Jomsocial is buggy and now I'm just annoyed.

fletdog

Okay I'm noticing a few things about your Jomsocial component that's frankly just weird and annoying. For starters, I can't understand why ANYTHING in the component would be accessible to an unregistered guest user. The whole point I thought was to get people who just surf on to REGISTER and LOG IN so that every single interaction can be sercure and traced if necessary. When I go to my newly installed jomsocial page, right off the bat I see videos and the toolbar which ironically also shows the logout button for some weird reason. I don't know if this is something that is cached or what somewhere, but at the end of the day, I bet if I go to Facebook, Mark Zuckberg won't even let you see a post of anything until that user is FULLY registered and logged in regardless of cache settings or whatever. Guest should be strictly forbidden to see anything but the frontpage banner and the login right under it, which brings me to point of annoyance number 2, that popup login box. If the user logs in, they should NEVER see that popup again unless they log out, or their session times out. Yet there's been times where I see that damned popup over and over again and it's really driving me crazy. So what has to be done so that this component functions like it's supposed to? Please help!

saguaros

fletdog Hi

It will related to the access level configuration on your site. By default, most content is set to be viewed publicly, but you can control this in the backend of your site.

For example, if you have a default page with a menu item type: JomSocial >> Frontpage, and you want users to log in to view content (similar to Facebook), you can set the Access level to Registered or another available access level on your site:

When set to Registered, users will be redirected to the login page before accessing the content. You can further configure the login form to redirect users back to the JomSocial frontpage after login.

Additionally, you might want to explore the Privacy Settings in JomSocial. These settings allow you to control privacy for profiles, pages, groups, and other components:

Please let me know if you need assistance with any of these configurations!

Best regards