[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

[hachimaki]

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.

[hachimaki]

Found a much more better solution:

Use this plugin: Force user login https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/force-user-login/

Use this other plugin: http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/custom-branded-login-screen-for-wpmu/ and all done!

[Anonymous User 96400]

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!

[hachimaki]

yes, not better, but more simplified…

i still prefer yours, it’s more accurate, professionalm but… it doesn’t works for me

regards

[marioe]

Travel junkie,

I’m using a regular WordPress install( not MU) can your posting still work for me?

[Anonymous User 96400]

well, i’ve got it running on a single install of wp 3.0 alpha, so there shouldn’t be any problems.

[marioe]

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?

[marioe]

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.

[Anonymous User 96400]

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' );

[marioe]

Great, Thanks!

[hachimaki]

lol, so it should work now for me xD

[WPChina]

@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?

[NipponMonkey]

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

[NipponMonkey]

Grrrr, how do you add code to posts in BP?

I’ve tried pre and code tags, but nothing working >_<

Hmmmm….

[mistercyril]

@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!

[r-a-y]

@mistercyril – Add bp_is_directory() to the bp_is_register_page() line.

[mistercyril]

Good stuff! Thanks a lot, that works perfectly

[WPChina]

@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?

[NipponMonkey]

@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 ^ ^

[jlappas]

Travel Junkie – The first code was great on WP 3.0. Thank you!

[Jamie Marsland]

@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’ );

[r-a-y]

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.

[Pisanojm]

@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

[Pisanojm]

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

[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() )