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Blog subscriber vs. BP user


  • doulos12
    Participant

    @doulos12

    I want users to be able to subscribe to my blog to get blog post updates, comment, etc. but have a separate user role for the BuddyPress section of the site that’s only open to people I know. Is there a way to make a role distinction between blog reader and BuddyPress Participant? Do BuddyPress posts have a different post type that could be distinguished using a role managing plugin? I want to be able to manually add blog subscribers to my BuddyPress install on the same site.

    Just for clarification, it’s a church site, and we want to make most of the church website available to the public but use BP for committees, personal prayer requests, and other members-only interaction.

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  • Venutius
    Moderator

    @venutius

    You could have normal users simply subscribe to a mailing list, there no need to have them as site members, then you could run the BuddyPress install as private, so that one logged in members see those pages.


    doulos12
    Participant

    @doulos12

    But I also want blog subscribers to be able to comment on blog posts.


    Venutius
    Moderator

    @venutius

    You don’t have to be logged in to comment in WordPress


    vukhachminh
    Participant

    @vukhachminh

    I also want blog subscribers to be able to comment on blog posts.


    danbp
    Participant

    @danbp

    Hi @vukhachminh, @doulos12,

    – “subscriber” is wp’s default role. This is site admin territory and is handled on this screen.

    – who can comment can be defined in wp settings.


    modemlooper
    Moderator

    @modemlooper

    Use something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-content/

    Block off BP pages to logged in users and you dont have to do anything special.

    Add users manually like danbp suggested. Non members cans still comment on blog posts.

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