no, i mean, in functions.php they use to put that /*introduction*/ for locating the functions.
I put the second method on functions.php, i supose i put it well….
I use unplugged theme, it says it uses the child theme files… so i paste in the functions.php of bp-default theme your code. and it doesn’t works. I dunno why.
it’s only a better solution for you, cause you couldn’t get the other one to work 
but anyways, glad you found something that does work!
yes, not better, but more simplified…
i still prefer yours, it’s more accurate, professionalm but… it doesn’t works for me
regards
Travel junkie,
I’m using a regular WordPress install( not MU) can your posting still work for me?
well, i’ve got it running on a single install of wp 3.0 alpha, so there shouldn’t be any problems.
Travel Junkie,
I’m using 2.9.2 with the buddypress default theme. I’m having no luck. I paste you code on my functions.php file and nothing! any suggestions?
Travel junkie,
is working on the members page, and on my groups page, and it wasen’t working on the activity page.
I had my activity stream as my homepage I change home page to point to a static page and now it seems to work!
I guess you posting does not apply it static pages.
ah, it makes sense now. my code makes all blog pages public, which obviously includes the frontpage as well. so if you’re showing the activity stream there, it would be public. I guess you want to make your complete site private? then the code below should work for you:
function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;
if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() )
return;
if( ! is_user_logged_in() )
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .'/'. BP_REGISTER_SLUG );
}
add_action( 'get_header', 'sh_walled_garden' );
lol, so it should work now for me xD
@Travel-Junkie: I used your code above ( https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/page/2#post-44729 ) and it caused my browser to announce that:
Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.
Any idea why? Should I change anything within that code to personalize it for my own site?
Thanks for your posts ^ ^
I’m finally getting round to setting up a private buddy press site.
I liked the looks of @Travel-Junkie‘s solution, but I’m having the same problem as @wordpresschina, I’m getting a infinite redirect loop. It seems that functions like bp_is_register_page() and bp_is_home() aren’t working correctly from @Travel-Junkie‘s function.
I changed it a little to:
function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;
$uri = $_SERVER;
$allowed_uris[] = ”;
$allowed_uris[] = ‘/’;
for ($i=0; $i < count($allowed_uris); $i++) {
if ($allowed_uris[$i] === $uri) {
return;
}
}
if( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain);
}
}
add_action( ‘get_header’, ‘sh_walled_garden’ );
Where the $allowed_uris array is set by the programmer to allow access to certain public pages. If the user isn’t logged in and they are trying to access a private page, then they will be redirected to the home page (as that page will be public in my site setup and I don’t want people to be able to register through a sign up page.)
I’ll have to see how I get on with this solution for now…
Thanks for your help
Grrrr, how do you add code to posts in BP?
I’ve tried pre and code tags, but nothing working >_<
Hmmmm….
@Travel-Junkie: Hey, your solution works great on my setup (WP MU 2.9.2 & BP 1.2.3).
I was wondering if you could help me take this one step further…
I would like my buddypress pages to be accessible only to logged-in users as they are now… but in order to get people to want to log in I think a “teaser” would be a plus. So my question is : How can we make the main BP directory pages accessible to everyone and restrict single groups, profiles, forums… ?
Thanks again for the great help so far!
@mistercyril – Add bp_is_directory() to the bp_is_register_page() line.
Good stuff! Thanks a lot, that works perfectly
@nipponmonkey: I tried your solution above, but now all my pages are blank and nothing is visible… I added it directly to my functions.php and changed/added absolutely nothing. Did I make an error?
@wordpresschina, it’s still working fine for me. I’m using a single WP not WPMU, dunno if that makes a deference or not.
You should check your server Error Log to see what is going wrong for you. If I get time a might make a plugin that handles everything… but I’m a bit busy at the moment – and there is a World Cup on ^ ^
Travel Junkie – The first code was great on WP 3.0. Thank you!
@Travel-Junkie: Your code below works great for WordPress 3 and Buddypress but not for multisite sub blogs? I need to stop access to sub blogs as well if users are not logged in. If i type in the url of my sub blogs then they show up. Is there anyway to stop this?
tks
james
function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;
if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() )
return;
if( ! is_user_logged_in() )
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .’/’. BP_REGISTER_SLUG );
}
add_action( ‘get_header’, ‘sh_walled_garden’ );
Code in functions.php only runs on the blog in question.
If you have BP activated sitewide, put the code in /wp-content/bp-custom.php as that will run throughout your install.
@r-a-y I used your code suggestion and some that I found in Restrict User 2 With Viper’s original Restrict User Plugin
Found here http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/registered-users-only/
because I wanted the site to be restricted to registered users only… still allow access to the login/activiate page and ALSO allow access to the feeds…
I ended up with this.
// Depending on conditions, run an authentication check
function MaybeRedirect() {
// If the user is logged in, then abort
if ( current_user_can(‘read’) ) return;
$settings = get_option( ‘registered-users-only’ );
// Feeds
if ( 1 == $settings && is_feed() ) return;
// This is a base array of pages that will be EXCLUDED from being blocked
if ($bp&&($bp->current_component == BP_REGISTER_SLUG ))//buddypress
return;
if ( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || is_page(‘welcome’) ) //buddypress
return;
$this->exclusions = array(
‘wp-login.php’,
‘wp-signup.php’,
‘wp-register.php’,
‘wp-activate.php’,
‘wp-cron.php’, // Just incase
‘wp-trackback.php’,
‘wp-app.php’,
‘xmlrpc.php’,
);
It appears to be working… Do you have any thoughts on the above? Thanks
Seems like I could have added some kind of IF ~whatever the FEED function~ RETURN to the Registered Users Only 2 plugin and achieved the same thing… but I don’t know what the “whatever the FEED function” is to add… @r-a-y
is_feed() is what you’re looking for. However, I would use travel-junkie’s code as it’s cleaner:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616
Modify this line:
if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() )
with:
if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || is_feed() )
