[NipponMonkey]

Hi I’m quite new to WP and BP and would like to know the best way to make a private community.

Basically, I’d like:

• non members should only see a login/home page with no registration options.
• non members can not see any posts, usernames or anything else related to the community.
• all new members can only be created by admin.
• all logged in members have full posting rights.

Is this easily achieved? And what’s the simplest approach?

Cheers

[modemlooper]

Doa search on here there have been many suggestions.

[hachimaki]

This is realy important, it doesn’t make any sense how it’s buddypress configured if all is public.

I have been searching also how to make that as we see in the Spanish Social Network “Tuenti” (Tuenti.com)

I also have been searching how to configure a homepage with different widgets once you’re logged (i use Unplugged Theme by Diesel Laws)

More help will be much more appreciated.

[pcwriter]

@hachimaki

This post from Sarah Gooding should help get you started with widgets:

http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/

[hachimaki]

Thank you pcwriter, it’ss really helpful

I think you probably have solved my entire problem. I have to read carefully that tutorial, and if i figure out how to do all i think i can be back and solve the problem of @nipponmonkey.

It Should take me up 3-4 hours, but i promise i’ll be back. I let here some spoilers:

-If you can Widgetize a page, you can put a login form in a page.

-If you can put a loging form in a page, without adding it to navigation, you can redirect all not-logged-user to that page, soy they MUST fill the login form before seeing anything.

Regards form Spain

[hachimaki]

Thank you pcwriter, it’ss really helpful

I think you probably have solved my entire problem. I have to read carefully that tutorial, and if i figure out how to do all i think i can be back and solve the problem of @nipponmonkey.

It Should take me up 3-4 hours, but i promise i’ll be back. I let here some spoilers:

-If you can Widgetize a page, you can put a login form in a page.

-If you can put a loging form in a page, without adding it to navigation, you can redirect all not-logged-user to that page, soy they MUST fill the login form before seeing anything.

Regards form Spain

[hachimaki]

Ok, here I am.

For making buddypress a private commmunity, do the following:

-Create a new page in the admin interface.

-Make the page not to show in navigation with one of these: (http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/how-to-exclude-pages-from-the-wordpress-navigation-bar/ ) (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/)

-Fill the page with HTML (as you wish). If you want Widgets, you can follow this: http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/

-Now, use this in the top of ALL PAGES NOT TO SHOW TO GUESTS: (https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/securing-components-from-non-logged-in-users/page/2)

if (!is_user_logged_in() ){

bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain.’/register’ );

}

AND REDIRECT THEM TO THE PAGE YOU CREATED BEFORE.

AND THAT’S IT!

[modemlooper]

Another easy solution is to use a maintenance mode plugin permanently on. Create your own landing page and in the admin allow access to your registration page.

[r-a-y]

@hachimaki

Instead of modifying all the BP templates, you could try the Registered Users Only 2 plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registered-users-only-2/

I’ve made a few mods to that plugin to better support BP here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp12-plugin-wishlists#post-42114

@nipponmonkey

Use what I suggested above.

Then turn off registration and manually create users. Assign these users a role of contributor or higher.

[hachimaki]

I have some questions, in the other thread you say that you don’t recommend to ude ur plugin for wid-site.

I also say that the blogs of the user must be accesible.

-I have one question, plugin for inviting people to the community with all this privacy stuff on?

Sorry for my bbas english, im spaniard, ^^

greetings from spain

[r-a-y]

I haven’t tried my mod site-wide on WPMU because it was only needed on the BP community-side for a site I was working on. If you’re not using WPMU, you should be okay.

Don’t activate the plugin site-wide if you want your user blogs made public. In this case, only activate the plugin on the blog where BP is activated.

Re: invites. What are you using for that? The modified plugin doesn’t block the register or activation pages, so if your invites plugin hooks into the register page, you should be fine.

