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I just wanted to say that I am pretty happy with this service. I joined for 1 year for nothing more than the Blog Privacy plugin. Then I found Farms Themes, Content Monitor(Andrew is looking into making it work), the Video Tutorial and Support System, TOS and a few others that were invaluable in helping me create a K-12 Student blogging network for our district.

We launched it this past friday as a pilot with two teachers. One in the high school and one in the middle school. We currently have 109 users and 114 blogs in our walled garden student blog network.

Any chance WPMU Premium would be developing plugins and what not for BuddyPress + WPMU? In education, the students really love the buddypress features of the blogging network.

Thanks. Although this site has been here for a long time, I never thought to join until I needed just one plugin and I just realized how much I was missing as someone who operates 2 WPMU sites.

Sincerely,

Chris

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:51:13
  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hi Chris,

    We’re currently working to expand our BuddyPress offerings. First up we’re going to be making BuddyPress friendly versions of some of our existing plugins starting with the Supporter plugin.

    Is there a particular BuddyPress plugin you would like to see?

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • kennibc
    • The Crimson Coder

    WEll, here is something I might be able to do already, but don’t know how yet…

    About my Setup: WPMU 2.7 + BuddyPress + LDAP Authentication. Potentially 18,000 students K-12 but not all would be of age to use the blogs effectively.

    I would like to be able to BAN and Completely shutdown from accessing the website certain users. I tried the Site Admin > Options > username list but that is overridden by the LDAP plugin. I can mark the user & any blogs they create as SPAM, but that is only for the main WPMU blog or their own blog and they are free to go and disrupt other student’s blogs with comments etc..

    I cannot delete them from LDAP because they are still students in our district and need to access other things.

    A plugin similar to the Content Filter where I could add login names and it would completely ban them from entering.

    By the way, I am using your Blog Privacy Plugin to effectively create a “Walled Garden” where you must login to view or do anything on any portion of our blog network.

    So I guess some type of User Monitor/Banning plugin would be nice. That way if there ever was a problem, I could isolate the user, backtrack his postings etc. to gather IP addresses and whatnot to build a case against them and their actions on the site.

    It hasn’t happened yet, but we just got started last week.

    Any suggestions are very much welcomed.

  • kennibc
    • The Crimson Coder

    PS. Here’s me showing off… We are a K-12 district in Dearborn Michigan. We have all but 1 school using Deki Wiki for school websites – http://dearbornschools.org/schools

    We have video sharing similar to Youtube – http://video.dearbornschools.org

    Blogs for every teacher (700+) – http://blog.dearbornschools.org

    Photo Sharing – http://schoolshots.dearbornschools.org

    And well, now I am creating a social network of blogs using WPMU and Buddypress for students. Teachers are requiring them to create learning blogs for journaling and posting portfolio information.

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hi Chris,

    I would like to be able to BAN and Completely shutdown from accessing the website certain users. I tried the Site Admin > Options > username list but that is overridden by the LDAP plugin. I can mark the user & any blogs they create as SPAM, but that is only for the main WPMU blog or their own blog and they are free to go and disrupt other student’s blogs with comments etc..

    I don’t think this would be a good feature for this site but I might be able to toss something really small together for you depending on how you want it to work. Questions:

    1) How many users would you need to ban?

    2) Would you mind editing a file to update the list of banned users?

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • kennibc
    • The Crimson Coder

    I would not mind editing a file. I would imagine the list would be about a dozen or so… maybe.

    Maybe a better approach would be to mark the user as spam and deny comments and other interactions. I don’t need to necessarily ban them from logging in, but I would like to be able to stop any damage they may be trying to create on the site.

    Is there something that already does this? Some type of user control system. This would be highly advantageous for K-12 WPMU users.

  • kennibc
    • The Crimson Coder

    Well, I guess you are right. They shouldn’t be able to login. I think a plugin that works like Ban IP but for Usernames would be ideal, but if you have some other trick then I am willing to try anything.

    I just don’t want the situation to arise where I have to disable all logins just to find out what one student did and then have to remove the student and everything.

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    I’m not sure how the ldap plugin works. If it loads all users into wpmu at once then marking users as spam should work. However, if it just loads a ldap user the first time they hot the wpmu site then there’s no way to ban users in advance.

    Thanks,

    Andrew