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I want to make the forums part of my membership site public to the search engines but not the rest of the buddypress community.
I've used the 'URL groups' section to make 'Menus - Forums' a positive rule for the free membership level but that doesn't seem to do it. Any suggestions?
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HI, I don't think, that is possible.
The "free membership level" is either for registered users only - then google can not see it. Or it is for visitors, too - then "the rest of the buddypress community" can see it, too.
As far as I can see, the only way to give google something to index in connection with the Membership plugin is to make the excerpts public (setting the "More Tag Default" - see Membership Plugin Docs 3.0.26 on page 17) ...
Then create a new rule for access to posting. Use membership advanced rules to assign members to the relevant role. That way subscriber role cannot post. Maybe the new role could be Subscriberplus, premium or something similar so you can see the different.
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HI, I don't think, that is possible.
The "free membership level" is either for registered users only - then google can not see it. Or it is for visitors, too - then "the rest of the buddypress community" can see it, too.
As far as I can see, the only way to give google something to index in connection with the Membership plugin is to make the excerpts public (setting the "More Tag Default" - see Membership Plugin Docs 3.0.26 on page 17) ...
Have fun!!
Support Chimp (joined March 2010) Likes (0)
Hey there.
Perhaps look into a role editor plugin like:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/
It can create custom roles.
Then create a new rule for access to posting. Use membership advanced rules to assign members to the relevant role. That way subscriber role cannot post. Maybe the new role could be Subscriberplus, premium or something similar so you can see the different.
Take care.
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Thanks Guys strange that the access levels part of the plugin won't allow access to the forums for visitors that would surely be easier? :)
Support Chimp (joined March 2010) Likes (0)
Well you could ur URL Groups for this.
Admin --> Membership --> URL Groups.
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=membershipurlgroups
Then you can restrict access to a group of URLS.
But they won't be public to search engines, this protects the url from being accessed.
Take care.
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