[Simon Senzon]

Hello.

I am very new to CBOX and buddypress. Thanks for your help.

If I want to create a page with learning assets of video lectures just for members – how do I do that?

Should there be a setting on the page once I set up the registration?

Thanks.

Simon

[Scott Voth]

If I understand your question correctly, probably the best way to control privacy would be to create a private group – maybe called “video lectures” and ask members to join that group if they are interested. Within that group you could use a docs page to list out your ressources, and everyone can collaborate privately. You can also use the group forum to communicate.

Hope this helps.

[Simon Senzon]

Hi Scott,

I am actually designing the whole community around these lectures. So new members will be joining in part to be able to access them.
So – it seems like any word press pages I create are on the front end and all things that are Commons will have to be within the groups or forums?

I am building the site this week. I have people waiting to become members.

I wonder if creating private wp pages would be different when I add the amember payment gateway?

Although the basic literature I have found thus far says to first create groups before integrating amember. I guess I will have to just do it and see from there?

Thanks for your help.

Simon

[Simon Senzon]

I was hoping to create a learning library for members only. Something like this: https://wistia.com/library

[Scott Voth]

Hi Simon – You can create any number of wordpress pages – and use them as the front page or add them to your menu using the CBOX theme.  You don’t need to use our homepage template.  You don’t even need to use the CBOX theme, if you don’t want to use its design.  You can make any page password protected, too – though that option is a little clunky.

If you choose to stick with our theme – you might need to install a page builder plugin to help you design something like the Wisteria site you linked to.

But the issue seems to be that you want only members to be able to access your library.   I still think a private group would suit your needs.  If the un-logged on or unregistered user tries to access the link on your front page – they are challenged for their credentials.

You also have the option to make the entire site only open to registered users – but it does not seem to be what you need.

 

[Simon Senzon]

Thanks Scott. This is very helpful. I am not using your theme as I already have a bunch of design dedicated to the dynamix theme. My site is here: http://www.institutechiro.com  I may just make it a group. I was just reading the amember documentation and they have it set up so that once someone is logged in for the first time they could be automatically added to a group. That might work best. https://www.amember.com/docs/Create_BuddyPress_Groups_Within_WordPress

My next question (since I haven’t started building it yet) is can I use all of the functionality of my theme within groups such as the visual composer and slide set manager? I am assuming that I can since the theme fully integrates buddypress. I have been waiting to have the registration set up before building out the initial group pages.

Thanks again.

Simon

[Scott Voth]

I am not sure – I don’t think that visual composer would work within a BP Doc – but if slide set manager integrates with BP, perhaps it creates a different type of page.  I am pinging @haystack to see if he might know.

You also might want to look at some privacy plugins like https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-pages/ that might accomplish what you want to do without creating a private group for your repository.

[Christian Wach]

I don’t think that visual composer would work within a BP Doc

I would very much doubt that it does so out-of-the-box.

I can’t assess what AMember does since it’s a premium plugin, but I would imagine that any membership plugin worth its salt would allow content to be restricted. I know Groups and Members both do, so it would surprise me if AMember didn’t.

[Simon Senzon]

Yes. You are correct. I just inquired to Amember. They wrote, “if you install ‘amember4’ plugin to wordpress it will allow to protect separate pages directly from wp-admin. After protection such pages will require subscription to configured Amember product.”

Planning to set it up today. Wish me luck!

BTW – as an independent scholar seeking to build to an academic community from scratch – I really appreciate what you all have created!

All my best,

Simon

[Christian Wach]

Yes. You are correct. I just inquired to Amember. They wrote, “if you install ‘amember4’ plugin to wordpress it will allow to protect separate pages directly from wp-admin. After protection such pages will require subscription to configured Amember product.”

That’s good to know – thanks for confirming.

Good luck with the setup!

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