[Liz Brown]

Hi, this is my first post on the forum. I am working with a brand new beta commons site, and I hope my questions won’t be too newbie-ish, if I may coin a word.

I have a multi-site installation of wordpress with site tracking turned on, and the recent networked blog posts displaying on my homepage. Posts from the main commons site are displaying, and so are posts from a site that I set up for testing. But, sites from groups I have set up do not display.

I would like this widget to display all public blog posts from group blogs as well as blogs that aren’t hooked up with a group. I wonder what setting I might be overlooking that I need to change to get this to be fully functional for me??

I’ve been searching the forum a lot, but if this has been addressed please do point me to the solution. Thanks in advance for your help!

[Scott Voth]

Hi @ebrown2600 –

Is it possible that the group’s blog privacy settings are hindering this display?  If you go to the Group Admin page, you can click on “Group Blog” to control the “Blog Privacy” settings.  (see https://commonsinabox.org/documentation/plugins/buddypress-groupblog)

I’m assuming you are using the “Recent Networkwide Blog Posts” widget, and the posts were published after the widget was implemented.  It basically takes the last x-number of posts that were published.  (Need to be posts, not pages.)

Sorry, I don’t have a multisite test site to troubleshoot this one, but let me know if you are still stuck and we can do some more research.

[Liz Brown]

Hi, Scott! Thanks so much for replying to my post. Yes, indeed, it is the Recent Networkwide Blog Posts widget. I have the group blog in question set up to be indexed by search engines. When I go in through the group and click groupblogs, I just get these three options

I would like my blog to be visible only to registered users of Project MUSE Commons Sites

I would like my blog to be visible only to registered users I add to “Project MUSE Commons”

I would like “Project MUSE Commons” to be visible only to Admins.

(and Project MUSE Commons is the greater site, not the particular group blog site). So, to set the privacy I went into the dashboard of the site under Settings >Reading where this is displayed:

Allow search engines to index this site

Discourage search engines from indexing this site

Note: Neither of these options blocks access to your site — it is up to search engines to honor your request.

I would like my blog to be visible only to registered users of Project MUSE Commons Sites

I would like my blog to be visible only to registered users I add to “Journal of Muse Studies”

I would like “Journal of Muse Studies” to be visible only to Admins.

It’s been confusing to me that these options under settings > reading were the complete options, and I was able to select to have search engine index it, plus the name of the site displays correctly, not the main commons site.

I’ve noticed on the CUNY commons site, it seems blogs that are attached to groups display, and even private blogs that I can’t look at once I click, so I wasn’t sure if the privacy has anything to do with this? Thanks again!

 

[Scott Voth]

Hi @ebrown2600 –

I couldn’t quite tell if your adjustments to these settings fixes your issue.  I think the plugin is very sensitive to these settings, and will display content to readers sometimes according to their logged-in status (depending on these settings selection).  These settings can also be accessed (if you are a group admin) from the group admin page, under “Group Blog”.

But let me know if you are still experiencing problems with posts not showing on the widget from group blogs.

[Liz Brown]

Hi, I am sorry not to be clear, I got sidetracked in describing the discrepancies in the privacy settings depending on which place I am viewing them. But, I didn’t end up changing privacy settings because they are basically how I want them.

I see what you mean about logged-in status dictating what posts are displayed. But, as I played more with this, I decided to just keep blogs and groups uncoupled for now. I was connecting blogs to groups and vice versa, and finding that any blogs connected to groups just didn’t have their new posts show up in that widget.

I have a follow-up question—-actually I don’t know if etiquette dictates that I should start a new question. But, I am wondering how to set a distinct “blavatar” or an avatar for a blog. It looks like the avatars that display with sites in the site directory are of the original administrator of the site. I cannot find a way to upload a blog avatar anywhere, although I am able to for groups. thanks in advance if you can point me to a way to do this! I basically need to change at least one of the avatars displaying with blogs.

thanks!

Liz (ebrown2600)

[Scott Voth]

Hi @ebrown2600 –

You might want to shop around on the WordPress plugin site for something similar – but this one seems like it might do what you want – http://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-blog-avatar/

[Liz Brown]

Hi, Scott, thanks! I installed this last night and have been setting up blog avatars!! It’s these little things that can make a huge difference, I appreciate your help.

Liz

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