BuddyPress.org

I don’t understand.

hmmm i’m a little late on this, but i wrote a basic plugin for myself to do this. basically anyone who comes to your buddypress site will be directed to the login page, if they’re not already logged in. if they log in successfully, they will be taken to whatever page they had been trying to access ( i.e. not simply the backend editing area, or the front page ). to use it just paste it into a .php file, put it in your plugin folder, and activate

//  whenever a page is loaded, make sure the user is logged in
function catch_anons(){
	global $user_ID;
	get_currentuserinfo();
		$login_page = get_bloginfo('url') .'/wp-login.php';
			if ( '' == $user_ID && strrpos( curPageURL(), $login_page)===false ) {
					$redirect = "?redirect_to=" . urlencode(curPageURL());
				header( 'Location:' . $login_page . $redirect  );
		die();
			}
}
add_action('init','catch_anons'); 

//once they log in,send them to their original destination
function login(  ) {
$first_stop = '/';       
	//if there's no 'redirect_to' send them to "Home.php"
	if ( $_REQUEST['redirect_to'] )
		$first_stop =  $_REQUEST['redirect_to'];
		header( 'Location:' . $first_stop );
	die();
}
add_action('wp_login','login');

//build the current URL  wish i could say where i grabbed this, a long time ago...

function curPageURL() {
	$pageURL = 'http';
	if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {	$pageURL .= "s";	}
		$pageURL .= "<img src="smileys/irritated.gif" width="" height="" alt=":/" title=":/" class="bbcode_smiley" />/";
	if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
		$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]. "<img src="smileys/irritated.gif" width="" height="" alt=":" title=":" class="bbcode_smiley" />" . $_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
	} else {
		$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
		}
return $pageURL;
}

@Tore

cool, glad it helps…

i imagine that any time someone isn’t logged in, they will all go to the same place… you don’t know if they’re returning and not logged in yet, or if they’ve never been to the site before and need extra info.

so the splash page should be the login page, it seems.

what if you just modified the login page to make it look like a more welcoming splash page?

if you don’t want to put your own stuff directly into the core files, and i guess that’s a LAST, LAST resort, then you can add things to the login page using the related actions and filters. i’m going to have to do this in my next project actually, so thanks for asking:)

here’s a tutorial that looks about right. looks kosher on first glance:)

http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2008/12/customized-wordpress-login-page-plugin/

basically, you can use it to inject HTML, or load up some jquery or whatever you want, and then you can CSS the crap out of everything. if you’re having problems with the default wordpress CSS taking precedence, you can always use the !important CSS attribute.

…

and i just noticed actually that the code above needs a small tweak. it was breaking the flash uploader for posts somehow. bad bad.

so, i needed to add an if statement to the catch_anons function. replace the whole function with this one:

function catch_anons(){

if ( !is_admin() ){		//		if it's the admin area, it already checks

//		( and the following breaks the flash uploader )

global $user_ID;

get_currentuserinfo();



$login_page = get_bloginfo('url') .'/wp-login.php';



if ( '' == $user_ID && strrpos( curPageURL(), $login_page)===false ) {



$redirect = "?redirect_to=" . urlencode(curPageURL());



header( 'Location:' . $login_page . $redirect  );

die();

}

}

}

add_action('init','catch_anons');

cool. hope it works out for you.