Topic: Completely private members area

Completely private members area

garypayne
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@garypayne

10 years, 6 months ago

Hi, is it possible using BuddyPress to create a completely private members area where the only page or content visible will be the login page?

I have been playing around with the plugin a bit and I seem able to still see all/most of the members/content when logged out.

Pointers to ‘how to’ information and personal experience/guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Peter Hardy-vanDoorn
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@petervandoorn

10 years, 6 months ago

Private BuddyPress by Dennis Morhardt works an absolute treat for me.

garypayne
Participant

@garypayne

10 years, 6 months ago

Hi Peter. I found that plugin however, wordpress says that it hasn’t been updated for over 2 years and I therefore, become a little distrusting of ‘out-of-date’ plugins. Thoughts?

Peter Hardy-vanDoorn
Participant

@petervandoorn

10 years, 6 months ago

You’re absolutely right, but I’ve been using it for 2 years and, all I can say is, I’ve never had a problem with it.

I do hope I’m not tempting fate there!

ivarzLV
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@ivarzlv

10 years, 6 months ago

There’s no actually need any plugins, you can easily do this by adding these lines to your themes function.php file:

`<?php

add_action( ‘wp’, ‘custom_private_area’, 3 );
function custom_private_area(){
global $wp;
if (!is_user_logged_in()){
if ( bp_is_activation_page()
|| bp_is_register_page()
|| is_page_template( ‘wp-login.php’ )
|| ( in_array( $GLOBALS[‘pagenow’], array( ‘wp-login.php’ )))
)
return;
bp_core_redirect(get_option(‘siteurl’) . “/wp-login.php”);
exit;
}
}

?>

garypayne
Participant

@garypayne

10 years, 6 months ago

Thanks for that, I’ll give that a go, appreciated.

sharmavishal
Participant

@sharmavishal

10 years, 6 months ago

https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/

above 2 work for me absoutely fine. great plugins by @bp-help