BuddyPress.org

Yeah, my lack of PHP understanding is really getting in my way. I’m trying though.

Commenting out the following just renders the site blank:

echo '<li' . $alt . '>';

echo '<a href="' . $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->blogs->slug . '/create-a-blog">' . __('Create a Blog!', 'buddypress') . '</a>';

echo '</li>';

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

This tutorial doesn’t tell me how to identify the lines that specifically refer to “create a blog,” nor would it tell me, obviously, where/how to remove the “create a blog” option which appears on the Member’s profile page.

The tutorial it refers to is the one I’ve been messing around with all day with no satisfying results.

There seems to be no where listed how to identify the items to comment out, as they must be so obvious to a more skilled person.

Keeping looking….

@jason

I tried your patch, editing the code in /core/bp-core-adminbar.php to:

$alt = ( 0 == $counter % 2 ) ? ' class="alt"' : '';



if ( bp_blog_signup_enabled() ) {

echo '<li' . $alt . '>';

echo '<a href="' . $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->blogs->slug . '/create-a-blog">' . __('Create a Blog!', 'buddypress') . '</a>';

echo '</li>';

}



echo '</ul>';

echo '</li>';

}

Does this look correct?

If so, in layman’s terms, what should the outcome be (I want to be sure it matches up with what I’m seeing.)

Thanks

Patched bp-core-adminbar.php with:

if ( bp_blog_signup_enabled() ) {

echo '<li' . $alt . '>';

echo '<a href="' . $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->blogs->slug . '/create-a-blog">' . __('Create a Blog!', 'buddypress') . '</a>';

echo '</li>';

}

line 171-176

With “Only user account can be created” enabled.

“Create a blog” still appears in admin bar and on member page.

Tested as user without any posting permissions; blog contributor; admin.

Thank you, Jason. I’ve cleared my cache, as well as had two other people try this (restarting server not an option, unless my host can be asked to do so….)

Let me walk through what I’ve done:

• In wpmu site admin, “Only user account can be created” is enabled.
• Within bp-core-adminbar.php, I replaced this code:

echo '<li' . $alt . '>';

echo '<a>loggedin_user->domain . $bp->blogs->slug . '/create-a-blog">' . __('Create a Blog!', 'buddypress') . '</a>';

echo '';

• With this code from the patch:

if ( bp_blog_signup_enabled() ) {

echo '<li' . $alt . '>';

echo '<a>loggedin_user->domain . $bp->blogs->slug . '/create-a-blog">' . __('Create a Blog!', 'buddypress') . '</a>';

echo '';

}

• Saved and re-uploaded to buddypress/bp-core
• We created a new subscriber account to test. New user sees:

— “My Account” in admin bar, with “Create a blog” on flyout

— “You haven’t created any blogs yet, create one” on [profile] > Blogs > My Blogs

— “Blog registration is currently disabled” on [profile] > Blogs > Create a Blog

All “Create a blog” references should be gone, no?

Any obvious misstep?

Ok, but still. Leaving the member page issue aside, my question was/is: I’m trying to apply your patch. Is there something I’ve done wrong in the steps I outlined above that is resulting with the “create a blog” link NOT being removed from [the Buddy Bar]?

I’ve cleared cache, I’ve used different computers, I’ve asked other people to check — the “create a blog” link remains. So I must be doing something wrong.

I’d really like to be able to resolve this problem after a week or more of trying to uncover a solution. It seems to me it only makes sense that if user blog creation is disabled in WPMU that *all* instances of “create a blog” should logically disappear in BP.

:S

sigh

I:

— installed BP through wpmu plugin admin without any error messages.

— have not altered any directories, save for moving bp-themes to wp-content as instructed in setup instructions.

— have not touched any php files, save for bp-core-adminbar.php

— have only added the code above.

— am not using supercache.

— have cleared computer cache three times.

I’m going to have to find another solution. Maybe find the language “create a blog” and “blog registration has been disabled” and make it say something else. Thank you for your help, though.

In the meantime, can someone either a) address my original question and create a plugin (not that I’m demanding someone do work for me) or b) add something to the BP admin where you can turn off “create a blog” instances, or c) any other solution that I am clearly not well-versed enough to think of.

thanks.