BuddyPress: how do I hide Community elements from non-members?

Hi Terri,

You should be able to use the Supporter plugin to limit what non paying members are able to see.

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/supporter

Alternatively, if you are looking for more complex membership rules you'll be able to achieve that with our membership plugin:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/membership

Both have pretty comprehensive installation instructions as to how you can configure them.

Cheers, James

Hi James & Aaron:

thanks so much.

I'm starting from scratch - had a crazy redirect and it's fixed now.

I'm installed and set up the Membership plugin: the site is now here:

http://www.hoopinstructors.com

I have three problems - I'm listing them because perhaps they are related to Membership and I am hoping that one of you kind folks will take a look at the site and give me a sense of where to look for my error:
1. Someone subscribed without paying - I have to dig deep to understand why
2. posts with the Free category are not showing up on the front page for non-members
3. as above, I want to hide the Community menu, or choose what Community element to show on the front page to non-members. I will work on that next, after the Membership settings are correct.

more detail about problem #2:

a. I have 3 blog posts whose category is Free (not the only category)
b. the rest of my July posts are under the Premium category - they are hidden, as they should be
c. I set the Membership plugin so that non-members should be able to see the Free posts.
e. but the Free posts are not showing up at all.

any suggestions?

thanks,

Terri

We sure do :)

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/sitewide-privacy-options-for-wordpress-mu

Re: your questions:

1. Someone subscribed without paying - I have to dig deep to understand why

- Did they get access though, or did they just become a user (the latter is nothing to worry about)

2. posts with the Free category are not showing up on the front page for non-members

- Have you had a good read through the membership installation info... there's a lot there that might be able to assist here

3. as above, I want to hide the Community menu, or choose what Community element to show on the front page to non-members. I will work on that next, after the Membership settings are correct

- I'm hoping the documentation can help you out.

Also, it might be worth you starting a new thread as this is now membership plugin territory.

Cheers, James