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I found a little filter hook in wp-login.php that seemed just right for this. It is buried in that mass of stuff in that file on line 436 (wpmu 2.7).

$redirect_to = apply_filters('login_redirect', $redirect_to, isset( $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] ) ? $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] : '', $user);

So I built a little plugin that hooks this filter.

function oci_login_redirect($redirect_to, $set_for, $user){

$redirect_to = bp_core_get_userurl($user->ID);

return $redirect_to;

}

add_filter('login_redirect', 'oci_login_redirect', 10, 3);

Create a file with the above code and drop it into /mu-plugins. It sends the user to their profile after logging in. You can send them wherever you want them to go by changing $redirect_to.

There’s no settings in the admin panel but you can change the redirect URL within the plugin file, line 21 if I remember correctly.

Go to /wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-admin.php and comment out line 73 (My Account sub-menus) as well as 148-151 and 153. I’ve also commented out the “create a blog” call which is on line 165.

You may find it only works on new blogs created after installing Block Admin.

Cheers

I redirect to the same /URL/members.

Thanks for insight. Scot M, where are you redirecting to? I was thinking to http:/yoursite.com/members

@danielfelice this actually is a bug, but not of BP, but rather WPMU and WP. Problem is that users are registering on your server “in the future” or rather from a timezone that your server hasn’t hit yet. Judging by what you said, 5 or 6 timezones ahead of the server time. Since it doesn’t exist yet, WP and WPMU spit that out

Make sense? Not sure of a solution, but I hear through grapevine that Otto, one of the WP mods maybe wrote a plugin that fixes this? Haven’t found it, but might be worth a search in the wordpress.org/support/ forums.

Trent

There are workarounds for this, but the real issue is that this is the intended outcome for normal WP. Since it is the intended result for WP, it gets pulled into WPMU since it is synced off the WP development. Since BP works on WPMU, it gets the same result. See the pattern

That “block admin” plugin works well and if users login from the main site, it doesn’t direct them. Only when they hit wp-login.php will they get redirected to the dashboard. If you are a WPMUDEV.org premium subscriber, they have a plugin that changes this default behavior, so I would imagine there are other solutions out there as well.

I believe Andy is going to address this issue, but in the meantime I’ve found some success using the “Block Admin” plugin. This allows you to set a redirect URL when someone tries to access wp-admin. You also need to comment out a few of the Buddypress admin bar sub-menus to prevent users from accessing the backend.

Works fine for me but I agree it’s an issue that should be addressed.

Cheers

I can see that its going to be an issue also, sending them to backend when they login, people look at that, especially first timers, and go… “welp, thats interesting… outta here”

Has anyone tried TwitterDash plugin seen here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitterdash/?

This successfully places your Twitter timeline on the dashboard in wpmu 2.7/buddypress beta2 and enables you to post updates to Twitter from a post form. Could this not be modified to appear in the users’ Buddypress profile?

Thx

There is a wordpress lifestream that can (not tested) display most social network like facebook.

And it uses simplepie maybe if it could be adapted for BP?

http://www.ibegin.com/labs/wp-lifestream/

Hi zenseeker,

You have the following error message on http://www.artistswap.com:

Problem in wp-config.php – $base is set to BASE when it should be the path like “/” or “/blogs/”! Please fix it!

In my opinion you are trying to install WordPress Mu manually , by editing wp-config.php file (just like WordPress) and I think that it’s not really a good method.

Maybe you could adapt this FB connect

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebookconnect/

I found this Sceen Cast from sambauers at Automattic on the BBpress forum which goes through the install of wordpress mu 2.7 and bbpress 1 alpha. The integration of wp and bbprees is also fully shown.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

Something is very wrong with your installation if you’re getting that error. That is a core WordPress function.

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http://speakeasyesl.com/mu This is a testing ground for another wordpress install I’m thinking of for language learners.

Ok…figured it out for dsader’s plugin. Just needs priority added to it. Check out this post in WPMU forums, but basically add priority to the template_redirects like:

add_action('template_redirect', 'ds_users_authenticator', 1);

add_action('template_redirect', 'ds_members_authenticator', 1);

add_action('template_redirect', 'ds_admins_authenticator', 1);

Just adding the “1” for priority makes it go before Andy’s changes. All those lines are near the top of the plugin.

Trent

Be careful on a shared host. WPMU shouldn’t really be run on anything less than a VPS. You might want to check your PHP logs.