CUNY Academic Commons

The site https://towallp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ is visible only to members of the CUNY Academic Commons (Dashboard > Settings > Reading, blog_public=-1). By default, BuddyPress only returns sites with blog_public=1 in site listings. There's an exclusion if you are either a site admin or you're looking at your own profile https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/10.4.0/src/bp-blogs/classes/class-bp-blogs-blog.php?marks=230-234#L216.

I've confirmed that the user is properly associated with the site in the database, and when logged in as a network admin, I'm able to see the site listed at https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/towallp/blogs/.

It's possible that, during the screenshare, the user was not logged in to the correct account. Perhaps you could confirm?

She is a site admin, so on her home page, shouldn't this site come up in the "My Sites" list?

There are multiple places called 'My Sites' on the Commons, and technically, they don't work the same way.

1. The 'My Sites' tab on the Sites directory https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/sites/?scope=my-sites is powered by the BuddyPress Blogs component
2. The 'My Sites' section of the logged-in homepage is a custom part of our theme, which uses WP's core function get_blogs_of_user() under the hood

I've just tested with our user-switching plugin, which allows me to act as if I'm the user 'towallp', and I've confirmed that, in both places, the site shows up as expected. See screenshots.

Regarding your comment about the 'visible only...' setting: I concede that these "privacy" settings are somewhat opaque. We use the 'More Privacy Options' plugin, which hijacks a WP setting intended for blocking search-engine robots and repurposes it for general access control; we then have BuddyPress and other plugins on top, which leverage these already jury-rigged settings in an often inconsistent way. However, in this case, I don't think the issue stems from semantic confusion about "visibility" or "privacy", but instead there's some sort of user error at play.

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