Best way: eMember + BuddyPress Question

[babray]

Hi Folks!

First, thanks for a great suite of plugins! I have a family & friends type site based on BuddyPress where all the memberships are free but some of the blog sites are private rather than public. On the main site I have the Join Us and register links and working as everyone will be asked to join before getting past the home page. So the member level for the main site has an ID=2.

Here’s the question. Site2 is to be a private site, so I set a name and it assigned an ID=3. So far so good, MAYBE! How do I protect all the content on site2? If I go to eMember on that site it will assign an id=2 not the 3 matching the main site.

What is the right way around this situation?

Thanks in advance!

Betty

PS: All versions are the latest versions.

[admin]

Hi, Is this a WP multi site install? You need the membership level ID to be same on both site 1 and site2?

[babray]

It is multisite and that is what I thought just wanted to confirm it BEFORE I messed something up! Thanks for the assist!

Betty

[admin]

Okay, there may be a little misunderstanding as to how WP Multi-site really works (some users mis-understand what Multi-site actually does). So I will give you a quick run down to make sure we are both on the same page.

WP multi-site doesn’t actually mean that you have one install of the plugin on your main site and every single site on this network shares the data from this main site. Yes, you have one copy of the plugin but each site still works as if they were completely separate install of WordPress with separate copy of the plugins. One of the best examples of multi-site is WordPress.com. Now, each user have their own blog on WordPress.com and is using the same plugin that is used by every other blog on that network, but the changes you make on your blog does not affect any other user’s site. This article is also a good read:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/what-exactly-is-wordpress-multisite-wpms-install-4284

With that said, the content protection you apply in one site of the network won’t be available to the other site of the network.

[babray]

Okay, got it! Every time I thing I have MU figured out, it moves again! Oh well, actually I found a BP plugin that “should” (close kin to assume) manage to keep everything zipped up on the main site and accomplish things in a logical manner. It is the BuddyPress Groupblog, BTW. For my use that works, maybe. LOL!

Thanks for the assist and I’m SURE I’ll be back like a bad penny.

B

[Author]

Posts