugins/

There is a plugin for site-admin approval of registration. IT is either there or at:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/

Trent

Yeah, with the latest revision I just changed the title from “Full Name” to “Display Name” and this hack isn’t needed any longer.

By default the fields are no longer “First Name” and “Last Name”, instead it is just “Full Name”. Users can enter a handle in there if they like.

The last thing I asked was pretty simple to answer if you know it. So could someone help please?

I noticed that some of your registration dates are in the negative. This is because of daylight savings/time zone issues. You can update that in wp-admin.

I want them to be optional too. But into what do I change “is_required”? “is_optional”? “not_required”?

Thanks in advance.

If you just want it to be optional you can simply modify the code detailed above to make First and Last name optional instead of required or just delete that code as I said then add new fields from the admin for first name and last name.

For my site, I removed the code above then made a new field simply called “Name” that was option so users could share their name if they wanted to, but their username is still used around the site.

I have submitted a patch:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/174

adds Log In and Sign Up (only if enabled registrations)

*adds* …there is also some info there for creating your own custom admin bar.

The basics of what I did was edit bp-xprofile.php and removed these lines:

$sql[] = “INSERT INTO “. $bp . ” (

id, group_id, parent_id, type, name, description, is_required, field_order, option_order, order_by, is_public, can_delete

) VALUES (

1, 1, 0, ‘textbox’, ‘” . __( ‘Public Display Name’, ‘buddypress’) . “‘, ”, 1, 1, 0, ”, 1, 0

);”;

$sql[] = “INSERT INTO “. $bp . ” (

id, group_id, parent_id, type, name, description, is_required, field_order, option_order, order_by, is_public, can_delete

) VALUES (

2, 1, 0, ‘textbox’, ‘” . __( ‘Last Name’, ‘buddypress’) . “‘, ”, 1, 2, 0, ”, 1, 0

);”;

Then I went into my database and deleted those fields. Once those are gone BP defaults to using the username.