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Requiring Login to Access Community and getting error message correct


  • IndieConnect
    Participant

    @indieconnect

    We have a membership site. I got BuddyPress installed and functional. Now I would like to protect the community by requiring that someone log in before accessing any of the BuddyPress features. Working with WishList Member tech support I was advised to use these lines of code in each of the BP Template Pack files listed in step 3 of the setup.
    1) “

    before this `

    `
    and after this `

    `

    2) “

    3) ` `

    4) ` `

    The file buddypress-protect.php contains the following code:
    `

    You must be logged in to view this content. :)

    `

    So, the good news is that the community is protected, but the bad news is that the error message is not showing up. I get a page that shows a header and footer, but the rest is blank. I searched the internet trying to learn more about “include templatepath” and an obtuse post briefly mentioned that this will not work with BuddyPress. Is this true and is there a better way to do this?

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  • IndieConnect
    Participant

    @indieconnect

    Oh my – did you get any of the code? How could I screw that up?


    @mercime
    Keymaster

    @mercime

    @indieconnect surround code with backticks ( ` ) the symbol between the parentheses, not apostrophes :-)


    IndieConnect
    Participant

    @indieconnect

    Just shoot me. Is this a backtick ` ? I thought it was dust on my keyboard – lol…


    IndieConnect
    Participant

    @indieconnect

    Well, I went back and read the obtuse post again. If I understood it correctly, when you are using a child theme, which I am, instead of line 3 above I should use line 3 below.

    I changed line 3 above to:

    I switched it out of all 15 files and it seems to not work either.

    Any thoughts?

    Not sure why you are calling another file simply to echo out one sentence? could you not simply do the:
    `else:

    You must be logged in to view this content

    endif;`

    Better still why not run a re-direct from your functions.php file something like:

    `
    function lock_bp_pages() {
    if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || bp_is_page(BP_GROUPS_SLUG) || is_front_page() || bp_is_blog_page())
    return; // we want to allow access to these pages so we call a halt to the function progressing.

    // if the above pages are not being accessed then we do a general re-direct to a WP page where we can add any content we fancy
    if( ! is_user_logged_in() )
    bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .’/call-to-action/’ );

    }

    add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘lock_bp_pages’ );`

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