[hachimaki]

The blogs are meant to be public, but no the comunity. So i’ll try with my path, and see what can i do with invitations

[Mike Pratt]

@r-a-y I am embarrassed to be asking such a simple question:

re registered-users line ~48 -> bp_core_redirect(bp_get_signup_page());

What would be the correct way to do the following:

redirect not_logged_in users to a welcome page.. say domain.com/welcome.php which has a login widget for registered users as well as a Create Account button/link taking you to domain.com/register.php ?

I tried:

`$page = $bp->root_domain . ‘/welcome.php’;

bp_core_redirect($page);`

but, of course, that led me to redirect Hell.

Thanks for clarifying.

[r-a-y]

Hi Mike,

Your code is correct, but since your page isn’t the BP_REGISTER_SLUG or BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG, it will lead you to redirect hell!

Add your page (and any other page you need to whitelist from blocking) to the following conditional:

if ( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || THEWELCOMEPAGE ) //buddypress

return;

Change THEWELCOMEPAGE to something that checks if you’re on welcome.php.

If welcome.php is a WordPress page with the slug of “welcome”, you would use something like:

is_page('welcome')

So your conditional would look like:

if ( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || is_page('welcome') ) //buddypress

return;

Hope that helps!

[Mike Pratt]

@r-a-y Thank you and may a thousand maidens be blessed upon your doorstep by morning!

What would be the code to place to redirect the login form action specified by

<form name="login-form" id="login-form" class="standard-form" action="<?php echo site_url( 'wp-login.php', 'login' ) ?>" method="post">

back to $bp->root_domain?

[r-a-y]

Add this somewhere within your form tag:

<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="INSERT YOUR URL YOU WANT TO REDIRECT TO" />

Btw, a thousand maidens is too much, I’d be happy with one nice lass at my doorstep

[Mike Pratt]

I had to FedEx her. You may have to sign for the delivery. She shouldn’t take too long to inflate

[Anonymous User 96400]

This is what I came up with:

place the function below into functions.php in your theme folder.

function sh_walled_garden()

{

global $bp;



if ( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() )

return;



if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in()  )

bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .'/'. BP_REGISTER_SLUG );

}

add_action( 'walled_garden', 'sh_walled_garden' );

and this right on top of header.php (before the <!DOCTYPE… parts):

<?php do_action( 'walled_garden' ) ?>

The above makes all BP pages private, except the registration and activation pages. It also leaves all blog pages public. It’s a bit easier than editing all theme pages.

Boris

[hachimaki]

Wow! really appreciate it

[r-a-y]

@travel-junkie

Looks cleaner than the mod I made for Registered Users Only 2 plugin.

You could probably change the action to “get_header”, then you wouldn’t need to add the “walled_garden” do_action in the header.php.

[hachimaki]

it doesn’t work for me, i have paste it where you say and it doesn’t makes any difference, i can see my activity page (homepage) without logging in.

[hachimaki]

If you could make a more-improved post… i suppose i have paste it right, but…

[marioe]

travel Junkie,

I also follow your posting but it still shown the activity stream…

[Anonymous User 96400]

@r-a-y

cheers! didn’t even think of the get_header action. even cleanerer…

@hachimaki and @marioe,

well, don’t know why it’s not working for you guys, works perfectly for me… maybe you did paste something wrong. try just this in functions.php:

function sh_walled_garden()

{

global $bp;



if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() )

return;



if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )

bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .'/'. BP_REGISTER_SLUG );

}

add_action( 'get_header', 'sh_walled_garden' );

You can delete the walled_garden action call in header.php

[hachimaki]

Still not working. I have pasted the new code in functions.php in the buddypress child theme (i use unplugged theme wich uses the bp-default files).

I pasted it at the first line= not working

I pasted it with the */Private Community*/ and the code below= not working

It doesn’t works, i dunno why.

[Anonymous User 96400]

hmm, weird. maybe it’s a child theme thing. i use it on a parent theme. shouldn’t be a problem, though.

I pasted it at the first line= not working

I pasted it with the */Private Community*/ and the code below= not working

i didn’t get these two lines at all. with the second method, there’s no need to put anything on the first line of header.php.